Brewster McCloud

It's like,

that's, exactly why Brewster McCloud himself just wants to set out for flying because he just he already knows he's not a part of society and he doesn't really have any interest in becoming a part of that.

And what great casting if you want to have a character who stands apart from the crowd.

When was Harold Lamont? Is it 73? I think

So I had seen Bruce McLeod around around that time.

And that image of Michael Murphy just staring into the camera with one, you know, one brown eye and one blue eye and his final moments of life in the world.

Like it's like I said, you know, this we need to take this as like an absurdist comedy and a satire but that's the strength of altman is that he puts these you know um like moments of powerful uh you know like um an element of uh you know of truth and pathos that that that uh you don't necessarily expect in in like this movie is a lot like harold and maude in a lot of ways but i don't think harold and maude has those same elements it's its strengths are, are, uh, are different than what, what Brewster McCloud does.

But it's like, that's the, that's the element of Altman that we see that really makes this movie, you know, a strong, and I think it's, I think it's hilarious too.

I mean, the, I could go down this list, this long list of like movies that came out of this period.

I mean, you had the hits like The Godfather, but like you also had like Brewster McCloud, you know, or, or, or Nashville.

Can you imagine any major studio [laughs] giving Robert Altman money to make Nashville? And Nashville is, as far as I'm concerned, probably one of the 10 greatest movies ever made.

Yeah.

Bud Cort, who has that cult status because he's in Harold and Vod.

Brewster McCloud, which I rewatch.

pretty frequently, but also when he got older, he has cameos in Heat, he has cameos in Dogma, he has cameos in But I'm a Cheerleader, Made, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

All of those cameos in those movies when he's older are great.

I mean, he's a Robert Altman guy.

Originally he's in the original mash McCabe and miss Miller, uh, Mrs. Miller, uh, Brewster McCloud and a lot of people my age of course know him from Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Odo and then he's done a ton of voiceover work which I I didn't quite realize but I started looking into it and I was like wow this is like he's almost more prolific as a voiceover artist and it's again cool seeing him at a young age in the 70s uh doing stuff and I realized too I never connected him from the Altman era because I've seen him in the Altman stuff I didn't connect that with his Star Trek era and later work.

So it was cool kind of connecting the dots and realizing he's the same person.

Raul Julia.

That's it.

But of course, this was a couple years before he made such an impact in Brewster McCloud, and then of course, Harold and Maude.

Yeah.

So great cast.

... uh, of this whole endeavor.

Uh, and then moving into part three, Ryan and Emily brought us into the top half with 21 The Delinquents, 20 Dr. T & the Women, 19 Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, 18 Kansas City, 17 Brewster McCloud, 16 Vincent and Theo.

How did we decide that's pronounced, Alonzo?

I think we went with Theo.

Nashville.

That is incorrect.

Brewster McCloud?

You're muted, Emily.

Um, but, but how else do you get like a McCabe and Mrs. Miller or a Harold and Maude or, you know, even a Godfather, although that was, you know, it was a bestseller.

It was a little easier to comprehend, but you know, like, uh, mash, uh, Brewster McLeod, any of Altman's movies, like, you know, uh, last picture show.

I mean, you just go down the list of all these fantastic films that are paid for by studios, big, like big studios.

Um, and they let the artists do what they do and they gave them the leverage and you they came up with some of the best movies ever made during that period of Hollywood.