The Ranking — Santa Claus In The Movies

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ho-ho-ho, readers! As an early Christmas present from us to you, our dear readers/listeners, here's the episode of the absolutely-on-schedule and not-late-at-all-no-you-shut-up regular series, The Ranking, that you've all been asking for. No, not the Star Wars one. Or the two-part MCU special. Or even the one about 1989. Instead, this is the one where we discuss and rank Santa Claus in the movies! Yes, from Richard Attenborough in Miracle On 34th Street to, erm, Edmund Gwenn in Miracle On 34th Street, in this episode Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, Ben Travis, and Olly Richards talk about their favourite movies involving Father Christmas. And, as you might expect, it gets a bit silly and weird. But, as you might not expect, it somehow gets sexy. All will be explained within. (NB: if you have kids, maybe don't listen to this with them.) Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Ho ho ho, pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to a very special, very festive edition of the
0:21.1	Ranking the magazine slash podcast crossover, which four Empire writers get together and
0:25.7	discuss the films of a director, an actor, or franchise and come up with empirical top 10.
0:31.4	That's what we usually do.
0:33.2	Franchise, actor, director.
0:36.6	Not this time.
0:37.6	Oh no no no no no.
0:39.3	As a special Christmas treat because you've all been such good boys and girls throughout
0:43.2	the year.
0:44.2	We have decided not to talk about the greatest Christmas movies of all time we did that last
0:48.6	year.
0:49.6	So instead we're going to talk about the greatest movie Santa Claus's.
0:53.6	Oh, that's exciting isn't it?
0:56.7	So like Santa Claus won, Santa Claus two, Santa Claus three.
1:00.0	Yeah, and then I realized I would be a very short show.
1:02.0	So I decided that it should instead be about the character of Santa Claus or father Christmas
1:07.7	or Saint Nick or, and we'll get into it in a second, just anyone who puts on a Santa
1:12.4	Claus costume during the course of a film, that will do for us.
1:16.4	And so join the media discuss movie Santa Claus isn't again.
1:19.9	The Santa Claus is in the movies and not the movies themselves.
1:25.1	So you can have a good Santa Claus in a bad movie.
1:27.0	Correct.
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