Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
40:31 – 43:33… an elephant. We get a lion. We get a magic caboose. Coronado Crucifix. It's just a really good. It's about as good as you're going to open an action movie. Apex Mountain for Crucifixes? Probably not, right? Probably not. Well, is that the top of like you're saying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? No. Well, I mean, like for the cross of Coronado, probably Apex Mountain for crosses from Coronado, you know, but. Even more so than the power of Christ compels you in The Exorcist. That's a good one. Next one I have is the rat in the snake cave into the wooden boat chase. Finding the brother's tomb in Venice. Yeah. …
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And the reason why Ford kind of hand picked him in a lot of ways to Spielberg is because he was like, I worked with this kid. This kid. This kid is the real deal. We get a little train hop. House of Reptiles. We get an elephant. We get a lion. We get a magic caboose. Coronado Crucifix. It's just a really good. It's about as good as you're going to open an action movie. Apex Mountain for Crucifixes? Probably not, right? Probably not. Well, is that the top of like you're saying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? No. Well, I mean, like for the cross of Coronado, probably Apex Mountain for crosses from Coronado, you know, but. Even more so than the power of Christ compels you in The Exorcist. That's a good one. Next one I have is the rat in the snake cave into the wooden boat chase. Finding the brother's tomb in Venice. Yeah. The shield is the second marker. What's that? It's a rubbing. Dad made it with a grill tablet. Just like your father. Giddy is a schoolboy. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you were here now to see this? He never would have made it past the rats. He hates rats. He's scared to death of them. Exmarch the spot. They're going through all that stuff. Indy finds his dad. Don't call me Junior. We immediately set that up. But more importantly, we get the Elsa betrayal. Ah, enough. Put down the gun, Dr. George. Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies. But she's one of them. Indy, please. She's a Nazi. What? Trust me. Indy, no. I will kill her. Huh? Go ahead. No. Don't shoot. Don't worry. He won't. Indy, please. Do what he says. And don't listen to her. Enough. She dies. Wait. Wait. I'm sorry. No. Don't be. But you should have listened to your father. Is this how you taught? You were taught don't trust women, Chris Ryan, age 12. Just be careful. This little blonde lassie with an Irish accent. Don't trust it. I was taught maybe not to trust Austrian women in the 40s. Yeah. It was 38, in fairness. Yeah, okay. It was a little early. I think the rumblings were out on the street. Okay. How do you feel about Irish actress playing an Australian? Austrian? I had no idea until, honestly, like very late in life that she was not Austrian. Are you at the end of your life? No. Later in life did I not know. I didn't know that Alison Doody was Irish. You know, it's funny we've done two movies, like, out of the last three where a beautiful woman betrayed our hero. What do you think that our great filmmakers are trying to tell us about?
80:44 – 86:10… Connery both died on Halloween. River Phoenix in 1993 and Sean Connery in 2020. Sean Connery outlived River Phoenix by 27 years. Mm. That that was disturbing. Apex Mountain. Harrison Ford. Sean Connery and Ford. I mean, obviously not. One of their half-assed internet research is just that Tom Stoppard, the famous playwright, did a lot of... Did some work on the script. A little bit ready? Did a little... A lot of the dialogue between Connery and Ford. Huh. So, I read, and I don't know if this was erroneous, but I read that Spielberg credited him with almost all of the dialogue. Stoppard. Stoppard. Yeah. Well, …
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This is weird. River Phoenix and Sean Connery both died on Halloween. River Phoenix in 1993 and Sean Connery in 2020. Sean Connery outlived River Phoenix by 27 years. Mm. That that was disturbing. Apex Mountain. Harrison Ford. Sean Connery and Ford. I mean, obviously not. One of their half-assed internet research is just that Tom Stoppard, the famous playwright, did a lot of... Did some work on the script. A little bit ready? Did a little... A lot of the dialogue between Connery and Ford. Huh. So, I read, and I don't know if this was erroneous, but I read that Spielberg credited him with almost all of the dialogue. Stoppard. Stoppard. Yeah. Well, there's actually not that many dialogue scenes, so that's not... The ones that there are are quite good. But that's... When you look back, especially the stuff between Indy and Henry... He's like, you left home just when you were getting interested. Yeah. Like, some of that stuff is really sharp. Yeah. And it does feel like the hand of a great writer. Not that Jeffrey Boehm isn't a great writer or anybody else who contributed, but it feels elevated. Apex Mountain. Harrison Ford, no. I do think... I think that he's a second Apex guy, though. Second Apex? Yeah. Like, some guys had such a great career. Are you going to introduce second Apex Mountain? Oh, there's like a second Apex. Okay. We've talked about it before. What is that like when you come down the mountain and then you re-ascend? Or is it a new mountain? You were up the mountain, but then you got older and people were like, he doesn't have it anymore. And then there's like this other Apex. Well, I'll tell you what. This is the second Apex Mountain for the Holy Grail itself. Apex Mountain's obviously catching the blood of Christ. Yeah. But this is the second Apex. Yeah. And it would be the second Apex. This podcast would be the second Apex for blimps if we could only get them back up in the air, but big aviation won't allow it. How about rats and snakes in a movie? Well, I would say Anaconda. I agree. Anaconda is probably Apex none for snakes. Rats. I mean, does it get any better than this? I don't know. First Blood's got some good rat stuff. Oh, that's good. I do enjoy where it's a close up on Indy and Allison Doody and he's like, rats. And then it pans down and you actually see rats. I'm going to say this. It's a little bit of a confession. If I was in a cave like this, like Rambo and First Blood or these guys in this movie, I'd just be way more scared. Like I'm basically holding my cigarette lighter. I'm just walking down this dark body of fucking cave water. It's like nothing good. Every step, you're like, what am I stepping on? I just would be way more unconfident. Well, he's gone through so many adventures. I think by this point, he's become a little bit used to being in the catacombs, you know? Yeah. I mean, you're not Indiana Jones, right? And neither am I. That's why he's one of the greats. Sean Connery. No. Spielberg and Lucas. No. Allison Doody. Yes. Zeppelins. Apex Mountain? Apex Valley. No, it's Black Sunday. Just being named. Black Sunday's good. Yeah. You know, Led Zeppelin, I think, would probably also be like a big one for them. How about Chopped Off Rolling Heads? No. There's been better, but I couldn't think of one. I mean, eight heads in a duffel bag. That's a big one. You guys seen that one? Nazi Stooges? These are really good Stooges. I prefer the Stooges in Raiders. Yeah. Taught in Raiders. He's great. The Holy Grail. I think it's second place. To the day that I... The Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Yeah. Yeah. So you believe those events occur. So you put this over Python? Oh, good question. For me, yes. Okay. Just like in my own personal... Python put it in the title. Much prefer Python. Yeah. Best racehorse name. Oh, wait. I got one more. What's age? Sorry. One more... Apex? Apex. What do you got? This is a debate. So when Indy first meets Walter Donovan, he's having a black tie party in the middle of the day. And is this the second best black tie party in the middle of the day next to Pulp Fiction? Next to Winston Wolfe. The Wolfe. Yeah. Here's what we don't know. Is anyone else wearing a tuxedo at the Winston Wolfe party? Or is that just how the Wolfe dresses? No, there's a shot. You can see people wearing a mid-dict in Pulp Fiction. Okay. Yeah. But... Guys, don't step on the last podcast in the middle of this feed. Pulp Fiction. The blimp pod? Yeah. Pulp Fiction in a blimp with Sean. That's a great take, though. Like, even if I got fired, I was like, wait, before I get fired, can I just... Can we rip off the Pulp Fiction pod? And can I just sneak in Almost Famous? Don't put us in that position, Bill. Yeah, sorry, guys. Um, yeah, that's a... You've never been to a mid-day tuxedo affair? Yeah. I haven't either, I'm just asking. You probably have. Come on. I had stumbled into, like, a 4.30 in the morning Vegas situation once that was like, what's going on here? But you never went to, like, an awards luncheon at 11 a.m. I did. The Peabody Awards were like that, but it wasn't, like, tuxedo. Okay. You haven't been to the Peabody's, clearly. I haven't, no. But I have been to some Vegas events like that. How many times has The Watchman nominated for Peabody? What was that face? It's going to be for the idol when we bring back the idol, when we turn the discourse around. I'm working. I had one of my friends compared it to Showgirls today. I'm like, you guys don't see it. This is not Elizabeth Berkley. Best racehorse name? Crusade? Last Crusade?
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