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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Oldboy with Alison Willmore

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

What is an Oldboy? How do you feel about Greek Tragedies? How did Choi Min-Sik achieve that iconic (and insane) hairstyle? Was giving the 2004 Palme d’Or to FAHRENHEIT 9/11 over this film one of the greatest mistakes in the history of arts and culture? All those questions answered and more as critic Alison Willmore joins us to talk about OLDBOY, the first major Korean breakthrough in the American filmbro canon.

Guest Links:
Read Alison's writing at New York Magazine
Especially “Theory: Top Gun: Maverick Is (Mostly) a Death Dream” if you haven’t already
Follow Alison’s dog on Instagram

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0:00.0

If they had told me this podcast was going to be 15 years long, would it have been easier

0:27.6

to endure?

0:28.6

That's funny.

0:29.6

Thank you. This episode is going to be 15 years long. I'm calling it right now. Yes,

0:34.2

we have to do the kind of experiential. No. People love it when we do. No. And we remember

0:41.6

in the prestige episode, we can check in with this guest when my twin sub then first

0:48.0

like, oh yeah, I definitely remember that. Well, it's seven years ago. Bring a hammer,

0:54.2

just so disappointed. All these things. We're trying to get in a bit inception. We did

0:58.2

podcasts in a podcast, 17 hours, we were 127 hours long and that worked out really well.

1:03.7

So I'm saying, let's just do as long as we can get dumplings. Yes. Oh, yeah. Right.

1:09.1

We will have dumplings delivered every day. That would be nice. Yeah. No, we can check

1:14.2

in 15 years later, those like Richard Link later style. So what's that? We do the math.

1:21.0

2038. Oh, oh yeah. So we'll meet back here. Yeah. 2038. Or like the wet, how do Americans

1:27.0

somewhere? Right. Right. I'm busy that morning. But after noon, I could do. So rather than

1:30.8

do a 15 year long podcast, we do a podcast then 15 years later, we come back to and go,

1:35.2

yeah, pretty good. Pretty good. What are you doing? David's take his new favorite bit of

1:41.0

prop comedy, playing with the big tape measure. He likes the big tape measure. This is set up

1:45.3

in a later episode. Okay. All right. This is a terrible beginning to a big episode about a big

1:51.9

movie from our big director. You're long podcasts. This is blank check with Griffin and David.

1:57.7

I'm Griffin. I'm David. It's a podcast about Photography's directors who have massive success

2:01.8

early on in their careers and are given a series of blank checks to make whatever crazy passion

2:06.1

projects they want. Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they bounce baby. It's a mini

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