Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
119:28 – 124:47… that character like you did. So here's the book. Wow. What a lady, by the way. The more I read about her, I mean, just one of our great writers. Great writer. Apex Mountain. Keith Ledger. I mean. Because. Yeah. Dark Knight came out, he was, he'd already died. This is the apex, right? Yeah. This is the apex. It felt like anything was possible with him. Yes. Gyllenhaal, I think it's later. I think it's in that end of watch. What's that movie he made with? It's a good movie with, what's his face? Hugh Jackman. Prisoners. Oh, Prisoners. Prisoners is good. That's a Villeneuve. It doesn't. I like Prisoners. You like …
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He became Ennis to the point that she said, and then she just kept it that way and she told him, I just can't believe you became that character like you did. So here's the book. Wow. What a lady, by the way. The more I read about her, I mean, just one of our great writers. Great writer. Apex Mountain. Keith Ledger. I mean. Because. Yeah. Dark Knight came out, he was, he'd already died. This is the apex, right? Yeah. This is the apex. It felt like anything was possible with him. Yes. Gyllenhaal, I think it's later. I think it's in that end of watch. What's that movie he made with? It's a good movie with, what's his face? Hugh Jackman. Prisoners. Oh, Prisoners. Prisoners is good. That's a Villeneuve. It doesn't. I like Prisoners. You like Prisoners, Craig? I haven't seen it. It's keyed up enough. It's like the, I'm, as you know, I'm really torn about this director. But it's a good use of Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis and Terrence Howard. But the movie is nuts. Not as good as for Viola. And Melissa Leo, I think. Not as good as for Viola Davis as Black Hat, being able to be in that classic that we've already done the rewatch ones. Ang Lee, would you go here or would you go Life of Pi? For Apex Mountain? It's probably here, right? Because he makes this and it's like, anything's possible. Anything is possible. Like, yeah, I think it's definitely, well, Crouching Tiger, it's probably this. It's this. It's this. Because he comes and makes an, like, well, he's a student of America, though. He's made so many great movies about the United States. Michelle Williams? No. Definitely not. Traumatized Michelle Williams wife characters? I think it's Manchester. I think it's Manchester, by the way. Hathaway, no. Sheep. A lot of sheep. Might be the most sheep we've ever had in a movie. No. What's the answer to that, then? Il Quattro Voltra. Okay. The Great Italian Movie that is just, it's one of my favorite movies. And if you loved it, like, just watch it. Very sheepy, if memory serves. Gay westerns? Oh. Yes. But it did inspire some actual gay cowboy. Cowboy. What was the movie I didn't like with Benedict Cumberbatch much later? It wasn't a western. Oh, The Power of the Dog? Yeah. I didn't like that movie. Eh. Doesn't really work for me, either. That's another one of those Oscar contenders where, like, six years later, you go, wait, what happened? It's kind of how you know the movies change, too. Like, I mean, that's a movie that really spoke to my brain more than it did in anything else. That's all I got for Apex Mountain. This'll be fun, though. Cruise or Hanks? This is a... And by the way, you can go any age range for either guy. So, for these guys, you would go 20s Cruise or 20s Hanks. This is the tragedy of this movie. Or you could go Cruise as the Randy Quaid character. You can do whatever you want. But this is why this movie was such a big deal. It's because there's no moment in time. Maybe in the 70s, you could have got Pacino and Cazale to do this or something like that. But then, like, what are they doing in Wyoming? I think Pacino and Cazale absolutely would have done this. Yes. Pacino fucking made Cruise. Right. Of course. One of the five greatest movies of all time. I don't think that Tom Cruise would have gone near this thing with a... Like, any era of Tom Cruise. So, Tom Cruise is the answer because he could have played Jack Twist. I don't think he would have played Jack Twist. Would not have played Jack Twist. Top Gun era, Tom Cruise would be like, oh, my God. My next movie is Brokeback Mountain. But the thing about him is he totally could have played Jack Twist. He would have been a really good Jack Twist. He would have been a really good Jack Twist. We could have had a real laugh, Dennis. There could have been a running scene, though, where, like, one of the sheep gets away and he's just sprinting. Well, there are those moments where Jake Gyllenhaal is really kind of just enjoying himself being drunk as Jack. Yeah. He gets a little cruisy-ish. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I feel like... How about Scorsese or Spielberg? Probably Spielberg. I don't know. It's a great question. Spielberg is the obvious answer. Scorsese's Brokeback Mountain would have been... But Scorsese... Just them doing bumps with the beans? Yeah. I don't know. I feel like it would be interesting to see what choices... I love movie director karaoke, right? Yeah. Like, when given the opportunity to inhabit the filmmaking of another great director, what does a great director do? It doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while you get something like Gus Van St. Sands remake a Psycho or something. I'd be curious to see Scorsese try and do a Bergman or a Brokeback Mountain. What was the one he did in the 90s? Age of Innocence? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I mean, Great Case... Yeah. For example, that's good, Bill. That's one of my favorite Scorseses, by the way. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? Oh, Randy Quaid's character. Yeah. For sure. I had that as well. Picky Knits. Well, you already... One of mine was, could you really eat beans for that many months? But you said yes. Also, we passed up a chance for Tommy...
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