Episode 588: Wise Blood (1979)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Maitland McDonagh and Philip Marinello join Mike to discuss the 1979 film from John Huston, Wise Blood. Based on the book by Flahnery O’Connor, the film stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes, a veteran who goes to the big city and decides to become a street preacher and he’s not out to make a quick buck though everyone else around him does.

Interviews on this episode include Prof. Jean W. Cash (author of Flahnery O'Connor: A Life), writer/producer Michael Fitzgerald, actor Dan Shor, and actress Amy Wright.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:27.6	I understand it ain't anybody perfect on this green earth, not preachers.
0:45.3	Look here, I know preacher.
0:46.6	And you can tell folks better how terrible sin is if you know from your own experience.
0:51.5	In a world of sin and seduction, there's a lot of ways of getting saved.
0:56.0	My name is only J. Holy.
1:00.0	Some do it with style.
1:01.0	And I am a preacher.
1:03.0	I don't mind you doing that.
1:05.0	I'm going to the city.
1:08.0	Some have other plans.
1:09.0	I'm going to do some things I ain't never done before.
1:12.2	I started my own church. Church of truth without Christ.
1:16.9	Protester? There's something to follow.
1:20.5	Oh no, ma'am, it's Protestant. What Hazel Motes wants is a good car and a fast woman.
1:26.6	Do you think I should neck or not?
1:28.3	I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway, so I don't see what difference it makes.
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