Aug 14, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 13 segments
On this episode of the podcast Phillip is joined once again by Frank Mandosa from the Reels of Cinema Podcast. Phillip starts the show by giving the general information about the movie with some…
Philip DukeHost
Frank MandosaGuest
Um, um, Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary track for True Romance from 1993 that the character of Elvis Presley as portrayed by Val Kilmer, who appears by Christian Slater's character and gives advice and assurance, was based on the Bogart character in this film.
Also, also the thing of him doing now a play where you could see Quentin seeing that Woody Allen writes a play and then does, you know, and then gets into the movies.
And you could see him taking a play to England, like he's doing right now, that he's gonna be doing, and then if that works, he's gonna make it into a film.
And this one, this one also would go good with, uh, I was thinking, like High Fidelity, how he was getting over the girl that left him.
And, and there's even that part in this movie where he calls and he's like, "Hey.
Oh, she said that recently?" And you're thinking she mentioned him recently, like, in excite...
Well, Playing Against Sam is sort of like a variation on the Cyrano de Bergerac tale.
Um, um, Quentin Tarantino said on his commentary track for True Romance from 1993 that the character of Elvis Presley as portrayed by Val Kilmer, who appears by Christian Slater's character and gives advice and assurance, was based on the Bogart character in this film.
Also, also the thing of him doing now a play where you could see Quentin seeing that Woody Allen writes a play and then does, you know, and then gets into the movies.
And you could see him taking a play to England, like he's doing right now, that he's gonna be doing, and then if that works, he's gonna make it into a film.
And this one, this one also would go good with, uh, I was thinking, like High Fidelity, how he was getting over the girl that left him.
And, and there's even that part in this movie where he calls and he's like, "Hey.
Oh, she said that recently?" And you're thinking she mentioned him recently, like, in excite...
Well, Playing Against Sam is sort of like a variation on the Cyrano de Bergerac tale.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.