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Unspooled

LAPOCALYPSE (Live fromВ Alamo Drafthouse)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Join Paul, Amy and special guest Hayes Davenport (Hollywood Handbook, Flagrant Ones) for this discussion about LA and apocalyptic films, with a special focus on the 1984 cult classic Repo Man! Learn about the strange history of LA urban planning initiatives, the inspiration for Repo Man's generic products, and a great party fact about "Ralphs."В This episode was recorded live from Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0

The year is 1984, Reagan's a fascist, we're all gonna die by the new trombom, so why not eat a plate of shrimp?

0:07.0

The movie, Ripo Man.

0:09.1

Hey everybody, welcome to UnSpooled. That's right, I am Paul Sheer, a medical

3:01.9

idea.

3:02.9

All they needed to really do is just put a target in a couple areas and you'll be fine,

3:05.7

because once there's a target, there's no reason to leave.

3:07.5

But even that, if you live in Hollywood, it's not easy.

3:11.4

So Hollywood, when they envision LA, they tend to be very scared.

3:16.8

Blade Runner is like a great example of this.

3:19.0

So in the 80s and the early 80s, everyone was freaking out about growth, that there were

3:25.0

gonna be skyscrapers everywhere.

3:28.0

In Westwood, if you know the Westwood corridor, they did loosen up the building on that, just

3:33.2

for a second, and then the next day, there were a bunch of towers, and so people were

3:36.8

freaking out, that it was Blade Runner opening shot where it's huge towers, as far as you

3:44.4

can see, was Hollywood's nightmare for people that lived in the hills, basically.

3:51.0

Because it would block their view?

3:53.4

Is them looking out from their houses on the top of the hills, basically imagining how

3:59.1

bad it could be?

4:00.8

Yes, because it could block their view, essentially.

4:03.6

Do you know about this, like a real thing called air rights?

4:06.4

You would have the rights to essentially your view?

4:10.9

Is that something that was in a movie called Burlesque?

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