Episode 689: Executioner's Song (1982)

The Projection Booth

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

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off a month of Patreon requests with a request from Dallas Novell; 1982’s TV movie The Executioner's Song. Based on a book by Norman Mailer with a screenplay by Mailer -- and maybe Tracy Keenan Wynn -- it’s the story of the last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore which stars Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore and Rosanna Arquette as his girlfriend, Nicole Baker.

Made for TV Mayhem's Amanda Reyes and Wake Up Heavy's Mark Begley join Mike to discuss the film, capital punishment, and more while director Lawrence Schiller talks about how The Executioner's Song came about.

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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.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.8	It is one of the most unforgettable stories in American history.
0:45.2	On the morning of January 17, 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was sentenced to be shot to death.
0:53.2	Haven't been found guilty of the crime of criminal homicide.
0:56.4	For Gary, it was the end of a journey which began the day he got out of jail.
1:01.4	Mama!
1:02.8	Shake it!
1:05.2	You can't have it all in five minutes, Gary.
1:07.9	You have to earn it, bit by bit.
1:10.1	You have to make us a right good stuff in you.
1:13.0	Don't you dare mess up.
1:15.0	For a time, it even seemed it might work, both for Gary Gilmore and Nicole Baker, the new girl in his life.
1:21.9	I don't want to just jump in bed with you.
1:25.9	I want to make love to you.
1:28.5	With you, I feel like I'm in the right place for the first time.
1:33.4	You come in here with this welfare witch who's living on the government forever.
1:38.3	I love her.
	...

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