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Here we go.

Rebecca, much like Jesse and Celine, we have no agenda.

We have no notes, no itinerary.

We're just going to wander together through the three films in the before trilogy

that I hope someday is quadrilogy,

pentology, whenever in the future we can talk about the end, our shared admiration for

these actors, this sensibility. And I think to not a small part of it, the worldview that

these movies express and explore and wrestle with. Yeah. And I think

we've said in the past, either on the pod or just to each other, these movies are the most

literary fiction of movies. Yes. Just people walking around. Yeah. Talking about life.

Well, we'll get to our first experiences in here.

Let's do a broader take about what we like about these. We can maybe do favorite lines or

moments. I think what you said, people walk around talking. There's this quote in Uncut

Gems, Adam Sandler is, you know, he's betting on stuff and trying to get diamonds. And like,

he's in this crazy world where everything is a little bit dangerous and seems,

frankly, like he's got some kind of condition.

And he says at some point, the action is the juice.

And for me, the dialogue is the juice.

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