ACTION-PACKED SUMMER: Con Air (w/ Claudia!)
“Put the bunny back in the box.”
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of racism, transphobia, imprisonment and offensive tropes, toxic masculinity, murder, rape, death, plane crashes.
Claudia Elvidge, creator of The Beacon, joins us this week for a discussion of a film renowned for its bonkers quotient. You know, that point where an objectively not great movie suddenly becomes awesome just by the sheer force of will of its cast and crew. This movie is one of the best examples of that phenomenon, bursting with incredibly talented actors across the board being asked to say and do ridiculous things. I mean, your three leads for this film are Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, and John Malkovich, all playing very against type at this point, and all going for broke even though the roles may or may not be right for them. There’s a very, very weird alchemy going on in this movie: its premise is enough to render the entire movie unbelievable, it’s got terrible dialogue and pretty big plotholes, and the director is all over the map on how he’s filming things. But it oddly works - it might be garbage, but it’s really, really fun garbage. We’re watching Con Air on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Con Air Theme,” composed by Mark Mancina and Trevor Rabin and conducted by Gordon Goodwin and Nick Glennie-Smith. Copyright 1997 Hollywood Records, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Clips taken from the film Con Air are © 1997 Buena Vista Entertainment.
Clip taken from the film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is © 2019 Visiona Romantica , Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from “How Do I Live,” written by Diane Warren and performed by Trisha Yearwood. Copyright 1997 MCA Records Nashville, a division of MCA Records, Inc.
