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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 383: Who Wants to Kill Jessii? (1966)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up #Czechtember2018 with a look at Vaclav Vorlicek’s Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966) The film was co-written by Vorlicek and Milos Macourek and concerns a couple, Henry and Rosie. Rosie is a prestigious scientist who has discovered how to manipulate dreams -- though there are some unexpected consequences. While Henry makes his own discovery as he reads a comic series about Jessie and sees her anti-gravitational gloves, just the thing to help him out at his job.

Jonathan Owen and Jim Laczkowski join Mike to discuss this inventive and hilarious Czech film.
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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.

0:21.6

Ah! Ah! Ah! And... ...their!

0:22.6

...and Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.

0:52.4

Joining me again is Mr. Jonathan Owen.

0:54.9

Hello.

0:55.7

Also in the booth this week is Mr. Jim Leskowski.

0:58.8

Liberty to Dreams.

1:00.9

This week we wrap up, September 2018, with a look at Baklav Vorlicek's 1966 film Who Wants to Kill Jesse.

1:10.0

The film was co-written by Vorlechk and Milosh Makarek and concerns a couple.

1:16.3

The subtitles call them Henry and Rose, and so I guess we can call them Henry and Rose,

1:21.1

but we'll probably also call them by their proper names as we go through here,

1:25.4

Yindrick and Rosenka.

1:30.7

So please forgive me if we switch back and forth. But anyway, Henry and Rose, Rosie is a prestigious scientist who has discovered how to

1:37.0

manipulate dreams, so there are some unexpected consequences, while Henry makes his own discovery

1:42.1

as he reads a comic series about Jesse and sees her anti-gravitational gloves,

1:47.4

just the thing to help him out at his job.

1:50.0

Now we're going to be getting to spoilers galore in this episode, so if you don't want anything ruined, be aware.

1:54.5

Otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the lunacy.

1:58.0

Jonathan, when was the first time you saw who wants to kill Jesse, and what did you think?

2:02.4

I saw it around 2005 or 2006, so around that time.

2:08.9

And at that point, I was already deep into post-grad research on Czech film.

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