MM37 - Enter the Scheider-verse feat. Andrew Hudson (Patreon)

It’s showtime folks! On this episode of Movie Mindset, we’re joined by Mindset Champion Andrew Hudson to celebrate the iconic American actor Roy Scheider, a man Will psychologically associates with his father because of Jaws.

First up is Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979), where Scheider plays Joe Gideon, Fosse’s thinly-veiled cinematic alter-ego. Here in this stunning meditation on the power of musical theater and death, we see a portrait of an artist as a man who drinks too much, smokes way too much, and most importantly gets so much pussy it kills him. 

Then in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977), Roy finds himself condemned to an unnamed Central American hell hole where he and three other lost souls take a pleasant drive through the jungle trucking crates of unstable dynamite. Nerves are shredded, doom awaits us all, and we learn about amateur explosives expert “Marvin the Torch.”