Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the most humanistic of Kubrick’s films, PATHS OF GLORY is a blistering study of injustice, middle-management, and anti-war sentiment. We’re down in the trenches this week with Sarah Marshall (“You’re Wrong About” and “You Are Good”), and we’re asking the big questions. Like - what crazy scheme did Timothy Carey pull during production that caused him to be fired as soon as all his closeups were filmed? Did Kirk Douglas take his hefty salary (a third of the total budget!) to pay for tennis lessons for son Michael? Why do American schools gloss over World War I? How does Ben weigh his love of ditches against the concept of trench warfare?

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0:00.0	It explodes in the No Man's Land, no podcast ever dared cross before.
0:26.7	Is that the tagline?
0:28.0	That's a great tagline.
0:29.8	Is that it?
0:30.8	That's why I wanted to do it.
0:31.8	Oh, yeah, I love that.
0:32.8	It's such a good poster too.
0:34.8	And the poster makes you think that it's a movie about a badass military operation
0:40.4	in No Man's Land, like a bunch of fucking heroes.
0:44.0	You'll switch the rule.
0:45.0	Right.
0:46.0	You're tearing it up.
0:47.0	You know?
0:48.0	Right.
0:49.0	It's, I mean, the poster is like Kirk Douglas in like action pose, his hand, like gripped
0:54.8	up near the grimace.
0:55.8	It makes it feel like this whole movie is going to be him and the fucking trenches wrestling
0:59.3	people to the ground.
1:00.3	Uh, yeah.
1:01.3	Uh, I'm trying to get the full image version of this because it's, it's one of your, I've
1:05.7	got it.
1:06.7	I've got it.
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