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Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga
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In this episode, Go Get Your Girl hops a giant hamster wheel straight into Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga, the Netflix fever dream where national pride, questionable accents, and pop anthems collide. We break down Lars and Sigrit’s journey from tiny Icelandic town to the world’s campy stage, asking the big questions: Is “Ja Ja Ding Dong” the greatest song ever written? Did the elves go too far? and where is our spin off movie staring Mita and Lamtov living their best gay lives.
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Transcript
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I'll bring it up later.
Introduction and Weather Talk
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I know what you're going to say, yeah. Yeah. Well, how are you doing? How's life? I'm doing great. Everything is wonderful. a beautiful day. Happy Year. Yeah. What beautiful day. um it's ah It's like 42 degrees outside and it's about 80 degrees inside my apartment for some fucking reason.
00:00:25
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do you have a window open? Uh, no, I should. I should just open a window. That's what I should do. I mean, you don't pay for it. Entertain people. Yeah, I mean, open a window.
00:00:36
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la la la, this is me entertaining you. That's the extent of my
Song Lyrics and Humor
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entertainment. I can go, ya ya, ding dong. Something, something, something, something, something. Ya ya, ding dong.
00:00:54
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Yeah, I, I. I immediately forgot how Yaya Ding Dong went. Right? Oh, man. But it's so catchy. It's such a catchy song. All of these songs. I mean, that's why they demand it. know. Yaya Ding Dong. Do you want hear the Eurovision song? No. No. Yaya Ding Dong.
00:01:15
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Yaya Ding Dong. Yaya Ding Dong. My love for you grows wide and strong. That's what he says. yeah yeah yeah Or she says, yeah. Yeah, ah and there's like something about the ah i want to spill my love on you ah all night long.
00:01:29
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yeah. um funny story about that uh i had it stuck in my head when we were visiting charlie's family few christmas ago think i they want to say and so i kept singing it and charlie was like you can't sing that around the children i was like why it's like a fun catchy song repeat it yeah and and charlie was like because it's really dirty was like what do are you talking about and so like we were sat there with his mom and i was like it's not dirty and i started reading the lyrics out loud i was like oh well you didn't realize that that was what the joke was Yeah, no, I thought it was just catchy. It was like, ah it's a yeah, you're so innocent. So innocent. I was like, no, it's just yeah. Yeah. Ding dong.
00:02:08
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Yeah. Yeah. dong. Did you think that like the 1950s song, my dingaling was also like just about. What? Funny words. Do you know the song? My dingaling. Yeah.
00:02:19
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but I like to play with my dingaling. It's about his dick. what What? What are you joking? No, actually. I had no idea. Yeah, it's ah Chuck Berry, right? Yeah. tre bear Okay, 1972. So not not the 50s, but yeah, it's definitely about his dick.
00:02:38
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Oh, no.
00:02:41
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When I was a little boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy, silver bells hanging on a string. She told me it was my ding-a-ling. Oh. I like to play with my ding-a-ling. I want you to play with my ding-a-ling.
00:02:54
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oh yeah. I was at school, they caught me playing with my ding-a-ling. Oh, dear. I guess I never really listened to the lyrics that closely. huh Yeah.
00:03:05
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Whoops-a-day Zeus.
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um I did.
Music Choices and Podcast Introduction
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ah Oh my God. Oh, I was listening to another podcast the other day and it was, ah they were talking about how they had to explain to their kids because their kids are really into Sabrina Carpenter.
00:03:24
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And they were like, they were singing Tears, the lyrics to Tears, which is super slutty. um that's A Sabrina Carpenter song? That's shocking. yeah Yeah, right?
00:03:35
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um I get wet from the thought of you ah being a considerate guy. And so they had to explain to their kids what getting wet meant. Oh no. Wow. Right.
00:03:46
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Right. So like, it's a constant thing, you know? And like, that song will come on all the time at the bridal store. And we'll be like, well, I'm going to change it. Oh yeah. Whoops. it is Do you just have like a streaming at the bridal store?
00:04:01
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Yeah, we just have Spotify and we just listen to Spotify playlist. But yeah, the other day at work, i ah we were it was like the day, it was January 3rd and we were all still so wiped because everybody and their mom's trying to get in for appointments before they go back to school and go back to or of that fun stuff. And like...
00:04:21
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all of that fun stuff and so like i we were I walked in and I was just like, we gotta put on something that brings people joy. So my friend Bona and I was like, boy bands! So we put on boy bands on Spotify, but then after it like runs through the playlist, it'll just like curate music that's like, like it.
00:04:38
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So then it just started playing millennial hits, so like, Pony by Genuine came on yeah and you know, like, all the clubbing hits from 2009.
00:04:50
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um But we were all dancing our hearts away, so That's all that matters. I'm glad you have fun at work. I don't. Oh, sorry. You need a new fucking job.
00:05:01
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Yeah, you do. It's fine. Yeah. ah New fucking jobs. What a segue. Sort of, yeah. Sort of. ah That's right, guys. You guessed it. ah This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where and Katie are two aspiring musicians.
00:05:20
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Who are in a I'm going to make us conjoined twins again, because otherwise I'd have to make us fall in love. And then that's weird. So we're, we're conjoined twins in this scenario. Yeah.
00:05:31
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Who are in a band with their best friend from childhood. And their friend from childhood is obsessed with the Eurovision song contest. And because it is the one thing that brought them joy as a child. And it is something that brought you joy as a child.
00:05:48
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And so their best friend's dream is to get on the Eurovision Song Contest. And we just go along with whatever they say. And so we write a song and somehow we get picked to be in Iceland. Oh, yeah, because we're Icelandic.
00:06:02
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Iceland's finalists. And we humiliate ourselves, unfortunately, at the Iceland finals. ah However, we look out because...
00:06:13
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We asked the elves very nicely. And um corporate espionage is going on. And all of the winners that would have gone to the Eurovision Song Contest get blown up.
00:06:24
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So we get to go. And... extremely long. And escapades and adventures ensue all along the way of us singing catchy as hell music and having so many cameos from actual Eurovision Song Contest winners and finalists. And it's super fun and dumb. And ah we fall in love and we sing a song in Icelandic and everyone's like, yes, that's that's magic. But we're disqualified because it's not the song we entered into the Eurovision Song Contest. So, i ah yeah. and But we fall in love along the way.
00:07:00
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ah thats With our best friend. That's right, guys. I'm Emma. And I'm Katie. And that was Eurovision ah Song Contest. The Fire Story. The fight get the story of Fire Saga.
00:07:13
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Fire Saga. The end. Bye. Shortest episode ever. Fire Saga. um ah Yes. So the name. oh God. I think the name of the movie is.
00:07:26
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The Eurovision, it's Eurovision colon Fire Saga. It is more than that, I believe. Hold on. Really? It's, it's, yeah, it's Eurovision Song Contest colon the story of Fire Saga. Oh, I always just thought it was Eurovision colon Fire Saga. with That would make a lot more sense. But unfortunately, i'm sure I think Eurovision Song Contest is a trademarked name. Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
00:07:54
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That makes sense. And this is this bizarre movie.
Eurovision Movie Insights
00:07:59
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love it so fucking much. ah From 2020. Yes, it is. it is directed by David Dobkin, who ah directed... um hold on, I've lost my notes. ah David Dobkin directed Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus, ah The Judge, um a bunch of terrible movies, basically. Yeah.
00:08:21
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ah And it's written by will Ferrell and Harper Steele. um ah Who Will Ferrell, of course, wrote. He has screenplay credits on Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Step Brothers.
00:08:35
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And then Harper Steele was a Saturday Night Live writer who's Will Ferrell's best friend. And they made the documentary together, Will and Harper, couple of years ago. That I asked you if you would watch and you said, why would I put myself through that? um Yeah, I haven't seen it, but i'm I'm happy for them. Yeah. Yeah. It's a great documentary. I cried a lot, but also I understand why you won't watch it. Yeah.
00:08:57
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Um, but she has a story. She has a writing credit on the ladies man movie with Tim Meadows in addition to a bunch of, ah Saturday night live stuff. And they're both hilarious. Um, uh, sure. Um, if you say so. So this movie, um, is based on, so Will Ferrell's wife, who presumably has a name. Um, she's very Swedish is Swedish, which I didn't know that Vivica pollen pollen. And she's like influenced a big chunk of his like later career.
00:09:34
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for Yeah, I mean, she's a um yeah she's a a producer. um She's a um she nominated for Best Picture, right? oh um Moonlight.
00:09:45
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Is it Moonlight? No, i'm it's just I just threw out the first Oscar winner picture that I thought of. um ah Yeah, because she runs Gloria Sanchez. She's not who I'm thinking of. Who runs Gloria Sanchez?
00:10:03
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productions because they did hustlers they did barb and star go to vista del mar oh oh it's his assistant it was not his wife oh she was will ferrell's assistant and she founded gloria sanchez productions which is a female focused production company as opposed to gary sanchez productions which is will ferrell's production company yeah um But yeah, they um they did Booksmart, Hustlers. They did this. um
00:10:35
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But ah May, December is what they got nominated for an Oscar for. ah They did May, December. yeah Oh, shit. OK. Yeah. i really like what Gloria Sanchez Productions does. Every time I see it, I'm just like, this is going to funny.
00:10:50
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Yeah, Sleeping With Other People, um one of my favorite rom-coms of the past, you know, 10 years or so. um we'll We'll do that on the show eventually. It's great.
Eurovision Song Contest Overview
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Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie. Yeah.
00:11:01
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been on my list and I still have never seen it. I've sort of been waiting for us to do it on the pod. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. um So, yeah, they... I've seen it god up a pavilion times. Oh, dear. This is the second time I've seen this movie. I love this movie so much.
00:11:16
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um He got obsessed with Eurovision because he was, I think, with his wife's family and they were watching it. yes And then he got really into it, which is like probably what to you, right?
00:11:28
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Yeah. So here's a little background for Americans who don't know what Eurovision is. Um, Eurovision is an international song contest where as of now, pretty much everyone but America, uh, can participate because they have allowed Australia to participate.
00:11:47
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Um, and, uh, it's, it's supposed to be just across Europe. Um, but it is a contest, which in its origins was ask every single country to put up an original song.
00:12:03
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and then have them all pick performers to perform said song. And then everybody votes on it and decides what the best song in Europe is. um What it has turned into is a fabulous, wonderful display of opulence, camp, and fabulousness. um It is now...
00:12:24
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There are so many gimmicks and things that this movie like but pays homage to and um is just... I love so much. like The first year i watched it, I watched it for the first time in 2012.
00:12:39
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And it is traditional. only You mean 2020? Oh, Eurovision. Eurovision, the contest. Eurovision, the actual contest. Because I had no idea what it was. And um you have a party.
00:12:51
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And you have your friends over. And you like you can do like little like snacks from every country. And you know especially if you have like a bunch of international friends, everyone will like have their countries that they're voting for.
00:13:02
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or like rooting for. um And you watch the song contest. Like kind of like an Oscar party. um Very similar to an Oscars party, actually. ah And it it's just like super fun and dumb. And the first year that i watched it, Lorene won for um Euphoria, which is a fantastic song.
Eurovision Party Memories
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And ah I love it so much.
00:13:26
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ah Go listen to it. But my favorite act that year was the um little Ukrainian grandmothers.
00:13:37
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who were just singing, we like to party, party in their little babushkas and traditional outfits. And they were all about 85 and they just stood around going, we like to party, party. We like to party, party. We like to party, party. It's just fabulous. um I mean, you you'll see in this movie, there is a um heavy metal sort of like pop singer thing that's based on like an actual act. There's several acts that are like,
00:14:07
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actually make cameos in this movie like several people that have actually won the song contest or have cameos yeah there's a whole like you can tell from um from like the camera lingering on them it's like showing you like you're supposed to know who this person is it's much like a marvel movie where like suddenly there's like a janitor who like puts a mask on and you're like you're supposed to know who this is right well every time they get to conchita i'm going conchita Yes. that's the only That's the only person I knew, i recognized, yeah. Yeah, and Will Ferrell was there the year that um they won, which yeah I think is fantastic and maybe why they have that really beautiful moment.
00:14:47
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um but ah But, yeah, it's Charlie after this. I was last night went to bed and he's like, well, now I've got to watch Microsoft Man.
00:14:57
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i was like, what do you mean Microsoft? Windows 95 Man. Windows 95 Man. Yeah. He sent it to me. Did he? Did you watch it? Yes. Yes. So Windows 95 Man was a Finnish entry from ah God knows when in the past recently, the past few years, I suppose. Yeah.
00:15:14
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And he's singing a truly awful song. um But mostly the point is he's wearing a Windows 95 hat, a Windows 95 T-shirt, and nothing else. Yep.
00:15:26
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And the conceit of the performance is that his hog keeps being covered up by various things. Yeah. And interestingly, to be named Windows 95 Man, the Windows 95 logo on his shirt and hat have to be blurred out for copyright reasons. But his name is Windows 95 Man. Yes.
00:15:46
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yes so good So you can call yourself that, but you can't have the logo on the screen. apparently Charlie has just texted me. He said other famous acts. I mean, along with all of these, he sent me somebody else. Yeah. Right. write Yeah. Recording. i haven't watched it.
00:16:02
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There's a lot of campy performances, but you do also get a lot of really famous acts. It's how ABBA got their breakout. We discussed on the Mamma Mia episode. Exactly. um It's how Man of Skin a few years ago got their breakout.
00:16:16
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Celine Dion. ah Well, Celine Dion was already famous, I think, right? Yeah, but she she was famous as a child. Yeah. And she also, she sang the song for Switzerland, which is like, that's not where she's from. Yeah. Right? i mean, the people who wrote the song were Swiss, but it's written, um it's in French, which, you know, they speak French in Switzerland. Yes.
00:16:36
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Charlie, we got to the form of Switzerland. Yeah. They just got Celine Dion to sing it. That seems like cheating, Switzerland. Right. Right. Because, like, are you really listening to the lyrics if Celine Dion's Beautiful Pipes are... that's ah That's two strikes on Switzerland, as far as I'm concerned. Not standing up to the Nazis, that's strike one.
00:16:54
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so Getting a ah ringer as Celine Dion for the Eurovision contest, that's strike two. You're on notice, Switzerland. Right. Yeah. Don't get a third strike. um But yeah, there are some really beautiful performances. i mean, like a few years ago, i want to say in like 2015, because I became obsessed with watching it every year, as you shall when you watch it, because it's super fun. won't.
00:17:19
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It's super fun and dumb. And ah the best is to watch it with Graham Norton's commentary, which is why he's in this movie, because he does the most fabulous um and like just bitchy commentary. love Graham Norton, yeah. i love Graham Norton.
00:17:33
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um But you have to be in the UK for that. And ah like a few years ago, there was a really beautiful song. um i want to say that it was from Norway and they had this really beautiful sort of animation behind projection behind the performer.
00:17:50
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um Years ago, Ukraine won with a beautiful song about the conflict. um it There's a lot of really amazing performers that do come out of it. But then every now and again, you get the fun camp ones to sort of fill the time, which sure yeah yeah yeah we love. The people dressed as monsters that were in um in this, I assume that was a ah a real thing as well. Oh, yeah.
00:18:14
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Yeah. Yeah. um That's what I think. What did Charlie Spade? always ask him. I'm like, what are your favorite Eurovision performances? And he goes, you ask me this every time and you never remember. And I think he said, um heavy metal. Hallelujah. or Hard rock. Hallelujah. That's the one he sent me. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:30
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Yeah. ah Hard rock. Hallelujah. I, um, Lordy. and This is also Finnish. Yeah. Oh, yeah. that's the That's the band. That's the guy from them from the movie. Yeah, he's in the movie. Yeah.
00:18:43
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, I mean, it's just... We introduced Friends of the Pod, Nick and Madison, to this one year um when our friend Mark came over um because he's here for a work trip and he was staying at the Witt Hotel.
Iceland in Eurovision Movie
00:18:57
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And so we all went to his fancy hotel room and we just all watched Eurovision. Sure, sure. And it was the most fun. Yes. so this movie takes place.
00:19:11
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um yeah Well, I mean, most of it takes place in Scotland, actually, but they are from Iceland. ah The movie was shot in Iceland ah and Scotland on location. yeah And they um they got some money from Iceland. I don't know if they like...
00:19:28
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I don't know if they were like casting out to various places, like how who will give us money to have this movie set in this country? Yeah, but Iceland has never won. So I think that's part of it. Yeah. um It's interesting because like when we were kids, I think the Mighty Ducks 2 really set in the the mind of many people our age of Iceland as an evil country.
00:19:51
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Oh, I forgot that. Really? Well, see, because they can't use the Soviets, right? So they have to come up with another anonymously evil European ah ah hockey rivalry. So they just randomly decided on Iceland.
00:20:06
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Iceland, famous for just being an extremely beautiful place full of really nice people. Really, really nice people who are a little whimsical and a little weird, and that's okay. Believe in elves. Yeah, i I had forgotten that Iceland was a country until I was in college. had forgotten Iceland was a country.
00:20:24
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I mean, like, I just honestly didn't think anybody lived there. And then I was in college and a bunch they had um ah Rose Bruford, the school that we did our exchange with, has, I guess, a good relationship with Iceland because a lot of their um American theater arts students are from, they get a lot of students from Iceland. And so we had some and I was like, oh, people actually live there? And every single person- You're thinking of Greenland again, yeah. no ah no No, it was Iceland. um and I'm saying people don't live in, I mean, people do live in Greenland, but not many.
00:20:57
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Yes, not many people live in Greenland, but a lot of people live in Iceland, and they all know Bjork, I learned. ah Yeah, probably, and Jónsi as well. um Yeah, when I was in like middle school and high school, I was way into Bjork and Sierros, so I was aware of Iceland for sure.
00:21:13
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yeah That really tracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense for you. Yeah, I'm going to pretend that that's not that that's a compliment and not a mean thing to say.
00:21:24
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um so I know, I know. So yes, it's Iceland. It's a tiny island. It's um it's very cold there. um There's lots of volcanoes. People believe in elves.
00:21:37
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It's Viking country, but they believe in elves. Yeah. um And we've got Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. Well, first of all, starts off in 1974. So immediately i get wrapped around the axle on how old they're supposed to be. But let's do it here or there.
00:21:52
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so will fer So Pierce Brosnan plays Will Ferrell's dad. Yes, he does. It's 1974. His wife has just died. Will Ferrell is a little boy who's supposed to be like, I don't know, maybe 10, maybe less, like maybe eight. want to say like six.
00:22:08
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Six? So how old is Rachel McAdams then? Six. So you think they're the same age? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because Will will Ferrell is like 12 years older than Rachel McAdams in real life.
00:22:20
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And she wasn't born in 1974 in real life. Yeah. Well, here's Brosnan, 13 years older than Will Ferrell, and he plays his dad. So. Sure, sure, sure, sure. um But also that puts them like in their 50s in this movie. Like if they're. Crack.
00:22:36
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What? That doesn't crack. Well, I mean, Will Ferrell is because I think Will Ferrell as fifth was 52 in 2020. um How the hell old is Will Ferrell?
00:22:47
Speaker
I looked it up when I was watching this and then I've forgotten it. Maybe they just age differently in Iceland because they're so happy and because of the age. He was born in 1967. So in 2020, he 53. And Rachel McAdams, guess, would been 42, 41. Yeah.
00:23:00
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aunt rachel mc adams i guess would have been like forty two forty one Yeah, 40, yeah. Okay. I got the impression they were both in their 40s in this movie. Yeah, I think that's the intention. I think she's playing maybe a little older and he's playing a little younger. Well, no, no, no. I mean, if yeah, it's it's anyway. So 1974, the reason they pick it is because that's when Waterloo won Eurovision.
ABBA and Eurovision's Influence
00:23:23
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The only song any American has heard, maybe Moniscan. Like that Moniscan song got pretty big. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:31
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But really the only song any American knows that won Eurovision is Waterloo. Like they're the only band that became huge, really. From Eurovision. From Eurovision, yeah.
00:23:44
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Yeah. Because again, Celine Dion is already famous. And that song, I would say American people are not going to pick that song as like the top 20 Celine Dion songs. Yeah. No, no, no, no. And people know Maneskin from their cover of Begging.
00:23:59
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Yeah, which is great. Which is fantastic. And their their entire album is great. and like But that's what got them famous in the US. Very hot. They're so good.
00:24:10
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Yeah. It's a real bisexual dreamboat, Modest. Yeah, and they don't like wearing shirts. All of them. not None of them, yeah. None of them. Not the ladies either. Lots of areolas.
00:24:22
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Yeah. um ah but Sorry, I got distracted thinking about Modest. Yeah. So they're in Iceland. It's 1974. Waterloo is on Eurovision. And that's the thing that breaks Will Ferrell's ah character. Lars Ericsson.
00:24:40
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Yep. Which I guess is like a pun because in Iceland they have patronymic names. So your last name is either son or deodor of your dad's name. So yeah her name is cigarette Eric's daughter.
00:24:54
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And his name is, is Lars Eric song instead of son, which I guess is maybe he just changed it to be like, cause it's a song. Yeah. Fire saga. I don't know. I didn't look too much into it. I was too but busy bopping to all the bops. But they are not brother and sister. They're not. They keep saying probably not brother and sister. Probably not.
00:25:16
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But... they they both they Because their last name is the same. um it's they're Both their father's name was Eric, even though her father is not his father. Oh, I thought it was a joke because it's such a small town and his dad is a little man whore. It's it's both, yeah. And his last name is Eric, too. so yeah and yeah Somebody named Eric is her dad, but it's not Pierce Brosnan we find out by the end. yes yeah Yeah. Much like The Mortal Instruments. It's a love story between people who you think are siblings for most of movie.
00:25:46
Speaker
What? The Mortal Instruments? Oh, I never got into that. Oh, yeah. Oh, you'd like it. Yeah. Yeah, I think would. It's a romantic-y where the problem of the reason that the boy and girl can't take get together is that they think they're siblings, but they're actually not.
00:26:03
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Oh, so like Veronica Mars. um Veronica Mars? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. well yeah There's a chunk of time where she thinks yeah that what's-his-name is her brother.
00:26:15
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then she vomits because they totally slept together. That's right. Wow, I forgot about that. yeah It's been a while since I've watched Veronica Mars. yeah Love Veronica Mars. ah That's not neither here nor there. um But yeah, and they they live in Iceland and they sing bops and they have a band called Fire Saga.
00:26:33
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They sing songs. I don't know if we would call them bops. Volcano man They're very silly songs But like again that's the whole thing About Eurovision like the songs are not good at Eurovision like no They're They're ridiculous they're ridiculous and can't yeah And the poor performances are Extremely over the top Yes. So we smash cut to the present day where in their mind, they're doing this elaborate Icelandic music video for Volcano Man, but actually they're in the basement yeah on their synthesizers.
00:27:07
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Yeah. And my my main problem with this movie is that Rachel McAdams is just so pathetic. Oh, okay. Okay. She like the part of her, I mean, her, her arc in this movie is that she has given up her whole life and not done anything she ever wanted because she's been so in love with Will Ferrell her whole life. And she just goes along with whatever he says and does, which makes me hate Will Ferrell.
00:27:35
Speaker
I don't get that completely. I, I get, I get sort of the idea of that. Like she is so in love with him and she just goes along with everything that he says and does. But I don't think that like, she's given up everything in her life. I think that Will Ferrell opened up the, uh,
00:27:51
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love of music and singing in her when younger. think she actually loves music. You're right. and She loves it because otherwise then that last song has no meaning. So I think that she she really does love it. She just doesn't love it the same way Will Ferrell does. Will Ferrell, Lars- Will doesn't care about winning.
00:28:06
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Exactly. Lars, all he cares about is winning and Lars, all he wants is to be on the Eurovision Song Contest and to get recognition.
Character Motivations in Eurovision Movie
00:28:14
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Well, all he really wants is his dad to approve of him. Really? Yeah. And he's just decided that Eurovision is like Eurovision is the way to do it, which he is wrong about that. I mean, it it does work out eventually for him, but like he could have chosen anything else to get his dad to approve of him. Maybe it'd been a fisherman. His dad would have been happy.
00:28:32
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Yeah. Yeah. um ah Then I just wrote, ya, ya, ding dong. Ya, ya, ding dong. They play in this little bar um to people who are like nice to them. It's not like they're getting heckled or anything. People like them. Like the one guy is like, play ya, ya, ding dong.
00:28:48
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They're the only band in town and their drummer is 12. little boy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My one problem is, and this is the first of Emma's fun facts, Emma's fun facts.
00:28:58
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So Rachel McAdams doesn't do her character singing. um there's Nobody many does except for Will Ferrell. Except for Will Ferrell. And I honestly, honestly thought that Dan Stevens did his own singing because um he's Beast and Beauty and the Beast. And he's actually like a pretty good singer. He can sing, yeah. He can sing. So I was a was surprised. Yeah, I was very surprised that he didn't do singing. But doesn't sing like that. Like he has like. Yeah.
00:29:23
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slender British blonde man voice and not the man who i mean I just we should I should google what the guy the guy's singing for because there's no way he looks like Dan Stevens like he sings like a giant Russian Eric Mahones Yeah, M-J-O-N-E-S. And there's the little, like, two dots over the O. Miones, probably. Actually, he kind of looks like Dan Stevens, so fuck me, I guess. Yeah, I mean, like, it it's sort of one of those voices where you're like, oh, okay. I did not expect that to come out of that body, but I guess now I can't unsee it.
00:29:59
Speaker
um And ah Rachel McAdams' ah songs are sung by ah Swedish singer Molly Sandin. ah who was part of Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Bucharest, and... Bucharest?
00:30:16
Speaker
Bucharest, and... But she's Hungarian. Oh, no, no, she's she's Swedish, but she was in... That was in Hungary, okay, I see. Yeah, and two... Wait, no, no, Romania. My God, I'm sorry. Okay.
00:30:27
Speaker
And two Swedish... best singing festivals which i assume are leads up to your vision um the you do hear rachel mcadams actually singing a little bit in the rehearsal in when she's rehearsing her song in the hotel room but like not really um yeah and well it doesn't sound like rachel mcadams um especially at the uh at the end um yeah i'm like well this sounds nothing like rachel mcadams Right? it's like It's exactly like what happens in The Greatest Showman, which is not the biggest problem in The Greatest Showman, but I did have an issue with the fact that Rebecca What's-Her-Face was dubbed, or they didn't pick the actual singer to play that role, because all she does is sing.
00:31:10
Speaker
So why why not just have her sing? i don't understand. Movies hate to cast somebody who can act and sing. I mean don't understand. i just don't. It makes me very upset. um Which is why i i don't i don't enjoy the the fact that they dubbed so many people. um Even Greek Lady. I thought Greek Lady was wasn't dubbed.
00:31:33
Speaker
Nobody does. you yeah Everybody is dubbed except Will Ferrell. Except for Will Ferrell, which... Can sing. Like, yeah, he's not bad. Like he's not bad. You also can tell it's Will Ferrell because he, yeah he, he sounds like Will Ferrell. Yeah. And I guess, I think that he's supposed to be less competent than Rachel McAdams. And he certainly is, or, are you know, the voice that they got to, to have sing for Rachel McAdams because he's not a professional singer, but he can definitely sing like, yeah you know, and perform and do all the things. Um, and the enthusiasm is there.
00:32:05
Speaker
Yeah. At the end of the day, that's what matters. um ah So Demi Lovato is their competition in Iceland. Demi Lovato does her own singing. Oh, of course. Yeah, of course she does. yeah of course So um she's this, and she's this Icelandic pop star that, um so we keep cutting to the Icelandic people, which is the, the, the evil man from Severance.
00:32:27
Speaker
Yep. And, and then there's a, but except he's not evil in this. um He's nice. He's nice. and then there But there is an evil man ah who, because of Icelandic's like um crumbling economy from 2008, 2009 mortgage crisis, he knows that... So the rules of Eurovision are whoever wins, they have to host the contest the next year.
00:32:52
Speaker
yeah And this guy knows Iceland can't afford that and it'll bankrupt the country again and he'll get in trouble because, Katie's fun fact... Yeah. Iceland is the only place where they put those motherfuckers in jail.
00:33:07
Speaker
So you know how in America and England and everywhere else, all of the the government bailed out the banks and all those guys got away scot-free from screwing over everyone and keeping all that money?
00:33:18
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Iceland is the only place where they were like, no, you're going to jail and you're going to pay this shit back. and Iceland's economy recovered a lot faster than anybody else. There you go. that So look at that.
00:33:30
Speaker
So this guy knows that he'll actually get in trouble if the economy collapses because of this. And so he's the villain of the piece, but he's not in most of the movie. No, he's only in a few scenes. We'll come back to him.
00:33:43
Speaker
He has, he has some really great scenes. Yeah. um ah So yes, he, they're trying to sabotage them. At first I thought it was going to be like a producer's kind of thing where they're like, Oh, let's take this terrible band and put them in. So that way we'll lose. And, and, you know,
00:33:56
Speaker
Yeah. We'll get off with it. But he, but everybody else, all the other Iceland council people, they want to win. Like it's their, their pro Iceland. Yeah. It's just this guy. It's, it's a display of nationality, uh, of, yeah you know, pride in your country, which is another reason why the United States could never participate. because
00:34:17
Speaker
Yeah. I don't think, well, i don't know. I mean, America's pretty good at pride in its country for the most, I mean, for the majority of people, I think. Oh yeah. But like, we um Well, yeah, I was looking up the rules and it says that if you have to be part of you can, America's not eligible. um It's there, you have to be part of the European Broadcasting Agency, which does include all of the countries, even Australia that are involved because they subscribe to the European Broadcasting Agency.
00:34:42
Speaker
um So it's all about the, um it's about the, tell it's about television. I mean, I think, and then again, it's, it's Europe and television and a portmanteau. So I think all of this was, you know, it's the whole point is that it's televised. It was, it was about, it started on television. It wasn't like it was a song contest that became televised. No, no. It's, it's like the Oscars.
00:35:04
Speaker
Well, no, that was an award show that eventually became televised. Yeah. It's like the Oscars. This was founded by a television company is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. Yeah, it's like the TV Choice Awards.
00:35:15
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sh Yeah, it's like the Cable Ace. Remember Cable Ace? It's like the MTV Movie Awards. Yes, it's like, oh my god, there it is. It's like the MTV Movie Awards, yeah.
00:35:27
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Um, ah so, and then she says, um oh yeah. So they, um, their tape is in this big box and they're like, we need 12 acts. We've only got 11 acts for the Icelandic, like, you know, quarterfinal or whatever to decide who represents Iceland, the qualifying round. And they're like, well, we need the 12th one. So here, randomly pick a tape out of this box and they randomly pick fire saga. So fire saga gets to go to the Iceland finals.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And they're very excited. Yeah. And Rachel McAdams says, if his dream comes true, we could finally be together. Because it seems like, you know, she doesn't care about Eurovision. She does like music and she likes to sing. But she refers to Eurovision as his dream repeatedly. And then I wrote, yeah how old is she?
00:36:07
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yeah
00:36:11
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um but So they go to the Icelandic um ah qualifying rounds. He's stuffing his ah his crotch. And then she goes, oh, should I do that too? Should I do a camel? Let's do a classic camel. Yeah, it never goes out of style.
00:36:24
Speaker
Right? But then she's in a dress. So I'm like, where does the classic camel come in? but Maybe she's just holding it up there the whole time. Yeah. um But he's so nervous. He's so nervous because all he wants to do is win. And it's sort of that if you've ever been a performer or you've ever competed on anything, you know that feeling of like you want something so, so badly that you get in your own head about it and then you just sabotage yourself.
00:36:48
Speaker
Yeah. Um, which is exactly what he does. He runs away before they go on to like, because he wants to go over the lighting cues with the lighting guy as the show is happening. He's like, are you insane? As Demi Lovato is performing and they go on after Demi Lovato's character's name is Katya. Um, uh, they're going to go on after Katya.
00:37:08
Speaker
and ah And so he like panics and then he has to run all the way back down to the stage, but he doesn't get there in time because he chooses to go through
Fire Saga's Semifinal Performance
00:37:18
Speaker
the audience. And so Rachel McAdams has to start- He's locked out, so he has to go through the audience. yeah Yes, yeah. And Richard McAdams has to start performing um Double Trouble, their song, by herself. And um he finally makes it, but he's, like, falling over. And, like, they have, like, these harnesses to, like, lift them up into the sky. But his harness is broken and they fall and it's a disaster.
00:37:48
Speaker
Just classic Will Ferrell shenanigans, like what you would expect. like yeah Exactly. um So they don't make the finals. And they earlier they mentioned that they're all invited on this boat party, which is for all the performers to celebrate you know the Eurovision Song Contest. Island.
00:38:05
Speaker
Island, Island. But he's so upset that he can't go to this boat party. He wants to just cry on the harbor, sad. And Rachel McAdams comes and comforts him.
00:38:17
Speaker
And as they're sitting there and she's comforting him, they're looking at the boat party and the boat blows up. Well, as they're attempting to kiss, the boat blows up. And then I wrote, have neither of them ever kissed anyone before? There's a lot of questions raised in this movie where it seems that it seems that neither of them have done anything for 50 years. Yes. Because they're both approximately 52 or 53 in this movie, the characters are.
00:38:43
Speaker
Neither of them have done anything except for try to write a Eurovision song. Yeah. Well, they live in Iceland, so like it's it's dark a lot of the time. I'm sure many people in Iceland have full lives. oh yeah I think that people in Iceland kiss each other. ah And then they have the, she goes, oh, the elves went too far. Oh, because she asked the elves for help before they left. the went see There's these little houses that you give them offerings and ask them for help.
00:39:15
Speaker
And ah she these thinks the elves killed all of the, yeah, Debbie Lovato's arm lands by him. It's like body parts like spray on them. There's so many moments where I'm just like, oh my god, this movie is so fucking funny. And then um they're like, ah it's very much like her famous line from the...
00:39:35
Speaker
ah from the um game night where she's like, oh no, he died. It's basically the same joke as that where they're like, yay, we get to go. they're like, oh, but I'm sorry they died. So sad. sad. So sad. But I'm so excited. And then it cuts to ice the like Iceland people, the people in charge of the Icelandic entry. The Icelandic like commission for Eurovision. Yeah. Yeah, and they're all talking about, they're like, we can't let these tear that terrible band go. They're awful. They're terrible. Have you seen them? And then it just pans to them. They're standing right there. They're standing there. And they go, so we're in?
00:40:13
Speaker
Classic joke. They do that in Arts of Development all the time. It's ah just great comedy. Works every time. but um Never gets old. I'm being sincere. Yeah. Yeah. And then so they go to Edinburgh, which is where Eurovision is hosted that year.
00:40:27
Speaker
yeah And again, it's shot in Edinburgh. They have like a little montage of of doing things in in the city. yeah There's a man playing the piano who I'm led to believe is another Eurovision person playing a song. It is. it He is a past, um, past winner.
00:40:43
Speaker
he is, I've got another fun fact. Uh, here's another of Emma's fun facts, Emma's fun facts. So that is, Portuguese singer, uh, Salvador Sabrell.
00:40:58
Speaker
Um, that's what the caption said. Yeah. Yeah. He's supposed to have also had like a scene with dialogue. He won in 2017. Um, but he didn't want to do the scene with dialogue. And apparently that pissed off Will Ferrell.
00:41:12
Speaker
Oh, well. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Um, yeah. So, uh, then they almost kiss again and Will Ferrell's like, no, we have to focus on Eurovision. Love ruins the band. Just like Fleetwood Mac and Seaman and Garfunkel.
00:41:26
Speaker
Seaman and Garfunkel. Which is a dumb joke, but it made me laugh. So. Yeah. There you go. She goes, yes, yes, I forgot about Simon and Garfunkel. They're both doing accents too, which I mean, everybody in Iceland does speak English. That is like all of the, all of Scandinavia, really everybody all all speaks English. So it's not necessarily that unrealistic. Yeah. But I do wonder, I mean, I guess that I know they shot in Iceland, so I'm sure they had dialect coaches and everything. I'm sure they were trying to be as respectful as possible, but they are both doing comic Scandinavian accents throughout the entire movie.
00:41:59
Speaker
Yeah. And it's very funny. There's moments where I'm just like, if I was Icelandic, would I be offended by this? Right, right, right, right. Well, you can't be racist against i against white people, remember. like Exactly.
00:42:10
Speaker
Like that and with Dan Stevens. I'm just like, is this is this offensive? like You can be culturally insensitive, but you can't be racist. yeah Okay. Okay. And again, Iceland and Russia and like America and like the people they make fun of, like they can all take it. Yeah. Yeah. When they make fun of America, it's terribly scary. feel like, you yeah, we're not punching down on any of these people. It's fine. You can make fun of...
00:42:34
Speaker
yeah Various white people in this movie. Another fun fact. Iceland is one of the few countries that teaches their children. That teaches. When they teach English. They teach American English versus British English.
00:42:47
Speaker
Oh ah Sweden does that as well. Which is why every time you hear an Iceland. They sound speaking English. It's more Americanized than British. Same as Sweden. Yeah that's why all the there's so many famous Swedish singer songwriters. Get popular in America. And when you hear them talk. They don't speak with an English accent. Yeah exactly.
00:43:05
Speaker
Um, yes. Then we meet Dan Stevens. Yes, Dan Stevens. Lemtav, my favorite character. Lemtav, I love him so much. i want a sequel about Lemtav. And his discoveries of his sexuality. He is a clearly gay Russian singer who has an extremely homoerotic act where he's got a bunch of half-naked men that he's like...
00:43:31
Speaker
On top of ah his song is like, I'm a lion lover. yeah um It's truly awful. um It's a bomb.
00:43:43
Speaker
And then they they go on after him. So they meet him. And one thing I like so much about this is that he is I guess sort of he's the internal conflict antagonist in this movie. Yes. Because the antagonist of the external conflict is the Icelandic guy who's trying to ruin them. Yeah. Who doesn't want them to win.
00:44:03
Speaker
and But he is the antagonist for the love story. But he is not a bad person. He's not evil. um And not like actively trying to ruin anything and now in the entire movie. Like he is a sweetheart. He's just trying get himself a beard. Yeah.
00:44:19
Speaker
Yeah, well and but but he actually likes her and cares about her music and her career at the very least, if not like romantically into her. Yeah. um Which I really... it's very It's very charming. Yeah. And he is... Very nice.
00:44:33
Speaker
He's fantastic. Dan Stevens can do anything. I love him so much. Probably one of my favorite actors. Like, he just... He's kind of like Daniel Radcliffe in that way where, I mean, on a smaller scale, obviously, but he got famous on something. And then after that, yeah, he's on Downton Abbey.
00:44:49
Speaker
And then after that, just made a bunch of really weird and interesting choices. Like, yeah have you seen The Guest? No, I haven't. Oh, you should totally watch the horror movie. um that He's so fucking good in that.
00:45:04
Speaker
Um, he's done like a lot of like really silly stuff. Did you see Abigail? He's got a really. Oh yeah. I saw him in Abigail. Yeah. Such a dummy in that. Um, it's so fun. Um, the choices that he's made, um, are, um,
00:45:17
Speaker
Yeah, i think he's I think he's a very interesting actor. I love him. And he does a lot of voiceover work, too. I was looking at his IMDb. he does like like He's a voice of some someone in the Lego movies.
00:45:28
Speaker
I don't know. Oh, yeah yeah. I mean, everybody was, right? Yeah. Yeah. But he does a lot of voiceover stuff, too. um Also the TV show Legion, which I liked a lot. Oh, that's true.
00:45:38
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But
Lemtav and Cultural Portrayals
00:45:41
Speaker
he's great. He's fantastic. And he's so good at his laptop. he's yeah yeah Yeah, he's great. And Lemtoff is hosting a party at his um castle that he's renting. Well, he says he owns it. oh says that this is it's one of my top five favorite homes. Oh, yeah. i don't know why he's so rich exactly, but he's... He's a big deal in Russia.
00:46:02
Speaker
He's a big deal. guess. Yeah. And he's he is the um the favorite to win the contest. yeah year Yes. Yes. With his fabulous line song. He does win. We don't know. They don't know. They don't ever say who wins. Yeah. It's you're led to believe that it's lumped off. But like, yes, you don't know.
00:46:20
Speaker
doesn't matter. It's not important who wins. Exactly. It's not the point of the movie. um Believe not. It's not really the point of Eurovision either. Right. No, no, yeah it's, it's whatever, you know, I mean, like, it's great if you win, but ah did you make a lasting impact on everybody?
00:46:35
Speaker
Did your song move hearts? ah Yeah. But yeah, I'm guessing Windows 95 man didn't win. And that's, that's a very memorable performance. They did not. They did not.
00:46:48
Speaker
um But like, ah so he he's hosting this party ah at his castle that he owns. And my favorite is they walk in and he's like, look at all my my my Greek, ancient Greek statues, old statues. And um they're like, oh, that's so weird. Like, they you say they're so old, but they all have your face on them?
00:47:08
Speaker
And they also all have big erect dicks. Like...
00:47:15
Speaker
It's very great. It's very great. It's very funny and silly. And then um he grabs Rachel McAdam. Will Ferrell says, um I don't trust him. He is a sex player. i sense that he has a very large penis. And Rachel's like, yes, yes. I also sense that he has a large penis for sure. Definitely.
00:47:36
Speaker
the sincerity that they say these lines with that is just like so funny um there's like no bit of sarcasm or like joke it's just like very serious yes i also sense that he has a large penis i mean rachel mcadams is also great um ah she's so funny i love rachel mcadams very much and yeah it is it's absolutely it's this i mean in all comedy it's you have to take it very seriously that's how that's why things are funny like yeah exactly if you wink at the camera you know it's not gonna be as funny anymore That's right, John Kaczynski. Come on. It's the number one rule comedy.
00:48:11
Speaker
That and the rule of threes. but ah But yeah, and so he takes Rachel McAdams aside and he's just like, I want to help you with your career and ah you're you are so beautiful. ah and Because we've seen movies before, you assume that he is trying to sabotage them, right? like Because we haven't met anyone in the movie so far that thinks they're good. Yes, exactly. exactly from Aside from yeah, yeah, ding dong. Yeah, yeah, ding dong. He's like, you have a beautiful voice. like Your song is good. like I want you you you to be successful. And yeah I want to help you. And I'm rooting for you. And the thing, the kind of twist is that he's very sincere about all of that. Yeah, exactly.
00:48:59
Speaker
and then we also meet um Mitra or what's her name? meta I think that's right. Yeah. Mita. Yeah. Mita, who is Greeks entry and she's been to the contest like,
00:49:12
Speaker
so many times like she's a ah eurovision veteran so she's like who cares about winning yeah you can enter over and over right yeah oh yeah um is it oh god i'm gonna say this wrong to offend a bunch of people uh i want to say ireland the republic of ireland their entry for several years was these twin boys uh called jedwood ah Or Jedward.
00:49:37
Speaker
And ah is it Jedward or Jedward? And they always sang with such enthusiasm. And they were not good. But Jedward. It's Jedward. Yeah, they look like the Da Vinci twins.
00:49:51
Speaker
Yep, yep. ah But they um they were always, for several years that I watched, ah the Republic of Ireland's ah entry for Eurovision.
00:50:01
Speaker
Never won.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yeah, they were on X Factor, Planet, Jedward. All right. One year I saw them perform Jumping on a Trampoline. Sure. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. It's all about like, yeah. um so um Yeah. So, yeah, so they kind of get split up at the party. Mita takes Will Ferrell and Lemtov takes Sigrid.
00:50:27
Speaker
Sigrid. And this is where Will Ferrell says, I have to prove to all of Iceland and my extremely handsome father that I have not wasted my life. And she's like, this excites me. The Greek lady. Yes.
00:50:39
Speaker
Who is also another character that you would think would try to sabotage them. she is the female sort of counterpart to Lentop. And like, she you would think that she's, she's going to be the villain, but she's not.
00:50:52
Speaker
She's just like, she just wants to make friends and have fun. but Other people like them. Yeah. It's the thing. It's like, there's such a joke. Um, and you expect everyone to treat them poorly and make fun of them and be mean to them at the contest, but nobody is like, it's very respectful. And I wonder if that's part of Eurovision saying like, they can't be mean at the Eurovision people are all wonderful and they all get along great. And it's a nice time for everyone. That is the official so statement of the Eurovision song contest. Yeah.
00:51:21
Speaker
But it it works really well. it disma It's a very warm atmosphere. It's nice. Yeah, it makes this movie like a hug. it I mean, I would say this is probably in my basket of comfort movies.
00:51:32
Speaker
um Like you can, I can just throw this on at any point. And I have at any point just for like something fun to watch. um Because I mean, while the stakes seem very, very high, at the end of the day, like, it's all okay.
00:51:49
Speaker
No, yeah, the stakes aren't high at all. That's the thing. It's just yeah the emotional stakes are high, but the actual stakes are very are me aren' meaningless. Yeah, which is yeah exactly. um Which is good. that's That's what you want in something like this. It's um it's why I've ah discussed on this podcast before. It's like I kind of, I don't care about sports, but kind of like sports movies.
00:52:08
Speaker
This is one of those things where it's like, you can have these stakes where it seems high, but they actually don't matter at all. Yeah. um Which also leads to the point where like, in a movie like this or in a sports movie, like you really don't know if they're going to win or lose because it doesn't matter.
00:52:23
Speaker
Yeah. Like there's actual, um, there's a, cause in a lot of movies, like if there's something that's like super high stakes, like, you know, they're not going to lose, like, you know, in mission impossible, like, you know, that like, he's not going to fail and like, you know, they're not going to bomb, you know, Paris or whatever, you know, that's not going to happen. But in a movie like this or in, you know, another Iceland classic, the Mighty Ducks 2, they might not win.
00:52:49
Speaker
it You don't know when you're watching it And it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it's about the journey and the lessons that we learned all along the way. Yeah. um But then. meanwhile. sorry. Limtop is talking to her and he's telling her yeah like, you don't sing from the heart. Like yeah you need to speak for yourself. And I'm like, yeah, he's right.
00:53:10
Speaker
That's. Yeah. That is what she needs. Yeah. Yeah. It's very true. And then we get my favorite part of this entire movie at 47 minutes
Eurovision Movie's Musical Highlights
00:53:18
Speaker
in the movie. It's the. It's just straight imported from Pitch Perfect. It's exactly what happens in every Pitch Perfect movie. Exactly. It's a sing-along. It is a mash-up sing-along.
00:53:30
Speaker
And we get... This is where we get all of Eurovision cameos. Everyone is auto-tuned, but apparently they're singing acapella. Yeah. And they all know all the words, which is like another one of my big like issues with like people that just start random singing just random songs. I'm like, how does everybody know all these words?
00:53:48
Speaker
I don't know. Well, here, these are famous pop songs. So it's it's yeah it's reasonable. to they It's not like they're um they're new songs, you know? That's true. For example, how does Will Ferrell know how to play the piano along to her song at the end of this movie? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. He heard her play it in the hotel a little bit at once. Yeah, and then we get violins that were never there before. Yeah.
00:54:10
Speaker
um But madam my friend Gia knows the words to every song. Like, sometimes, you know, we're at work and she'll just start singing. And like, yeah, she knows all the words for everything. It's crazy. Well, I wish I did too.
00:54:23
Speaker
But my brain won't. So this fabulous, fabulous mashup is features John Ludwig, who won for Sweden in 2019. Oh, okay. And,
00:54:37
Speaker
oh okay anna odd' dope this I'm going to butcher some of these names. Moldovia, 2019's entry. France's entry from 2019. Bilal Hassani.
00:54:50
Speaker
Lorene, who was my my bitch from Sweden. um Jesse Matador, who was France's entry entry in 2010. Alexander Rybek, who was the winner for Norway in 2019 and he represented in 2018. Jamala, who was the winner for Ukraine in 2016. Estonia's entry for 2019.
00:55:10
Speaker
Our girl, Conchita, winner for Austria in 2014. Netta Barzali, who won for Israel. Conchita Verst, who is a drag queen with a beard, we should say. Yes.
00:55:23
Speaker
Yes. And has a beautiful voice. um And Salvador Sobrel, who was the winner for Portugal in 2017. Um, so that is a lot of Eurovision people and they, they make you feel go, hey, these are the real Eurovision, these are the real stars.
00:55:43
Speaker
yeah Yeah. They sing Believe by Cher. They sing I Got a Feelin' by Black Eyed Peas. They sing Ray of Light ah yeah by Madonna. They sing Waterloo by ABBA. And they sing N'Parte Saint-Moi by Celine Dion, which Waterloo and N'Parte Saint-Moi won Eurovision.
00:56:01
Speaker
Those two yeah are Eurovision winners. didn't even know no the French one was in there. or Sorry, the Swedish one. Switzerland. Sorry, the Swiss one. yeah, yeah. yeah
00:56:14
Speaker
um And it's, yeah, it's cute. It's fun. Everybody has look has a good time. And Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell are singing with them. And again, no one gets humiliated or anything. No, it's a good time. just Everybody has fun. to happen yeah It's a good time. And then Lemtoff is like, we're going to go to this after party. And Will Ferrell's like, I think we should go home. Right? Rachel McAdams. And she's like, no, I want to go to the after party. And so he goes to go club dancing.
00:56:41
Speaker
go club dancing uh and rachel mcadams presumably goes club dancing and uh they both we see it we see it and she he keeps bringing her two drinks which i love like he's like right two drinks yeah yeah bring me two drinks don't bring me one bring me two then you have to go to the bar two times less Yeah.
00:57:04
Speaker
Yeah. ah And um it she wakes up the next morning and she's fallen asleep at his giant castle. And she's like, did anything happen last night? And he was like, no, you just fell asleep. And he goes, i she was like, have you been said awake long? And he's like, a few hours just watching you sleep.
00:57:24
Speaker
I braided your hair. braided her hair. so good. but And then Will Ferrell at the hotel the last ah in the middle of the night, Mita shows up and presumably assaults him at first. yeah We realize later that they didn't sleep together. But when Rachel McAdams gets back to the hotel, they're in bed together and she freaks out and runs away. And she's real upset. We also hear about the spjorknotte.
00:57:49
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Which is like an Icelandic folklore thing, which i I don't know if it's real or if it's invented for this movie, but this magical note that you can you can hit that can like, you know, transcend ah space and time or something. we don't We don't get a lot of information about it, but it goes els Dan Stevens believes in elves and Rachel McAdams believes in elves. And he's like, yeah, I love all folklore. And I want you i think that you can hit the spjord note.
00:58:13
Speaker
Will Ferrell's like, I don't believe in that. Yeah. Will Ferrell doesn't like any whimsy. No, no, he's, he sucks. That's the thing. Like, Lars sucks. I don't like him. Yeah, that's true. Lars sucks for a lot of it.
00:58:26
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Like, I would prefer if Rachel McAdams, like, just ran off and and became, like, musical partners with Lemtob and they, like, toured the world and, like, then she had a bunch of boy toys or something. i don't know. Yeah, but, you know.
00:58:41
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She ends up with her true love. Yeah, yeah, whatever. yeah but he and he But he keeps trying to control everything. Like, he keeps changing the choreography. He keeps changing the costumes. They get into a big fight, which is...
00:58:57
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They're mad at each other because they both think the other slept with somebody. And he's like, let's go sex nuts. I'm going to have sex with everybody. That lady emptying the trash, Kevin Swain. Kevin Swain, who's like the guy who's in charge of like the music, I think, for the different acts. He's like. Yeah, charge of the like the visuals and everything. Yeah. so Yeah. He's the director, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:21
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Yeah, visual character. Kevin Swain just responds, lovely, thank you. He's played by a famous British actor who him and his sister are both in this movie. Americans will know his sister much more than they will know him. His name's Jamie Dimitrio and sister. Oh, that sounds familiar. Yeah, he's on a British TV show called Seth Let's Flats. That's very funny.
00:59:45
Speaker
um I never really got into it. It was a little bit too British for me, but Charlie loves it. um and his sister is natasha dimitrio who plays fleabag yeah he's in fleabag um he has he's in the the first episode of fleabag um and natasha dimitrio is famous because she is in oh my god yeah it's what's her name yeah yeah he's also the after party that's probably where i know him from the after Yeah. Actually, yeah. I love that show. But they're real life siblings and they're both, Natasha plays the choreographer and he plays the visual director that Iceland hires to get Fire Saga to be better.
01:00:30
Speaker
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. um But yeah, they're real life siblings, um which is another one of Emma's fun facts, Emma's fun facts. um ah He is goes to a fountain in Edinburgh and is talking to himself in his reflection yeah because she says that you don't see me.
01:00:47
Speaker
yeah Much like Avatar. like Yeah. What? I see you. The movie Avatar, I See You, it's a whole thing in the Avatar movies. It's like this term of respect, meaning like, you've never seen Avatar? The first one sucks, and the other two are good. Oh, okay. And then there's American american tourists, yes ah which he yells at. um And all of the, what I assume- is starbucks what I assume must be improv'd yeah insults from Will Ferrell to these Americans are so fucking funny. So funny.
01:01:19
Speaker
So fucking funny. And when they're in the car later, they're so fucking funny. I wrote down a bunch of the stuff that he said to them in the car later, but, um, But the thing that I like about them is that they completely ignore everything he says and are just pretty nice in general. Yeah. Everybody's so nice. The only person that's terrible. He's like, we hate And they're like, yeah.
01:01:39
Speaker
Yeah. And he's like, go go to Starbucks. And they go, oh, where's the Starbucks? It's like, is he trying to help?
01:01:48
Speaker
That's so good. Then Mita shows up and talks to Rachel McAdams. Rachel McAdams is knitting a sweater with an angry face on Yes. And she tells them they didn't sleep together. um And then then what happens is strange to me. Like, ok this movie is very long. And I understand that they needed to cut some things. But I don't understand how Eurovision works. So this is definitely part of it. But they're in the semifinal. How did they get to the semifinal? Yeah.
01:02:20
Speaker
Okay, so the semifinal is a bunch of countries. You send in a video of your performances from, you know, whatever. And then the, like, heads of Eurovision pick who's in the semifinal, I'm pretty sure.
01:02:35
Speaker
And the semifinal is televised. um But not every single country is in it. Because there's, like, reasons. There's, like, points. Well, Russia is not in the semifinal. He goes directly to the final. Yeah. Because he he had so many points, so he doesn't have to perform in the semifinal. People with like lesser points have to perform in the semifinal because they can't have every single country perform in the final.
01:02:59
Speaker
so that I understand. So there's not a quarterfinal. Exactly, no. if you're on I thought we skipped over the quarterfinal. No, no, no. There is no quarterfinal.
01:03:09
Speaker
um I think the quarterfinal is done... By the corporation. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the rules. I just know that the semifinals are the countries that have less points than. Okay. That makes sense.
01:03:25
Speaker
A lot of people. So, um, yeah. Yeah, semifinals. And they Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams apologize to each other. And he goes, um we're going to go back to singing the song the way it was because he kept trying to like change it. and all over this fresh Before the fresh flow and all that bitch. They hired a ah K-pop guy to remix the ah the the audio. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:50
Speaker
um And ah he changed he did change Richard McAdams' costume one final time. And he gave her a super long scarf to for the dimensions of the stage. Yes, it's a very long scarf, and I'm sure everything will be fine. ah And he like, Lemp-Topf talks to her, and he's like, you know, i you know, want, he he's like, again, like, you can do this. Like, you don't need him. Yeah.
01:04:16
Speaker
And she's like, I'm so nervous. He goes, don't be nervous. You have no chance of winning at all. Yeah. It's very sweet. Really? You think about Which like in the realities of your vision is very true. Yeah. So he like, you don't need to be nervous because you don't have a chance of winning, which is fine. Like it doesn't matter. exactly and but there his He is, he is also on the right page with this. Will Ferrell is the one who was wrong. Will Ferrell is the one who was treating this like it's life or death. Nobody else is. no Just Lars. And here's the thing, Pierce Brosnan does hate him.
01:04:47
Speaker
Yeah. Every time he cuts back to the bar and he's like, ah, that embarrassment, get it off the screen. I don't want to watch this. And everybody's like, it's your son, dude. Be normal. Your son doing a very, very big thing. he is on the Eurovision Song Contest.
01:05:04
Speaker
That's kind of a big deal, dude. Yeah. And he's like, man my son sucks. Yeah. um And then we see Moon Fang, who are dressed as monsters. yeah I just wrote European nonsense.
01:05:14
Speaker
ah Mita is an astronaut and is also maybe also gay. Like, again, has a very sapphic performance yeah with hers. And then Johnny John John, which is a Swedish rapper whose song is called Cooling with the Homies. Yes.
01:05:33
Speaker
Not like Kim West. And just like, it must have been so fun for the person who like wrote this nonsense. Like, yeah. Write an intentionally bad song for us was yes is fun. Yeah. Yeah. But like the music is so boppy. Like I have listened to the soundtrack so many times. Oh my God.
01:05:53
Speaker
I love it. I think there's, i think that double trouble is not that bad in a kind of goofy way. Yeah. And I think the song at the end is actually very good. Yeah. Everything else I think is pretty awful.
01:06:08
Speaker
Even we're we're we're running with the wolves. We're running with the wolves. We're running with the wolves. Yeah, I think that's bad. Yeah. yeah i that's the That's the moon bang, right? Yeah, that's moon bang. Yeah. yeah um And then, so yeah, they do their performance. And then ah I think it's the cop in Iceland who has to talk Eric and want look into watching it in the bar.
01:06:30
Speaker
Someone, yeah. Yeah. um goes And this is because they're watching soccer. And ah Graham Norton is like, wow, this isn't that bad. yeah ah Graham Norton is doing the, yeah.
01:06:42
Speaker
Graham Norton doing the um commentary for yeah um the BBC, I assume. Yeah. And it's everything seems to be going really well.
Eurovision Performance Mishaps
01:06:51
Speaker
They're doing good. um And then he comes down in a hamster wheel. um And he does the bridge in the hamster wheel.
01:06:59
Speaker
Again, like seems so ridiculous, but compared to Eurovision, it's not. like Well, that actually, that's another fun fact. So that was an homage to an actual performance. yeah Yeah. Somebody actually performed in a hamster wheel. And I think I vaguely remember this performance.
01:07:17
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ah But they did it as an homage to that. um It was the Ukrainian entry in 2014 called TikTok sung by ah the person came in fifth.
01:07:27
Speaker
Yeah. um But her scarf gets caught in a hamster wheel. Yep. And then the hamster wheel goes off of its hinges. Well, it it would have killed her if it didn't. um And ah they both, he goes off into the stage on the wheel. yeah They both collapse. And they stand up and Greg Norton's like, oh, thank God they're not dead. um And they finish the song. And they finish the song. And here's the thing. And this was like a real, I mean, it did, it immediately redeemed it. But at first, like, there's a few people laughing and nobody claps. And I feel like-
01:08:01
Speaker
In reality, the crowd would go fucking nuts if that happened. That's what Charlie said. That was the first thing out of Charlie's mouth after that. This is a Carrie Strug moment if I've ever seen one, you know? Like. What?
01:08:14
Speaker
Carrie Strug? The US Gymnastics Olympics from like the 90s where Carrie Strug broke her foot. And then she has do, she has she has to do like the balance beam or something with a broken foot and she fucking nails, lands it and everybody like loses their goddamn mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. okay. Yeah, know what you're talking about.
01:08:32
Speaker
They get back up and finish the song. And then, like, it takes a long time. Like, Will Ferrell runs out and leaves before he realizes that people like them. Like, they start getting applause and everybody eventually, like...
01:08:46
Speaker
like applauds and like, ah like screams their name and everything. And then they get into this argument where he's like, I'm going to the airport. I'm going home. This is too embarrassing. And she's like, no, we're artists. We need to go back in the artist lounge and watch the points come in. That's part of it. And he's like, I can't do that. And he leaves and she goes back to the like artist area and watches the points come in. So the way Eurovision works is all the, ah and with Limtoff and their best, their BFFs. Um,
01:09:14
Speaker
They, um the the way that the, kind each individual country has like a delegation and they award their points to other countries. You can't vote for yourself is how it works.
01:09:25
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And they give like third, second, and first place, a scoring of eight, 10, and 12 points. And what's happening is people start giving third place to Iceland as like solidarity. Like, yeah, like, look, good job, guys. Like, again, get it it is not a bad song. It's just they had a technical problem and then they overcame it, which I yeah think, you know, maybe would have happened. Like, yeah.
01:09:47
Speaker
Exactly. yeah i think absolutely that tracks. And so then Iceland makes it to the finals, but Lars is back in Iceland. Yeah. Cause he decided to quit it all and become a fisherman again.
Climax and Authenticity in Music
01:09:59
Speaker
um but he his, uh, so the drummer goes to him on the fishing boat and he goes, what are you doing? Didn't you know that you're in the finals? And so then Will Ferrell has to run to the airport and Well, first of all, hold on, let's back up a little bit. They get into this fight and he says that, um you know, I heard you. Okay. Cause he went back to the hotel and heard her singing the song on her own that she was writing. And he's like, I heard you writing that song for him. And she's like, I wrote that song for you. Dumbass.
01:10:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And he has a pity party and he has this long thing where he's like Eurovision is on television everywhere he goes, but he's not paying any attention because he's got sunglasses on and he's listening to Gattis Bjarnen by Sierros in his headphones, which is like yeah very sad song.
01:10:46
Speaker
Yeah, I presume it's an Icelandic. Who knows? Um, uh, Actually, I don't know. No, no. I think that song actually might be in Hopelandic. So Sierros is a very esoteric Icelandic band that I was really into in like middle school and high school um who rule actually. And they have some songs in Icelandic, and but they also have some songs in a gibberish language that they call Hopelandic.
01:11:13
Speaker
Where, like a lot of people, um and you know I've done this before too, when you're writing a song sometimes, you just sing gibberish in place of the words and then eventually replace it with words because you need to know the spacings and like all of that. So basically, they released a bunch of songs we in gibberish before they replaced it with actual words. So I believe that song, which is their most well-known song, um it's ah you'd probably know it if you heard it, listeners. Yeah.
01:11:41
Speaker
um I don't know if that's in Icelandic or if it's in gibberish, but it's called Algates by urine. And I'm probably not pronouncing that right. But if it's gibberish, who's to say if it's, if I'm pronouncing it right or not. Yeah. Who knows who's to say who's to say.
01:11:57
Speaker
So yes, that's Sierros. I mean, i can't talk about a movie that plays two Sierros songs about Icelanders without talking about Sierros. I'm sorry. ah hades He goes on the fishing boat and he says, I'm going to become a fisherman and drink myself to death like a real Eric song, man.
01:12:16
Speaker
Yes. And he's talking to the little kid drummer. and He's like, remember to give up on your dreams while you're still young.
01:12:23
Speaker
And then on the fishing boat, he finally like yells at his dad. He gets into this fight with him. And yeah his dad finally tells him that, you know, i didn't understand like this whole thing for you until I saw you get back up on that stage after that horrible
Elves and Final Performance
01:12:37
Speaker
thing happened. And he says, I am proud of you.
01:12:39
Speaker
And then so Will Ferrell swims to shore. Yes! And he's gotta run and get back to Edinburgh ah in time for this Eurovision Song Contest final, which he gets there very quickly. Well, first, he gets a ride to the airport.
01:12:57
Speaker
He gets ride From the Iceland, the the the head of the Iceland commission picks him his car. Oh, shit, forgot about that. Yeah, he's running and he gets picked up um from the head of commission who's in their small town for whatever reason. And why do they stop the car? Oh, because he's got a drop ah he's dropping off um offerings to the elves. yes Yes. He's dropping off a thing of whiskey and some biscuits. Yes. For the elves. And while they're there, ah the Icelandic commissioner. Victor is his name. Yes.
01:13:34
Speaker
He decides now is the perfect time to strangle a Will Ferrell. tries to garrot him with like One of those things like assassins in movies has. Like a garrot. Yeah.
01:13:46
Speaker
And he's like, um I killed all the people at the in the boat party. I just can't, cannot afford to host Eurovision! um yeah And as he's strangling Will Ferrell, we think it's all over Will Ferrell. of sudden, he stops.
01:14:03
Speaker
And wouldn't you know it? He collapses. And whoa, there's a teeny tiny little knife in his back and the little elf door closes. um So the elves... The elves killed him Well, Pharaoh's like, oh well, I guess I'll leave this knife here for you.
01:14:21
Speaker
or if you want to do any more murders. You want to do any more murders. It's very Anchorman. so good. I killed a man with ah with a harpoon. i saw that.
01:14:34
Speaker
um ah It's, yeah. ah So yeah, he finally gets back to Edinburgh, which I mean, like, Iceland and Edinburgh not that far apart, to be fair. No, no.
01:14:45
Speaker
ah So, like, yeah, but I mean, going to an airport, it's it's still an, that's an event. Yeah. Yeah. yeah There's no Ubers or taxis at the airport because everyone's watching Eurovision. the eurovis But he finds the Americans who are planning to drive drive to Paris and he's like, no, Paris is a dump.
01:15:04
Speaker
If you don't want that, take me to Eurovision. Yeah, he says, New York Jets, take my horse down to the Old Town Road. Jamba Juice, let's go, bro.
01:15:16
Speaker
He's like, while they're their car, he's like, step on it. Step on it. There's no speed limits in all of Europe. There's speed limits. Yeah. The woman, the the girls in the bag are freaking out. And he says, you need to relax i'm going to throw you out in the next turn. Jeff, you're doing great. Keep driving. Super thumbs up. Let's go.
01:15:33
Speaker
and this is all scored to Lem Tov's Lion Song, which is the yeah gayest thing anyone's ever seen. It's gayer than nine guys blowing ten guys. Like, it's just so...
01:15:45
Speaker
So homoerotic. I have never heard that phrase before and now I cannot unhear that phrase. You're welcome. Yes. love it much. Thank you Americans. You're awful people. Don't come to Iceland. You'll be killed by the elves.
01:15:58
Speaker
And Rachel McAdams starts to understand that Limtoff might be gay. And she's like, yeah li are you gay? and he's like, no, I'm Russian. There's no gay people in Russia. gay people in Russia. That's statistically impossible. Yes. He's like, no, no, not in Russia. Gender mother right you're fluid? Non-binary? He goes, no, no, pronouns chihem.
01:16:18
Speaker
Um... Russian. Yeah, but he's like, but he still supports her. um And then, oh yeah, Demi Lovato's ghost, who's on fire, has shown up a couple of times trying to warn Will Ferrell. And now she comes back again and she's like, Victor's trying to kill you. And he's like, he already tried. The elves killed him.
01:16:36
Speaker
and What an unhelpful ghost. Yeah.
01:16:43
Speaker
Um, Rachel McAdams. ah Will Ferrell attacks Limtov. Rachel McAdams goes on stage. Yep. Yep. Rachel McAdams goes on stage. And, um, you know, presumably she's supposed to do Double Trouble, which is a duet by herself, which seems a little insane.
01:17:00
Speaker
Um, and, uh, he, he sees her go on stage and, uh, he goes, no, stop the show. Stop the show. stop the show and convinces Rachel McAdams that she needs to sing her song.
01:17:15
Speaker
And she goes, but we'll be disqualified. and he goes, it doesn't matter.
Conclusion and Reflections
01:17:18
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it doesn't matter because he has learned that it's not about it. It's not about winning. It's about, he, he loves her and and she loves him.
01:17:28
Speaker
and it's about their love of music for whatever reason. And she needs to sing her song, which is in my hometown. And earlier yeah yeah huivick and um earlier in the movie, she has made um a mention about how she was so nervous. She just wishes that she could sing in Icelandic.
01:17:46
Speaker
She just wishes she could sing in her own language. And Will Ferrell says, oh, you know, no, no one sings in their language will win the Eurovision Song Contest, which is true. A lot of the songs are in English, um but some are not.
01:17:59
Speaker
And she's, she this song, she starts out singing in English and she switches to Icelandic and everybody freaks out. Everyone in in Iceland freaks out and everyone's so in love with the song.
01:18:11
Speaker
It's fucking beautiful. like It's really gorgeous. It's a really good song and the core the way the chorus is structured, like it starts in English and moves into Icelandic, which is kind of like, I took it as this metaphor of like the emotion becomes so strong that I can no longer sing in English and I have to sing in Icelandic. And it's yeah really great. like I cried.
01:18:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's a really beautiful moment. It's really beautiful. um And everybody is so like wowed and amazed by the song, but they are disqualified because they didn't sing double talk trouble.
01:18:43
Speaker
But um you have to you have to dance with who you came to the dance with. Exactly. And Lemtoff is just like, oh, I mean, at the end of it, um ah Will Ferrell goes up to Rachel McAdams and they finally kiss and they have their moment.
01:18:58
Speaker
And Lemtoff is like, ah, well, there goes that. And Mita comes up and she goes, come to Greece. We go on boat. Yeah, i mean, like, maybe you can't be gay in Russia, but you can certainly be gay in in Edinburgh and Greece yeah and, you know, other various places. like Yeah, I don't know.
01:19:16
Speaker
And she's like, maybe we'll find, you you know, you can you can be more of yourself. He's know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. um And so they go off, presumably, to have fun, wild gay adventures on her Greek boat.
01:19:31
Speaker
Hell yeah, I want to see that movie. Right, right. And sing beautiful, beautiful songs. um And then we flash. Oh, and then they head back to their hometown. And then they play Opi Paula, a Sierra Rose song, one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It's just it's fucking gorgeous. I love that song so much. um One of my top 20 favorite songs of all time, probably. um It's great.
01:19:58
Speaker
Yes, that happens. Do you know know the song? Yes, everybody knows that song. It was everywhere in the 2010s. It's a great song. It's a good song. Yeah, it's a good song.
01:20:09
Speaker
um I obviously just don't love Seagull Rose as much as you do. mean, I haven't listened to them in a long time, but either there was definitely a phase, yeah.
01:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, again, yeah. Um, but, uh, sorry, my cat is snoring and it's so cute. So fucking cute. Um, But yeah, they arrive back. Everybody's super excited and happy for them. And then we flash forward to several years later. they're once again performing in their small town. They have a baby, which is strapped Will Ferrell's chest. It is the wedding celebration. The little headphones on. The little noise.
01:20:48
Speaker
Yeah. Noise-canceling headphones. Yeah. That baby is so fucking cute. um And they're celebrating... Will Ferrell's dad, who it is revealed earlier on ah that he always wanted to get with Rachel McAdams mom. But Rachel McAdams mom always like shut him down because he was too much of a man whore.
01:21:12
Speaker
And finally proves that they're not brother and sister. Exactly. and finally, they she gives him a chance and they're at their wedding celebration for Rachel McAdams's mom and Will Ferrell's dad, which they do.
01:21:29
Speaker
I'm glad that they admit they're like, this is this is very weird. ah It's never not going to be weird. Yeah. ah And they they ask, they're playing, um i forget what song, but like. Happy by Pharrell Williams. Oh, Happy. hair Terrible song. Just terrible song.
01:21:46
Speaker
And um then they go, you guys want to hear Eurovision song? they And of course they go, no. Yeah, yeah, dig dong. The Americans are there in the Icelandic bar. Will Ferrell says, ah the Americans are here. Don't you have some traffic you can sit in with your monster truck and your chili corn dogs?
01:22:03
Speaker
I have some opiates you can take. You can over leverage your credit cards and buy too many houses. And the Americans are like, yeah. Yeah, Iceland. Yeah.
01:22:14
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It's great. And very good not that's the movie. That's the movie. That's the movie. It's super fun. Super dumb. yeah I love this movie so much. i i It is just, it is a hug of a movie. It's so silly. It's so nonsensical.
01:22:29
Speaker
There's fun songs in it. Yeah, I think I liked it better this time than the first time I saw it. i saw We saw it when it came out. It was 2020. So like this movie was supposed to come out along with the Eurovision contest in 2020. But something happened, I'm not sure what, in 2020 that canceled the Eurovision contest for the first time. Neither here nor there. Neither nor there. And so the the movie got released on Netflix, kind of, right?
01:22:54
Speaker
ah and to to very no acclaim whatsoever. um But it was the summer of 2020 and nobody had anything to do but watch movies on Netflix, I suppose. So yeah that's when we saw it. And I thought it was fine, but I liked it better this time for sure. Okay, good. Yeah, because Charlie turned to me when we first started, when we turned on and he goes, doesn't Katie hate this movie?
01:23:15
Speaker
No, I don't hate this movie. I mean, we can find out what my Letterboxd review is. I have no idea what it was. Okay, well, I gave it one star. Oh, yeah. So there you go. There you go. I don't think I, I, yeah, I definitely like it better than one star. Yeah. One movie.
01:23:31
Speaker
So yes, that's it. The end. That's it. Eurovision. Yeah. What are we doing next week, Katie? So next week.
01:23:42
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Next week. Okay. So I know that this was a surprise for everyone because we said we were going to be doing people we meet on vacation. We are actually going to be doing people we meet on vacation Next week, because we thought it came out on the 6th of January. And apparently doesn't come out until the 9th of January. Maybe I was reading it upside down when I saw the release date. also thought that. I was like, do I have like dyslexia for numbers? It's certainly possible. Right? Because like we both looked it. We were like, oh, the 6th. Obviously. The Doi.
01:24:08
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um Which I didn't question why a like big movie from a rom-com book that was like a bestseller is coming out on a Tuesday. I think Netflix kind of releases stuff on all days, don't they? Yeah, so I just didn't question it.
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