Hola, Sneakeritos! This week on Sneaky Dragon, the show goes full circle! To celebrate, Ian and David’s conversation goes round and round…
This week Ian and David have a strange meeting; get wet and humiliated; don’t chase stationary objects; stand corrected; get one upped; move it; converse concerning Casper; celebrate cartoons; contemplate canned music; chance upon a lucky find; collect odd varieties; make a whale of a show; speak of Moby; have funeral fun; watch scary movies; desperately seek continuity; and, finally, check out Tracy Deak’s Top 5 movie list:
- Amadeus
- The Princess Bride
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Rope
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Hamlet
- Love Actually
- Melancholia
- The Station Agent
Thanks for listening.
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That’s a lot of movies for a top 5 list.
Thanks for giving some love to Love, Actually which my sister and I watch every other Christmas or so. Sure, it’s sprawling and often contrived with its 9 interconnecting storylines, but like the PM in the Hugh Grant subplot, it’s unapologetically British in its sensibility and doesn’t try to keep things neat and tidy for an American audience. It’s not just about the romantic side of love but also about the grief, yearning, awkwardness, heartache, humiliation, and sacrifice that can come with it. I love the many quirky moments, like the PM going door-to-door looking for Natalie and when the little girls mistake him for a caroler, he obliges them with “Good King Wenceslas” and his chauffeur joins in with his hearty baritone voice. It’s got that fantastic scene with Rowan Atkinson at the jewelry counter where Alan Rickman’s character is trying to quickly purchase a necklace for not-his-wife before his wife comes back. You see his growing impatience and desperation as the gift wrapping goes on and on…but you totally do not sympathize with him. BTW, my take on the stand-ins, given the posh setting and good lighting, is that they’re working on a fairly high-budget erotic art house picture. (Freeman’s character says he stood in for Brad Pitt once.) That whole subplot gets cut out when it’s shown on regular cable TV so we bought the CD. I like when the couple shows up together at the school Christmas pageant and their families ask, “Where did you two meet?”