Hello, this is Justin the Clue, and I'm just here to guide you through a few previews of the last Patreon episodes that we did.

First off, an episode on the Shaw Brothers, mostly known for their kung fu films.

We discussed what they were and how varied their output actually was.

What's important to remember about them is that they were their own universe.

Like when people talk about the studio system, they talk about it being like a factory line.

Like, you come in, you do your work, you're assigned a project, you direct it, you do it like

nine to five or whatever, and then you go home and then you start again.

And while that was the case for like a very short period of time in Hollywood, the Shaw Brothers

essentially made it indentured

servitude where everybody, no matter how big you were a star, was paid like the same amount of money.

Well, they would get these like stuntmen who were not very well educated. It's not like they

had agents or anything. And they would sign them to these draconium like 10 year contracts.

Secondly, we talked about Unbreakable, in honor of the release of M. Night Chamelon's long-awaited sequel, Glass. Back to Unbreakable, because this is the one that I want to talk about, because I watch it for the first time since I was 12 years old, and I really liked it this time. Yeah, me too. And I think it comes down to like

M-night, what he's good at are these like little simple movies that he can reveal a lot as it

plays along, but like that its core concept is usually right there out in the open. It is simple and

it is very intimate. There are only a couple of characters and a couple locations. And yet,

you know, partly because it came after the sixth sense and partly the style of it, it feels very like big and heavy, doesn't it? Well, I mean, all his films have this kind of ponderous, self-important tone to them. Like, look at what I'm making. Like, he's compared himself a lot to Spielberg in the sense that like,, M. Knight wanted to be Spielberg. He's like, oh, Spielberg is my favorite filmmaker. Thirdly, we did our first Patreon's choice episode, where we picked the name of a Patreon subscriber out of a hat and decided to do whatever movie that they wanted. Knowing you for as long as I have, you don't like war movies very much. Yeah, maybe. I'm not particularly interested in them. I'll say that. In a way that, like, my brother, his fascination was like World War I and World War II. People who love war movies, love them. Yeah. Or, like, war itself. And not war in the sense that, like, my brother's joining the army and he wants to you know go to

go to country they're interested i mean my late grandfather uh who fought in world war two used to

basically only watch war movies he had like every war movie on vhs wow and i think he just was

like he they sent him over there to europe when he was 20 or whatever and he spent the rest of his

life kind of curious, what the hell

happened to me over there? So, you know, he read every book. He watched every movie. He just loved

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