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99: It's Morbin' Time (with Jacob Bacharach) (Patreon)

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a show about the new film about the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Michael Morbius.

The failure of Morbius, both critically and commercially, is interesting to ponder: why did this particular Marvel movie bomb? Why did this film inspire so many viral memes that Sony Pictures decided to re-release it in cinemas to cash in on Morb Fever? And is the ironic online Morbius Cult our contemporary equivalent to the Juggalos?

Jacob and I discuss Morbius in detail, but along the way we also talk about Jared Leto as a “risk-taking” actor, including his notorious Joker, his Oscar-winning role as a trans woman in the frustrating Dallas Buyers Club, and his laboured bid for another Oscar nomination in House of Gucci.

Follow Jacob Bacharach on Twitter and visit jacobbacharach.com

International trailer for Dallas Buyers Club (Vallée, 2013)

The first teaser for Morbius (Espinosa, 2022), from 2020

ESKE - Off the Meds (aka The Morbin’ National Anthem), 2020

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Jesper Ohlsson

It literally doesn't matter what the topic is, when you have Jacob Bacharach on as a guest. You guys have such great catty/camp-gay-energy together. ....I have a weird memory-shard in my mind, of Jared Leto being on the Daily Show, promoting Dallas Buyer's Club, and being noticeably "off-key" in what you're supposed to say. ..I don't quite remember the exchange, but I think it was John Stewart talking about the thin frame that Leto had (in the sense that his physicality highlighted living with aids, or whatever, bladdeliblah), and Leto's response was this completely tone-deaf response along the lines of "yeah, I did look really thin and beautiful, like a model". It's neither here or there (and I don't care about either of them to fact-check this probably miss-remembered memory). ...But it was my first recognition that Jared Leto might be a genuinely vapid person, and someone who truly isn't aware about how he comes across. On the one hand, it's kinda interesting to have a celebrity that essentially gets treated like he's in his own Truman Show/Dunning–Kruger-public-display, but, on the other hand, it's also insufferable as an experience. Basically, when I think of Jared Leto, I think of him as an actor from"a fake movie within a real movie". He's the lead-role in a movie playing on a tv in the background of "Serial Mom." ...I feel like there's a lesser Stephen King/Twilight Zone-script somewhere in here.

Jesper Ohlsson

//I also really appreciated the "Flawless"-talk. I don't know when I watched it (in my mind-palace, I'm eternally 14 watching all these pre-00's movies), but I remember loving it. This was before Seymour really made it big, so it was (now that he's dead) so sweet to think about how seriously he took the role. Flawless came out in the late tail of the 90's, where gay (male) cinema had just barely gotten out of "everyone gets aids, waxes poetically about love and destiny, and dies beautifully before even sharing an-screen kiss", and were somewhere inbetween "but what about if god hates us, isn't it a sin or whatever, let's hang our entire movie on the premise of that assumed discomfort" and the realization of "...well, if we can't do aids-stories or jesus-struggle-sessions, what are gay movies? Do we just do gender-swap rom-coms?" Looking back on it, it was probably a movie ahead of its time, that got released in an era of "gay movies" pointlessly (now, after the fact) were chasing respectability points. ...even now, so many years later, it's probably one of the most honest portraits of drag/trans-life at the time outside of "Paris is Burning" that I can think of. What an absolute "I'm game for whatever"-treasure Seymour was.