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The Next Picture Show

Succession, Pt. 2 — The Iron Claw

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"The Godfather," but wrestling.

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0:00.0

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0:10.7

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0:16.4

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

0:20.1

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

0:26.9

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

0:34.1

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast about it to a classic film, the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:40.4

I'm Scott Tobias here again with Genevieve Koski.

0:43.5

And here again also is Saddam Adlaka.

0:46.0

Hello again, Sadat.

0:47.8

Hi, thanks for having me.

0:49.4

In our last episode, we discussed Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, a crime epic about the Corleone family

0:55.0

and the sons who stand to take over the family business when he steps down. There's a similar

0:59.6

dynamic at play in the new Sean Durkin film, the Iron Claw, which is about the Von Erick family

1:05.1

and the sons vying to take over that business. The godfather is about gangsters and the Iron Claw

1:10.4

is about wrestlers, but somehow

1:12.1

they're both equally dangerous work. Much of the action in the Iron Claw takes place in Texas

1:17.9

in the late 70s and 80s, as the Von Erich boys plan to take the wrestling world by storm.

1:24.3

The Don Vito of this bunch is Fritz von Erich, played by Holt McElanie, a former wrestling

1:30.1

heel who still burns from never getting a shot at the World Wrestling Championship belt.

1:35.3

And so he turns to his boys to make that dream come true.

1:38.8

First up is Kevin von Erich, played by Zach Efron, who's the most eager of the brothers,

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