The Thief Lord (featuring Rowan Ellis)

uh yeah so yeah this film the cast isn't insane um for for no reason other than just like being able to see the future yeah and being like yeah these guys yeah i think

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children i mean they do they do kind of have to be good actors because the film is very reliant on them being good yeah very reliant on them to tell the story

And I was impressed by how good they actually were.

I did feel like the only times that I got taken out of it were the times where they have the four or five iconic lines that are so not lines that I think any adult professional award-winning Meryl Streep actor could make sound good.

And the kids just do what they can with it, which I love.

that some classics, if I may, some of my favorites, which I quote all the time.

Like this is not a thing where I've rediscovered this movie.

This is the first time I've watched the movie in a while, but I regularly quote this movie all the time.

The bit right at the beginning when Prosper is at the chemist and he decides not to steal.

And then the chemist tries to run after him.

He and his brother wind through the streets.

They eventually find themselves in a rat infested alley.

And he says, I think I lost him.

Beat.

I think we lost ourselves as well.

it's fucking cinema it's fucking cinema my brother always does the you forgot something really important it's under my jumper me when I when he wants me to pay attention to him this is like a 30 something year old man at this point I also have used the trick that Prosper uses not Prosper that Scipio the Thief Lord uses on the little boy Bo when he is first at the hideout and he's like this is only for children.

No grown-ups allowed.

You're not a grown-up, are you? Only some of them are very small.

Yeah, he's like, are you in disguise? And he goes, well, but four and a half, you're practically a VIP.

And I use that trick on kids all of the time.

They love it.

I love to plagiarise this movie for children.