Nov 18-24, 2001: Heist/Hero
Quantum Week
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🗓️ 10 October 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Quantum Week, November 18th through 24th, 2001. |
| 0:18.4 | Quantum Week. Welcome to Quantum Week. I'm Matt. I'm Chris. |
| 0:20.3 | Quantum Week is a show in which Chris and I leap into a random week of a random year, |
| 0:23.7 | and we talk about movies, music, headlines. |
| 0:26.8 | And we are continuing through November 2001 with Heist and Hero, |
| 0:31.0 | which I think is maybe our shortest podcast title ever. |
| 0:34.1 | Yes, I would imagine so. |
| 0:35.0 | So good one word. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, so we're getting into Heist, which was directed and written by David Mamet. |
| 0:42.5 | And is one of my, it might be one of the most underrated movies of that decade. |
| 0:49.7 | Maybe Broda Predation is the most underrated. |
| 0:51.2 | Maybe this is like second. |
| 0:52.0 | I really, really care about this movie. |
| 0:57.8 | I love it a lot. We're going to depart on this one. So I know you said on Twitter that that you were hoping that perhaps we would have more things that we disagree about. Well, here's one |
| 1:02.1 | of them. I don't hate this film, by the way. I like, first of all, preface, I like Mamet. |
| 1:14.1 | Um, I like his writing style. |
| 1:16.0 | I love, I like Mamet speak in general. |
| 1:18.5 | Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross is an amazing film, an amazing script, amazing play. |
| 1:22.9 | But I think he, I think the word, like, Mammoth Speak does not work in this one. |
| 1:27.8 | I think they stumble all over everything. |
| 1:29.8 | It doesn't make a lot of sense. |
| 1:32.4 | It just, it's, it's, it seems more of a hindrance. |
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