Enemy

That's the responses from around there.

I know that you threw in, I mean, you threw in Army of the Dead, which we've already spoken about, but you also threw in Enemy.

Yeah, I thought the first time I saw Enemy, Denis Villeneuve, I thought it was pretentious twaddle.

Yep.

And...

And even though you think it's funny because you're not getting that immediate reaction from an audience, you think, oh, maybe it's actually not funny.

Or the opposite of it.

But I thought it was pretentious twaddle the first time I saw Enemy.

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And then, and then he did Love and Other Drugs, Source Code, End of Watch, Prisoners, Enemy, Nightcrawler-

...

Southpaw-

We're going to be doing what I've dubbed Early Denis.

Starting today, we have Encendis, Into Prisoners, and then Enemy.

In November, we're going to be doing what we've dubbed Denis Rising, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, And then ending in December with God Emperor Denis for Dune Part 1, Dune Part 2, and Dune Part 3.

Adam and I have secured our tickets.

I feel like he picks some pretty cool projects.

He also did an early Denis Villeneuve movie called Enemy, which is like a mindfuck.

He plays like

his two roles in that one? Yeah.

... into edge-of-your-seat films

... you like Enemy more then?

I do, actually.

A lot of people don't like it.

Oh.

A lot of people don't like Enemy.

See, that's my least favorite Den- Denis film.

Mm.

A- again, it looks amazing, absolutely incredible to look at, um, which all of his movies do.

Um, I watched one of his movies with, uh, Jake Gyllenhaal called "Enemy." It's another thinker.

Oh.

Very similar to-

I've, yeah, I've not seen that one.

Uh-

"Enemy."

It's, it's d- it's, uh-

And, I mean, sometimes the movies can do that.

And one that really pops in my head right now, which I don't know if you've seen Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal, it has this...

It's almost the same where the whole movie's wrapped up, and then the last frame, you're like...

The fuck was that? And I'm not going to spoil it because I want you to watch it at some point.

Incendies feels a bit more emotive, a bit more introspective than his other work.

I think you can see aspects in that, especially in Arrival, in Enemy, in-- even in, in Prisoners and even in the Dune films.

Um, because those films all have those qualities, but this does feel a little bit more personal.

Um, you know, the, the freedom that the camera has to move, the blending of the past and present feel much looser, um, than what I associate with Denis.

Yeah, I j- it's just not an interesting trope.

I don't like the Jake Gyllenhaal movie Enemy.

I don't like doppelganger stuff.

I watched something recently and, and there was something like them.