Ryan McNeil
This makes two episodes in a row recorded at the homestead. I could get used to this! Now if only I could get that pesky air conditioner to run a little quieter.
Apologies in advance if that annoys any listeners, but I think I’ve done a decent job of lessening the sound in post-production.
I mention this off the top of the show, but if you’ll indulge me: I’d like to rause the profile of the show a bit in iTunes, and the best way to do that is through comments and ratings. So if you have a moment to go over to the iTunes store, I’d love a rating and a few words – Canadian listeners especially. To my American listeners, thanks a mil for all the great ratings and comments already.
Here’s what’s in store in episode ninety-seven…
Runtime
70 minutes
Up for Discussion
1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest Tim Rideout from The Mind Reels (4:02)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding some listener feedback on misleading trailers (14:36)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (25:33)
5. THE OTHER SIDE – Tim couples JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO (44:42)
6. THE OTHER SIDE – Ryan couples DOG DAY AFTERNOON (56:36)
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Lulz I’ve never been to Mumbai :’)
I think you know that my Disney knowledge is sort of lacking. Last year, when I did my Animation Movie Month, I did catch up with a number of them though and I was absolutely freaked out by Jumbo. I found it to be one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen and I am fairly sure it would have frightened me shitless as a kid. Especially the whole hallucination scene with the flying elephants- who puts that in a children’s movie?!!!! Walt Disney was weird.
How the fuck did I end up saying that?
My brain must have been working too fast and combining Dubai (which I know you’re not in right now) and India (where I picked the city that sounded like “Dubai”). What’s wrong with me?
Sorry Nik…but hey – thanks for listening!
I meant Dumbo :/ :/
I always forget to rate podcasts, but I promise I’ll head right over to iTunes. Cool episode, I’m just psyched to watch Captain Phillips, and I have been ever since I saw the trailer. Especially because it seemed like there was no typical (well, it’s not that typical anymore, but what used to be typical) racist view of the foreign capturers.
As for your question: There are lots of Walt Disney movies that have some scary elements, especially when you’re a kid. Not that I dislike that aspect. The one Disney movie that I have most scary memories of is Alice in Wonderland, which I swear I only saw once. That weird world was just too much for me. Now that I think of it, Pinocchio also always seemed very scary to me which is why I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it.
Go me totally posted this in the wrong post the first time.
You were correct in that last time was my first time answering a question.
The Disney question is easy and it is a scene that still works and is terrifying to this day. The Donkey scene in Pinocchio.
I’m too late to this Come Talk to Me, but my answer would’ve been the same as Rick’s. The donkey part in Pinocchio may have begun a deep-seated fear I had as a child of turning into something non-human. That concept still freaks me out a lot.
The other one, but it isn’t animated, would be White Fang. I was about 10 when that came out, old enough that it shouldn’t have scared me, but we didn’t go to theatres hardly at all when I was young, so the giant picture and loud sound already had me on edge, and then when the dead guy’s coffin fell down the hill and broke open, revealing the frozen dead guy inside, I was done. This is about seven minutes into the movie or something like that. I don’t remember going to theatre again for about three years – for The Lion King, probably. I was fine in that one.
I’ve honestly never thought of the Disney movies as being particularly scary. Perhaps I was too old when I watched most of them.
But there is one that comes to mind: The Jungle Book. There are a couple of truly creepy villains in it: Khaa and Shere Khan. And the ones that aren’t exactly villains are still frightening, like the scene with the crazy, unpredictable King Louie. While there of course is a lot of joy in this film, it still manages to capture the vulnerability of the child as Mowgli confronts the dangers of the jungle, an image of what we all risk to meet once we leave our homes and start exploring the world. At heart it’s a coming-of-age-story. Scary stuff indeed.