The Man with Two Brains

Oh.

By the way, the other day, uh, Josh, uh, I watched an old Steve Martin movie, um, The Man with Two Brains.

Anyone have any memory of The Man with Two Brains?

No. [laughs]

I'm familiar with the, the movie-

is a fun title.

The Man with Two Brains.

So he works with Gordon again on From Beyond.

He does Bride of Re-Animator as well as Beyond Re-Animator.

He starts doing a poem outside her room, which is a poem Steve Martin wrote.

It was in The Man with Two Brains.

The full version of it is, Oh, pointy birds, oh, pointy, pointy, anoint my head, anointy, anointy.

Okay.

Yeah

... yeah, he's falling into, uh, Steve Martin's open head from, uh, uh, the Man With Two Brains.

[laughs]

Man With Two Brains.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well,

that's also technically the Steve Martin movie, The Man with Two Brains.

I've

never seen that.

And sex and stuff back later, you know?

I suppose it would depend, like if it was Brain in a Jar and you could see and hear and you had access to a nice back catalogue of Hosts in the Shell episodes, for example.

Or quality cyberpunk films.

Or good

films, probably preferably.

Then maybe not so bad.

If you were just stuck in, like, I don't know, you had to be in a basement in the dark, then that would be less, or you had to, in Wigan, you know, that would be less appealing, wouldn't it?

Um, and there's not that many movies like that.

Like we, we covered, um, uh, you know, the Steve Martin movie w- was, was, you know, The Man with Two Brains has, goes that direction with, with tons of different types of humor.

And then, and like there's big gaps, and I remember like when I-- The first time I saw Napoleon Dynamite, I was like, "Oh, finally a movie that's goofy the whole way through." Like it, like it, it sustains itself, and it's nowhere near the pacing of this or for the jokes.

But I've, you know, Tropic Thunder, you know, but these movies are like five years apart, you know, 10 years apart where you have-

It was the bit that he had the problem with, 'cause he really liked the script.

But he just said, "I'm gonna do this scene, and everybody's gonna say, 'You wrote this scene just for me.'" I mean, Steve Martin's early comedy hits, things like The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, All of Me, lent heavily on his ex- his brilliant physical comedy.

He wasn't looking for that, and now there was a scene that just, like, zoomed him back, like, six or seven years.

[lip smack] And so it was Ron Howard that talked him into it and, and of course, the, the moment is fairly legendary, uh, within the film itself.