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Blankcheck is one episode away from winning 20 million rupees. How did they do it?

A. They cheated. B. They're lucky. C. They're geniuses. D. It is podcasted. Good. Sure. Great. Thank you. You could have said anything there and I would have been happy written. I think the poster for this movie is so bad. It is. It's wild towel. Can't keep in touch. Please weigh in on this. Just just what do you think of the poster? Well, before we introduce.

We will introduce you. I promise. Your screen went dim. Hold on. I hit the hit the yeah. Look, it was 2008. Was it doesn't that was when floating head boasters were at the peak. His head be floating. Yeah, I mean, this is it's it's like four different bad trends at the same time. I feel like it's also a poster that has like multiple tag lines on it. It does have a couple tag lines. It's the multiple choice structure, but it's different than the opening line. I just read right. It's got these sort of simplified who wants to be a millionaire.

Motif. The font is bad. Font looks really trashy. Can you read what the four the question is to take to find a lost love. They money be luck. C. Smart D destiny. Yeah, I kind of sucks. All the above. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a bad poster. That's all I'm just saying. It's a bad poster. It is. It's it's a it's incredibly busy poster and the British one sheet was this right, which makes it look like it's like a comedy about a couple who gets married. Yeah. Calling it the field.

Good film of the decade. It's just wild. How different the two posters are because the American poster basically feels like it's hiding both of its actors faces. Right. Even though it is a giant floating head poster. It is a floating head. There's so damn. Yeah, in shadow. Right. He's a Sith waiting to be revealed. He does. He does look a villain. He's a little city. I think absolutely. Yeah. You know what's wild? What? This movie made 150 million dollars domestic.

It made a hundred and forty one million dollars domestically and almost 400 million worldwide. Yes. So I was interested in this stats because I think this is a thing we'll probably talk about a fair amount. This movie won a best picture. Yes. But it was like maybe the last time there was a best picture winner. That was this popular with the general public. And this is the year that basically breaks the Oscars. This is the year of the year.

There's no dark night. Right. Dark night. No. And while we did. And while we into a lesser extent also grand terino. I would say you had these three movies that were like populace favorites that all failed to get nominations. In lieu of a frost mix and a reader had to get frost mix in there. Slip it in there. Yeah. And the Academy loses their fucking minds and changes everything and keeps changing everything to try to solve that problem. Meanwhile, this is the highest grossing best picture.

Winner of the last 15 years like nothing has. Beats it by a little bit overseas. Uh-huh, but this beats it domestically. And that's the only one that even comes close. Yes. This is the last time a best picture winner basically becomes a blockbuster because of it winning best picture to that's the other thing like forty percent of its gross comes after the win. Wow. Yeah. And the stat was that that was the largest percentage post.

Oscar win for any movie since Titanic. How many best picture winners have we covered the hurt locker. Yeah. The silence of the lamps. Yeah. The there are other ones. Titanic. The Titanic. The Titanic. The far scum. The forest. Gump.

Angle one best record twice but lost. The terms of endearment. The terms. That might be it. So this is our sixth. We've covered a few. We've covered a few. Yeah. I think that's it. Yeah.

Yeah. Because we never we never covered. I don't even know what the funny answer is here. We never covered. Simmeron. Yeah. Funny. I don't know. I don't know what's funny. Yeah. No, I look. Who knows what's funny anymore. I mean, you can't say anything these days. Comedy is illegal. You know, I love to make a joke about doing an episode on the simmer.

I'm not a moron. If you start podcasting our guest and then we can talk about it. This is a podcast called blank check with Griffin and David. I'm good. I'm David. It is written.

I mean, it is written. I will say that. It is written. It is a podcast about filmography's directors who have massive success early on in their careers and given a series of blank checks make whatever crazy passion products they want.

Sometimes those checks clear and sometimes they win 20 million rupees. This is a mini series on the films of Danny Boyle. It is called train spot casting. That's right. There are many people were disappointed. It was not called slump pod million cast, including me. Oh, really? Yeah. All right. Call us out. I mean, you need the Indian perspective on this. I would have been okay with it. That's the only opinion. That wasn't my pro. Here's my thing. Okay. So I'm very outspoken on this show about I like to go for the sweatiest combination of podcast.

And then anytime we land on a title that is not sweaty enough for our listeners, they're like, I guess Griffin lost the argument. I'm like, they didn't like that it was podcast away or whatever.

Right. Which I want to do as positive cast and you push for podcast news. Yeah. And your argument was it broadcast is in the title. You have to do it. And I felt similarly train spotting.

Pod is basically in there. It's stupid not to do it. I understand slump pod million cast is funnier in terms of sweatiness.

But I was like definitively it's this. But that is what's called train spot casting. Our guest today overdue on the show. Santa Laca here to talk about slump dog millionaire.

Best picture winner. Can I speak? Yes. Okay. Good. Just in general. Yeah. You are. Oh, you have infinite.

Infinite missions. No, no, I'm going to do that from time to time and be like, wait, is it my don't to talk any time? No turns here. No turns.

No turnless. Just a lot of talking over each other. Yes. Yes. I mean, some people don't like that. But that is how it goes here. Welcome to the podcast. We're here to talk about the film that one Danny Bluel, an Oscar. Yes. And as you said,

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