While You Were Sleeping 1995

The claim

66:38 – 71:22

… not forgotten about your contributions to this film, but you're right. Peter Gallagher. You probably deserve it. Okay. Good. Good point, Amanda. Thank you. Apex Mountain. Is this anyone's Apex Mountain? I think the only case you could make is for Bill Pullman. Obviously, the Apex Mountain for Peter Gallagher. I mean, I think ultimately it's Sandy Cohen. He's had a long career, so it's a little hard to track. I agree with that. Sandra Bullock. I mean, again, long career, hard to track. I think you got to go either the blind side for what you want an Oscar or gravity, which she's like just completely amazing …

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I don't know why I didn't think about him. I just Wanda, the nurse I ride for you, just want you to know. I have not forgotten about your contributions to this film, but you're right. Peter Gallagher. You probably deserve it. Okay. Good. Good point, Amanda. Thank you. Apex Mountain. Is this anyone's Apex Mountain? I think the only case you could make is for Bill Pullman. Obviously, the Apex Mountain for Peter Gallagher. I mean, I think ultimately it's Sandy Cohen. He's had a long career, so it's a little hard to track. I agree with that. Sandra Bullock. I mean, again, long career, hard to track. I think you got to go either the blind side for what you want an Oscar or gravity, which she's like just completely amazing in. Yeah, I think I would say that it is when she wins the Oscar, not blind side itself, but it's the winning of the Oscar because number one, she wins an Oscar and then it sets up the ability to do gravity, which is a tremendous performance and one of the great movies that she's been in. So I agree with you. Man, did she look great for the Oscars, too. She nailed it in black and white, a classic look, old timey Hollywood. Sandra Bullock. We fucking love you. So Bill Pullman, because of what you said earlier, you could make the case that he finally got the girl. He, you know, he he won in the end. And so that could make this his apex mountain. As I said earlier, as I hinted earlier, I believe that Bill Pullman's apex mountain is the microphone is the megaphone speech in Independence Day. That's the single most important thing he's ever done. That is what we will all remember him by. And so I do not think it's his apex mountain. Maybe it sets up his apex mountain. I but you just can't. That speech is really important. That speech. I'm like, I'm a little moved right now. I am just like tearing up thinking about it. So he's he's absolutely my favorite fictional president. I he's great in a crisis. Would love to have him right now. I mean, you know, he keeps his cool. He's focused on science. He's, you know, tracking down the aliens. He is focused on science. He is. So anyway, I do not think that this is Bill Pullman's Independence Day only because he gets. I'm sorry. I don't think it's his apex mountain because he gets Independence Day the next year. Yeah. Unfortunately, I agree with you. This is a great movie, but it's no one's apex mountain. But that's OK because it sets up so many other things to come. You know, I think Sandra Bullock would not have had the exact same breakthrough if she hadn't had the one to punch of speed in this movie. So a thousand percent. She owes it a lot. Let's do best. Let's do best quote before we pick nits, because I mean, it's going to be a long list from you. OK. Oh, I'm sorry that I engaged with the text of the movie. Best quote. There's Lucy's monologue, which we can read in full. Do you believe in love at first sight? I bet you don't. You're probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever, like, seen somebody and you knew that if only that person really knew you, they would, well, of course, dump the perfect model that they were with and realize that you were the one that they wanted to just grow old with. Pretty unassailable. As far as rom-com speeches go, it's really up there. It's totally it's it's not quite. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy. It's not it's not Tom Hanks at the end of You Got Mail, but it's very good. An interesting thing about it. It's not the speech at the end. And I one thing that I really like about this movie before I get into nitpicks is that. It's it does set up a different type of motivation, a different type of heroin and a different type of love and what people are searching for and something that I think is like more nuanced and human than what we normally get. And this speech is a good encapsulation of that. That's it. It's a good point. The fact that it comes in like the first third of the movie is a pretty big deal for a rom-com speech. Exactly. Innovating on the form. Ashley Bartlett Bacon is the woman that Peter was actually proposing to and engaged to. And she has a killer line. Go ahead. Go ahead and marry her. You one bald bastard. See, that's what I'm saying. She should have been nominated for the heat check. I mean, she does a lot with a little as well. She's up there with the nurse, Wanda. Yeah. Okay. And then I thought Jack's speech about leaning was very good when he, when he is taught or when he, when he's talking to Sandra Bullock and he says, it was a lot different from hugging. Hugging is very different. How are you leaning? It's a lot different than hugging. Hugging is very different. Hugging that involves arms and hands and leaning is whole bodies moving in like this. leaning involves wanting and accepting.

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