The Day of the Jackal
Science Fiction Film Podcast (2019)
LSG Media
4.7 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Episode Rundown
- 01:58 - Matt has some issues with the deliberate pacing
- 03:33 - You DO NOT want a scene-by-scene of this flick
- 05:24 - Neil deGrasse Tyson says there are billions of people in this movie
- 06:25 - Matthew's Charles de Gaulle blind spot
- 10:43 - Horrible English accents - WOW
- 13:08 - The Dean and Matthew Two-Step
- 14:13 - Matthew discusses the film's realism and documentary feel
- 18:13 - Dean's podcasting revelation
- 21:55 - The film's great editing makes the story easy to follow
- 34:11 - The Jackal is now... French?
- 49:59 - Old (and very odd) British man insists it is time for sex
- 53:58 - The movie gets a lot right except for the killing
- 59:28 - Michael Lonsdale has gravitas in all his roles
- 1:01:02 - The Ballad of Claude and Pierre
- 1:09:22 - The Jackal sights in his rifle
- 1:15:49 - Matthew FINALLY sees the light!
- 1:23:55 - Is the Jackal a sleep creeper?
- 1:43:42 - Liberation (Bastille) Day Parade talk
- 1:50:00 - Claude gets his man
- 1:51:26 - Movies used to end when the movie was over
- 1:54:25 - Matthew drops the listener comment ball with his buttery hands
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the science fiction film podcasts by LSG Media. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dean. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Matthew. |
| 0:13.3 | And on this week's episode, we are discussing The Day of the Jackal from 1973, directed by Fred Zinaman. |
| 0:29.4 | Fucking shit. |
| 0:35.4 | All right. |
| 0:36.2 | Dude, there is. |
| 0:36.8 | We're recording for 45 minutes already. We're live. I mean, Dude, we're recording for |
| 0:37.6 | 45 minutes already. |
| 0:39.0 | We're live. I mean, no, we're not live, but dude, we are in it to win it, man. There is a lot of dudes in this flick, Maddie boy. A lot of them. Oh, man. There's a lot of people in this. Hey, real quick, though? Yeah. I'm ready to pick them. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm ready to pick them. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm going to pick them. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm ready to pick them. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm going to finger them down. They ate that one. That's the guy. |
| 1:02.3 | Oh, shit. |
| 1:06.7 | Are we on? Is it? Oh, we're in. Yeah. We were in. We came in on the laugh, man. |
| 1:12.8 | We're in it. We're in it to win it. My name is Amri Betash and I'm here to win. |
| 1:17.4 | Five million characters in this movie. |
| 1:20.2 | I don't know any of their names. |
| 1:22.3 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 1:27.5 | Don't even recognize an actor except for the guy who was the old guy in Munich, Michael Lonsdale. |
| 1:29.0 | Holy shit. |
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