Surviving the Game (feat. Gillet Rosenblith)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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This week, Jamelle and John are joined by historian Gillet Rosenblith to discuss the 1994 action thriller “Surviving the Game,” a loose adaptation of “The Most Dangerous Game” and a glimpse into anxieties and fears regarding poverty, homelessness and urban decay in the 1990s. They also discuss other, similar films of the era, like John Woo’s “Hard Target,” and they discuss further what distinguishes the action movies of the 1990s from their predecessors in the 70s and 80s.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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| 0:00.0 | Why would you want to kill yourself? |
| 0:11.4 | Maybe I like the idea of choosing when I die instead of having somebody else choose for me. |
| 0:14.9 | If someone offered you a good job, would you be interested? |
| 0:18.3 | What kind of job are you talking about? |
| 0:20.7 | We need someone to help us without hunts out in the wilderness. |
| 0:24.1 | Are you sure about this one? Oh, I'm sure. Has he got courage? |
| 0:27.0 | Gentlemen, I would like you to meet our new hunting guide, Mason. |
| 0:31.0 | Here's a toast to the hunters and a prayer for the hunted. |
| 0:38.3 | The hunt begins now. |
| 0:40.3 | We're not really gonna hunt tomorrow. |
| 0:42.3 | He's nothing. He's less than nothing. |
| 0:44.3 | You're mine, nation! |
| 0:46.3 | Don't take any part in this. |
| 0:47.3 | I want you! |
| 0:49.3 | Thank. |
| 0:50.3 | If you make it to civilization, you live. |
| 0:53.3 | If you don't, |
| 0:56.0 | maybe God will have mercy. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, shit! |
| 1:00.0 | I like not being rare. |
| 1:05.0 | Try well done, bitch. |
| 1:09.0 | Jack Mason knows he's going to die someday. |
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