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#280 - Lost Futures (Patreon)

Published:
2021-10-29 17:45:11
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2024-06

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We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of being. PLUS: thoughts on the dark 'n' gritty new Buzz Lightyear origin movie, AND we finally answer whether politics is upstream or downstream from culture.

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Seattle Sucks

Loved this one. The Third Man is one of my all time favorites. One thing that I wished you touched on more is something you do get into a little when discussing the unusual score. I think it's very deliberately in conversation with the standard way of presenting a hardboiled noir story. i think the whole movie is. Cotton's literal pulp novelist character is humiliated before a crowd for writing trashy westerns (detective stories would be too on the nose). As he tries to imitate the anti-hero role of a pulp character, he is repeated humiliated. He's a loser, and Harry Lime is a villain. No anti-heros present. Carroll and Greene are consciously undermining (and even belittling) the whole genre while simultaneously perfecting its style, somehow without the remove of time or nostalgia. It's like if Tarantino made his first masterpiece pastiche in 1975.

Shane

Is the ending of Miller's Crossing in any way homage to the final shot of The Third Man? The Coen's would probably love the compliment of me thinking so.