Episode 368: Twelve Monkeys (1995)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

James Cole (Bruce Willis) may or may not be a time traveler sent from our future to learn about our present. Inspired by Chris Marker's La Jetee, Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys is based on a script by David Webb and Janet Peoples.

Tony Black and Jedidiah Ayres join Mike to discuss this twisted time travel story. Dahlia Schweitzer -- author of Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World -- discusses the prevalence and significance of the disease narrative at the time of Twelve Monkeys's release.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.2	You're a very good observer, Cole.
0:13.6	We have a very advanced program, something very different.
0:16.7	An opportunity to reduce your sentence considerably.
0:19.7	And possibly play an important role in returning the human race, the surface of the earth.
0:27.1	No license, no prints, no warrants.
0:30.3	But he took on five tops like he was dusted to the eyeballs.
0:34.8	What year is this?
0:36.4	What year do you think it is?
0:38.3	1996.
0:39.3	That's the future, James.
0:40.3	Do you think you're living in the future?
0:42.3	I'm simply trying to gather information to help the people in the present trace the path of the virus.
0:49.3	We're not in the present now.
0:51.3	This is a place for crazy people.
0:53.3	I'm not saying you're not mentally ill for all.
0:55.8	I know you're crazy as a loon.
0:58.4	The army of the 12 monkeys, they're the ones that spread the virus.
1:00.8	Monkeys.
1:01.6	He's been living in a meticulously constructed fantasy world,
1:04.1	and that world is starting to disintegrate.
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