Popeye (1980)
WHAT WENT WRONG
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4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Cocaine-stuffed mannequins, letters from Henry Kissinger, and jaundiced prosthetics - all this and more in Robert Altman’s Popeye! Guest hosted by Alex Logan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to What Went Wrong. I'm Lizzie Bassett and who am I here with? |
| 0:23.4 | Winnerbauer. That pause means this is going to be a good episode. Yes, it does. Here in body, not in mind. |
| 0:34.9 | We have the pleasure of having a very special guest with us today. So as you may have |
| 0:39.1 | noticed by the episode title, we are covering an absolutely bonkers movie called Popeye and the |
| 0:45.1 | reason we are covering this, I had never heard of it, a gentleman who I have the pleasure of |
| 0:49.9 | working with at IMDB, named Alex Logan, brought it up to me when he heard about this podcast we |
| 0:56.4 | were doing. And we are joined today by Alex. He, as I said, is a senior producer at IMDB. He's |
| 1:02.0 | responsible for much of our may I say fantastic video content. He's the producer of the IMD |
| 1:08.8 | brief. He is also a screenwriter and Chris. He is a fellow graduate of USC. Hey, let's talk about |
| 1:15.7 | debt. Well, Alex, hello, how are you? And why do you like this movie? |
| 1:23.6 | This is one for my childhood. I have had a weird fascination with Popeye since I was a young lad, |
| 1:31.1 | first the cartoons, and then at some point when I was kindergarten first grade, somebody said to me, |
| 1:36.8 | I think it was my grandma. You know, there's a movie version of that with that guy that you like |
| 1:42.4 | Robin Williams. And I had to see it. I think I rented it from my library the first time I saw it, |
| 1:47.7 | and then I just continued running it either from Blockbuster Hollywood video or the library as many |
| 1:53.1 | times as I could. Really, this is the story of two bobs, a Mediterranean island, a bunch of dummies |
| 2:00.4 | filled with cocaine, and the spinach loving sailor man who ruined them both and took down their |
| 2:06.9 | seemingly indestructible careers. Dear God, what a pitch. All right, I'm excited. |
| 2:12.0 | I had no idea that this movie existed. No, I told my wife about it because I was watching it |
| 2:18.0 | in between meetings today. I was a little behind and she came in and she was like, what are you watching? |
| 2:23.0 | I was like, I'm watching Popeye. She was like, for the cartoon, I was like, no, the movie, |
| 2:27.6 | and she was blank stare from 1980, starring Robin Williams, and Shelly Duval by Robert and just no |
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