Summary: Fasten your seatbelts as Adolfo and Mark take you on a bumpy podcast! On today’s adventure: ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) On this week’s show: • Quarantine movie woes • Mark’s sleazy movie tastes • How we first experienced the film • Unmatched dialogue • Adolfo owns the film in multiple formats • Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert and Joan Crawford were all considered for Margot Channing. • Bette Davis’ “difficult” reputation. • Ronald Reagan was a ham • The on-set conflict with Davis and a young Marilyn Monroe • The entire opening sequence tells you everything you need to know by the character body language • Smoking looks so cool in black and white • Thelma Ritter should have been in more of the film • Adolfo’s terrible frame of reference at the time he saw the film for the first time • Margot’s drunken speeches • “A milkshake?” • A roller coaster of tension • People aged differently in the 50s • Bill is a good boyfriend • Classy restrooms • How Addison DeWitt is interpreted in 2020 • Only film in Oscar history to have 4 female acting nominees FILMS REFERENCED: • SUNSET BLVD. (1950) • BEN-HUR (1959) • APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) • ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST (1980) • HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) • CANNIBAL FERROX (1981) • THE BEYOND (1981) • THE NEW YORK RIPPER (1982) • PLATOON (1986) • BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY (1989) • HAMBURGER HILL (1987) • SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1991) • FORREST GUMP (1994) • PULP FICTION (1994) • THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) • TITANIC (1997) • TROPIC THUNDER (2008) • ZOMBIES VS STRIPPERS (2012) • LA LA LAND (2016) • MOONLIGHT (2016) • THE VIETNAM WAR (Mini-Series, 2017) • JOKER (2019) • BIRDS OF PREY: THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF HARLEY QUINN (2020) • THE INVISIBLE MAN (2020) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2020) • CORONA ZOMBIES (2020) • TIGER KING (mini-series, 2020) LINKS: SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER: @EssentialFilms, @FPMoviePodcast, @Adolfo_Acosta, @Sportsguy515 FACEBOOK: The Essential Films
