10. 50MPH (Kris Tapley)
A celebration of Speed reaching 30 which encompassed so much more about cinema, storytelling & the 1990s. A terrific podcast project.
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Wishing SPEED a happy 30th anniversary with the series finale of 50 MPH! Pop the cork in celebrating the conclusion of a year-long project and settle in for the story behind it all.
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Next week on 50 MPH…
There are two ways to do this. You can listen to the episode like a normal podcast, which features the audio from the film along with the commentary, or you can download the commentary-only track (link below) and fire up the movie on your end.
Enjoy!
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It’s the official 50 MPH commentary track for SPEED! What better way to recap the year than watching along with your humble host, @kristapley, as he tosses out facts and figures while directing you to this or that episode along the way?
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"This movie shouldn't be compelling! It's about courtrooms and corporate malfeasance, tobacco scientists and news guys — and it's crackling. And it leaves you in a place of intense emotion and feeling for this character that you followed the whole time."
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"This film could have been a huge folly, and I think it's, instead, maybe the greatest war film ever made. It's this perfect fusion of Malick's spiritual and kind of ecological interests. I think it's one of the greatest movies of all time."
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"It's this noir pastiche, basically, that never feels pastiche-y. It never feels like they're playing kind of dress-up. It's completely immersed in the style and the rules and the tropes of that genre and plays by them perfectly, but surprisingly, still."
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"I was absolutely mesmerized by this story of connection and human isolation between two souls brought together at random. And the kind of color-coding of it, that a film could use visuals as a kind of language and in such thematic ways."
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"It's this sprawling, Altman-esque kind of thing, but it's so infused with who Linklater is. You really feel like a filmmaker is in there talking to you. And he found something special and true and beautiful about nostalgia to work into this movie."
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"It has the greatest film editing we've ever seen in a movie, some of the best cinematography we've ever seen in a movie. Whatever one might think of the content, there's just something about the power of the image and the power of montage in that movie."
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We’ve charted SPEED’s place among the top action movies and debuts of the ‘90s. Now the discussion turns to the decade’s best films, period, as Variety and Guardian film critic Guy Lodge joins the cause for a year-by-year assessment.
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"I find this movie so emotional that it just sort of reduces me to this day. It’s about fighting for your dreams and breaking boundaries and becoming more than what you were supposed to be. It blows me away.”
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"The primal quality that made cinema, cinema for the last 100 years is people asking that question, 'What is going to happen next?' That addiction to storytelling is the engine of cinema, and that’s what Quentin Tarantino brought back in this film."
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"KEVIN'S GATE, if you will. But I think he showed everyone on that score. I think it gets too much hate largely because of what it beat at the Oscars. It’s just assured filmmaking and I miss this kind of thing."
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“There’s something economical and taut that feels like such a rarity today when I look at this movie. It’s so cool to see all the style that they’re going to apply to THE MATRIX, applied to something this boiled-down.”
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“I thought David Fincher made a remarkable choice. It is suffused with this real horror and kind of shivery dread, but it’s less of a propulsive horror ride than either of the first two. It is a real art film: slow, brooding, quiet.”
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Continuing a three-week analysis of the ‘90s and SPEED’s place among the era’s most indelible movies, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleibefman joins in to discuss the best directorial debuts of the decade!
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"You can view this movie as really pulpy, but I think Ed Harris and David Morse’s performances as these conflicted generals transcend summer silliness and turn this movie into a piece of actual legitimate political cinema."
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"This is just a film that encapsulates the bombastic madness and excess of ‘90s action cinema. It’s gleefully disreputable, a movie that is just a big bucket of popcorn flying at you at 100 miles an hour."
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“It’s interesting that the ‘80s are the classical era in action filmmaking and the ‘90s are postclassical, because my two picks for number 10 are what I would consider two great subversions and analyses of the action genre.”
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Are you ready for three weeks of '90s natter? We begin with Philip Gawthorne and Liam Billingham, hosts of the Die Hard on a Blank podcast, as they help us count down the decade's best action movies! (Bonus debate: What even IS an action movie?)
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Buckle up as we SPEED to the finish line.
Keanu Reeves: "Let's talk about the fire of Jan de Bont. His dedication and his perseverance and his energy and the inventiveness that he brought to the project."
Sandra Bullock: "It’s because of Jan that I have, probably, my career."
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"He’s so brave. It’s so much fun to watch what he gets into next, because you know the last thing that he finished is not going to be anything like the next thing that he starts."
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Keanu Reeves on Dennis Hopper: "He was so good. You feel like, when you’re acting with him, it’s almost improvisational. But he’s so on script, and so ridiculously absurd and fantastic. But he was never condescending to the material."
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"All of the artists and the crafts people who worked on it, there was a warmth to everyone and a sincerity, and I think that in the fun, in the high-concept, the highbrow/lowbrow of the film, that quality emanates from the film."
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In an exclusive interview, the stars of SPEED, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, talk about taking on a crazy premise, generating sparks together on screen, the film's legacy 30 years later and the "siren call" of one more collaboration.
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"Well, I kind of liked it, but kind of not. It barely has bombs! It’s just a bad guy that’s trying to make a boat run into another boat. It’s barely even like SPEED."
Where's the lie?
(P.S.: Those are the clay pigeons Alex Shaw shoots. Randomly.)
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"Things change. Fashion changes. Movies are of their time. SPEED is of its time. It advanced upon everything, that era of American action movies, and I think it pushed it to the next level. It’s just such a wonderful ride."
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