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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Gallipoli with Jennifer Kent

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are honored to welcome Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent to the podcast as we discuss Peter Weir's devastating classic Gallipoli. In addition to bringing much needed context on the history of Australian cinema, this episode also delves into the significance of the Gallipoli Campaign in the Aussie national consciousness, the undersung career of actor Mark Lee, and the genius of Peter Weir's approach to telling this story. Plus, we get to ask Jennifer about her role in Babe: Pig in the City AND we ask her to tell her buddy Justin Kurzel how much Ben loves his Assassin's Creed movie. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook!  Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Blank Jack with Griffin and David

0:05.0

Black Jack with Griffin and David Don't know what to say or to expect All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Jack From a place you've never heard of a podcast you'll never forget okay for a guest

0:28.2

just just for the context of what's just to clarify what that's happened that's the tagline

0:32.4

of the film and he's put the word podcast it's the american tagline now I think it's an interesting

0:36.7

marketing strategy it's kind of a tagline saying, oh, Jesus, this is a hard one to market. From a place you've never heard of. A story you've never heard of. Hey, guys, I know this title's going to make no sense to you. But if you watch the movie, you'll be happy about it after the fact. Right. You won't forget it.

0:55.3

It's also, it's a poster that's the final image of the film.

0:58.4

That's what's fascinating.

0:59.4

Yes, that is, that is really bold, I thought.

1:04.9

It is.

1:05.2

But it's out of context.

1:06.9

So I guess you don't know.

1:08.8

That's what's so interesting about it is it's not obfuscating the ending at all, but it is out of context in a way where you don't read into it.

1:17.7

And then when the movie hits that image, it's almost twice as devastating to now understand what that image was you were looking at.

1:26.4

But Platoon did the same thing.

1:27.8

And this is a movie that reminded, like, Platoon really sort of is drafting off this movie.

1:32.3

And that's another movie where they had the final image, basically, as the poster.

1:36.5

But basically final.

1:37.7

This is the actual final image.

1:39.5

Yeah, you're right.

1:40.2

Is Platoon the year?

1:41.6

No, it's eight years later.

1:42.6

It's later.

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