Michael and Us: The Great Moving Right Show
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A young man caught between his socialist father and Thatcherite uncle falls in love with a young National Front street punk while building a laundromat. We watched MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) and discuss the context that birthed it. PLUS: Fiery hot takes on Bruceploitation and Ron DeSanctimonious.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not sure to what extent I brought this up on the podcast before, but I've talked |
| 0:29.2 | to |
| 0:57.0 | about |
| 1:26.9 | about |
| 1:55.7 | about |
| 2:23.2 | about |
| 2:50.6 | okay i get to be i get to be ho chung down in the next movie right it's like no no you don't you're still going to be Bruce Lee and honestly you know between you and me i think if you take ho chung dao's filmography there are more good movies in there than there are in Bruce Lee's filmography wow big words i'm not saying ho chung dao is better than Bruce Lee but i'm saying i would watch soul brothers of kung fu before i watch the big boss any day i would watch deadly strike before i watch way of the dragon it's it's simply the case in this this guy was just one of the |
| 3:20.6 | many people right yeah he was one he was kind of the prestige one he had the best movies i mean the highest tier Elvis impersonator Bruce laugh is is funny because you know Bruce lie didn't like imitating Bruce Lee he was ashamed of it uh but Bruce |
| 3:34.4 | lad just he's Bruce laughs still goes by Bruce laugh he works he works in the Chinese film industry to this day he makes historical propaganda films now and he still credits himself as Bruce laugh |
| 3:44.8 | which i think is and he's still like playing Bruce Lee not anymore really i mean he makes things so the Bruce let like persona has |
| 3:52.4 | become a it's taken on a sort of identity of its own that yeah that's his his english language name now |
| 3:58.2 | pretty much you know he doesn't make high-level Chinese propaganda films he makes kind of lower level ones |
| 4:03.3 | but he's still active and uh dragon Lee is now i think a successful businessman in South Korea i think |
| 4:09.4 | he's in the TV industry Bruce Lung had a come back he was the villain in the movie kung fu hustle and i'm so |
| 4:15.7 | excited for this documentary because they're all in it you know the the guy who made it got interviews with all |
| 4:20.8 | of them so went to Taiwan and found the martial arts studio in gymnasium where Bruce lie Ho Chiang |
| 4:27.6 | Dow now you know teaches children and old people and you know he seems he seems alive and well |
| 4:32.7 | i wish you get him on the pot i would i would give anything to meet Bruce lie and tell him how much |
| 4:37.8 | his work means to me i love the idea of you going around as a kid like watching these cheaply made |
| 4:43.8 | DVDs that are like commoditized bit of like public domain ip and being like why don't more people care |
| 4:50.3 | about this what people you know what people should care about is the idea that Bruce Lee was popular |
| 4:55.3 | enough when he died to spawn an entire industry of people ripping him off what's the one that uh |
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