Blow Out

All right.

Um, Brian De Palma's Blow Out is about a sound guy in search of a specific sound for a movie who goes out one night to record, only to capture what he believes is a political assassination.

What is the sound he's trying to record, and why? Hmm.

Is he trying to record leaves rustling because it's a stalker in a horror movie? Like, in the bushes outside someone's window?

Coed's the movie.

Frenzy.

Yeah, at the, that's the movie at the beginning and the end of Blow Out.

Um, but yes, it is the perfect scream.

And I look forward...

He could either go like... hard comedy route or he could really do like a weird psychological thriller and both both of those routes would work or he could do something completely different

but all right uh my next one i love how the price is still on it because this is a barnes and noble purchase uh this is lenny directed by bob fossey starring dustin hoffman as the stand-up comic lenny bruce um I speak for you and myself.

Bob Fosse is one of our favorite filmmakers.

I've, we've talked a lot about it.

It's incredible.

It's maybe my favorite thriller, conspiracy thriller of all time.

Uh, This is another one that I just recently got for my birthday.

That's just not what I had.

Um, but I did recently watch Blow Out, um, which I understand, uh, sucks.

Um, John Travolta doesn't suck in it.

John Travolta is the man in that movie.

The other characters are just comically horrible.

I mean, like-

Are there any other actors that we know in it? So I have not seen Blow Out, but I've been wanting to.

Yeah.

Wow.

'Cause my goal, my goal with that was I didn't mind if it... 'Cause I, I was thinking of De Palma's Blow Out.

Oh, yeah.

Like, that's what the, that shot is, you know?

Like, and the red, white, and blue color palette of all that too-

Yeah

... is all Blow Out 'cause, like, the, you know, there's a big, like, America...

Like, both these movies I've made are about, like, the, the state or the death of the American dream.

He's got to figure out, can he get any help to the tower? And can he defeat this force that he doesn't know anything about in this first part of the film? And you know, it's gotta be said, Willis moves like a dancer in these early scenes where he is, you know, moving through unfinished floors of a skyscraper.

I'm reminded of that quote that De Palma said about Travolta in Blow Up, Blow Out.

Blow Up is a different film.

You know, he said the way actors move through sets is a form of dancing.

But I've heard it was referencing Hitchcock.

Well, I'm not surprised because I have seen the remake Blow Out.

Oh, me too.

Right, right.

Okay, so Blow Out was De Palma, right?

Yep.

Now, De Palma, of course.

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