Episode 620: Jacob's Ladder (1990)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 192 minutes

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Summary

Yaniv Eidelstein and Stephen Scarlata join Mike to look at Adrian Lyne’s 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder. It’s the story of Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) who’s platoon in Vietnam is attacked by unknown forces. He suffers from flashbacks of this horrific event in 1970s New York where he’s left his wife and is living with his co-worker, Jezebel (Elizabeth Peña). He is plagued, as well, by horrific visions of demons. Is Jacob going mad? Is he a victim of a government plot? Or is it something else entirely?

Special guests writer Bruce Joel Rubin and director Adrian Lyne discuss the making of the film and its fate.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	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.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	And... The Every day Jacob's Singer goes to work.
1:02.0	What's wrong, one of those days?
1:05.0	And every day he wonders what is happening to him.
1:09.0	Maybe it's the pressure, Jake. They're like...
1:11.6	demons, Jess.
1:15.6	They weren't human.
1:16.6	What were they, Jake?
1:18.6	Can we look at your hand?
1:21.6	Yeah, a very strange line.
1:23.6	See, according to this, you're already dead.
1:37.9	Something's wrong, Jake. They're coming after me. I don't know who they are or what they are,
1:42.0	but they're going to get me and I'm scared, Jake. I've seen them too.
1:47.6	Maybe the demons are real.
1:49.1	He's winning 106 feet.
	...

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