It's 1975. We must take all the lawyers out of Congress.

The movie? Nashville.

Hey everybody and welcome to unspooled.

I'm Amy Nicholson. And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where each week we watch one film from the AFI's top 100 greatest films of all time list 2007 edition to see if they are really as good as people say do they hold up and how have they influenced the films that we watch today.

Last week we talked about the film bringing up baby this week we'll be talking about the Robert Altman classic Nashville before we get into that.

Let's see what you had to say about bringing up baby.

You know I thought the response to this was actually really interesting because you got into a talk while we were recording this about comedy like is it harder for all of us to agree that this comedy is awesome.

And in the case of bringing baby I think the answer is yes it is a little hard for all of us to agree that bringing a baby deserves a place in the unspooled list.

That's totally true and Mark Evan Nath at question mark Nath actually brought up a really interesting point.

He said he noticed that people have more adverse reactions to comedies that they did test when perceived as bad dramas are often dull but comedies are seen as lame or grotesque and it's true like that idea that we are much more forgiving in a drama and I think it's hard to quantify if a drama is good oftentimes is just very passable it's my argument with a lot of independent film or a lot of this mass marketed independent film it's like oh another movies out.

But it doesn't it's not saying anything it's a guess fine acting it's it's fine it's not offensive.

Yeah that's a point that Rand's Collins also brought up as well Rand's Collins said I think it's difficult about putting a modern comedy on the list because we really do not have modern comedies on this list is simply knowing what humor will date well the technicals of a dramatic story remain relatively consistent but the

logo of comedy seems to morph and they seem to shift more frequently in the genre that's so true and lucky trick on Twitter actually brought up a really good point and said that you know maybe we should be looking at bringing up baby not

as the best comedy but for what it did to the genre of comedy and I said we did talk about that but I also don't feel like this movie you know blows on marks brothers out of the water and I'd rather have a marks

brothers on this list and maybe something a little bit more current like I don't think that the stamp of this movie is so pervasive you know it doesn't seem like so mind blowing to me yeah I'm glad

that we're going to be getting to fill it out for your story soon so we can talk about these two things together but one point that a lot of people made in the forums is there so many

comedies from the 30s like if we have a comedy on the list it's probably from the 30s and we don't have comedies from really this 80s the 90s the nows that we need to be

sticking out for our comedy and I think they just kind of felt that there was a tone that the 30s are over represented and also there was a tone that Catherine

Hepburn's character is a psychopath one of the people who made this argument was Tiffany Thompson she said look she destroyed David's life and she felt no

remorse because she fell in love with him and less than 24 hours which is a trope yes when I see the movies and I do it I'm like what a loser get away from

no but this is like a romantic comedy trope it happens in a lot of comedy movies like somebody's life is up ended and that's what makes them realize that they are missing something you know but you know the one most important point that I think needs to be addressed and Amy it's to you can we get a picture of your cat people want to see this giant giant cat that you describe it's kind of like can I stop posting pictures of my cat on Instagram and to that

the answer is no I cannot I'm all posting pictures of my cat on Instagram and in fact this is probably not a story I should tell okay why not it's just us I have been so on careful with what I post on my

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