Simply Cinema: Favorite scene from a favorite movie

Hello! Welcome. And welcome to Simplest Cinema. We are your hosts, Maximilian Simonelli and Dustin Braga. So Dustin, today we got kind of a full-packed episode. We do. A little specialty. We finally have two guests joining us today. Finally. First off, let me find it, guest camera two. There it is. We have, for his first time, Javier Correa. Woo-hoo! Correa. Sorry. And returning, Sarah Bien-Aimé. Let me see if we have your supers here. From Echoes of Us. There's one. Let's go. Javier, you're a 22 News photog. Sure am. And thank you for joining us today. That's my photog. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Let me see if I can merge all. Is that the right one? There it is. You got it. Dustin, that's why you're here, because we love the technology, ladies and gentlemen. So today we thought we would just take a look at some of our favorite films, specifically one scene from some of our favorite films. So why don't we start with our guests? Let's do it. Javier, you're the first time comer. Today we'll be talking about... Parasite by Bong Joon-ho. I got to say, I enjoyed watching this film when it came out. It's a very good movie. I didn't think it was going to win Best Picture, but it was good. That's good! It's all dessert. Yes, yes. Absolutely. I'd argue one of the best foreign films I've seen. Yeah. Yeah, this and Oldboy I think were really good. Yeah, I could say that. Yeah. So, you picked this scene. So, spoiler, if those of you who haven't seen the film, complete spoiler for all of you. Yeah, exactly. So, the scene where the... The poor family has kind of infiltrated the rich family's house, masquerading as, you know, a tutor, a driver, a maid, that kind of a thing. But now things are not going their way and they have to kind of sneak back to their own house, which has been since flooded. Right. Right. So you picked this scene. So tell us about the scene. I did. It was really hard to pick a specific scene. There are so many that are so good in this movie. But I stuck with that one more so. For the first half of that movie, up until that point, they've already, as you said, infiltrated the whole house. They've already figured out what everyone's going to be doing. They have their plan. Then when they're all relaxing, having this night out inside the house while the real family is out camping, it starts raining and everything. So when they have to quickly escape because the family comes home early, none of that was planned, for sure. Sure. So… I feel like it was kind of like a reminder Let me just start the video. Yeah. because it was like a really long scene of them going I'm going to come back and check if I'm going to be able to mute. I think so. down and down and down and down. Okay. And I'm going to go ahead and just start the video. Versus when you see anything in the house Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and start the video. like when the sun first enters the house Okay. Let's go. you see it's big, bright, wide Okay. So… open, green. And I think Okay. So… Okay. it's funny because I feel like for most of that part So… Okay. of them Making their way down, they're not So… Okay. So… clicking that water travels Okay. So… down. It's that one Okay. So… part of that scene where they're almost Okay. So… home and the son looks down at his feet Okay. So… and he sees all of the water rushing and it's practically covering his feet. That's where it clicks for him. And I feel like they were so focused on trying to make this new home their home they kind of forgot about everything. So it's like none of that, none of the Worries was happening until they almost made it home and they were like, wait. Yeah. And then they come home and see their whole house flooded. They thought like the hard part was behind them. It's kind of cathartic almost. Yeah. Okay. They are taking advantage of these rich people. The rich people are not great. Right. But this poor family got these jobs by lying to them. Right. And I thought, okay, now they come back and I go, this is kind of like, it's almost like karma. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I thought that's where the film was going to end. Like, oh, you got, but then it kept going. This film, I swear to God, I thought it was going to end like three separate times. I was like, oh, that's the ending. Oh, there's more. Oh, there's more. I go, okay. It kept me guessing. Yeah. Good little film though. It is. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. I felt like with them being so clouded of being so focused of trying to move into this brand new house, they're forgetting about, even though it's like really like a old rundown, they don't really have a lot of money to build this house or anything like that or furnish Mm-hm. You see, as soon as they go in, they start grabbing as much as they can, closing the windows, if anything. And then I feel like at one point you see the daughter kind of sit on the toilet and just kind of give up as she lights a cigarette. Right, right. And I love that the toilet was actually like on like a level. Like it was like you actually climb up some stairs on the thing, which was the one, I guess that was part of the idea of like, in case of a flood, this is still going to be possibly, I don't know. And that was one of the few parts of the house that wasn't underwater. Right, right. Yeah, no, it's, apparently it's a fantastic movie. Yeah, it really is. I think it's also just this big old allegory for classism. For sure. Because that was the one, I was talking to you about this, that was the one thing I remember watching the film going, I get that the rich family doesn't give the poor family a second thought. Right. But you have a father, a mother, a son, and a daughter. And posing as individual people, like not related. Right. How did the rich family not go? Yeah. Just probably. Did you ever notice how our driver looks like he could be the father of our daughter's tutor? Yeah. Yeah. He's up about that. they don't give it a second thought. Or even the part where the son is like, you guys smell the same. Exactly. Just for Disregarded. They're like, okay, go to your class. Yeah. He was the one that was like, oh, there's a similarity here. Yeah. I was like, how would they not? Like, if I got my family a job, they'd be like, you guys have to be related. Yeah. There's no way you guys. There's something. Yeah. I was actually talking to Javier earlier because I was saying like my similarity to when I was watching it. When I went to Belize, you know how you said this is like a forum film. In Belize, when we went, it was during the rainy season and they actually take advantage of the rainy season because it's so hot. And so they actually like that. So I'm just thinking like, what if it flooded? Would they still be okay with it or want to leave out and find another area and stuff like that too? It just makes me think of that too. How do they feel when this is all they have and where can they go next type of thing? You would think living in the area that they're in, it can't be a new circumstance to them. I wonder if it's supposed to be like they just got so used to like, oh, this is the high life. This is the wonderful life living in this mansion. I wonder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. And I like the... It was so hard to pick a scene, but I like the parallel because after you see that whole thing happen, they're in the shelter sleeping and then when it's morning, you click back to the rich family and you see the mom on the phone talking about how the rain was such a blessing and how we were so thankful for this rain and that we really needed it. And it's like that... They weren't even phased. Going back to the classism, they weren't phased about it because it didn't affect them. Right. Yeah. It's a deep movie. It is a really deep movie. It's a really good movie. Well acted all around. It has many layers. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, let's shift gears. So, Sarah, I saw this for the first time a few nights ago. It's a good movie. I actually really liked it. And two, we have here, Him. So not directed, but produced by Jordan Peele. Yes. And it totally felt like his movie. Yeah, kind of a little bit, yeah. Real quick, we've covered this before. Marlon Wayans can act. He can. He's a good actor. I was like, between Requiem for a Dream. Yeah, he's always doing like this. And I go, okay, that's good too. But I go, this guy's like legitimately really good. Yeah. Yeah. We also saw him in Requiem for a Dream. He can really act. Yeah. So this was an interesting little movie about... New kid on the block, new quarterback, possibly taking over his, you know, his idol from childhood is now his mentor, but he's really pushing him to the brink of like, no, you have to, you know, suffer for your art. And if you want to be the best, you have to make the ultimate sacrifice. And it just, it was a lot of surreal imagery. Yeah. Is this really happening? Right. Not, you know, so Sarah, your movie, talk about it. All right. So the reason why I picked this movie is because on Echoes of Us, we had Marlon Wayans come on as a guest. And actually, I don't know when this will be airing, but. November 14th, right? That was yesterday's date, right? That's today. Oh, it's the 13th or whatever. We went to go see Marlon Wayans at his comedy show in Lynn, Massachusetts. Nice. And you know how you guys say, like, he's a great actor. Sure. He's just a great dude. Yeah. Down at first, and like, it was like. Throughout the whole event, like, he just knew how to keep people on their toes, keep people laughing, but then also, like, keep people, like, learning more or whatever. So the reason why I picked this movie is because it's different from his other movies. And the part that I love the most was the beginning scene. You know, you see a young boy watching. Marlon was called Isaiah in the film. And all you see is the young boy's father telling him, like, you know. This is not verbatim, but you know, it's like, you know, this is, you know, basically telling him like to look at your future. This is how I want you to be and things of that sort. And I feel like a lot of times when we're younger, we're being pressured from like older adults or like people in our family who are way older than us that probably have their career set, but not the career they probably wanted. And they're like forcing younger folks to like. Make sure they get that dream that they always wanted and stuff. And as I was talking to Javier earlier, like the father wasn't even a former football coach, you know? Yeah, he's just a fan. So it's like you're pressuring a little boy for a dream that probably isn't really his. And it just, it's an eye-opener too. But I'm glad like he happened to find out that it is really his dream. But in the beginning, it doesn't seem like it was really his dream. Because then they cut ahead and the dad, honestly, was a Marine. Yeah. Or a soldier at least. I think. Who, like, died in the line of duty. He made the ultimate sacrifice. Now we have, like, this kind of pressure father figure, like, look what he did. It's like, well, now I have to match up to that and be the best football player. It's like, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's like a lot of pressure. Yeah. A lot of pressure. Yeah. And I don't think that's just like for guys. I feel like girls too. Sure. You know, coming from like a huge family. Oh, Emily. Tell us more. For me, I feel like my family, everybody was in the healthcare profession or so. So like going to college, it was like, oh, if you're not going to be a doctor or a lawyer or engineer, where are you going to be? And you know, the fact that I brought up like, oh, I want to work in news, be a news anchor, a news reporter, something like, is that possible? Is that money in there? You know? And now that I've made that dream, A reality. It's like, wow! But you're also a podcast host. Yeah. So, you know, you just define the odds. And I hope a lot of people look at that and do the same. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. It is a pretty cool scene. I really like how it's all edited together. Yes. It has some great cinematic dazzle to it for days. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That scene really kind of drives the film forward. Yeah, I agree. It's kind of the catalyst. Usually in film, the catalyst usually comes around maybe like the half hour into the movie. Yeah. But this is just catalyst right as we get... It doesn't waste any time. It only sets the tone. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I want to bring something up. So Javier told me that there was supposed to be or you told him that there was supposed to be two other endings. Yes, there's two separate endings. Please explain that because that was interesting when he was explaining it to me. So let me see if I can find it again. So they filmed a few different endings to this movie. I don't know if it was just a script thing or if they're like Maybe we're going to play around, test audiences, see which one really sticks to people. But let me see. Oh, yes, they're there. Two separate endings. So our original ending was... Cam, our main protagonist, because it's this whole cult thing where he's drinking Isaiah's blood to get the powers of the past. Pass on that warrior team. And then he just goes on a murder spree. And, uh... Good scene. It's a wild scene. But our first alternate ending was that Isaiah survives. He watches TV as Cam is shown to have won the Super Bowl for the Saviors, the football team that he was a part of, or trying to be a part of, revealing that Cam had signed the contract. And then the second ending was that Cam had joined another football team. And he managed to win the championship with them, seemingly without the help of any rituals or outside demonic force or drinking Isaiah's blood. And the film will end with Cam staring at a spinning football like he did in the first 10 minutes. That was the first part. When the guy hit him on the head and I was like, okay, spinning football. What's happening here? Just go with it. It would hint that despite not selling his soul, there's still unknown entities Driving him forward. Interesting. So interesting. Yeah. How did you find out? Are you just looking at Google? Because he's the man. Excuse me. I like to do a little deep dives into movies. Love that. And see what I can find out. Yeah. But yeah. Cool. That's cool. I guess him was a good movie. Good choice, Sarah. Thank you. I thought it was really interesting too. Like when you see Isaiah get injured on the screen, it feels like the dad cares more about the fact that the team won rather than that. The best player is injured. And then when he turns to his son's head to make sure he looks and watches it, that was a lot. When he gets injured, I go, the stitch mark looks kind of like the laces on a football. A little bit, yeah. I mean, yeah, definitely. I think they were going for that juxtaposition thing. Yeah. Well, why don't we take a very, very, very quick break. Sure thing. And then we'll come back with some more movies. With our choices. Stay tuned. And welcome back. Hey. So before we took a break, we were talking about some of our favorite movie scenes, scene here with Sarah. This is the one. This is the one. Yeah, we're right there. Sarah and Javier. So we covered Parasite, and we covered him, and now we're going to talk about our choices. Yes. So, Dustin, why don't you go ahead? We have your choice here. Yes. A little movie called Up. Yes. One of my favorite movies. In 2009, I believe. Yes, 2009. And Asner. This might be the most tearjerker of a Pixar movie. Yeah, the first ten minutes of this film gets everyone. They show the life of a couple that met in childhood, got married, grew old together, and sadly one of them passes away. So now we follow this man's life post the loss of his wife. And it's real. It's just a real depiction of love and loss. It's a depiction of love, loss, depression, acceptance. It's basically... You're going through the five stages of grief. Yeah. Right. You're seeing this man go through the five stages of grief. Yeah. Um, And it is a beautiful movie. yeah, One of my absolute favorites. Um, the scene I chose from Up is comes during kind of the end portion, um, where Carl at Asner's character, um, he's kind of at his wits end. He's trying to get his house, uh, that he built with Ellie, his wife over to paradise falls. It's just not working. There's so many things against him and he's just at. You know, his absolute desperate moment and yelling at Russell, uh, who's a little kid character there. Yeah. Um, who's not at fault. No, he's not at fault at all. And he's blaming this kid basically. Um, until he comes to the moment of where he calls him, like, it's never going to work Ellie. Yeah. And, and that slip you realize, Oh, he's not yelling at Russell. Yeah. He's mad at himself. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It really shows like the character's lowest moments. He even found out like his childhood icon. He's kind of a villain, really, and he's like, oh, I, like, worshipped this guy for, I don't know, 80-something years. Yeah, everything I know is wrong. It turns out when I actually meet him. Yeah, exactly. Never meet your heroes, is what they say. Exactly. So, again, it just shows him at his lowest point being at his wit's end, but then you realize, oh, he's not yelling at the kid. Yeah. That's just, that's a throwaway. He's yelling at himself. Yeah, he's mad at himself. But that allows him to, I guess, learn from his mistake and eventually... Kind of let the house go. Yeah. You know, and save the kid. Exactly. Yeah. That he's clinging too much to the past. Yeah. That he needs to actually let go. Yeah. And. Live his life. Really, yeah. I feel like a lot of the older generation is like that, though. Yelling at the younger generation, but they're actually yelling at themselves. I'm in the middle of... dream on, you know, sort of like never getting to do what one set out to do. That kind of thing. That goes with, I think, there's a little bit of that in every generation. Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. That's why we watch films, so we can learn and understand. We're so smart. We're so inquisitive. Oh, yeah. Someone intellectual. Sexual. Up is a great movie, though, really. It's probably, I'd say, top five Pixar movies of all time. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That's going to be tough. Yeah. But definitely up there for sure. Yeah. It's like that first 10-minute segment, like you were saying, right in the beginning. Yeah. Before it even gets to what the rest of the film was about. You're already like a bunch of balloons. Yeah. Yeah. Good movie. Yeah. It's amazing. Last but not least, I'll choose. I wanted to say I was very tempted to pick Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, but I already subjected him to that, so I didn't want you guys to do that, too. I think we've seen from our childhood scene here Spider-Man from 2002 starring Tobey Maguire. I'm going to die on this hill. I'd say still best superhero film ever made. Wow. Oh, best superhero film. Best Spider-Man film. Done. Best superhero film. I thought you were going to say best Spider-Man film. It is that, too. I agree. But I think best superhero film. And I'll tell you why. Because the scene I'm going to talk about is actually a portion from this image we have here. I feel this is the quintessential superhero scene. They're having a parade, everything's going great, the Green Goblin attacks, the villain from out of nowhere, the hero sees that he's causing all this destruction, they even steal the moment from Superman where he has to rip open the shirt revealing the costume underneath, the damsel in distress is also the woman he loves, he has to save her, Goblin has a couple of one-liners, they have some fighting, she actually helps him a little bit, she's like, you know, watch out, he gets to save the day a little bit, and then he even gets, let me see, as the Goblin is fleeing, Defeated, even, you know, screams out, we'll meet again, Spider-Man. So you know that there's a setup there. Of course. Damsel falls, he jumps after her, he catches her, they swing off, sort of into the sunset. It's the middle of the day, it's not really the sunset. That beautiful score from Danny Elfman, music swells. Yeah. You know, he doesn't tell her who he is, even though he has the perfect chance. I just think that every box is checked in what a superhero scene is supposed to be. Sure. That to me is like, this is what a superhero movie is supposed to be. I feel like we've lost a little bit of that today. Marvel is kind of changed. It's got a different route. Because it had to. You can't just do the same thing over and over. But I don't know. I'm like, this was the golden era. This was when it was perfection, in my opinion. Yeah. So, let's discuss. Yes. When I watched it, though, I was thinking, like, Spider-Man took too long to start saving people. Like, why is he taking so long? Maybe it's just the movie edits and all of that. But that was my opinion. That's fair. Fair, that's fair. It's like he had to watch a little bit. I've been like, like, They pin it. It's like, I need to do something. He's like, Something bad is happening. It's like, okay, do something. And then the slow-mo of the ripping up. And even at that moment of the one extra being like, it's Spider-Man! Yeah, he's going to dance. Nailed that one take. I got one line in the movie. Thank you very much. It's Spider-Man, and she got for everything it's worth. I wonder how much she got paid for that. I know, right? Right. It's like. Bringing the family to the movie, I mean, one split second. There I am, there I am. But yeah, I don't know. Like I said, I think it's the... It's the best scene. I like the fact of the amount of practical that was introduced for that scene because it's I don't think it's not Times Square, but it's Big area of New York that you see. It's very wide. A lot of wide shots. A lot of actual extras, too. Yeah. But the part where, like, that balcony part starts getting blown up and Mary Jane's slowly falling. I thought it was so cool when I learned growing up, like, that was done practically. Right. They had the pieces move and everything. Just really, really cool. And, like, all the costumes are real and everything. I've read about this before, that they overuse CGI these days. Like, now it's like Tom Holland will be Spider-Man. He's standing still delivering dialogue. His face is real. The suit, the background, everything is... And you know it's fake. It might look pristine, but you know that it's fake. Whereas you watch this one, I go, Toby's standing there in a knit outfit that's real, talking to a person that is there. So I don't know. It just harkens back. I watch it now, I think it still holds up. That's what it is. Sure. Minus the skeleton part. Minus the skeleton part. I go, wait a minute, how did that... That goes over your head as a kid. Oh, it's a bad guy. He's got a weapon. I watch it now going... How does that even work? How do you even do that? It's everything except the bone. Except, yeah. Yeah. Basically, yeah. But, I don't know. I watch it. I still think it's the best. It is a fantastic movie. I get a lot of enjoyment out of this one. Yeah. Most people say the second one is the best. I respectfully disagree. I think one is still superior. I feel like it's a really close. It is really close. Very, very close. I grant you, but I don't know. I was surprised at the movies you guys chose. I thought you guys were going to choose like something more complicated for us than I talk about. Like I said, the idea of today's episode was I wanted it to be like, we can do like an in-depth, like I feel the protagonist's journey was flushed out after the cathartic incident. Or we can just say, don't you love that scene? Oh, and that guy said that line. I love that, you know. I appreciate it. No, bro. You should find the right. Sarah, you can keep up with us. Don't doubt us. Yeah. You picked a good movie too. Thank you. We're going to have to watch Pretty in Pink or something. I was thinking of White Chicks. Oh, my gosh. Everybody has seen it. You know what's crazy with White Chicks? He's planning on having a part two. Oh, is he? Oh, no. There's always a... I'm just saying... It's just the fact that it's like they're just giving sequels to everything. Yeah. You know what I mean? True, and not all of it deserves it. Yeah. Michael Mann's making Heat 2. Yeah. And I'm like, that movie's contained in itself. This doesn't mean that, you know. Like, I'll see. It's not a choice. But I'm just like, legacy sequels, for the most part, I feel don't hit the mark. Because they're trying to follow up to, oh, this film actually hit it out of the park. So now you have this huge reputation to follow. Anything is going to feel like a letdown. Right, right, right. I'll give White Chicks 2 a chance. We'll see. We'll see. So it was Marlon Wayans. Him. White chicks, him, white chicks, yeah. It was interesting to see him in that movie because I always associated him with comedy. Yes. And then I was very surprised when you picked it because it's technically horror drama. I know, I didn't know that yet. So I was like, oh, wow, interesting. But I like the variety of movies that we have. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely, yeah. We're going to take a quick break. Sure thing. We'll be right back and do some quick bites. All right. Stay tuned. All right. And welcome back. Welcome. So, as always, thank you for joining us today. We were talking about some of our favorite movies and favorite movie scenes specifically with our guests, returning champions Sarah B. Aname and newcomer Javier. We thank you very much for being with us today. Yes, thank you. And we'd love to have you back. Oh, he will be back for sure. Oh, yeah, he needs to be back. Thank you for introducing us. Yeah. You're definitely going to be, you're a good fit for the show. Yeah. And Siri, you're good, too. Thank you, I appreciate it. You can come back. If we have time for extra, one more. Yeah, that's right. Well, thank you all for tuning in. We'll be back next week with some a tribute episode. Yes. Stick around for that one. Until then, watch movies. Always watch movies. See you. Bye-bye.