Ryan McNeil
Fair warning folks: There were a few gremlins in the works when this episode was laid down. Nothing about this episode feels inaudible to me, but there is a recurring hiccup with my mic where my voice flares up now and then for the briefest of moments (I’m blaming a loose/bad cable). Then, as if to really make me feel dumb, the cable gives out altogether and what you hear comes from my laptop’s on-board mic.
Oddly enough, the on-board mic sounds pretty good! But since said mic is pretty close to the laptop’s speakers, you can hear a weird echo with my guest’s audio.
Again, not inaudible, but not exactly what I’d call “up to standards”. I’ll have everything fixed by next time, I swear.
As for this episode, it was a fun discussion…helped in large part, I’m sure, by the fact that this time around we aren’t discussing missing spouses, sociopathic journalists, or the astrophysics involved with spacetime. Sometimes, you just need to hit record and talk about a cartoon!
Here’s what’s in store in episode one-hundred-and-twenty-four…
Runtime
82 minutes
Up for Discussion
1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest, Kristin Griffin Phelps (3:10)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding some listener feedback on animated movies we want (17:08)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to BIG HERO 6 (29:36)
5. THE OTHER SIDE – Kristin couples I, ROBOT (55:15)
6. THE OTHER SIDE – Ryan couples THE INCREDIBLES (1:06:04)
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Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.
Enjoy!
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Thanks so much for having me on your podcast, Ryan! I had an awesome time chatting up Big Hero 6 and animated films with you!
Now I’m just dying to know whether or not you’ll be checking out Something Borrowed and The House Bunny! Ha!
Sounds interesting, but I still can’t get excited about animation.
Two comic actors in straight roles that really stood out for me were: Steve Martin in the The Spanish Prisoner and Bill Murray in Mad Dog and Glory. Or going the other way a serious actor in a great comic role Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel. I knew he could be funny after In Bruges but I had no idea how funny.
One serious actor in a great comic role: Isabelle Huppert in 8 Women. The film, which Roger Ebert rightfully called “the first Agatha Christie musical”, revolves around an eccentric family, as they gather to celebrate Christmas in an isolated cottage only to find Marcel, the family patriarch, dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect. Huppert plays the deceased’s sister-in-law and she is AMAZING, shooting acerbic one liners, nailing her character’s incredibly ridiculous rants and holding her own in a one-to-one with Catherine Deneuve who in here plays her sister. I recommend it to everyone as a double feature with The Piano Teacher.