Episode 505: White Sands (1992)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Jedidiah Ayres and Andrew Nette join Mike to look at the 1992 neo-noir film from director Roger Donaldson, White Sands. The film stars Willem Dafoe as Ray Dolezal, a small town Sheriff who tries to solve the murder of a man in his jurisdiction by assuming the dead man’s identity and getting embroiled in a world of arms dealing,

We speak to the film's screenwriter, Daniel Pyne (The Hard Way, The Sum of All Fears, Where's Marlowe?) about the film's journey from page to screen.
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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.
0:11.3	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and milk monsters
0:22.3	in the projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:25.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off. Look, you don't have to be straight with me.
0:50.1	But it doesn't lend itself to intimacy.
0:53.8	We're already intimate, aren't we?
1:01.3	To solve a murder, he stepped into the dead man's shoes.
1:06.9	Spencer has a first name?
1:08.4	He can call himself Bob.
1:10.1	Officially, I don't exist. Here you name. He can call himself Bob. Officially I don't exist.
1:12.3	Here you go.
1:14.3	He followed the trail to White Sands.
1:18.9	This is about creating enemies with Arnany.
1:22.0	I don't ever get involved in these kinds of deals.
1:25.5	Give a half million bucks to a man you don't even know.
1:28.3	Where truth is the ultimate disguise.
1:32.3	I've never met anyone like you.
1:34.3	You're honest.
1:36.3	Even when you're lying.
1:39.3	You don't trust me.
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