Chicago

But like him and Magnolia, I think, is on a similar wavelength to Jeff in this movie.

yeah yeah john c roddick definitely pulled this off yeah like it definitely is actually really similar to like his role in chicago

yeah yes also that um Okay,

we need to get John C Reilly an Oscar.

But anyways, go ahead.

What do you think of the Polars of Illinois? We hear enough about Chicago, but what do you think of Northern Illinois and Southern Illinois universities?

I don't know those schools.

I know the Fighting Illini.

And

that's about it.

I know Northwestern's outside of Chicago.

I know that.

It's on YouTube, Spotify, because it's on the original cast recording of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

So it's a pretty fun, like... belting it out show-stopping number and it's just interesting because you know the mammy stereotype is that of asexuality and having that like stripped away and i thought it was interesting like oh in the original version actually she does have a song and gets to you know uh fill in those different numbers but you know hollywood got a hollywood it's kind of like in chicago where

uh what's queen latifah's character's name i can't remember we were gonna name hazel nighty she has the song she's like the warden it's basically the same character she's the warden of the jail but she has the song when you're good to mom and mom was good yes yes and it is a banger

it is

Rob Marshall best known I guess for directing-

.....the filmed version of, uh, the Broadway musical Chicago.

Yes.

He's done other things but I think that's his claim to fame.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I think it's, it's important to note that, uh, he's does musicals, right? Like he did Chicago, he did Into the Woods, and he did the reboot of, uh, Little Mermaid-

Hm

The 60s, you still had like Sound of Music and Hello Dolly and the big splashy productions.

and then but but i think since the 80s there hasn't really been a great genre around movie musicals you get these occasional hits like um mamma mia and wicked that are based on chicago yeah yeah you're right there's

like there's like hairspray like there's ones you can cool but i understand what you're saying there wasn't like it's not like it's built around A particular genre.

Like, here's the movie

Yep.

I think Chicago is on that list for Renee Zellweger.

Jerry Maguire, obviously.

Cold Mountain.

So

two things you won't be surprised by.

I've never seen Chicago.

Number two, Marcus just whipped his head again somehow.

Someone to separate the bad from the good.

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