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hello and welcome to the audio visual culture support cast that explores different areas of the arts and cultural production I'm Paula Blair and and this one I thought it would be useful to revisit films that demonstrate ways the disabilities come into their own when sudden changes brought about by a widespread invasion of something not unlike a pandemic as we're experiencing at the time of recording this intro are widely disabling and the usually non disabled must learn a new way of living to survive back in January twenty nineteen Angie Sheila and I recorded a general discussion about watching films and programs and Netflix with his family during the twenty eighteen winter holidays as part of that we spent some time on bird box directed by Susanne bier and adopted by Eric hi Sir from the twenty fourteen novel by Josh Miller men and starring Sandra bullock for this episode have extracted that part of the chat to highlight the importance of including people of all abilities and vulnerabilities not just at times of crisis but always we all matter and I hope this story finds new appreciation and the light of challenging times a good pairing for this is episode fifteen on a quiet place the sequel for which has been postponed for release later in the year huge thanks to members and Petri on dot com forward slash AP cultures for all your support everyone is welcome to get involved and the shots on our socials or by sending an recordings or even during a live chat with me listen to the enter contact details for now I enjoy this restaurant six but some if you insist so it was bad but this film seems like it was made because a quiet place was successful it seldom that simple of course basically given a bed boxes based on novel novel is published well before a quiet place was made so it's based on a twenty fourteen novel corporate books by Josh Mylan given the proximity of some coming nights with production would be well under way probably it seems like a bit of a coincidence it's not the site equivalent of a quiet place because it was it would be that if you have seen following the aliens when you dine but it's the if you see the engines thank you never really kind of what it is it's never clear that it's an alien invasion people are dying so fast that you don't really know what it is it could be some sort of supernatural creature organisers of supernatural events and it actually seems to be quite an individual to every victim because they're people only hear their own loved ones so that promises that people see something that's so deeply horrific and so five nine to them so desperately desperately sad knowing that they and since may feel the need to end their lives and I'll find the closest means of doing so the do it with a blissed out look on the faces well so there's this little change from what you would expect somebody who's in the depths of despair to do which is to cry uncontrollably and become this emotional wreck they do it as if they're in a state of ecstasy the belief that it's the best thing they're saying they're affected psychologically by whatever these things are I love the film doesn't share the interest yeah we always get into the quiet place we get to see what these items that like in quite some detail and why it is that their %HESITATION so sensitive to sound because it is a most of the heads were in this the closest we get to seeing these I'm gonna Canadians because I reckon it's rather than supernatural but it's just extraterrestrial is that we get one character who's been permitted to see them and to live so they seem to have this choice to affect people in such a way that they don't kill himself but he's been in charge of in some way too I'm using supernatural and it's just been changed in some way to make other people look at them he considers them to be awfully beautiful and so we've done all these drawings of them yes and we're going to get so his drawings and accept a freshness paper and start doing more drawings those drawings as you like them on the table the drawings of monsters but that's the closest we get in this film to seeing what these things look like which I think was great because what they look like nothing does it not matter but it makes it scarier if we're constantly and mentioning what these things that I've just offscreen good morning Tom Hollander love always planned awful person is awesome this is discussing behaving up city that say he's he's okay now but he's still a sinister character and he plays it so well yes guy he's almost possessed by these things you know when he goes on this quite murderous rampage trying to gather people selected them and when he can't say that just killing them and saying I'm sorry you don't get to see how beautiful it is three need to survive that's our job market which is kind of to buys it just get stopped March on March fifteenth can you make up this director Susanne bier just on this idea of not being able to see the creatures if you're an up and coming from Medicare and Netflix has really been supporting women filmmakers have been struggling to get funding must bind with three seven same center last the race it's really got her on the mouth their support and she's gone already stellar cast and that this production is starring and executive produced by Sandra bullock and I think just the idea of not seeing the monsters a lot of filmmakers have cut their teeth sounding harsh where they've had to be inventive a bite subjective camerawork and implying things in the off screen space implying what their mom surcharge so that they don't actually have to go to the expense of trying to design and then have one screen a monster and then potentially looking really rubbish is a Gareth Edwards he has first feature was monsters which he made on his laptop in his bedroom because it's old three sign design you never actually see the monsters in the tile and he went on to direct the court celery me can Star Wars and things it's not just cheap it's smart business yes once the event is a way of saying that it's a creative solution to ready thanks had a problem since your budget constraints what a quick minimal props you can use a lot of the times the creature is implied three very strong wind lifting up lots of leads flowing in the camera so that's something you can create ten part for radio waves a blower and some Hades but I think of all the time it's done digitally I think because it's such a simple concept works really well because you can really have Tracy compete poetry Spock to make them look like they're being blown you have a wind machine on them to make them look like being blown so you can create those a fax and it's through the timing it's thirty added thing that's really where the cars come to there's never any jump scares I don't think I can't remember any real job scheduling was waiting for them but it's similar to a quiet place and that it's highly suspenseful because if being conditioned by a quiet place three times and I was trying not to react okay noises knocks and she and I mean you're trying not to draw attention to yourself of course but this thing can say yea and it is aware of when he meant it only seems to affect humans because birds are an important part box of course is the crux of the thing we've touched upon the two strands of this film the first is it has a simple premise that simply says the characters you survive the initial apocalypse do so because they've learned what to serve in part just by chance but they continue to survive because they learned that the world now has an exceptional characteristic which is that you must not look outside the house if yours are hers you can do looking but if you're outside the house you can't look and that means you have to cover up a windows as well so it's and if you look at the outside world you don't film I'm sorry it's all played out with that different characteristic to the world and this is all you need to do to create really great tense human drama disco okay this one fact about life has now changed so no one can use verbs you know but it's just really simple things just change that throw which humans into that mix and you've got some great drama how people deal with different situations produce great on on the second strike this film I think is that we don't leave it until quite late but it points out that in a situation in which suddenly the environment has changed and being able to see is a liability people who are blind I have quite a serious survival advantage over people who are signed and so this is much like in a quiet place because in a quiet place the advantage that the family has is that they're very good at communicating without talking because one of the daughters is already deaf and therefore they were you sign language in both books the sanctuary vets on the book character this matter is not quite known gent six specific names the flame tree that she had two kids find at the end is one which is a home for the blind because blind people just automatically immune to this invasion meaning that if you want to survive you need the help of the plot is one of these films it just quietly away %HESITATION hi %HESITATION specific to circumstances our our abilities James involvement low band we are just awfully involved bridges or any kind of adequately involved in circumstances that we do live in anyway but James I'm a bit more awful this does bring me to the two bits affection that I'm aware of that %HESITATION for runners for this very simple story principal of no one can see serve because I realize that this is all based on twenty forty novel so we're going back to four minutes for the novel there's a piece of short fiction from nineteen oh eight of nineteen twenty they're very very similar so stories and I'm sure these are the only two peas affects where this thing happened so nineteen oh eight the focus by Molly Roberts a nineteen twenty it's called the black grip grip spoke G. R. I. P. P. E. written by Edgar Wallace and in both of these stories something happens that means that suddenly no one can see them both the sources said in London none of the characters know anything about the rest of England let alone the rest of the world in London at least certainly no one can see and that means that people have been blind since birth and are used to navigating without being able to see suddenly become heroes and the first one it's this guy called cramp it is going to be blind gravel old crap is going in blind since birth and he becomes a hero to this group of characters who aren't able to see was the fall get along the mystic and in the nineteen twenty one by Edgar Wallace the heroes are people who are members of institute for the blind because in the nineteen twenty one the reason why I don't get bored it is because of the disease and it's a disease that blind you for about ten days and then you get signed back and so what the government does it and actually knows this is going to happen because some scientists have done experiments in rabbits and goats this is about to happen to humans the government now the government is contacts all these industries for the blind in the blind you used to set up this rudimentary communications network that just about let the government continue to function and so the blind being heroes because something prevents all the people who are used to seeing from saying is exactly what happens in this film and also presumably in the novel take the blind you're being harassed left until the end and I really can't fix affecting a blind character to turn up and go guys it's okay I can help you because they don't affect me and I'm completely used to traveling without being able to sit watching these signs of characters trying to get around without being able to see that was one of the really tense parts of the fact that the one point Tom haters I just realized is introduced very early %HESITATION even before we get to learn what his name is he says let's just take the car it's got motion sensors front and back so we'll be able to tell if we're gonna hit something we just go around someone said to me get in this car and black out the windows and then go and drive it it's fine just trust motion sensors I'd be a nervous wreck for the day we must get the local supermarket the motion sensors can even pick up the aliens to make this into kind of they seem to fly whenever I just noticed this when I'm looking at looking at the idea to look up in that fits with the principle of believes lifting off the ground like a suction leaps and them and that they disrupt the foliage seemingly from above I suppose it's also known as at this point that this is one of those films which it doesn't have anything in it which cannot possibly be radio in that and we see a car exploded you can do an exploding car when you're doing principal photography in that sense it's got things which you could just produce as a visual effect without doing it in post production during the effects and post production but it became quite clear after one of the laws of this film was constructed in post production so we just saw a car exploding there was something a little bit wrong about that explosion wasn't that it was quite clean I think they had a car that was on fire and they just how did the explosion of US products and says Lopez is that when they go down the river quite a lot of those shots seem to be stitched together digitally Mr for the always of course that's what done digitally Evelyn's eyes change color when they see one of these items it was a tense film and I didn't prefer myself going how much time is left that's one of the temptations with Netflix because you've got a slide along the bottom but I can tell that a habit of denouncing you're watching things on your laptop but we can watch this on your laptop and was on a television screen but if you pose it on TV they will tell you how much time is left but that would have made everyone in it you can just let me run your finger from my spot to check because you're really annoying how but or do you just acting from Sandra bullock she's really great and I just went there her characters interesting because she's an artist that set up birdie on that she's heavily pregnant she's not really interested in the paint or he the father is or any of that she's already interests and relationships sheets in quite a bit of denial about it they think it's growing insider Hollywood has an amazing ability never to tackle the issue of abortion non mainstream films yeah absolutely we're going to head on but Hollywood goes no I'm not going to do this Netflix does that count as Hollywood's is it well I am sorry the mainstream it seems that at least in his attitude towards abortion it's completely in the mainstream because Mallory's attitudes to being pregnant is one of our just ignore it it seems to say what county would reasonably do if they're pregnant and they don't want to be pregnant is just ignore it which seems like a desperate way of trying to go let's have a character giving birth against her will but half to %HESITATION create a justification for it because of course somebody could have an abortion in this country before twenty eight weeks for notified to be pregnant I have to carry a baby to term against her will rather than us making it so that she's just come from a country where you can't have an abortion saying or that she lives in a state where she's been systemically prevented from having one open ended by a family from having one they just make it that she's just a bit cute cute he's cute enough to just ignore the fact that she's pregnant right up until a month for say before she's due it just seems like this character would have had an abortion that seems like a much more realistic thing yeah in the back story well there's probably quite a few things I mean just's offended I fire that's probably where a film like dirty dancing as Akshay Reddy quick punk and noise there for dealing with something that cuts are actually so I got the impression that it's a knock that she's putting on you know like it's because this is somebody who's a survivor that could be aware though of just excusing it because he could be right that yes this is just mainstream media production and a very general sense just not acknowledging abortion and the U. S. also depends what state you're in things are changing and currently the S. class sedan ministration back does want to scale right back on abortion laws this is considered it might be that this is a character you could just come out a one point the film and say no I am pro life I don't believe that yeah right she could just say that capable of course with that suggests is that the one touch the issue with a barge pole I don't know yeah the corrective stand anywhere on abortion system I thought was quite impressive in terms of its characterization because even most people you don't really spend a lot of time if you get a sense of the person yeah quite easily I think Murray picks on a bed of an act of being a cold hard nosed her send but it says when she meets and Lafayette he is also heavily pregnant when she comes into it because they refuge and Haris and another pregnant woman manages to find them and come and she's very sweet she's had a very sheltered life this old Disney princesses and surely opens as a little girl so that she can color jasmine or something like that Mallory at first is quite she's never reach her but she is quite distance Olympia tries to be friends and they're going through a very similar experience together this very intense unique experience that they're both having that there have to be pregnant in the middle of this catastrophe the mother he does so often she does start to understand her she Caesar's human being even the John Malkovich character Hey moderate tells him to his face that she thinks he's an asshole he puts his own life before others he takes quite awhile for him to come get it and it gets to a point actually read the rest of them don't trust him enough and then he actually comes come gets properly anyway he's got person south quite a bit it's set up in a way that he's to foil because her interactions with him actually show that she does care about people as she does carry the baby that she's carrying not only that she cares by the other people all of them she wants more to survive she wants a livia and her baby to survive and my Lafayette becomes effective because Tom Hollander goes crazy go nuts and openside all the windows and is trying to get up but a lack of Lafayette accidentally looks at the window and she can't help but see what it is and she's holding her baby and Mallory is desperately trying to use the post comments a birth seem time look on the same day on this in the same month yeah it's revealed when they made that there do you do it as a day apart so they both go into labor at the same time they're both bursting at the same time there's just bring that is just take it over with first thing and it's happening in the middle of this intense situation that's happening at the same time you know the Tom Hollander character he takes the opportunity to show his hand doesn't wear because he manages to convince them that he's a normal when he's not to get into the high stacks are moderate really expresses how caring she is and the fact that it center cut just going back and forth in time where that actually begins with her and the two children a boy and a girl the same age and it goes back six years so you know that these kids are five years old it gives a good momentum it's becoming quite a common practice these days to go we can still in media Raz the make up I can tell you when this all comes from and we'll catch up on them a bit yeah but it keeps reminding us of the in media res action is still going on as we're moving up to the present so it keeps it less intense but you're asking about Susanne bier Danish made a lot of films in Denmark phase well she was one of the dogma ninety five manifesto directors that's self constructed books of limitation and you probably know from the night manager she was director of the night manager TV service starring Tom Hiddleston Hugh Laurie and have your common David Harewood Tom Holland to Analisa both debates but I never saw that that that makes sense she sends TV before order her Danish film so because I know her name from some quite some few of course the token English titles fruits leaving home ninety one family matters not not for like it never was before nine ninety five credo ninety seven the one and only ninety nine once in a lifetime two thousand brothers two thousand four after the wedding two thousand six things we lost in the fire those seven in a better world two thousand ten love is all you need to twenty twelve Serena twenty fourteen this scene in which one occurrences says Hey let's use the CCTV cameras on the outside of my house really long yeah two Jessica Parker is as far as musical correct it is nice that they just referred to his husband and it's not affecting you yeah everyone's lost someone that seems to when they arrived in this house this part ten of them in the market which is character here is Douglas we see him lose his wife as she's trying to help those murdering Rohingya yeah everyone has a story about how they just lost someone it is one of those whore do consortium Harmon factions it's like a quiet place it's very difficult to a pen as Jon Rahm it because it's a suspense horror thriller we're talking about the wrong character Greg using the security cameras I was thinking all right yeah it's mechanical seeing it's just deserve mention surely they can't get you via digital cameras but take care yeah he was thinking it would mediates but it doesn't mediated enough and clearly when the years the motion sensors on the comp that mediates enough so yeah seems to be nonfiction directly saying it's just sensing it is quite different from what you wear Greg sees the CCTV footage and it's just moving shadows okay yes %HESITATION genre thriller I think would be my guess is he M. S. crime you know you think there's a K. perfect and then thurs working I tweet on that this is it's working out how to survive in a world where you it's not safe for you to see anything maybe the structural weakened appoint as a survivalist drama because again it's got those inflection of postapocalyptic well it's the apocalypse happening is the human race's things systematically wiped giants unless you can get to these kinds of sanctuaries that our schools for the blind yeah it is really interesting hi it doesn't seem to be a consideration but then the quiet place centers right now %HESITATION name that has a deaf child Spencer there %HESITATION fluent in sign language baths and base doesn't even occur to people that %HESITATION we should see how blind people coke because I think in a way that's more realistic in terms of high society just thank the speakers we normalize the default kind of human thought has all the names and everything working the able bodied or privileged and so when you're not able bodied in so many years capable of surviving better than able bodied changes what able bodied means the thing that this does finitely hasn't come with a quiet place is it proposes that we have on one usually normalized a certain body type the problem with the quiet places that the deaf character causes quite a bit of danger because she doesn't understand signed yes that's a problem because she'd give sort of browser the toy that kills them her nose and she doesn't understand how loud it's going to be and that he's really not going to use it properly because he's five he's not gonna devotees tolls she can't hear the noise that she makes nothing means a large character it's just it's enabled the authors to be quiet eleven a side of morals and understand what it's like to live in the side of the world but she can make noise that's the problem she can't hear the noises she's able to make for a synthesis it's different because you don't have an equivalent higher with the fine lines in a liability for the site yeah actually yeah this is a kind of step one was from a quote because it has to stay at the end where basically the blind on the people leading it that the new society about what kind of a society is it because that's the whole point of the bird boxes that they find that it's hard to say find these budgies initial because parties are in shops in cages the alliance for consumers it's not too late where he would pay so they seized three budgies that they managed to keep alive the birds can sense when the creature is nearby and the nuts they just squawk and squawk and squawk that is a warning signal from the alarm this was as one of things that distinguishes this quite sharply from a quiet place because in a quiet place there's a these things have a weakness narrative and finding out what that is means they can start to fight back just for the film and squares innocents you just need to do a bit of observing to find out simply how to sense the creature yeah without seeing them the base is very important to mention that you need is not peace information about how to hurt the creatures it's just the base information about how to you know want to close your eyes and and that's the problem is that you can't trust everybody around you guys there and even the creature seems to develop its doing something with the emotions when it's trying to seduce people and selecting it's trying to get the children to take the blindfolds offense trying to trick people it uses the voices which is in a way where you do you actually need to be quiet in this world is it uses the voices that would be trusted to take the blindfold off so that they will see and then it can take their lives whatever she's using them for prison might place it seems to be a minor feeding but here there's no explanation there's just don't know what these things are this is just this phenomenon that happens nobody can even study it because there's just no way to see yet it's just about survival at this point these aliens that have just have this automatic hunting instinct which is just if they think about a human killing themselves or if I even know even if they think if they just aren't seen by human they automatically make human what codes of state can manipulate it to an extent they can go all right so that human that I don't want a human to feel despair that means that they kill themselves I want a human to to have the opposite reaction seems to be that they figure all right that people will start wearing blindfolds they need to find a way of getting them to take the fine folks often the way J. six because at first people are trusting people because if you're not killing yourself he seemed to be normal so nobody knows yet what signs to look out for I think you said remember watching the from the first time that it's a way of wiping our department to take over the planet possibly could be a reason why it's happening beyond the speculation needs register now for going he's been mind controlled by them says it shall cleanse the world the idea is that humans are being like an extinction event on their status the quicker than life boat another kind of bird box at the end the son Jerry where they've managed it Cisco let's send the minds somewhere or no it's in reference to a summer yeah it's near estuaries very vague where this even if the voice on the radio says the license for the first song follow the bird some so they've got their little parties in this little box that they're carrying case that's a warning sign when they finally check out there they manage to have daylight because that's got this incredible topiary which echoes yeah so it is like a cage it is the sort of gilded cage thing is meant where they're trapped inside they've got everything they need to score a small community parts if more people manage to find it fella yeah I did okay yeah so as far as the building quite big it's got a central courtyard growing over that center is trees and bushes that have grown up the building on both sides need to be together over the top so that light can still committed to my life but the concierge thing through this pretty thick matted massive trees I mean clearly one of these beings aren't they can't just pull a few brushes aside they seem to have a rather abstract exists I thought maybe it was we need to say it again maybe but I thought there was a structure there they are actually growing across that he couldn't tests go three the foliage yeah there is a structure as if the place already has an aviary yeah four out for another brutal consisting of this phone which is the minority lets these two kids get to age five without giving them names what does the girl and boy the boy they don't know any different Tom has been with them for most of this six years she's met him for being literal and it's six years later they're probably just coming sex so there but six Thoman Mallory on the to be a base for the remaining survivors and the community that they built in the Holy Spirit thanks for my family unit it's a survival unit but they do also for my family and it is used to write that Tom a moderate form a relationship they have a romantic relationship that shows a softer side when she goes for supply runs and how the system again that's very similar to a quiet place where they find a system for getting your own mind so in a quiet place it was the sound everywhere she could walk perfect and this may have retractable lines that they can use to feel their way blindfolded so they go on the supply runs to the abandoned houses and things she manages to find a negligee you know so you did say that she is a sexual person she does care she has MS moving relationship with Tom she is fiercely protective of these children probably a bit too much because there's a bit where it seems about harpist Thomas trying to tell them stories that we give them hope and stay abreast of a normal childhood and she's arguing with him you shouldn't get their hopes up like that they're never gonna have thought when this in a way it's back to being a family drama this is the crux of parenting is not is not quite agreeing on the best way of bringing up the children just got transferred into really extreme circumstances she's so concerned for their survival she doesn't want them thinking I thought it is the crux of this film she has to admit that she's wrong yeah Tom is just right he's carrying and he's right he's done from the word go even when she doesn't quite realize that he's the most amazing person his big thing is now these kids need to dream as it is now you get my hopes up and never gonna have normal lives and she has to learn this is wrong even after he's done to save their lives when they get to this century and they can't in this particular environment could have a bit more of like a normal life yeah they can integrate we can meet other kids finally what with that figure because it's a bit of a run the moment when he has a doctor to lock them he was doing a an ultrasound at the beginning yeah so S. the number for and it was a spectator early memories from the old refusal to even admit that yeah getting your documentation that adopting may meet her again at this facility you know having a doctor that deliver useful person but I find myself going how did you know that she was in the same hospital our system would driving when the first attack happened in everyone's killing themselves how did she survive is survival that random I suppose we just expected soon this is a nice moment it's mostly so that Mallory can have that conversation where she actually finally names the children just as much to do yeah and it's always nice see Amanda macros by the very soft spot for a lot of people you can any are honest admit to having more than a soft spot for her she's really gorgeous and the home center for a long time and anything so is there any of the despair and nice her character really just comes by accident Mallory has somebody he recognizes her and knows her goals thanks and kind to each other having survived terrible things she asks here their children and they themselves saying I'm boy girl I'm Mullery says well actually your name is Tom and your name is Cynthia button doesn't actually teller after your mother the issue is a bit high given the complete yeah we know that it's simpler and it's no point as the doctor goes did you have twins I remember seeing what on the sonogram yeah but you think six years and all of the trauma they've been very hard to remember but you never know maybe they wait if your life has been so small and concentrated the sign track I think it's worth talking about it because it's Trent Reznor and Atticus something so there's a bit of a nine inch nails flavor cherry pickers Ross sign track yes corporate they scored the social network second twenty eighteen and the girl with dragon tattoo as well twenty fifteen so Ross is now just a member of Nine Inch Nails and Ross is British yeah it was great sound design around the fact that when the creatures in the area that presence is not just indicated by this prevents roads from Terry and you pronounce his first name because he is best known from midnight to one of these creatures whatever they are whenever around of course that prisons indicates visually by shadows leaves floating upwards and the wind blowing but we need something old tree as well and that presence is represented by them whispering lots of voices like they're reaching out thank you please the people people their hearing the voices of the mother because that's the thing with John Malkovich's characters Douglas's wife is near is it her mother she keeps hearing when she sees the same and it's as if her mother's calling her to the other side to come and be with her and that happens to Mallory shears Tom's voice the children here Valery's voice it tries to trick the children such as sinister moment it tries to trick the children when they fall lost each other your obesity conceived notion a run through forest she had a really bad fall and they'll get separated its divide and conquer the creatures try that get the children to take their blindfolds off by using Mallory's voice saying is you can take your final thoughts we're going just never take the however she wanted one which we would want to in that situation comes thanks and she's yelling that no this is my voice don't take them off and they find each other and the voice says that the girls scared of her because there's just the memories of her telling them off quite firmly before and she has to express how much she loves them she does she really doesn't mean it's evident she's kept them alive for six years and the strenuous circumstances from the parenting they've hired Mallory these kids are going to grow up with the most horrendous psychological scars just from the journeys I learned that if I had to take to get around these Janice have been undertaken with Mallory shouting at me and talk to him about what it must've been training and drilling them this is a world of terror it's usually scenes of she's in a garden with them they're topping stones together because she's teaching them about a high sign reverberates basically using sonar sonically preparation for them to learn how close they are to an object's river when we watch the book of Eli apparently there was clear off to clear off to clear and that that the main character is blind and uses echolocation to make his way around he makes clicking noises with his tongue to do occur location I missed that completely until Israel maybe that life as kids is they just lose their childhood friends from those things that it's going to get the average here it's really want specifically Mallory to survive because of the characters in the film where it quite correctly to each other and so for them to get a million to get service I did it's a bad thing but it's not as bad as it would be for characters like Mallory but with Mallory and two kids the impetus in average viewers mind wish them along to it whatever it is that going on this river Johnny is really strong it's not just something will kill these kids is that something will get these kids to express a psychological condition which kids should never experience if there's one thing which is quite clearly and coded reference to pedophilia that's probably a good candidate isn't it is giving the story a principle of Asians that get even the kids to express the wish to kill themselves Sir it's powerful stuff for yeah how willing it is to go to dark places and that's when the light place at the end is going to get I was just thinking as well thanks to talk sure she's safe and maps on the ground mmhm at the hospital but also if you think about it it's a way of saying the signed it was over so it makes sense then that she returns airlines because she's someone who's an expert in saying the signs whatever 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hello and welcome to episode twenty four of audio visual cultures the podcast that explores different aspects of signed an image based cultural production we just contact from singing skyscraper we can have a bit of a child all right not a lot of the other sounds and culture an act to change just before and he joins me to get into class just when the same massive thank you to everybody who spends liking sharing most important last name and enjoying if you have seen him finding useful discussions that we've been having everything you do to help fight is really much appreciated if you can support on peachy arm to help stand under the podcast that would be incredible can I eat discussion and I'll be back in the end the demerger mission thank you she would act again toucher outlay or be involved in some line that was very strange yeah was tense Schembri citing problems going why isn't he can't really sweaty click on those same streets many qualities I give it much credit I'm one of those courses was giving a sense of just how dirty it was becoming to the cause of this phone this is our first one of the many things that shows with Tara is that too early less than a minute welcome right now I think Die Hard tarring inferno house to come up with a system we can avoid them it is like a twenty first century mashup of the sounds in a way a straight for me and then go except for the fact that the building was really well designed with fire in mine and when they finally get back if the actual controls the building because the internet seems to be controlled just from an iPad I'm of the phones and tablets are available and it's just cold attachments once you get control of it back on your template the building works fine turn off and on again Richard I want today has been telling us for years I quite enjoyed skyscraper actually I thought it was fun summer night ice for a firm which makes you go one of those kinds must be hot yeah it was at least an appropriate time of the year because what is it it's the fifteenth of July and husband every day which is very house or it's a phase described as a hot day and so it it's hot most of the northern hemisphere and that means I was inclined to care while there's people must be %HESITATION yeah but I was once right it comes up going really what do you can still be able to breathe at this point but again such a huge amount of heat pumped up towards them but I suppose there is this thing with these are known about the audience term contract which the filming courage's R. asks the words to agree to go on the specific direction these are sometimes not so why just thought to myself no human strength to do that whenever she will have enough stamina left to do that he's lost quite a lot of blood that's just not possible then going out in the parallel universe where this takes place it is possible for humans to be that strong have a stamina for those of physics working with different things where that number is that this is what family's capable of making us capable of S. cinematic and the sense that say the magic of cinema for human is able to do these things yeah because you're not we're talking the way back about them being moments went sort of start to heat the first was absolute limit any shops that are managed to survive a situation come out of it completely exhausted beaten and gasping for breath and booted a bit more and then in the next seat the delivery of the Clinton thing too about a minute later he's fine and he's trying out conversation somebody must get to the rim matching makes that possible I think that when we come out with action movies is that in addition to some syncopation movie world welcome to live by okay we couldn't do this much pricing because we can just added together lots of shots right active correct and not rush in addition to being shifted into park world been shifted one step further into the it is not even physically possible world there's been so many points in action movies work on %HESITATION person would die if they fall from the heights and landed on the rocks or anything on it so I think yeah you definitely wouldn't be able to hold a press on but then it's fine either I have a willingness to suspend disbelief and just care six months our success to omit but in the story space these things are possible but what else might be going on in the nice spending in this pretty little because in Austin got call it's not actually it's got conventions it's got standards it's got levels extremist actions increased I'm sorry one character chiefs a certain thing it's not even meant to make sense even within the world of the story is just saying that you have insurance I'm not saying I was going down one of these two routes for sure and it was a mixture of the two but both of them involved I'm pretty sure that this is not quite happening in this world I was not on it so because or if the contrivance for welding which is happening is how you invest with these things possible so I think that's part of the enjoyment is going this is Joe price of some kind I wasn't matching that there was a good degree of humor in this film I think it's important to have that humor not just to have a %HESITATION having a bit of a polls from the intensity in our stock come down which seems to be a stripper in addition to our stock market search let's see which necessitates having main characters you have a base has a sense of humor roasting Brussels Kitty that he could write quite funny government as well as content it's pretty typical rate you need some quick tips from there J. nine that tension there are some bakery nine several times and I don't know who these people are far away from us or what but wasn't tell quite near the end when you really needed to comic relief that I heard anybody else offering anything time is critical I wanted to get a minute take your mention because I was so happy to hear that needs combos and that's %HESITATION because we do not see her and knocks I think screen was a formative experience and my cinematic education as a teenager at Kmart when I was quite young I think I was thirteen when I saw it and it to detain solution center line to save screen cherry runners for change %HESITATION sands also remains in saying this is why they brought in those things twenty five most because their member the person on that task Askin me my friends RT at saying yeah my friends started offering our sins like shut up this is for you I remember I never happens on June zero therefore I would go and see if the whole ground for it my way and stuff read customer might be some reason where I mean I think the screen this is that they are scary there are the end things stop their post modern in the sense that they're highly referential and highly aware of characters you're talking about eight and inspired by lots of slasher movies or and the types of characters they are many councils Sydney as the crux of it all heard their child together that she species by Jamie Curtis and how did you yes lives and lives is also saying that's what a lot of oneness and non screen has stopped all sixteen her boyfriend's played by the ski %HESITATION shaving his name is Seth starter with him saying that ten minutes may yet our duty here doing it together the night everything kicks off he convinces are destined to finally see them because she's been resisting immigration issues wanted to weigh it out the party they're all laughing hi despite discussion of going behind the virgin survive spent you know a version you can die she manages to fight back and survive the screen was one two three four five six just a quick victory in addition to the screen she does she said a lot of lower budget films creativity but it's unusual to see her and quite make sense is something that's out of anything and she did a very good job of not more not just you know the conference and she did a very good job these women that just because usually at that they're not so good I think good job with the fighting their account I have to watch you do some I've been in the on court she's really kick ass and the screen comes our characters I've seen junior Hey thanks for being a strong person getting Siri the trauma of siting back she does not get back that was a lot of that in this character it was his death she's set me out the writing it's nine even that way her character was dressed very similar dress our system early on I thought this is a situation in which we've got two people who's been in the army the wine and you use that card yeah and he was %HESITATION this is what team is working with the FBI there's mention of having done something before okay so we didn't %HESITATION on after six years service members of the armed response even some special unit the prices are not cheap in the army so I got two characters are very capable yeah and she's a trained that said her character shirt and knock on the soccer here years fabrications that she's saying stuff we're dying to mankind okay the first hand that kind of training you need to be an option yeah right and what we're gonna have now is we're gonna have she's given a lot to just become a full time mom and he's got a career which isn't welcome anymore but it does involve actually going out and being pregnant I'm not so I'm not so I'm not gonna lie because I'm going to spend the whole time going to grumble grumble grumble what is that you're done with the amount of dependence is being gradually occurring over the course of decades of action movies but then they can put sparkly because they give her a lot more to do than just screaming and running around kids show support she has having on the police to do and ultimately when it comes to a climax she's the one who when sore during Johnson's character has just run out of things you can do she's the one who has an idea and scratch the entire situation under control isn't just save him although she does a map that that it's something he usually does for her and fixing her phone and the implication is that jokey relationship we better stop fishing because they are in the box or container and accept her phone regularly stops working properly and it is a specific she likes getting him to sort of write horror any indication as far out east the joke she makes S. that she's perfectly capable of trying to think he keeps just stating that works and that is simply repeating she says right just like very useful yeah but it's closely house so of course and that's the thing that solves all problems the end of this year St speak out yet he recruits I don't think as far as this film is concerned the way that you control buildings this is the same way that you control online banking on your device or saying we did you not get your home on your tablet and I suppose that's another one of those suspended disbelief things because we just have to go always sold on rates the common spaces that anybody could use running around the training to understand but it did make their visual from for the building and so screens screens all over the shop and so I'm telling you so much well there's one scene in particular we do need to come back to convert our character there were none of the fact that he thought screens up this is something that's very obviously call its genes from tiring inferno and Steinhardt boats to ferry talk with her %HESITATION building is the special work the public don't know what it's for and if you feel that it's a local east different types of screens account remembering the terms are used the whole thing is screens there's cameras search reverse camera Superbowl converse your whole thing is wild so that it can actually show you a Hong Kong underneath and around it as if you're standing in that hour it can also be a radio operator hall of mirrors and that's what it turned and she and the fake final sack pace it's built up to the solution really accent action set pieces throughout actually find it really enjoyable intends it builds up to that one I'm not really reminded me of course my houses in Shanghai because the big sappy said not from ace and hall of mirrors that's where this violence comes to a climax and %HESITATION so it really made me think about large scale but of course using screen technology and supplies conversely technology please enter active screens as a souped up version of the whole of merry set pace it's a huge leap touch screen environment there's a screens that you're interested in a variety of different ways and so one of the ways is that a lot of things that you might not think our touch screen actually are catching some of one point why can't still the structure in the first place some G. thanks bye chin Han okay %HESITATION this is where he goes into a ring which just seems to have three windows on one side looking after sixty years of journalism press handle on it she was a delight because it's not actually win the right screen which is cover for what he said and so things that don't even look like screen our screens this one point where any hand on the head of the line I think and it closed green as it takes his palm print those things which we not see other guys not security you know the fan is seen as the one he stitches up work somewhere his former colleague he stepped to sum up %HESITATION yes it was it's hand bringing an end to the meeting just on the screen hang on the windows and freight Burke latest this would have been incredible for her back the virtual window last year windows and screens basically there's a meeting be done using sure thing the firm is bigger how to have huge crowds at ground level watching the drama right the small digested unions are also watching on when they finally emerged in the building at the end and it's a kind of reuniting the family saying this story space audience have been watching the story of big screens of course I haven't been watching time discussing the kind of stuff you can film from a helicopter that's outside the building then we watch any footage from inside the building so as far as they're concerned there's been a surge protection from the outside the purpose of which they don't understand and then these people come out and they're okay but then it would be not and that's it so what we have in him is wrapping this story space version of us is the audience thanks in the in front of the characters doing a proxy of what we're supposed to be doing which is really celebrating the success of these characters I wonder to what extent we can identify them since trying to re write her %HESITATION seis nine Latin search there's lots of shots of people in the crowd and your niece watching through their phones or holding your homes up to found on watching it seems timely getting instant mediation what Sawyer might be doing the times that he comes right side there was one particular where the wire he needs to call to get access into the pan hice to be able to attempt to bring his daughter he needs to do this whole other fate of brilliance and spider man I the building is in talks with her he smiled too great %HESITATION style find but he has to go right side mesh part where of course he's trying to get back in and he's hanging from the rope that's hanging from his staggering the prosthetic leg is something we need to go into town three hanging outside of courses Lancaster reading to break apart with the way it's it's all right taxis time going there and then there should cost the card is your main lesson there Collins and I couldn't help but thanks operated New York centaurs partners nine eleven but people were selling the likes of suckling lamb and I couldn't help wondering is this a way of re writing not because that image circulated so and sent my arms %HESITATION should say and has been used in so many different ways and it can be wrapped in lots of different ways and that causes lots of debate Sir what would you do if you were in that situation would you say in the burning falling building bridges jump that takes the idea off socks %HESITATION either dying and another day program state or taking control but many might see it as the cards why always maybe some last burst of freedom because you've got a ton of me too Jones and she have making it quick celebrating experience during welcome %HESITATION I just remember debates about that kind of thing happening and what if you change the narrative what if he changed axing the guy down the fire broke being able to kind this way back in the masters two separate occasions when he's hanging off the edge of this building and one it's when the first cases were in the building it doesn't quite make it and so he's the age limit the best time to get into and he grabs a bit of twisted metal is hanging off the edge and just hang on the edge of it this is the middle of the spring and then second time is when he's dangling by a rope that's taxes and prosthetic foot and I'm thinking okay we've seen how this things attached to his stomach he's gonna be slipping up I don't have his own prosthetic foot very quickly but I'm I'm just to recover and so yeah this is the falling man climbing back up into the building and finding a way to make it so that the building can be sorry the price and terrorists the only ones who done the fact of having a floor which is on form to be a big part of the plot of this film because it's something that the ninety six four yeah really first set the fire and it's a chemical formula that is actually caused by the sprinklers coming on so this bill is using the mountains and Arctic fence against it and then the whole point is the building has technology for containing fires within compartments no just regular folk with a possible there anyway if I could spread from one part of the building to another is even as if the fire suppression measures are taken offline this remote control okay so this up to calm his way for a good chunk of from what we're saying is just one shoe on fire and then of course the planned terrorist happens to get control of this remote control facility and shut down for safety measures and even do things when they open up the fence and so the options being sucked into the floors that are far the result of that is the first US respondents before long the settlements by the floors on fire I will that's fine but then above it that's the high pressure situations situations and the film is all about getting that situation power under control even at the point when the fines reached its way to the very top floor it's still brought under control again so you know it seems to be a really intense fantasy of twin towers thing being flown into the tires which is completely impossible and what about that is that it's a way of taking that going not we are going to fix it strikes me initially as really is your ass on consciousness really still trying to deal with are actually back in the nineties and noughties America still re fighting the Vietnam War and lots of difference in my C. R. S. and that was well over twenty years off to market record problems %HESITATION so yeah still seems completely sensible one of his big we apologize now hi Angela I think that and then I think there's an obsession of great possible dangers of high rise that thing as well in the dystopian surround I was thinking of high rice you've been lately your short last year and the year before opposite of this from me first ever car just more at this similarity actually is and that the architects house the very special paradise like Tyson very tall maybe there's a so actually I think the film is there's a lot more to it than just starring in Fargo trying hard to connect those different things both of those jokes as well because I think with time I know it's been years since I've seen at home you know I think D. six fire chief I thank the thing is that some kind of bias being constructed and they haven't taken the right precautions isn't that like take time like rice that some higher I think it's his family his wife at least he's been out of party where they've been at a party and because between Hammond St craziness not that cuts between them being heroes it's Paul Newman's character's wife he stopped %HESITATION so and distressed person but I think she's quite a strong character effort remember correctly she's leading people through the fence she's keeping paper all together organize saying survivors after Iraq correcting things but maybe fourteen when I saw it on TV so sketchy I think would die hard she does things differently there are similarities but does he think that many I mean I think we were saying earlier when Johnston's shirt largely stays on and we're used to seeing during Johnson's office find other ways to draw attention to his folk yeah the character of band he stitched up when they embrace and encourage me whoa we're talking as well very well this is John McCain and how's the record with their police officer he's on the crimes yes it is sergeant Howell our panel and the other was a definite no to that for most the police chief who's in charge of all operations at ground level in skyscraper having no relationship whatsoever no he should restore its relationships media canister you screens at St you said H. coming in my house so you're saying things that he says will ever thing or elsewhere because there's a part where you got to call back to the building and I never understood high because you go to folks she's accidentally anyway so it's a one sided relationship this time but actually it's also immediate it's very neat combos character Sarah Smith so it's mediated three Sarah having dealings with the place directly and she'd be able to help they suspect turned yet they give her a police jacket to wear even when they're still suspecting her name might be involved in something like that turns light that she can speak their language she explains I think it's going does different things that I wonder because she said there but her character there's an implication and their lives and the United States say you don't know what she may still have her career fair in Hong Kong for her husband's business that doesn't mean she's no longer search and yeah this was the phone just by not mentioning having occurred so trains are quite young there is a sense that she is an absolute super woman why it's really welcome I think when we won women being represented more info we want well rounded characters we want them to be peaceful but then again it is an action may be and of course all the heroic characters are going to be super humans online but it is just a bit frustrating that and your landscaping %HESITATION experience right kids saving your lives she has on the train surgeons or surgeon it was also on the track and the languages I suppose yeah that's one of the downsides of trying to create parents is that the implication is that ninety nine point nine percent of people wouldn't be able to do this networks and non identifiable currency are there %HESITATION we're talking on the way home that the character of the damsel in distress since you've been transferred on to the children yeah as the others what we normally do have personalities they just have things about your letter plot points well the boy does look gory and graphic trends in the names of children %HESITATION yes and Henry's last Monday show courses fires more of a problem for him and the rest of them I had higher hopes she gets that up so the moms with the boy and that's with the girls I was hoping for an award because she did seem to just revert to a help me actually and I really wanted to just write a guy in her arms or start yelling get off my Daddy or start beat writer if we go back twenty four years the true lies our task is daughter who's suddenly yanked into the store in the film has a bit of ingenuity and that she next this monarchy cynics and runs off she has a an attempt to try to undermine the terrorists are using her losses that was a more active Dorset behavior all right main male character then we go into custody I was wondering to what extent again it is as far as I talk to say he's he's becoming the all American hero during Johnson's coming to face a class I think to what extent is it the United States needs soccer hero archetype it's constantly user it's it's that he's going in as the same as family he doesn't give a fuck about the politics of why terrorists is set for building why they've attacked him and stole on this tablet it's not it's a bigger picture and anyway this bigger picture is commonly known as this one moment where we're going he's the leader of this group I don't think terrorists is the right word charm terrorists in the sense that they're doing on all a lot of violence and killing personal ideological now this is their driver's crime syndicate thirty five people justifies all the things that happened to them yeah over all right I'm when the head of the terrorists isms course both access to windows counter will sorry he says if you don't open these doors here on a three would go for this building and that's the shock is not over the shoulder shot a person talking to sort of sorts face during Johnson's face it's been quite frankly by that point is being held up by the wrong parties to you guys and as the show if he's initially borrowed heads and these heavy lifts up stairs Virginia I it's not I will have to watch to get serious even our eight some of the stories him interacting with kids using the line which is yes that's it yeah and they checked me I mean it's also not as him carrying them holding them and as far as the firm also has these two images of people not stirring proper carrots kits because very early on we have the thing which costs sorters leg very little of it is explained it's the ten years ago seeing a male character who seems to tell the police officer and is taking his own family hostage in the house and when the swat team coming he's actually holding you learn something from him as human shield enemy question down reveals this way this was a vast and virtually the same of course it's a Brian this is one five zero the end gets it's just him there are always other critiques in jail it's just him and he's because practice sorry already turns round and of course is holding Georgia so you go to in front of them and run with that much of a shock grades caricature is contrasted with this hearty evil regard for kids one thing about those is set because he uses the screens J. orchestrate something there to make it look like he's facing nine back when actually he's behind him but photo was turned that way I should have seen him approach so %HESITATION novels we I don't think it would take some of that it's just a trophy %HESITATION largely there was no threat so I guess who's been on five hours yeah how does anything because the number of the end sure Sir was like turn on the finest person system again on every single for the entire building CO two starts being spread out of this forest person system in it chokes the four okay fine for a little bit I don't miss this anything above fifty also flows that are on trial work and everything been melted by that point how does the building still standing finds been intense most youngsters here you can't really cook at it with too many cigarettes even gentle questioning at %HESITATION rivals cinema scenes yet you won't get to it shortly the violence is pretty intense and require a lot of swearing given this a twelve day I just it's the opposite occurred and I will send her away this is how markings on it took about nine it's about things being well done he was there some competition because I be eligible for a U. certificate so this thing in the world and well right now okay I tell you I'm not telling you to go back and listen to every single we're talking about that well done to all right you know it was nearly a fifty that's when you start terms now and the second yeah I just saw it was a really tall and telling me nicely to so some of those effects on both her kids given that people take really small kids and twelve ways let's take a moment to consider the fact that our main protagonist having a person doing Johnson's character was apparently partly inspired by and when Johnson was trained by an actual MPG the end his name is escaping me I'd just rather they think I can't remember what website it was that I saw the article it was something I saw on Twitter I know on Twitter as much at the moment because my smartphone is dead this is one thing %HESITATION I so I think it cracked on it because the article headlined his post some since J. C. M. P. che thing and that needs council's character was a strong woman something like that I hope both these things quite interesting story the technique called me but I read it because that's all in the family I Kerr so I'm quite keen to see this night I read the headline and I solo women being strong characters as Polegate but I actually just want to be like people maybe because we're kind of springing back that you get a level playing field has been depressed for so long the spring back and then it will finally reach level the Caribbean here's NBC's called Jeff glass front okay so he does a lot of training with them I was reading about it thanks again this is green but when are we going to get to the point where I have to laugh peachy place not PC character this technician of this conversation before by actors playing characters in films and so on so forth at the same time might smarting %HESITATION yesterday morning I saw a story and it was something that led me to the guardian but then one of the top ten headlines with safari Scarlett Johanson blocking our user roles because to play charms character and it says female to male transaction a lot of times activists were really upset about that she seems to have listened to them and taken on board and she backed projects said it wasn't clear whether the project is going to go for rich after this I thought that was and since this is still fired a fresh memory after the ride over her casting and ghost in the shell being an example of whitewashing I think it's quite similar and she is using your probiotic doctors and disabled roles and then I think your gold record center here like this you have to bring into question the term this vehicle as we mentioned when he signed going from this past Saturday buy side thing and Stefan that he can pull the bag off and still put himself up sorry that part of one of his legs and saves his life that he's able to call he does manage to move extremely far off passing well for someone who at some points in the film doesn't have a sponsor he uses it to teach %HESITATION the door open when the door to the pet crisis closing in after he's gone through a lot can open its closing the user selected job open I mean this thing really should be in pieces and also I suppose in a way X. Max is quite a bit of probation I have is that he's cooperating quite advanced prosthetic my guess is that if you have a prosthetic the number one thing is that because it's not connected to your scope of work bearing the love your body is a flush of your system and seven can mean lots of chafing lots of cruising and just need a second wife and this is somebody who puts a massive amount of weight on his stomach this is not a realistic I have to spend this legal route one yes this is the occasional bit of limping but he uses that thing as if it's not supposed to so I was nervous and every time there is if we need to stop her expedition moment he was standing up there having lots of conversations and he was standing up and I was going to come on night and knew this is fiction but he needs to set di he needs to get off our Lancaster office the concern hello just for a reason but yes he is I can %HESITATION Superman's so you have to just ignore it Hey let's see action movies in which people and your mom is conscious but I can't think of an actual meeting with somebody and she use as much as his car those declining on the financing it will be when you get sort of sold the interacting with other people in a way that Mrs dominate them is featured in the trailers but let's just mention that the jumping off of crying through the open space between the grand opening into a window he smashed in the building using the Honda crying you just talking to jump when it starts to kick off and he said in Hong Kong he's been advance apartment it seems things kicked off between them I said mystery that's %HESITATION going dying and I think and what compels you to steal a placement right instead of talking to the place obviously you don't get action movie but he commits crime you know it's one of those action movies where the hero house actually commit crimes shaping the hero and entirely gets away with it because they're the hero and they done a big thing when I actually hi Greg this is eating and trying to see if three people are secured %HESITATION the firm for which he's being chased by the police but the please thinking that he's in on it with our team has taken the building and I suppose it was been a refreshing change the we didn't have to wait until the end of the song for the place to realize this place seems to realize this court and there so all right his family or the building he's trying to get in the building so all right he's just trying to get inside his family company with no point to the ever say why didn't you just tell us we hope to see the law also requires that you can just say this is what's happening here's as much as I can get heat please help my family but of course you don't get option maybe with lots of action set pieces that need lots of digital design yeah we can your business but you always sit through all of the credit actually some very gold mines commission only very curse really paying attention to the credits for films such as skyscraper will reveal to you that the overwhelming majority the personally worked on this film with visual effects confidential voter so huge my neighbor goes into making any %HESITATION and on those sounds the lists are almost endless there's multiple companies yeah many just a single company doing the work but work a portioned out to multiple companies because the so much of it at one point was the credit just far enough so %HESITATION that's a lost on performance it was an action movie of course I'm in Austin I lost count at about a hundred and twenty stock performance and then also okay there's going to be roughly an equal amount of visual effects artists but number is ten times the amount of visual effects are still being listed on the various different companies some companies doing a lot more than others because of that loss of visual effects we have to get back here just to see if you have a long skinny the music the total was strong I focus on the use I don't think it's in her while the box office it's nothing as well as other things which doesn't mean something mild but nothing is finalised probably expected we have just seen it on the Sunday of its opening weekend of course by opening weekend we actually mean something that began on one on Wednesday Thursday and it's been really good weather so I don't know if that's a fact and how many people you can go in the Senate this week I don't even know what else is like this week hotel Transylvania three okay that seems to be the big one is up against I think that is the one I read is doing much better at the box office but it has already managed to gross itself offers a twenty five minute and hotel Transylvania the third in a series so it's got an inbuilt audience with kids certain Finnish goes %HESITATION I know very little about this I was thinking it would be nice to consult my former colleague Carrie Pattinson because he works on Hong Kong cinema especially the relationship between Hong Kong cinema and D. S. this is just directing this transnational today this %HESITATION most firms are anything it's really obvious that it's shaky these two places you accent Hong Kong one thing that did strike me as there is one moment when he's yes the size is going to tell police are there to you guys were trying to arrest investigation that's a real problem and that's about it for people in Hong Kong not speaking with everyone else that he interacts with those I would now Taylor that's awesome %HESITATION yeah it was the evil in the star nicely done the actual have the villains wasn't English he wasn't on Richmond but they had one of the villains one day by Marcello Lippi English nicer the main guy was European Hans Gruber not quite more so European origin well the universe would look like if whether this is true it's the best Christmas movie ever made despite the fact that same miracle on thirty fourth street even the extreme as long as that is how the Grinch stole Christmas is perfect have I suppose the catch phrases of the likes of die hards Hey what are you going is that the thing that they used to they were just they would have the main hero just before they're about to kill somebody make your grip okay fine it has a question doing effectively but also it makes the hero into a psychopath yes it makes me to somebody because okay how about security funds going to polls and make some sort of harm before I do it and then I'm going to be sent back to us joining you reflect on the main campus on campus finally this is been judged to be something we ought not to be doing that's a lack in this case have something I can help you listen is what you do during jobs which is that you're actually wrapped up the attentive until the tension just becomes too much to bear and you have to do you have to grab something or you have to turn to one side we just will face palm but you keep it really minimal and your attention that are entirety of civil wars I think it was better it's just my anxiety spends to buy out the past few years probably thirty years ago this makes sense for her like crap but not even my nine year everybody was fine and there is no real danger to anyone I was just find that really stressful to sensory so I think that says more about my mental health has deteriorated over the last twelve years senators by this is just how I am not I always love doing the ructions is going to see lesser I got really worried about we're becoming crazy fans think saving quite a lot of stuff including Jumanji welcome to check when the sun finally started playing right now because the rest of us yeah I was dubious about it for awhile but they refuse to regain its actually really enjoyed it on the first show is quite awful but I liked it when I was a kid I really like to men's units can chat there was a cartoon that I watched as well I thought it Jumanji welcome to the jungle ready harnesses clarity right and then the thing is good crack will perform on the seven one that's very special place in my heart I know there's problems with it still but I went to see it with a very dear friends we're both having a very difficult time reading and Manchester Salford areas we went out together a rough time and it was just a little moment of joy and a very difficult periods it's special first thing well doing jokes saying a repair this is the cynicism which according to into expunged from my being I didn't think he was the one doing the singing thank you nothing major in Hindi films with me to switch to somebody else okay nothing great it's I'm sorry sorry sorry I will personally right sorry latitude where there are ones where it's great because you know the S. like stocks Kalenjin Christmas switches from Chris says I would be surrounded on to something else voices during this star is about WXYZ hi he is holy rates nice guy I think he just seems to be S. R. lady everybody and your peace and everybody who works with him just as he spoke yes her son he's not somebody articles across social start this is the same time is this the guy he's a wrestler who's having a bit of a government acting yeah then with wrestling exacting anyway because it's so complicated it's math this call service does and then this goes this goes the distance you from one source of performance to another and then this course of styles he moved from mountaineering to Entertainment Tonight that's what and actually that brings us full circle we bet because with the screen name combo hoping quite formative in my some experience will always make fun of me from the Swiss Brendan Frasier of course that was fired during the rock Johnson hi it's me great clips and then let me take ours the schools are making cool thing that nearly ended his rugby career than that because the CG version of is or I think people are going to cut costs not his hope I was really bad it was he's pretty here those were probably very roughly H. system time nineteen since become less some options below Christmas memories five nine several so fast growth time periods when I was eighteen when I made the effort to try and watch basically every action movies of the eighties and I did very well in the long kind of action movies that definitely added new things new things that are in some cases were just new because they mixed armaments from several different things from home but that's not the way if you find our discussions interesting and useful please subscribe on iTunes give a small monthly pledge on peach tree on I'm trying to raise enough to pay a monthly subscription to sign copies to make every episode available on iTunes and other pop forms and to upgrade the website which can be fined up audio visual cultures dot wordpress dot com thanks for listening and spread nowhere to catch you next time