Hollow Man

It would look like

that scene in Hollow Man when Kevin Bacon has the rubber suit on and he opens his eyes and mouth and you just see the big opening.

Yeah.

I think it was that all the

Today we covered a film that made Paul Verhoeven quit Hollywood.

Let's talk about the movie that was gutted by studio notes, Hollow Man.

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Hall, at this point in his career, was no longer constrained by a production team who couldn't handle his ideas.

Now he found himself out of them, at least ones that his American corporate masters would pay for.

Now Sony, as he had predicted, rejected his ideas for Houdini, but they had an alternative, Hollow Man.

Paul accepted because, well, he had nothing else lying around and he felt responsible to keep his production team working.

All of them.

Including, I know it's not the same, but Hollow Man too.

Kill him too.

Yeah, Hollow Man counts.

Yeah.

I just

And he handles it in a really cool way in terms of he keeps the character sympathetic throughout, but at the same time, with that little edge to it that allows you to realize this guy isn't... know the best morally all the time sort of thing but you know he doesn't push it one way or the other he he keeps an even keel on it which is hard to do when you have to deal with all these you know effects and makeup and all that um and then naomi uh really does another you know kind of subtle job in terms of creating a character who feels human and grounded but her uh ambiguities are about like her you know morals when it comes to the science of it but also just her intentions toward tom and what she's feeling and how much she's feeling of any affection or not you know and i think that that's a game that movie plays probably the best you know in terms of their uh will they won't they sort of idea

when i saw the trailer for this it reminded me a little bit of paul verhoeven's hollow man

oh yeah i think that's a good comparison too yeah

Yeah, I was wondering if you felt that in the movie itself or if that's just purely a marketing thing or what?

I think it's more marketing than not, but I think that there's certainly elements of it in there.

I mean, Verhoeven was drawing from the same sources, and I think Verhoeven is, just as an artist, more mean and satiric, and he goes to places in Hollow Man that this movie doesn't really dare to.

But yeah, in terms of the moral ambiguity and then just the sort of... externalization of the loss of self through yeah this changing of the body like it's definitely there

cool all right well here is bill's conversation with the stars of clayface tom reese harrys and naomi aki

You've got mail and saving Private Ryan.

And last but not least, number nine, number nine, we have Leaving Las Vegas, Hollow Man and Adventures in Babysitting.

Again, that is Leaving Las Vegas, Hollow Man and Adventures in Babysitting.

And number 10, number 10.

So a fun twist.

That is Tom Hanks.

9.

Leaving Las Vegas, Hollow Man, and Adventures in Babysitting, that is Elizabeth Shue.

Should we get to the draft? Yeah.

We're drafting the best movie trilogies of all time.

Let's shoot odds or evens right now.

We're bringing back the drafts, guys.

Okay, I got it.

All right, this is the most fire trilogy of all time.

It was before the studios got greedy and cut the last movie into two and made two bad movies instead of one good one.

This is the sickest trilogy of all time.

The direction is...

It seems to want to be somewhere a mix between Hollow Man, Dark Man, and Vanilla Sky.

A fable about a person dealing with disfigurement, vanity, self-worth.

And yet, it doesn't work.