Feeling Feral and Batman Returns
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Attention-seeking, resentment, a healthy desire for retribution, and boundless parallels to the Trump debacle. Also, is Batman Returns in fact the most anti-corporate superhero movie ever made? Join Sarah and Alex as they unpack all this and more.
Why Are Dads is a show in which hosts Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed attempt to understand what the hell it means to be the grown children of dads and other dad-like figures. And, as they do with all difficult subject matter, they do so by looking through a pop culture lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:06.1 | Hello, Alex Steed. |
| 0:08.1 | Some fucking planets are right next to each other, I guess. |
| 0:11.7 | Right outside your window. It's Cosmos moon. |
| 0:15.3 | It is Cosmos moon. |
| 0:18.8 | Oh, that's next week. Next week, we're doing Moonstruck. Okay, so two questions before we |
| 0:23.8 | get started. What is why are dads or what is why are dads about Sarah? Alex, I just wish you |
| 0:32.9 | were better prepared and didn't keep having to get me to remind you what we're doing on this show. |
| 0:38.3 | We are watching movies and looking at dad characters and dads as a theme in the movie we're |
| 0:46.7 | exploring and therefore in the culture that produced it, which again is me saying it in a grad |
| 0:52.1 | schooly way. So I'm sorry. No, that's good. We're trying to |
| 0:56.3 | understand ourselves by understanding how dads function in the least painful way possible. |
| 1:02.9 | It's our dads or ourselves. And sometimes you don't want to talk about your real dad. You want to |
| 1:07.5 | talk about Michael Keaton. Best way to do it. Okay. So two, just give me your quick elevator pitch about what Batman |
| 1:17.0 | Returns is. Okay. Batman Returns is the sequel to Tim Burton's Batman, and it's a movie that |
| 1:23.5 | feels like it barely has Batman in it. And it is mostly about two villains, Catwoman, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, and The Penguin, |
| 1:34.7 | played by Danny DeVito. |
| 1:36.5 | And Batman is also there. |
| 1:38.4 | And it is just a wonderful, fun romp that feels as if Tim Burton designed his own Disney world in terms of just |
| 1:46.6 | kind of the world we find ourselves in in this movie. And we get to watch Michelle Pfeiffer |
| 1:51.1 | stewing her thing. Like saying anything more would be gilding the lily. Like Michelle Pfeiffer, |
| 1:56.9 | catwoman. Yeah, don't guilt the lily. |
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