The Color Purple Ferrari

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[00:01:41] Awards and so forth in the 2023 year

[00:01:44] So we still got a little 2023 to catch up little bit. That one directed by Blitz Buzzewell. It's just kind of a fun name to say. It is. Yep. Starting Fantasia, Bereno, Tarja P. Hinson and Daniel Brooks. So we've got two films to review and discuss again, both of them are going to say kind of bombed at the

[00:03:00] box office didn't make a lot of waves. I mean, againman? Or a competitor? Ferrari tells the story of Enzo Ferrari in his auto-empire at a time of crisis.

[00:04:21] This is back in the summer of 1957.

[00:04:23] The film focuses in on a very specific time period in Enzo's life.

[00:05:22] really all of the actual action in this movie takes place over a very short period of time.

[00:05:25] We have Adam Driver starring as Enzo Ferrari.

[00:05:29] We have Shae-Leane Woodley starring as his

[00:05:33] Lena Lardi, who's girlfriend, I mean yeah,

[00:05:36] girlfriend on the side.

[00:05:38] And then we have also Penelope Cruz

[00:05:40] starring as Lara Ferrari, his official wife

[00:05:43] and also co-owner of the Ferrari company with him.

[00:06:46] you because I want to hear from Chris. Did I truly hear an audible, uh, no, like when you're describing this film? And if so, I'd like to hear why I'd like to hear the explanations.

[00:06:51] And then I'll let you know if, if I agree or disagree with your take on this film. So

[00:06:57] Michael Mann's Ferrari, Chris, go.

[00:07:00] So this is excellent for podcasting, like or you know, paramours on the side. Yeah That as speaking to me doesn't interest me. I want to know what made Napoleon a Genius on the battlefield. I want to know creatively how Leonard Bernstein was able to put these pieces together and what made him a genius. I see him

[00:09:27] in the factory or something, like something showing me his genius as maybe an innovator or something. I got the fact that, I mean, this sounds kind of dumb as a pun that he was driven,

[00:09:32] considering the actor's name as Adam Driver. But yes, I just got that. I got the fact that this

[00:09:39] was a very determined man. But like, take for well, obviously if he's Ferrari, that he's obviously he's a good business person

[00:11:00] or he's an excellent performer, racer, or whatever.

[00:11:03] And we don't really get that.

[00:11:05] I think more than anything, more specifically to course, Leonard Bernstein's great. I'm like, okay, but tell me why everybody thinks he's great. Tell me why everybody feels like, well, show me. Show me. Show me. Show me. Show me. Yeah. Tell me in terms of visually telling me on the other side. Yeah, whatever. Just give me some sense of it so I can be along for the ride with those other characters.

[00:12:21] Wrong for the ride.

[00:12:22] That was totally unintentional.

[00:12:25] I think that's the problem with Ferrari is that, yes, it,

[00:13:22] Shot well, I will say the driving sequences, I think are really, really good.

[00:13:24] Yes, which, not a surprise that somebody has seasoned

[00:13:27] as Michael Mann can make, you know, he director of Heat,

[00:13:30] he can make an action movie or like Carson,

[00:13:32] he knows how to edit, he knows how to shoot things

[00:13:35] to make it interesting.

[00:13:36] Yeah, those were good.

[00:13:37] Yeah.

[00:13:38] And I will say I wasn't overwhelmed

[00:13:43] with anybody's performance acting wise

[00:13:45] with the exception of, I don't feel like he had enough kind of to do kind of because of like what we were saying, like to show us the things like. So yeah, the film was all about people reacting. Right. I wouldn't say he did a bad job. It's just that I don't feel like he was made to be kind of like a robot almost. And so you're right. And so probably part of it. And so, but interestingly, you bring

[00:15:04] up House of Gucci, which Adam Driver was liked that. We reviewed that film I think a couple of years ago when it came out. I liked that film much more and maybe because it was a bit taught me a little bit about the competition between actually time where you're learning about the characters. Sure. You're getting some background on them, you're understanding what's bringing them together and how these two characters are going to learn from one another and work together. It's just there was a lot of background time spent on building a background with Ferrari. I mean,

[00:17:41] we pretty much other than a black and white little news reel looking flashback at the understanding their background and what they were bringing to the table. And I mean, Ford versus Ferrari was designed as a more of a quote, entertainment movie. I mean, as a stand up and cheer movie, it's a, you know, overcoming adversity. That's why that's not Ferrari Ferrari. Really different type of film. Sure. You know, I'm not going to spoil the ending, but I mean, it's based on a true story.

[00:19:01] And the ending does end in there were compelling like we've mentioned were good but I thought there actually would be a little bit more racing and a little

[00:20:20] less relationship. A little light on the racing. Now that being said the accident scene that happens of these films saying it's not what I thought I was getting into. Yeah. And here's the thing too, and people you know, joked about having marvel fatigue or a combo pro. And I know pretty much every year you usually have one or two biopics that come out around this time for Oscar consideration. You had Bohemian Rhapsody and you had behind what we're seeing in the predicament in general. And that's kind of it. So I'm at a three star level for this where I think there's enough there to keep my interest and get me going, but it's not a high recommendation for me. So Chris, you give me a positive and let me know where you wrap up on this. Sure.

[00:23:00] So my positive, I was worried you were going to mention it because I was like, oh, no,

[00:23:03] that's going to be it just never quite gave us the reason why we should care about Enzo Ferrari. Right. I'm not saying you gotta turn him into a saint or gotta make him somebody that we admire.

[00:24:20] I just need to know, I need to understand more

[00:24:22] why he has the impact he has on the people around him,

[00:24:25] and the film just didn last of. Sure. We need to say Mohicans. Everybody knows what we're talking about. And he did shout at me through a megaphone at one time. So that's my claim to fame.

[00:25:40] Yeah, you've had dialogue.

[00:25:42] So he's always going to have a special place in my heart,

[00:25:44] his films.

[00:25:45] But no, I do think he's a very good technical director. I did not see that. That probably would have helped my enjoyment of the film even more if I'd realized that going into it. Oh my gosh, Cruise, Driver in Ferrari. Oh boy, okay, anyway, sorry. Let's move on to our next film, our second and final review, which is the film at the time. It got a lot of great attention. I think people really consider that a classic. So it's always a little treacherous when you hear that you're gonna do another version of a beloved film, especially a beloved film based on a beloved book. This version though, a little different in that it is taken more from the theatrical,

[00:28:23] the stage performance of the Color Purple,

[00:28:25] which is a musical. with a sister, her sister, Nettie. So with all that, Chris, I've always been a big fan of the Spielberg version of this film. Yeah, okay. I always did really appreciate that. I generally really, really like the story. I always like these characters. So I was intrigued to see this as a new interpretation

[00:29:42] of the film, but let me ask you,

[00:29:44] your thoughts on the musical aspect, but then use cinematic language to make it even more dynamic. So for me, this is the best

[00:31:01] version of the color purple that I've ever seen. I'm a big fan of the film,

[00:31:05] that's why it was one of my top into this out there. Okay. I did really like this film. Okay. So just go ahead, like, just know that that's the underlying message. I feel like there's a buck coming. I do have a couple of buts. But look, I ultimately even even I'm going to throw a couple of things out

[00:32:22] that I had some issues with. Oh, just know that I did like this

[00:32:26] film. Okay. I did really like it's shot and edited more like a two hour music video than it is a film.

[00:33:42] That didn't bother me.

[00:33:43] But I can see, I can, I peer that criticism.

[00:33:46] I can say, okay. of plot points that kind of move along between the characters. And I do feel like the film, I know it's a two hour and 15 minute film or so. It was already, you know, lengthwise it was a traditional, nowadays a traditional film. Sure. Most of this thing. But I do feel like it was, it was pushing ahead pretty quickly in a lot of places.

[00:35:01] Which I liked.

[00:35:02] I liked the fact that it was.

[00:35:03] You liked.

[00:35:03] I harkened back to my story about Ferrari,

[00:35:07] where it's one of those things where, the moment she has a confrontation with Sealy about how to work with her husband. Right. And then I see the scene where she comes back and you know in the scene with the mayor's wife. Right. It's like okay but later in the film we're told that Sophia looks up to Sealy and that Sealy is the person who saved her life and has given her so much inspiration. I'm like okay didn't

[00:36:24] quite see that but I get it because again I, and what's there, and what's happening. It's like, they're getting quick hits, quick. And then we gotta quickly get back because the next plot point is Nelly has that, or Silly has to have this happen.

[00:37:40] So I just, I felt that way a lot of times.

[00:37:42] Again, luckily I knew the story,

[00:37:43] so it did not cause me good time with this film. It's not a top five for me,

[00:39:01] but I did really, really appreciate it.

[00:39:03] I wish there could have been some little more care why you would want to have a dream sequence for that song because of the state of mind that the characters are in and they're trying to look at something better than the situation they're in right now. But yeah they just they seemed and they just didn't fit the film and it was kind of took me out of it a little bit. Whereas I'll say you caught out the sugar every number. My

[00:40:20] favorite number was Sofia's Hell strong. I will say his evolution is another time

[00:41:42] where I felt like the movie was just hitting the point, the high points.

[00:41:43] Okay, so I will say that his arc is good,

[00:42:52] But that's just another example of where I feel like there could have been just some more fleshing out of just yeah, maybe all these characters were the reasons for doing things, the rationale for them, kind of how these relationships were building. You know, for example, there's a character they call her Squeak, you know, in the film who just kind of dropped in.

[00:43:00] I mean, granted, I knew her from the movie. First know, I like the film so much that I just kind of forgot about the fact that she had been that way. You mentioned Mr. Coleman Domingo playing that role and like the arc and stuff. Yeah, maybe after the kind of redemption, if there'd been like just a dialogue scene between Sealy where she's like, okay, however, like, you know, it's been the highlights of the color purple, all done very, very well. But just, I do feel like I was watching a highlights version and I just wish the characters had a little more to breathe and to feel and to let us get to experience these characters because I did like all of them so much. So anyway, again, that is just more of a,

[00:45:42] you know, if there was a three hour edit of this somewhere

[00:45:45] that had a lot more character development

[00:45:47] and just people we feel like we could really I expected that to somehow be woven in. And I think it was done in a nice way. Sure. Yeah. All right, so you, this is a top five movie of 2023 for you. Yes. Okay. Although you didn't rank your movies. You were out of medical, right? In alphabetical order, this was one of your, you're a bigger five. Okay.

[00:47:00] Didn't quite make that level for me,

[00:47:01] but I am on board with it.

[00:47:03] And I did have a really good time with it.

[00:47:05] So a couple of misgivings on the pacing All right, Chris, that's our two reviews. We're going to take a very quick break and then we've got some news to share and a recommendation that Chris will be sharing with you. I've got some Golden Globes wrap ups to talk about. And then got a new little segment. Probably won't be something we do very often, but I'm still gonna throw it out there. And I'm calling Cruise News.

[00:48:20] Nice.

[00:48:21] Kind of playing out the purr.

[00:48:22] How about Penelope Cruz?

[00:48:23] It is about Penelope Cruz.

[00:48:23] No, it is about our favorite actor, yours and mine, Tom Cruz.

[00:49:21] What do you call it?

[00:49:25] The award season schedule, I guess. Sure, we'll go with that.

[00:49:26] I was looking for something more glamorous, but I didn't come out.

[00:49:30] The first entry into our award season, I guess officially, was the Golden Globes.

[00:49:35] Golden Globes, I don't want to say that it's not been taken seriously as much over the years.

[00:49:42] I mean, it is one of the earliest awards.

[00:50:44] times what people do use those for is kind of predicting where the wind may be blowing. So I'm going to save you the three hours or whatever, running time and boil this down

[00:50:49] in like one minute or two minutes. So the thing with the Golden Globes always found

[00:50:54] interesting is they do have it split out for best picture and for best actor and best actress.

[00:51:00] They've split it out where they have a category for drama and then they have categories for picture, comma, drama, which was Killian Murphy. But then we go over and we look at the best picture for musical or comedy, and it was poor things. Right, okay, there again. Not a musical, and I'm assuming they put it in there because comedy, which... I don't know if it's just a

[00:52:20] matter of they just count how many people time times people laugh that's weird. Well, and then the last one, because these both had six. Sure. The last one was Air. Okay. Which, you know, again, Air had some lighter moments. There was some funny dialogue at times, but it's definitely funny. Yeah, but it's definitely not a comedy. Nope. I mean, of these movies, these six movies,

[00:53:41] the only one that I think you could,

[00:53:43] you could make an argument for being a comedy was Barbie.

[00:53:46] Right.

[00:53:47] That's it.

[00:53:48] Right. Best performance by actor and emotion picture drama was Killian Murphy already mentioned. We got over to Best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama. And that was Lily Gladstone for Killers of a Flower Moon. I think that's the only award at one was Best Actress in a Drama. Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy

[00:55:00] was Emma Stone for poor things.

[00:55:02] Wow.

[00:55:04] So poor things in Oppenheimer kind of won the big ones. He was up against Nicholas Cage for Dream Scenario, Timothy Chalamet for Wonka, Matt Damon for Air, Joaquin Phoenix for Bo is Afraid, Musa Gore Comedy. Don't you think of Bo is Afraid and you think? It's a laugh-raaring comedy. And then Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction.

[00:56:22] So Paul Giamatti wins that. Kind of surprised, but given those other items,

[00:56:25] which I don't think any of those were runaway winners,

[00:56:28] I could see it.

[00:57:21] the screenplay. The screenplay.

[00:57:22] Yeah.

[00:57:23] Yeah.

[00:57:24] So I think, uh, it's so interesting.

[00:57:26] I did, did okay.

[00:57:27] I mean, they also did TV stuff, but we won't, we won't go into TV.

[00:57:29] This is a film show, so we'll keep it on that.

[00:57:32] Keep it clean.

[00:57:33] Yeah.

[00:57:34] Um, so any just initial reactions?

[00:57:37] I mean, I think poor things was the surprise for me.

[00:57:40] We reviewed it on the show and I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, but I still,

[00:57:45] you know, base it off of box office, then yes, just give it to whatever film made the most money. And it would be a surprise to no one. No one. Everybody's going to know. Oh, yeah. Well, Barbie made the most money. So Barbie won this award.

[00:59:00] But it had nominations for Barbie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

[01:00:02] have an award that makes sure we recognize those two. I guess this is getting off track,

[01:00:05] but do they give any awards for original song?

[01:00:07] Oh, they do, yeah, and Barbie did win that.

[01:00:09] Okay, okay.

[01:00:10] But not for the song you're probably wanting.

[01:00:12] Wow, interesting.

[01:00:14] So it didn't win for, I'm just Ken.

[01:00:16] Nope, it was nominated for that.

[01:00:18] Okay.

[01:00:19] But it won for what it was I made for the Billie Eilish song.

[01:00:21] Billie Eilish song, got you.

[01:00:22] That was the song that won.

[01:00:23] So I take it back, that is the one true award.

[01:00:26] Or Dance the Night Away, was it nominated

[01:00:28] for the Do a Leap song? or a sloser. Right, yeah, sure. But yeah, I just, and here's, Darien, I think I usually complain about this when we give our awards or when we talk about the Academy Awards. My thing is the song has to be used in the film, not during the credits. Okay, it has to be in the film. And like, now, granted, I think the Billie Eilish song is.

[01:01:42] It is, oh yeah.

[01:01:43] So I think all three of the ones that were nominated are,

[01:01:46] but to me, like, I? Or, of course, Academy Awards don't separate by genres. It is all one pot. Sure. I still feel like we're on a fast track for Oppenheimer for director, best pitcher, best actor. Maybe best supporting actor, because I do think Robert Danny Jr. has got a lot of headwinds behind him on that.

[01:03:01] Sure.

[01:03:02] And that could be kind of a body of work

[01:03:06] time thing for him as well.

[01:03:07] Yeah. to make jokes and yet it's going to be at the audience's expense. So I guess was there anything outside? Look, I don't think it's a lot of the jokes were very good. I mean, writing-wise, I just don't think they were good jokes, but I don't blame them. The hosts were doing that. I mean, he's reading the jokes that are written. I only think he did is he caught himself out, which I wish he wouldn't have, like, several

[01:04:20] times been like, if people didn't laugh as much. First up, he did sign a deal with Warner Brothers to now develop and produce original and franchise films with them. Now, if you recall, most of the films he's been doing have been Paramount films. Right, right. Mission Impossible's Paramount, Top Gun was Paramount. That's kind of been his home for a while. The Warner Brothers just made a deal with Mr. Cruz

[01:05:42] so that they will be working together.

[01:05:43] Supposedly, Tom Cruise now has an office

[01:05:46] on the Warner Brothers lot. just yesterday, actually this morning, this is hot off the press. Hot off the press. Tom Cruise may be heading back to the danger zone according to Variety. Variety is reporting that Paramount has tapped Top Gun Maverick co-writer, Aaron Kruger, to work on a script for a sequel.

[01:07:01] They're hoping that director Joe Kaczynski

[01:07:04] will get back in the cockpit for another run at the series, quite a bit. I think that's a really good movie of his. What was the fourth one you mentioned? Interview with a vampire. Oh, yeah. Back in this day when it came out. Like a huge fan of that. Yeah. So you are a universal Tom Cruise fan. Maybe not as much a paramount Tom Cruise fan. I guess. Yeah. Warner Brothers are... Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. Warner Brothers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Warner Brothers. I guess. I guess I kind of am.

[01:08:22] Oh, God.

[01:08:22] You're good to know.

[01:08:24] Let's see.

[01:08:25] Maybe this is... Maybe I'm going to start

[01:08:27] appreciating his work under Warner Brothers, but he's doing a film with universal as well.

[01:09:40] So he's got his finger.

[01:09:41] He did the mummy.

[01:09:42] He did the mummy with universal.

[01:09:44] And now this one is the universal movie.

[01:09:46] It is the one that takes place on the International Space Station. in universal collaborative film, because it also says that it was a Warner Brothers film. Interesting. I'm so confused. Where am I getting my news? Fire the intern, that's what I say. Well, you know, Doug, why? Yeah, yeah, it's saying, Edgy Tamara was Warner Brothers, but then this other article saying, oh, Edgy Tamara was a collaboration.

[01:11:02] Oh, no, no, no, no, no, that was Doug Lyman

[01:11:04] and Tom Cruise collaborated on Edgy Tamara

[01:11:06] and American Made.

[01:11:08] Do you remember that movie? that is gonna be a part of it. That is all, yeah, it says, actually mostly takes place on Earth and then the character needs to grow up in space to save the day. Okay. The universal chairwoman described Cruz's character as a quote, down on his luck guy who finds himself in the position of being the only person who could save Earth. Oh, yes.

[01:12:21] So Tom Cruise and Armageddon said,

[01:12:23] yeah, that's what it is.

[01:12:24] They got to ship Tom Cruise up into space

[01:12:27] to stop something from happening. So what have you got for us today? So I'm going to recommend a documentary from 2023. It's called The Mission. OK. It tells the story of an American Christian missionary, John Chow, who was murdered when he tried to illegally contact and convert some of the world's last, uncontacted, indigenous people. The film features exclusive interviews

[01:13:41] and archival footage, some shot by John himself. in the 2000s. I can't remember the exact date. So I remember hearing this story in the news that this guy had been killed. So it was just interesting to hear the behind the scenes and stuff. There were one point there's an interview with somebody that knew him. I think he was a member of this guy's church at one point. And I'm just going to read the quote that he says,

[01:15:02] there's some sort of like idealism that's masquerading as God's calling, but this is behavior that's Luke, warm, midling to slightly negative review of Ferrari. And then we shared some cruise news, we did some golden globes, and then Chris's recommendation to bring us back down to a serious matter with the recommendation of the mission documentary on... Yeah, not to be confused with like the Robert De Niro

[01:16:22] in 1986.

[01:16:23] Also a good film.

[01:16:24] Good movie, but this is a different thing.