Summary: On today’s podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1957 David Lean classic: THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI! On this week’s show: Mark takes another EPIC trip to Alamo Drafthouse Mark’s retweet from an 80’s icon Jelly donuts Toy guns Korean exercise videos 2017 Summer Movies Adolfo is done with Minions Adolfo butchers Japanese and French The benefits of Netflix Disc subscription The slow start to Bridge The David Lean Trilogy Why William Holden was cast William Holden’s record breaking salary Why Alec Guinness thought the film was Anti-British Why Adolfo trusts Alec Guinness without question The anti-Japanese sentiment of the film Does the film romanticize the building of the bridge? The central conflict of Col. Nicholson Major Shears’ redemption Jack Hawkins: Bad Ass Building an actual bridge for the film Mark makes a Simpsons reference (SHOCKING) Nicholson’s ambiguous finale Women Bearers! The hokey final words The Hollywood Blacklist rears its ugly head Masterful editing for the climax of the film FILM REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE: THE GENERAL (1926) BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) OLIVER TWIST (1948) WINCHESTER ‘73 (1950) SUNSET BLVD. (1950) STALAG 17 (1953) PATHS OF GLORY (1957) SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) SPARTACUS (1960) WEST SIDE STORY (1961) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964) THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY (1965) DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) BATMAN: THE MOVIE (1966) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) THE WILD BUNCH (1969) THE LOSERS (1970) JAWS (1975) NETWORK (1976) ZOMBI (1979) APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) MANIAC (1980) AIRPLANE! (1980) AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1982) A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) FULL METAL JACKET (1987) TOP GUN (1987) BATMAN (1989) PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990) HEARTS OF DARKNESS (1991) TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991) FORREST GUMP (1994) INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) MEN IN BLACK (1997) ALI (2001) HITCH (2005) THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006) I AM LEGEND (2007) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) THE AVENGERS (2012) INTERSTELLAR (2014) JUPITER ASCENDING (2015) MINIONS (2015) FURIOUS 7 (2015) STRANGER THINGS [Netflix Series] (2016) TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (2017) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES (2017) COLOSSAL (2017) LUCKY (2017) DUNKIRK (2017) ATOMIC BLONDE (2017) SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (2017) WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2017) THE EMOJI MOVIE (2017) ANNABELLE CREATION (2017) THE DARK TOWER (2017) VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS (2017) BABY DRIVER (2017) LINKS: The Essential Films: essentialfilmspodcast.com The Losers (1970) - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQU3cRBoWGo GI Joe Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLL67CN2hnw Paths of Glory (1957) - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmDA60X-f_A Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walking” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fPkzJsMU8 R. Lee Ermey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPlKXBnLbK0 SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER: @EssentialFilms, @FPMoviePodcast, @Adolfo_Acosta, @Sportsguy515 FACEBOOK: The Essential Films: https://www.facebook.com/The-Essential-Films-130585803634489/?fref=ts
