Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
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Again, in your home. Check out this week's menu. You get $30 off across your first two deliveries when you visit blueapron.com slash rewatch. Once again, that's blueapron.com slash rewatch. Blue Apron. Feed your soul. Apex Mountain. Not DDL. What would you say Daniel Day-Lewis' Apex Mountain was, though? Because maybe you could make the argument that it is his Apex Mountain. I think it's his mainstream Apex Mountain, but I think his Apex Mountain is There Will Be Blood. That's one of the great performances of the last 50 years. And I think we were still maybe under the misguided impression that he might work more often back in 2007. So it seemed like after that, maybe he would do any number of things. After There Will Be Blood, the ceiling was off for him. I felt like whatever he wanted to do, I was in. Michael Mann, I would say no. I think it's Heat. Wes Studi. Unfortunately, yes. Yeah. He's great in this movie. Madeline Stone, I'm going to say yes. I don't see why not. Yeah. Jodie May, I'm going to say yes, because I don't know what happened to her after this movie. Sure. Yeah. Full-scale tomahawk throws. I mean, name a better one. Can't think of one. Everybody was getting tomahawks after this movie. They were like, I got to go get my own. Talking about yourself in the third person? Probably no, but I just wanted to flag it. Falling off a giant cliff into a waterfall, or whatever the hell happened. When he jumps onto the waterfall, or when Alice follows Oncus? No, when DDL jumps into the waterfall, I'm going to say this was Apex Mountain, because the next year is The Fugitive. That's right. That's right. Andrew Davis saw that and was like, I got to revise this. So somewhere in this 92, 93 range, we peaked with waterfall jumping. Does Daniel Day-Lewis invent water parks in Last of the Mohicans, where he's just like, you know what's fun? Riding this. He might have. I don't have any other Apex Mountain, do you? No, I mean, I think it probably is Apex Mountain for Colonial Frontier movies. Colonial Frontier movies. I can't think of a better film that tackles this era. It might be the best Revolutionary War era movie, if you call it that. You could say it might be the Apex Mountain for action movies, using that kind of MTV type of style with the music crossed with just a lot of action. I'd like to see whether or not, because you've said that a couple of times, I think of it as more classical than that. Like, I do think of it as, yeah, he's definitely doing the closing montage trick a little bit with the amazing music over action. But I feel like it's a pretty traditionalist movie. So I'd be curious to see whether people agree on that. But yeah, I think that it's the logical conclusion of that style that he starts with Miami Vice. It certainly feels like an incredibly more modern movie than Jeremiah Johnson, I guess is my point. That's true. And a movie that could come out now and feel pretty unchanged. Yeah. I don't think they would change a lot. Picking Nits, I don't have a lot other than, I just didn't understand when the little sister fell for our guy Uncus. You didn't feel like they fell down a lot? All of a sudden they were into each other, and I'd missed the scene where they went and got ice cream. Yeah. Or went to go take a dump in the woods together, or whatever brought them together. We just didn't know. I just, I feel like with the, I want to get back to the couriers here for picking Nits. Do we not have any like safeguards? You don't have like a fallback guy who's also going? I mean, I know that they said like one of them sends like three people and they all get caught. But it just seems like you're really hanging by a thread during a time of war if you're basing everything off of a guy getting across a forest with a parchment paper. So Chris Ryan in the 1750s is putting in like a triple courier backup system. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. You're not just leaving it up to the one dude. I'm also trying to, I'm trying to train some birds of the forest to carry these things because it's like, I don't know if my guys are going to be able to make the sprints. Another picking Nits is just the whole, when she has tea with that dude, when he's like, Hey, I think with Duncan, when I think, I think you and I, we could end up together. Yeah. They're just on this giant field. There's a table and tea and they're a million miles away from anybody. It's like, did they have, is this some restaurant in 1757? Was there a staff that did this? Like, what is this? There's that line where it's like, England's policies make the world England. Or it's basically this idea that you can recreate your, your home anywhere you go because of, and that's like their imperialist bent. Another picking Nits for me, and this isn't even the movie, just with that whole era is the, the guys with the wigs on, like what, what would your wig strategy have been back then? Would you have tried to go age appropriate or,
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