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After a brief hiatus, the Fancy Lads return to challenge some murderous rapscallions to a showdown at the O.K. Corral as they cover John Ford's 1946 western noir: My Darling Clementine. Do Ford's unparalleled use of light and shadow make this movie a Fancy Feast? Or does the film's adherence to the tropes of the Western make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: you gotta watch out for cougars when you build a little house together.

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Nick Gully

Fancy Movies? In *this* economy?

Elizabeth Power

Hearing the both of you sing South Pacific very well is the last thing I expected to hear at the beginning of this episode, but I am delighted, it made my day!

Tommie the Tired

Pirate Nun!!! My APUSH teacher loved to talk about her homilies (talks?).

Gil the Gilded Dragon

.... get wealthy HOW?! If anything the Hellenized tax collector was BOUGIE compared to the other guys. Like Paul was a mystic, likely involved with the whole "try to reach the throne to measure the divine body" branch of mysticism which is likely what he brought in to invigorate the cult around this failed Messiah. But like he was deffinitely slumming it with the Apostles god, I know it's supposedly the assembly that wants him dead but like let's be 1000% Peter too wanted this kook to beat it. But his experiences are what like... Like at that time you still have guys like Honi the circlegraphist calling down rain & whatshisface & his kid with the eyelazers

Gil the Gilded Dragon

The fish was just a clever thing because it is an acrostic. The milk as sign of postmortem sacrality is borrowed from the orphics, where when you show your passport to the guards in the underworld.... there's this whole thing about being like a bull drowned in milk

Deb

side tangent to the list of musical Westerns: There's a surprising (as in non-zero) number of opera Westerns out there. The big one is probably Puccini's "La fanciulla del West" . . . which I guess means that spaghetti Westerns have been a thing forever.

Hunter Big Johnson

Dammit Brian!?!?! FANCY MOVIE TIME ON MY BIRTHDAY. I really don't want to change out of my suit into my fancy pants, dang it. Couldn't you, like, get me Max Payne 3 for my 40th birthday?!?

Maris Tiller

On the note of historical accuracy, the only time I’ve seen this movie was for a class called US History in Film. We talked extensively about American movies as tools of historical myth making, and I think this movie was one of the most blatant examples of this that we watched besides like gone with the wind and Pocahontas. It’s got some compelling drama and acting and cinematography, but it bumps up against the reality of American western expansion so much that for me it was tough to see what people love about it. To be fair, this is a problem I have with a lot of Westerns that aren’t rife with cynicism about the American project (McCabe & Mrs. Miller for example). Love hearing other people talk about it, though. Westerns interest me as films more for what they say about the society that produced them than they do as movies…