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I'm Sean Fennese and this is the big picture a conversation show about gods and goddesses later in today's episode I have a conversation with the European film deity Claire Dene about her career in her new film both sides of the blade.

Honestly I was very intimidated to speak with Claire I hope you'll stick around for my conversation with her she is a legend first the big movie event of the weekend is Tyco YT is latest installment in the MCU Norse God Thor story it's love and thunder joining me to discuss it another all powerful being its Joanna Robinson Hyjo.

Oh hi Sean what a what an intro for me what a what an expectation to disappoint people.

I think you'll be wielding me all near with the power of a mighty Thor in this conversation I gotta say before we begin terrible news in the world of movies right before we got ready to record this episode we got word that James contrast away so before you get into the store I just want to I just want to talk I just want to get some feelings off my chest about Jimmy con if you don't mind and I'm of course willing to hear yours as well.

Definitely one of my favorite actors of my lifetime who is a been a part of some of my favorite films ever made he passed away 82 years old this week I just got a chance to see him in person a few months ago I saw the godfather on the big screen restored version at paramount on the studio lot which was one of the best film going experiences in my life and before that film started Francis Ford Copola tally a shy and James con spoke about their experience on the movie.

And con even though he was in a wheelchair was in great spirits and also could not hear well and so he didn't really take any questions or follow any of Copola's lead he just talked about what he wanted to talk about and it was delightful he was charming and funny and a little weird as he always is and a little threatening but in like a soft way he's such a unique actor he really reminded me of the New York tough guys from the Bronx in my family and so I always felt like a.

Personal affinity watching him and he wasn't just sunny Corleone that's the character that he's probably best remembered for a lot of range musicals and comedies and science fiction movies and he always had this bearing of an athlete is best known for Brian song when he was in roller ball and he was very believable in those movies as professional athletes he was a big guy he wasn't like the dust and Hoffman or al Pacino diminutive kind of angsty character actor who became movie star he was a real handsome strapping movie star in the 1970s who.

Who had great taste who always worked with great filmmakers Altman and Norman juicin Alan Pacula you worked with John Wayne Howard Hawks and El Dorado in the 60s you worked with John Favreau you worked with West Anderson he's got a six decade career he directed movies he made this movie called in high and play in sight in 1980 which is really really great using misery which was just on the rewatchables as Paul Sheldon who's fantastic the gambler freebie in the bean I mean he really had an extraordinary career here somebody I just was always so happy to see.

And I think was always despite being so explosive as a personality a subtler and more gifted actor than he sometimes got credit for then what is your relationship to Khan as a performer you know obviously like someone who just cropped up as you said in like all genres throughout my childhood and adulthood watching film I was never I was never in my youth like a die hard godfather fan but it's something that you know I've watched and then revisited and revisited and never.

Dislikes but only grown to love more and the most recent time when we watched it oddly enough around the book of Boba Fett because it was taking some some cues from the godfather like his performance is the one that stood out to me more than anyone else is like you mentioned his physicality the image of sunny in his like you know white tank top with the like hair on his shoulder you know like the big shoulders the hair and his body and just like all of that stuff that visceral all of the

explosive energy that he brings to that obviously like sunny isn't a trilogy long character but he looms over the whole thing is such as like beautifully tragic the whole thing is

experienced but yeah like he's not just sunny but sunny is so much more important than I think you know people with only a surface interaction with the godfather really understand and I think only Khan himself could have done that and I think that to your point

Paul rocket such like one of the most interesting moves he made because like West West was nobody when he made bottle rock it's for

me right so for Khan to like lend his muscle to something like that with a cast of again nobody the Wilson brothers had ever heard of them right like that that just to your point speaks to his taste and his willingness to step out of a comfort zone to do an

elf to do something like that so yeah a great loss but a great talent and a lot of opportunity for people to either revisit great movies or check out things they've never seen

if they're wanting to spend some time with James Conn as we can yeah the 70s has a great reservoir of films I think a lot of people that are our age or younger will know him

obviously from Elf as buddy's dad or don't know from honeymoon in Vegas or something like that maybe the known from the show Vegas was

me on that show Las Vegas I think he was but he he made a lot of very unusual films in the 70s starring these really ornary explosive characters like slither T.R.

Basquen Cinderella Liberty like these movies are really a lot a lot harder to see than your standard 80s and 90s fair they're almost all of them are worth seeking out they're all made in that very special moment in Hollywood history where odd

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