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Movie Mindset 08 - God Lancaster (Patreon)

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2023-06-14 11:00:06
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2025-08-12 21:26:16
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Will and Hesse discuss two classics featuring leading man Burt Lancaster: 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success (d. Alexander Mackendrick) and 1963’s The Leopard (d. Luchino Visconti). In Sweet Smell, Lancaster plays the coldly evil, all-powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsucker, and in The Leopard Lancaster is the fading, romantic noble Prince of Salina. Two masterful performances in devastating films showing Burt was one of the greatest to ever do it.

NEXT WEEK: Two from director Nicolas Roeg: 1983’s Eureka and 1985’s Insignificance.

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gonzopitcher

Cats in the bag and the bags in the river.

Sharilyn Neidhardt

OMFG I'm a complete Lancaster stan and have been since I saw Elmer Gantry in college. The Swimmer is probably my favorite!

Drew McGill

Beau is Afraid is incredible. Does Will like movies? lol

Back Flip Bet

Body snatchers episode was lit yo. But hopefully they do some movies I've seem too

Graham Austin

I enjoyed it until the last hour and a half.

Malaparte_Animal

go tell the spartans = the best vietnam war film ever made by americans

Skip scrambler

The Leopard is my favorite movie of all times. Visconti has some other good ones, but this is excellent. Book is very good too. But I think it’s like Jurassic Park, the book is good, add depth, but the spectacle of the film makes it. Perfect ending, too. Anticlimactic but fitting.

Michael S. Judge

Chico Hamilton's band was real important, too – early into some Third Stream ideas about more elaborate composition in jazz, and they were the first major job for Eric Dolphy, one of the greatest musicians of any kind who ever lived

gonzopitcher

That’s wild I was just studying Dolphy’s “Synthetic Formations” this morning.

Drew McGill

I didn’t love Midsommar but the other two are outstanding imo. Beau is so goddamn good.

Drew McGill

The best part I’ve found about the podcast is then finally forcing me to watch some movies that’s been on my watch list for years now lol

Jaime Christley

You ever see Seconds? Kind of a B minus C plus movie overall but Howe’s cinematography on it will rip your face off.

gonzopitcher

It’s worth it for the “grape orgy” alone.

Yairo Martis

Looking forward to the Charley Varrick-The Friends of Eddie Coyle episode.

gonzopitcher

Also don’t forget Steve. Steve wails!!

Michael S. Judge

Of all the musicians who ever died absurdly and unnecessarily young, Dolphy might've been the biggest loss to music. I have no fucking idea what he would've been doing even 5 years later, let alone 20

Julie Baxter

Caught "The Rainmaker" on one of the free streaming networks a few days ago. Had never heard of it before, but Lancaster was fucking on fire.

Will

Hesse is thinking of Martin Landau on Columbo

Satcomdaemon

My pitch for Predator 3 would be an out of shape predator who hunts a group of off duty oathkeeper types doing a lame militia training in the woods. Lots of sweaty off duty cops getting merc'd left and right and the one soy boy brother-in-law is the one who takes the predator out by outrunning him and luring him to a bbq to take it out with the twin logs trap again. But this time 4 logs. Also this predator smokes/vapes. Pulls a cig from his hand device after clicking alien runes into it that you think he's gonna use as a bomb.

Aaron Baer

Get this man an agent ... HOLLYWOOD BOUND YOU ARE BROTHER !!!!

Gordon Schmidt

Nah, Prey was proof of concept that all you need to do is put a Predator in different historical environs. We need a Predator on a pirate ship, a Predator in WWI, a Predator in a Western... the possibilities are endless

Satcomdaemon

Predator V. Conquistador would be pretty fun.

etienne

gonna start talking like that IRL. my boss is gonna ask me if the 2024 version is compiled and im gonna tell him "It's all uptight and buttoned up. Signed sealed delivered"

Yairo Martis

Hey Will, thoughts on Peter Riegert in The Mask, and that one episode of The Sopranos?

Seamus

Your young audience has no clue of the movies you speak of. Old farts.

J.P. McD.

It’s lame to get pissy about others not having the same taste as you. Movie was not well received among true movie heads.

Jaime Christley

A great line from the OG Bad News Bears is the black kid stepping up to bat and announcing “this one’s going out to Allah, suckas”

Jaime Christley

JJ would tell Tom to drown himself in a toilet and Tom would do it.

Aram Fingal

The good ol days when movies about journalists were all about how corrupt and evil they are

Modokk

I can't believe nobody recognized Martin Milner as Steve Dallas who later on had the starring role as a cop in Adam-12

Nathan Explosion

i used to watch TOUGH GUYS (1985) constantly as a kid. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas play convicted train robbers that re-enter LA society after thirty years in the clink. Dana Carvey, Eli Wallach, and Charles Durning co-star. rough gem of 80s cinema looking back on the 1950s. it’s hilarious.

Tim O'

I'd just had to sit through Babylon a few months earlier and I didn't need another 3 hours of a self-important auteur of middling talent making a passion project.

Valerie

Predator VS Aliens, but it's a self-aware AI Predator Drone that consumed too much Pentagon-funded UFO hoax content and went rogue blowing up commercial airliners and suburban backyards chasing imaginary aliens. Plot twist at the end of the movie, there WAS an alien invasion force scouting earth, but the Pentagon destroys the rogue drone and their only hope of stopping the aliens. Final scene is an expensive shot of New York getting vaporized by the aliens that takes half the movie's budget.

Drew McGill

Babylon was great too ;)

Zach H.

For Matthau Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) The Laughing Policeman (1973) Or Charlie Varrick (1973)

Corey Reynolds

The first hour of Beau is Afraid has some very funny moments. The next 2 hours were excruciating.

Jeff Popp

Incredible episode too

Leebos

I just watched Sweet Smell of Success with my dad, and Wong's cinematography is Something else.

Nathan Explosion

i also thought SSOS was some kind of comedy or musical. now that i know it’s about a demonic gossip king trying to fuck his sister, i’m definitely gonna check it out!

Jaime Christley

it might be mentioned in the ep (I've only just started) but a footnote regarding JJ being based on Walter Winchell, his first child was a daughter that he named Walda and (Wikipedia) she spent a fair share of time in the nuthouse. Walda Winchell.

JD

You can talk about “the swimmer” when you do your Frank Perry episode, paired with “man on a swing” or maybe “mommie dearest”

JD

Depalma suggestions: dressed to kill v blow out, or carrie/body double

etienne

last recommendation sounds kinda rad, I could see how the interplay would go lancaster: now I might just be a uh smawwl taaawn oil lawyer but uhhh, pray tell, how much uhh this here cottage? might be sold? capaldi: now ye fat american cunt ye gonna take yer bloody petrodollars an oil reiffeinery an ram it up so far up ye bum ol' winnine redraws the national border of ye meind ye daft twat

Whucko Jaang

I just looked at this guys credits and I have no clue who he is. I thought Lee Marvin was burt lambaster

Jon

First time watching these movies ahead of time. Greatly increased enjoyment of the episode. Would recommend.

Zach H.

I thought about Charade by it’s a supporting role. That’s Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn’s movie completely.

Zach H.

Valdez is Coming is a good one from the same period

Bloggystyle

Great episode. Burt is a underrated Hollywood super nova. Like Holden had his own production company. And his career had long legs: Flame and the Arrow to Atlantic City. What a career.

JD

Love dolphy

JD

The Patrick Mcgoohan ones are ridiculous

Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK

The Swimmer is a pretty good flick, with a nice twist at the end.

Brady

Stopped partway through to go watch Sweet Smell, and goddamn, what a solid watch. Hunsecker is an all time villain in that

Of course

Can't believe you didn't choose Executive Action (1973).

George Mitri

“The Swimmer”: incredible. I can’t see how “Easy Rider” could’ve been made without it.

Last Years Man

You know you're a GOAT when you're on Nixon's enemies list. Every name on that thing should be enshrined.

Last Years Man

I can't think of Burt anymore without hearing Bill Hader saying "oyster crackers" in his accent.

THEKILLERWHALE

{Sees Alain Delon in the Leopard} "I'm gay!" {Sees Claudia Cardinale 30 minutes later} "I'm straight!"

Adam

i love movie mindset 📽️🍿

Michael Polacheck

Steve Dallas played by Martin Milner who went on to star in the TV series Route 66 and as the lead cop in Adam 12 (Jack Webb's love song to the cop on the beat).

John Marshall

Love the local hero recommendation - such a gentle but hilarious film

SF

So stoked to here that Hesse liked Shin Kamen Rider!

Jaime Christley

Gotta weigh in: Beau is Afraid is bootleg. It’s become increasingly clear that Ari Aster is the kind of huckster who’s spent his life trying to make six dumb ideas look like three good ones. Lock him up at Apple TV where he belongs.

Julie Baxter

Almost didn't watch it because it has Kate Hepburn who can get on my nerves at times, but ol' Burt transforms her character into one less annoying.

Here, Try This

Brute Force and The Killers are two early career noirs(noir-ish in the case of Brute Force) that Lancaster is excellent in

Folks,,

Great ep

(Noah J)

First episode of Movie Mindset I've listened to. Didn't think I'd care for it much. The chemistry between Will and Hesse alone are enough to make this really entertaining. They perfectly compliment each other. Great commentary. Very much enjoyed this.

HarshMalarkey

Hesse is so great I can forgive her for being Italian

M.R. Alchemist

Yeah at first it seemed like Will was forcing himself to do something similar to Matt but I think he's found his groove and Hesse is the right partner for the job.

Garth Hillsborough

Brute Force is like a classic movie which to me is 100% about America as the Fourth Reich that came out just two years after the war was over

Jaime Christley

Same director - Housekeeping (1987) is a masterpiece

John Marshall

Also listening back to the Eastwood ep - has anyone recently watched the Eiger Sanction? It's deranged in ways I never remembered

Jaime Christley

oh hell yeah. that one's bonkers city. he really made a lot of CHOICES in there

Serris

Hopscotch is peak Matthau, he helped rewrite the script too

J.P. McD.

Lol at the “people also watched” on Amazon for Bright Future including every prior Movie Mindset pick

NoPrefect

And for anyone who still doesn't think Burt Lancaster is God, watch Elmer Gantry.

J.P. McD.

I’m just mad about Twitter thinking Midsommar was about “female empowerment” and that a boyfriend trapped in a crappy relationship should be killed

Jaime Christley

well, I could go one of two ways about it: if he really meant it like that, yeah then, fuck that movie. but I think there's a "deserve's got nothin' to do with it" angle and I'm okay with that. I don't mind a sadist, but I can't abide a moralizing one.

J.P. McD.

Nah I don’t think it’s meant that way, it was dumb peak 2019 online feminism where the Warren supporters would post about how Midsommar helped them process their trauma from a 6 month relationship where the guy had an avoidant attachment style, and they all genuinely thought the bf was a monster. (I dislike the movie itself just for the normal reasons)

Jaime Christley

It’s definitely my favorite of the three (low bar) but I think it’s quitsville. I really strongly feel that he spent his whole cache on Beau

etienne

imo the whole trauma angle of that movie was wholly unnecessary and a huge waste of almost hour. imo the opening should have been "hi you're a humanities student, wanna come hang out in a village that's more socially rigid than an ant colony?" "hi yes I just had a break up and I want to change my mind, let's go right now"

Equality State Of Mind

Not that you all read these, but you keep queuing up pictures I can't stream on Android, and I'm too much of a Luddite to torrent shit. Had to order Insignificance from the Laramie library, other side of the state. Also, three hours of dubbed-over English with sort of matching subtitles made me fuckin homicidal. Liked the ep. Cool series.

Poppy Chulo

Just get a VPN, for like twelve bucks a month you can watch anything you want.

Scot Forsythe

I thought “Tough Guys” with Kirk was pretty good

John Leavitt

Burt was the Daniel Craig of his era in every way

Frederick Von Drasek

...as the Cold War was re-heating in '78, Lancaster narrated a 20-hour, internationally syndicated series on the Soviet Union in WW II called _The Unknown War_. This came five years after _The World at War_ kind of broke the media silence in the NATO west regarding the Soviet War, but still, that took something on Lancaster's part. I watched some a long time ago, and now I want to give it another look...

Nolan

Yea I’m like if Burt Lancaster smoked weed and was the coolest guy

Seth Feinberg

Cowardice to not choose THE TRAIN, especially when considering Lancaster’s physicality

Jaime Christley

Some misc notes about Sweet Smell - not sure if anyone's going to see this but whatever: the cruel police lieutenant Kello is played by the workhorse character actor Emile Meyer; the very same year he played the priest in PATHS OF GLORY, where he's last seen speaking comforting words to Timothy Carey as he's being marched up to face the firing squad I believe Will meant to say THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT - a great comedy movie about labor and class; it's the one where Alec Guinness invents an indestructible textile material that throws the industry into turmoil. Other great Mackendrick movies include WHISKEY GALORE! - a comedy about a Scottish island community that's brought together to come to the rescue of 50k cases of booze. And two '60s adventure movies, A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA and A BOY TEN FEET TALL.

J.W.

I SAW IT, Rohmer, and now have MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT on The List. You are SEEN, movie brother.

Comedy News

You guys HAVE to watch Love and Anarchy, the Italian movie about a man who is going to kill Mussolini but gets distracted when he falls in love due to his heroism... one of the best films ever made.

Tenley

They need to do a whole Lina Wurtmiller episode, she made incredible movies worth talking about.

Michael Austin

I'll be anything you want, anything at all. I'll be your guardian angel.

Max Fennig

I like to think Mickey Rourke’s character in Eureka is Jordan Calphus Sr.