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Movie Mindset 05 Teaser - Talkin' Altman

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Will, Hesse and E1's Andrew Hudson discuss Robert Altman's 1971 revisionist Western classic “McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” Subscribe today for access to the full episode and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse

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0:00.0

And you know, that's really where the movie begins. We're introduced to the the rain so

0:06.4

specific Northwest of the late 19th early 20th century and welcome to the town of Presbyterian

0:13.2

Church Washington, a burgeoning mind community full of good cheer and good people. And now

0:19.2

listener, if you were not a fan of the music of Leonard Cohen, then buddy, turn back now.

0:25.0

Because even the action scenes are when something crazy is happening. Here comes here comes

0:31.2

Leonard Cohen. The first time I saw this movie, I distinctly remember rewinding in the first

0:37.2

scene and shazamming it because I I was like 13 or something and didn't know who Leonard Cohen was.

0:43.8

Well, this is like the most this is the deepest song I've ever heard. Yeah, no exactly. Just some

0:49.1

Joseph looking for a manger and it still goes so hard. Yeah. And I love all the songs. I mean,

0:57.7

this is just Leonard Cohen where he's just like, and you know, she's not your lady, but you do

1:03.2

just want to see her. And she gives you all kinds of stuff. And you know that she won't love you.

1:09.6

It's like just it's all about just all his songs just felt like this lady so fucking hot.

1:14.6

I love having such a thing. But I know she won't want to be with me. This lady is a fucking

1:18.9

smoke show, dude. It's like it's like a highway in a lot of ways if you think about it. I always

1:25.2

think this lady so hot she's like Jesus's mother, but I'm just the guy who's traveling with her,

1:30.4

but I'm not the father of our Lord and Savior. I just I just want to have sex with Julie Christy.

1:36.1

And you know, like that's kind of what became of this Miller is about. It's stars,

1:39.8

Warren, Beatty, as McCabe. And that's the funny thing about McCabe is that's not even his name.

1:44.8

We don't even really know what Warren Beatty's character's name is. He just arrived in Presbyterian

1:48.8

Church and in the, you know, in the ultimate-esque bit of overlapping conversations and sort of this

1:55.6

like game of telephone among these among the local Yokels. They're just like, hey, who's that guy?

2:00.4

And then someone's like, oh, it's McCabe, the gunfighter. And he just has out of nowhere. He just has

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