Dead Man

But, um, But basically, but I still like some Jim Jarmusch movies.

I used to think like Dead Man's my favourite movie, which I think is kind of weird to say now.

But anyway, but whatever.

So, but yeah, it was the first of the indie, like it was the first, like Tweed, it was the first Tweed film.

I, I, I think it's totally fair to call this the second of a trilogy.

And before we even, you know, uh, uh, we always start with a kind of personal history of the film and, you know, whoever picked the film, kind of why they picked it.

We're gonna get to the, we're gonna get there.

But-

I, I, it is this, this is interesting.

I feel like, are we ...

Uh, am I sensing, like, a shift in the force? Um, we've got Pirates of the Caribbean you've picked this film.

Last s- episode, I picked Walk Hard.

So this was how I got into film.

And that... was, for me, a great exposure because, like, when I worked on those films, even doing, like, Jim Jarmusch's film, Dead Man, the one with Johnny Depp, like, you wouldn't traditionally think of that as an effects film.

Like, why do you need digital effects for that? But there were some things, there are effects in the movie you just hopefully don't see because we did our job well.

Because they're so seamless.

The upshot was that In a Wild Sanctuary came out, and it got me outside to begin to record natural soundscapes, and, uh, from that moment that I turned on that recorder, I decided right then and there that was what I wanted to do the rest of my life.

Bernie continued to work in music and film for a few more years, and he even used his Moog to make the helicopter sounds for the infamous beach invasion scene in Apocalypse Now.

You wanna serve, soldier?

Yes, sir.

It was reported, produced, and mixed by Patrick McNamee King with help from Taylor Quimby and Felix Poon.

Patrick, by the way, he loves playing around with synths in his free time.

He actually hosts these occasional film screenings where he'll perform a live ambient music soundtrack.

It's pretty trippy, in a good way.

I would say that this is, once again, in the spirit of our show, constantly finding ways to shoehorn in Jim Jarmusch films.

This is literally the opening conceit of Dead Man, where you get on a train and the final destination is a town called Machine.

In the Soviet Union, the town would be called Machine City No. 5.

Yeah.

Number two, Gary Farmer.

He received a First Nation Spirit Award, nominated roles in Pow Wow Highway, Dead Man, and Smoke Signals.

He briefly reprised his role as Nobody from Dead Man in Ghost Dog, The Way of the Samurai.

And on TV, he was in Reservation Dogs, Resident Alien, and he also had a band called Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers.

His subjugation of the native people's movie Blood Quantum, a unique horror film set in a Mi'kmaq reservation where the inhabitants are immune to a zombie plague, serving as a striking allegory for historical displacement, resilience, and sovereignty.

Wasn't that his last one?

Dead Man.

Dead Man.

Yes.

It's a great movie.

He's really good.

Really good.

Oh, there's Dead Man.