The Wizard & Super Mario Bros. - Caravan Of Garbage
The Weekly Planet
James
4.9 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Nintendo has a very strange relationship with the adaptation of it's propeties into film. Before the release of Super Mario Bros. in 1993 and even longer before The Super Marios Bros. Movie in 2023 the closest thing we got to on screen reputation was The Wizard. Basically serving as a promotion tool for the upcoming Super Barios Bros. 3 along with other Nintendo licenced products like the Power Glove, the Nintendo hotline, Zelda, Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, Contra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and more it certaining is a weird and roundabout way to promote something. Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I've always had this kind of fascination with a movie that's sole purpose is marketing like a very specific product. |
| 0:06.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:07.0 | And we've got like a bit of a history with that. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm not just talking about like James Bond, you know, he'll use a car or a gadget or whatever. |
| 0:13.6 | James Bond presents cars. Get a car. |
| 0:16.6 | Are you walking to work? What are you doing? Get a car. |
| 0:19.6 | Do you want to sleep with the most beautiful women in the world? Get a car. Think about it. |
| 0:23.2 | So I'm not talking about like putting a product into an existing narrative. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm talking like, and there's been a few examples of this. |
| 0:29.4 | Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was funded and made specifically to sell a new Quaker Oats Wonka bar. |
| 0:36.4 | Right? What? |
| 0:37.1 | The bars do you mean the new one or the old one? |
| 0:39.0 | They're the old one in the 70s. |
| 0:39.9 | What? |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.6 | Well, the new one's called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mace and jeez. |
| 0:43.5 | Wow. |
| 0:44.0 | But anyway, so... |
| 0:45.0 | I don't remember a Quaker Oats bar in that movie. |
| 0:47.4 | Well, they had a weird chemical formula in them and they had to recall the ball. |
| 0:50.8 | So it didn't end up happening at that particular time. |
| 0:53.1 | Wow. |
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