It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with Scott Tobias.

Keith Phipps.

Genevieve Koski accidentally dipped herself in gold earlier this week, so she's off trying to get that cleaned off.

But don't worry, guys.

She left a little patch in the small of her back, clear of gold, because she's read the gold-dipping safety manuals.

She'll be fine.

On the first half of this episode, we discussed Guy Hamilton's 1964 film Goldfinger, the

third James Bond movie, which has Bond, James Bond, chasing down an international gold smuggler,

serial murderer, and gin rummy cheater, who plans to bomb Fort Knox in order to narrow the

world market on gold. That might not initially sound like it has much in common with Incredibles,

too, a movie about a superhero family that suffers some growing pains when the mom of the family

gets to go on some cool secret missions, and the rest of the family isn't invited. But superhero

movies and spy movies are thematically pretty closely related. Both tend to be

about extraordinary individuals with special powers, special talents, and special access that most

people lack. Both trade in the romance of secret knowledge and secret identities. And both tend to

pitch the protagonists at colorful, outsized villains who are out to target the innocent rubs who

won't see the threat

coming until it's too late.

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