Body of Lies

Yeah

You think about, uh, Leonardo DiCaprio in, like, uh, Body of Lies or something like that, where they just trying to survive, but also they're, they're in the field.

Yeah.

Um, how'd we get here? What, what movie we talking about?

So Dune part one at number five for me.

Number five for me, I'm going to go 2008's Ridley Scott's Body of Lies.

A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan's intelligence.

I have only seen this movie once, and it was at the theater in 2008.

Pretty small because it's early in his career and it's a big cast.

But, you know, I just haven't seen that many.

Body of Lies is fucking money.

I didn't put it on here because I thought his role was maybe too small.

He obviously loves Russell Crowe.

Another one, do you remember Body of Lies? This is 2008.

This is, again, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio.

Forgot

[laughs] All right.

Uh, I'm gonna close us out with 2008's Body of Lies.

Yep.

Yeah.

That's fine.

You must have, Josh.

Um, Body of Lies.

How, how to begin my thoughts on Body of Lies? I am not a Black Hawk Down person.

like our good friend Jay Ledbetter for The Counselor, which is a wild film.

But for the most part, there are a bunch of duds that are inside of his modern career, like Body of Lies and the Robin Hood film and Exodus, Gods and Kings.

And you mentioned it, Napoleon, which I don't care if the rumors are that Paul Thomas Anderson made a punch up on that script.

It wasn't enough.

Robin Hood, Good Year-

And Body of Lies.

Now, I know Body of Lies is one of your faves.

Oh dude, don't...

No, we...

... because I know that you do have a s-

Yeah

... a place for Body of Lies.

It is.

Okay? It's not gonna be, you know, the flashiest episode, but we do have some imperial war movie propaganda that the Iranian government didn't like and exiled one of their actors for being in, called Body of Lies.

So you're gonna see some explosions, but we're really gonna be focusing on academia and how it contributes unwittingly, even when it claims to be anti-imperialist, to imperialism, per force.

So, uh, to that end, Elena, you're finally back.

So, uh, we're actually gonna continue this for a little, a minute.

If you wanna subscribe to rfemedia.com, I wanna show, uh, I'm gonna show Alina some peak, uh, imperial propaganda that an Iranian actress, uh, actor, sorry, was in in 2008, which got her exiled.

And at the time, all the liberals were like, "Look at this government, just exiling people from being in Ridley Scott's 2008 CIA propaganda movie called Body of Lies." So, if you wanna stick around for that, check us out.

See you tomorrow, y'all.