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Kate & Leopold
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Emma & Katie discuss the 2001 romcom Kate & Leopold, and Katie gets wrapped around the axle on the historical inaccuracies (there's a lot). We talk about the plague of flatironed chunky highlights at the turn of the century, the old days of digital cameras and social media, make plans to go to adult summer camp together, and learn that fundamental fact: Movies are a lie.
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Weather and Everyday Life
00:00:00
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He just he loves it so much. He's just like, oh, the sun, the sun makes the difference. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. What listeners missed was Charlie running back and forth in my bedroom ah from one window to the other because it's raining on one half of the house and not the other half of the house.
00:00:18
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And oh, this was the kicker, Katie. I asked him when he came upstairs and I was setting up. I was like, can you hand me my headphones? They're just right over there. And he walks past them to go to the other window.
00:00:30
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And then he walks past them again to go to this window. was like, you pass me my headphones? And then he walks past them again go to the other window. This happened like three times.
00:00:42
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It's an interesting weather phenomenon, must say. mean, it's not that interesting. One of those things from like, oh yeah, uh-huh, that's interesting. Yeah. And that's the The clouds moving. Yeah, the clouds are just moving.
00:00:55
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Well, you have to understand it just rains all the time in England, so he's not used to it. He's not used to fun way. Wayne? Fun Wayne. Fun Wayne.
Hair Discussions and Inspirations
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How you doing? Oh, I'm fine. i You know, it's every day is a struggle. But other than that. Yeah. Yeah. I feel that.
00:01:19
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ah get it. But I got my hair cut today. So all the little dead ends. I mean, you can't really tell because it's all up because it's hot as balls. Yeah.
00:01:29
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Yeah, it is here too. I got on my hair cut off again. oh cute. It looks so cute. Look at you. Little Mae West over there. And now I'm already thinking about i should grow my hair long. I was watching... um as I was doing something on a Dropout and Emily Axford's like hair is just so long and it's like her hair is like the same texture as mine I'm like should grow my hair out again it's so nice I just always i want mermaid hair yeah no I feel that I want mermaid hair but that's impossible for me yeah I mean her hair is also professionally done on those things yeah so you know yeah yeah that'll happen that'll happen yeah if I could learn how to if I could learn how to braid my hair a little bit better maybe I would
00:02:12
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I would go back to the long hair because yeah, I tend to like go back and forth between like boob length hair and then chin. Those are my two modes. Oh, mine just always starts to like die before it gets to my boob length. I just want it to be long enough to cover my boobs so that I can be like, what's, what's that um medieval lady?
00:02:32
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um The, ah who. The birth of Venus. Her, but then also the one that had to ride the horse.
00:02:42
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Madonna or Godiva. Godiva. was like, Madonna. Yeah, yeah, Madonna. Did Madonna do that? Which Madonna are we talking about? Madonna Ciccone is what I was referencing.
00:02:56
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It's a short story. That's like a prayer. Is that Cher singing like a prayer though? That's what it sounded like.
00:03:09
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Anyways, that's right, guys.
Time Travel and Film Humor
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This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where and Katie... have an ex-boyfriend.
00:03:20
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Emma and have a weird ex-boyfriend who weirdly lives above them, and he's got some weird science fixation. And one day, he comes home with this weird dude that you're like, what why is this guy so Victorian? And he's like, ah he works in computers. And no, he doesn't.
00:03:38
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um Because your ex-boyfriend went back in time, and this ah charming Hugh Jackman followed him through, and... Weirdly, we just, we fall in love and we are trying to live our lives girl bossing and becoming a VP of a marketing company or some whatever. um Market research.
00:04:00
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Not even really marketing. Market research. But like, do we, do we want a career life or do we want a love life? That's the big question.
00:04:11
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Time will only tell. Time travel will only tell. Listen, if my ex-boyfriend invented time travel, like, I think I would get back together. Like, i don't care how annoying he is.
00:04:24
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I would, unless the very handsome duke that he brought back from the Victorian age was Hugh Jackman. Well, yeah, I mean, if you're still friends and everything, I guess that's okay. Yeah, yeah, i just yeah. i want I want the man who invented time travel in my life is what I'm saying.
00:04:37
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I've got a lot of plans for time that require the use of time travel.
Film Critique: 'Kate and Leopold'
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yes Yes, we we are talking about Kate and Leopold from the year 2001, written by Stephen Rogers and James Mangold and directed by James Mangold.
00:04:56
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um James Mangold... who, of course, directed Girl Interrupted, Walk the Line, Identity, Logan, Ford vs. Ferrari, Indiana Jones, and The Dial of Destiny.
00:05:11
Speaker
What? And A Complete Unknown, the Timothee Chalamet, Bob Dylan movie that came out last year. Boy Loves New York. Boy Loves New York. ah Yeah, sure. um And then steve rogers Stephen Rogers also wrote Stepmom, Hope Floats, and I, Tonya.
00:05:30
Speaker
so Jesus! And then they all over the place decided to come together for this classic. Classic. Well, this is, I mean, Stepmom and Hope Floats were before this, but this is before any of those other movies. Like, ha Walk the Line is 2003. Well, Girl Interrupted, I think, is before this. Yeah, Girl Interrupted is like 99. Girl Interrupted was 99, yeah. Yeah.
00:05:49
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yeah But yeah, um James Mangold loves Hugh Jackman, I guess, which ah how can you not? And he made ah the Wolverine movie that everyone loves that I haven't seen.
00:06:01
Speaker
It's really good. It's really good. That's what everybody says. So it's just, it's very, and James Mangold has made this like, I mean, I guess Logan, though lot of those movies were hits. he also made a movie called Night and Day, which was La Flop that I actually think is pretty good. and we're going watch on this podcast one day. vaguely remember it.
00:06:18
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Yeah. Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. It's an action rom-com. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It has, i didn't realize until I rewatched it, like, because the movie's from like 2009 or something. I rewatched it last year and I realized that something that I say all the time, I stole from that movie. And I knew i it was from something, but just didn't remember what it was from.
00:06:39
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But that that is, i'm gonna I'm going to kill myself and then you. love that. I love that. and um ah Anyway, so we'll watch that at some point.
00:06:52
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um But yeah, what ah what a strange ah career. What strange, yeah, filmography. Way on the upswing. Like, he is one of the most, like, in-demand directors in Hollywood right now. He's, like, one of the guys.
00:07:04
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um and he may i mean, he's got to Oscars, right? It sounds like he has Oscars. I don't know if he's won any. He's been nominated for a bunch, yeah for sure. um I think he's been nominated for best Director. Walk the line, sure.
00:07:15
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Actually, um maybe a couple of times. Let's find out together. James Mangold. ah Let's see. Awards. Nominated for five Oscars.
00:07:29
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Dominated for Director, Best Screenplay. Yeah. screenplay yeah he's but He's been nominated for Best Screenplay for Logan and A Complete Unknown. And then nominated for Best Picture for Ford vs. Ferrari and A Complete Unknown. Ford vs. Ferrari?
00:07:44
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And then nominated for Best Director for A Complete Unknown. Yeah, he did Ford vs. Ferrari, which I haven't seen. I haven't seen either because I don't care about cars. Yeah, no, me neither.
00:07:55
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Yeah, yeah. But hey, and he also did Kate Leopold. How many Oscar nominations did Kate Leopold get? I'm going to check the notes here. It was zero. you got It got an honorary Oscar for being the most historically inaccurate movie released that year, though, if that's something.
00:08:13
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I mean, what about the Oscar for most stacked cast of future superstars? Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, superstars?
00:08:24
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There's two yeah that I'm aware of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kristen Schaal, Natasha Lyonne. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. I guess Natasha Lyonne and Kristen Schaal stars, but not superstars. I mean, Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis are the only, like, i was going to say, Viola Davis.
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:44
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um wild yeah viola davis has a cameo as a cop in this and like i tracked like she had been in a couple of things but she was certainly not a known actor um no yeah it came out and just her under eyes yeah and she's like yeah uh in this movie came out so like great job uh making it later on in your career viola davis yeah um much like um there's a lot of actors like that who you'll see you'll see like an old movie and holy shit that's like um Academy Award winning whatever in this um this movie.
00:09:19
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Margot Martindale. Margot Martindale deserves an Oscar. Love Margot Martindale. She's so great. The first note I have for this is there were elevators in the fucking Coliseum. Like
00:09:35
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The idea that the elevator was invented in sometime after 1876 is so fucking annoying to me. in this movie listen I love this movie.
Historical Inaccuracies and Humor
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this is this This is so fun and charming and cute. I love this movie. But the elevator thing, i will never stop being annoyed by. It was invented by Hugh Jackman in the 1800s.
00:10:02
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There goes your little pop. Pop socket. Pop filter. big Pop filter. um It is, it seems like the the people who wrote this movie, James Mangold and Stephen Rogers, did absolutely no research whatsoever in regard to historical inaccuracies.
00:10:22
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Basically, everything that comes out of his mouth is historically inaccurate. I don't know because this is the first time. started making notes. Okay. Well, before, let me, let me hit you with an Emma's fun fact.
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Emma's fun fact. Hugh Jackman took etiquette lessons from 19th century etiquette expert, Jane Gibson, who trained actors for such projects as Sense and Sensibility. He also studied ballroom dancing and trained to ride a horse for the film.
00:10:53
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so That all makes sense. Yes, totally. But all the references to things he makes are historically inaccurate. Pretty much everything he says is historically inaccurate from...
00:11:06
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Because I started making notes and then I started looking things up and like, I'm not going to say i knew these things off the top of my head. The first thing I noticed was that he's talking about John Roebling. um Okay. At the dedication of one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, right? So the very movie begins, it's 1876, New York.
00:11:24
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He is this British. Yeah. He's well, it's um European ambiguous. Yeah. yes he's from europe he says his last name is mount baton he says his last name is mount baton which of course is also not historically correct because the mount they didn't change their name to mount baton until world war one because to make it not to make it sound less german yeah um which is crazy like literally everything he says is historically not great um
00:11:56
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But again, I don't want that to be the focus of this. I just think it's fun to to mention some of these things. i I don't hold any of that against this movie. It's just interesting to me as someone who writes things that someone could care so little about fact checking any of this before you commit it to film.
00:12:12
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um Well, you know. So I wrote a play. I wrote a play about, not it's not about the Brooklyn Bridge, but the the title of the play is the Brooklyn Bridge. So I did a lot of research about the Brooklyn Bridge. There's a character who's an architect who like does, talks about stuff.
00:12:27
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Is there another character that is the Brooklyn Bridge? No, there's not. That does sound like something I would do, though. Great, great, great roast on Katie Coleman. You're welcome.
00:12:40
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But they, no, there's actually no, that play is fairly realistic. You just got inspired. You got very inspired to write about a Brooklyn Bridge.
00:12:52
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Aside from the fact that there's a lot of YouTube videos that one of the main characters is making as part of the like construct of the play, there's nothing really that unrealistic that happens in that play, which is unusual for me. It's also not good Yeah, maybe you need a Brooklyn character.
00:13:04
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not good Because there's no Brooklyn Bridge. Anyway... So I did a little research on the Brooklyn Bridge. So I did remember and know that the guy who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, the the German John Roebling, who that's character this old guy is, who's giving this speech, didn't survive to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, not in any way. He had been dead for like a decade by the time this started. Like his son, who was yeah who was young and American, was the one who finished the Brooklyn Bridge. And so and and then Hugh Jackman even calls the guy out by name. He's like, oh, it's Roebling's Bridge.
00:13:40
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Roebling did it! He did it! So because of that, his erection, Roebling's erection is what they keep calling it. So the first scene of this movie is Hugh is hugh Jackman. He's at the dedication of the the Brooklyn Bridge. It's under construction. It's not finished yet.
00:13:56
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And he notices Liev Schreiber, who I thought was sweaty, but I think that he's wet because he came out of the river, correct? Yeah, that makes a little bit more sense.
00:14:07
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I didn't notice the perspiration personally, but hey. He's soaking wet in that first scene. But however, later when the two of, when Hugh Jackman and later Meg Ryan go through the portal, neither of them are wet.
00:14:20
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So I don't. Also when Meg Ryan goes through the portal again, um her outfit changes. Yes, it does. Her dress gets a little more historically accurate.
00:14:33
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Where she drops her coat and then she like pulls up her skirt. And I think the idea is that she turns it into ah something that looks like a bustle, which is insane. No, it's insane.
00:14:45
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Well, and there's like a new like trim on it. It's not the same. It's the same dress, but it's not the same dress. They took the idea of the dress that she was wearing and made it Victorian. I had a whole issue with that.
00:14:55
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But it's not quite. i have I have notes about it too. It's, I think the idea was that they wanted to put her in something that would look both modern and then also wouldn't necessarily be horrifying for people when she goes back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:09
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Yeah. She looks unusual, but not. But not terrible. Yeah, yeah, exactly. yeah um Yeah. Someone has invented some sort of flat
00:15:24
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he follows Leif Schreiber and he kind of goes about his day and his his he is a European aristocrat who's been sent to America to find an American wife, which was a very big thing that happened because Downton Abbey touches on this as well.
00:15:37
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All these people were land rich and had no money. Like they owned land in these big manor houses that they couldn't afford to keep up. So they would go to America and find a daughter of some rich American industrialist, bring them back to Europe.
00:15:51
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And, you know, it was a win-win for the the two men who decided this contract without and without any input from the woman. Yep, yep, yep, yep. But also, I mean, considering the choices for for women in the mid to late 19th century, a lot of it probably worked out okay for them, you know? Yeah, you could do worse. And I mean, it worked out really well for, what's her name in Downton Abbey?
00:16:14
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Cora. ahead I mean, I don't remember her name. They banged all the time. All the time. Well, that's because um Lord Crawley was a fox. Like, let's be real. Yeah.
00:16:28
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And they loved each other. so like it worked out. It worked out. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:36
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and So he chases Liev Schreiber to the Brooklyn Bridge and he's like, no, no, you got to let me. He's trying. He thinks he's trying to jump, but he. Yeah. Let he tries to stop him, but he actually gets pulled through portal in the East River that leads to 2001 New York.
00:16:53
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To the top of an apartment building, I'm assuming. I know. I think it deposits them in the river. Like, i think that's the idea. because like it does a funky thing to the elevator. And so I'm like, it leads me to to believe like that they just land at the building.
00:17:07
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The thing about the elevators is that the timeline is disrupted and he's not in the past to invent elevators anymore. That is what they're implying with the elevators not working, which is absurd because the elevators have been around for thousands of years.
00:17:27
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I thought it was like the timey-wimey stuff was doing weird stuff to the to the elevator and making it go electric vibes. Not only do they have elevators in ancient Greece and Rome,
00:17:42
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But in the 19th century, a man named Elisha Otis, which is what they're kind of doing here with like the idea is like you see the word Otis in a lot of elevators because that's the elevator company. The Otis Elevator Company is one of the biggest elevator companies in the world, still is.
00:17:55
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Elisha Otis in, looked it up just earlier today when I was watching this. um So it was in the 1850s. He invented the elevator safety brake. He did not invent the elevator.
00:18:06
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He invented an automatic brake. yeah. For when an elevator, which were common at the time, there were elevators everywhere.
Character Dynamics and Plot Devices
00:18:17
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When an elevator, when an elevator ah cable breaks, automatic brakes stop the elevator. They were, um it's ah it's an inertial brake. So when something starts to go too fast, the brakes automatically deploy. That is what he invented.
00:18:32
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So people just were dying? Yeah, elevators were would fall. I mean, like, it wasn't... but They weren't, like, death traps. I mean, they still worked most of the time, but, like... Yeah, they were kind of dangerous, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:45
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And the fact of the matter is... It was box a cable with a pulley. Yeah. And they existed. Yeah. um I think that like some people think that Archimedes invented the elevator. Like it's just, it's so, it's such an ancient invention pick randomly. They could have done have done anything.
00:19:05
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Like they could have done a toaster. They could have done yeah like, totally you know, cause he's got the whole thing with the toaster. Yeah. yeah did They could have done a light bulb. I don't know. Rewritten history. no one needs to know. It was, wasn't Thomas Edison.
00:19:20
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Well, you'll be interested to know that in the ancient sea in the in the ancient scene, in the old, in the scene in his time in 1876, where he talks about inventors that he admires, not one of those people had invented those things yet when he says that.
00:19:33
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He's like Edison and his light bulb, diesel and the diesel engine, Westinghouse with whatever, way I don't remember, electricity or something like that, whatever Westinghouse worked on. None of those people had made their inventions yet.
00:19:46
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And so the thing about Elisha Otis with the elevator break, he invented that 25 years but in the 1850s. So in 1876, elevators would have been everywhere because when the elevator break was invented, they became super popular because they were safe all of a sudden.
00:20:03
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Everywhere had elevators 1876.
00:20:08
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Anyways, this has been Katie's Nerd Fact Corner. um Yeah, okay. And I'm done. i'm I'm not going to Oh, except when they talk about La Boheme. When they talk about La Boheme. La Boheme didn't come out for another 20 years. La Boheme premiered in 1896.
00:20:27
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They just straight up were like, you know what? What's kind of Victorian? Yeah, they just didn't look anything up, which is just insane to me. And maybe I do, I have been accused of doing too much research for my plays and stuff, but like, I can't imagine just not bothering to look up. Let's be easy on the guys.
00:20:43
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There wasn't the Gilded Age back then. There wasn't, they hadn't had, you know. They hadn't had like Titanic and other movies to like tell us the difference between Victorian and turn of the century.
00:20:57
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they did They did have Titanic. Titanic came out four years before this movie. Oh, damn it. Damn it.
00:21:08
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And you know what was on the Titanic? You know was on the Titanic? An elevator? Elevators. Yeah, yeah.
00:21:18
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the The weird thing is, it definitely seems like this guy, like maybe they wrote this whole screenplay where he was coming from like 1910 or something or like 1900 even.
00:21:32
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Like yeah all of the references would work for that, except for the elevator, obviously, which doesn't make sense no matter what. But, and then at the last moment, they added this Brooklyn Bridge suit situation. And then they wanted him to be there when the Brooklyn Bridge was built.
00:21:46
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So they had to change it to 1876. And then they didn't change any of the other references. That would be my guess. Yeah. It's either that or ah movie that had just taken place in the 1870s had just wrapped and the um ah the production house had all the costumes.
00:22:07
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That's true. Yeah. They had the... as well use this Yeah, the, oh, what Gangs of New York sets were still up, so they just popped into those. Yeah, Gangs of New York were still up. They still had some remnants of little women.
00:22:26
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I don't know. What else takes place in the
00:22:32
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um Yes. So he goes through a time portal and ends up in 2001 New York with Meg Ryan and her frightening haircut. Yes. Oh, my God. board charlie Charlie's first response was, woof, that hair.
00:22:47
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It is a problem. It is...
00:22:51
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It's, there's, yeah there' there's highlights and it's like a long, chunky shag. yeah and it's just flat ironed into oblivion. Like, yeah it it has to, it has to smell like burning, like all day. Like, it's yeah just...
00:23:09
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it's flat and it's like it's flat and it's sharp and it's just like yeah i mean it was it was very 2001 like everybody had that haircut like i guess a lot of people had that haircut or i mean a lot of times they'd like whisk it out but like that the like chunky highlights sharp like layers like that that was a look Yeah, it's ah it's a bad look.
00:23:36
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um Yeah, it does not work for her. And like they also dress her like a pirate a lot. like They dress her like a pirate! There were so many times I was waiting for Hugh Jackman to make a reference to how she's dressed like him.
00:23:50
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Yeah, yeah. was like, why are they wearing the same thing? it is i guess it was intentional. I guess they wanted to to to do that. That had to be intentional. But like it is it is an odd it seems like an odd choice. Yeah.
00:24:02
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I mean, they were trying to really masculine her up because like the the whole thing was like, she's really good at her job. So like, she's like a dude, right? And what's his name even gets like a little monologue about it where it's like you're like a dude.
00:24:15
Speaker
You're like a man. You don't let emotions get the heart, get the better of you. And it's a very toxic monologue, especially for a movie that was produced by Miramax. That's true. That is true.
00:24:30
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I'm looking at my notes here. um Yeah. Oh, yeah. And Kristen Schaal. So in back before he goes back before he comes to the future, he's being presented with Kristen Schaal, who this movie is not charitable to. No!
00:24:44
Speaker
Little adorable baby face Kristen Schaal. Like she has to been still young. Can you imagine getting cast? getting cast as the ugly girl that the guy doesn't want to marry in a movie like that sucks poor Kristen Schaal and she looks so pretty like she has this really pretty pink dress on and she's just so excited she just looks she looks very like excited I mean she's very Kristen Schaal um and she's just very like excited and like young and um you know goofy looking yeah Miss Tree um yeah
00:25:17
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So now we understand that Lee of Schreiber, Schreiber, Schreiber, it's hard to say. Yeah. um Just is trying to invent a time machine. Couldn't do it.
00:25:30
Speaker
Instead found time portals that open and close regularly. And he found one in the East River and you have to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge into it to get it to work. But like, how did you find that?
00:25:44
Speaker
it's I mean, he says he did all this math to find it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He does all this math, but then you have to like you have to take that leap. You have to jump into it. Well, it becomes a metaphor for entering a relationship, which is... Jumping into love.
00:25:58
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but One of the things that this movie manages to pull off. What if he was wrong? Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, like, the whole thing, everybody thinks he's crazy, the whole movie, they because they won't develop his film. yeah So he's back there taking a bunch of pictures and laughing at everybody saying the word erection, which is also how you would pick me out of being, yeah like, sent back in time. Like, there's no way. Look at this enormous erection!
00:26:21
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Yeah. The greatest erection in the world. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, quite so. And he's like, oh, yes. Penis. Penis. um yes um so now immediately the elevators aren't working because this guy in this parallel universe invented the elevator i don't know how they got all the the rhinoceroses and lions and such into onto the coliseum floor without an elevator but whatever man um stairs he yeah leading a lion up the stairs
00:26:59
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the So Liam Shriver lives above his ex-girlfriend, Meg Ryan. They dated for four years. Yes. Which is a long time.
00:27:11
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That's a long ass time. And she has a really successful job making lots of money. And he, we don't know what he does except science. He's some kind of scientist. I imagine that he probably teaches at a university or something. I don't know.
00:27:25
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guess. This whole movie takes place over a week. So it's he could do anything. um ah He has a very large dog who um gets him into trouble.
00:27:37
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ah He's telling you, Jackman, you can't leave the apartment. we've got to get you We can't get you back for a week. So you got to stay in the apartment for a week until we can take you back to 1876. But then he falls down the elevator shaft.
00:27:47
Speaker
Because the elevator doesn't work. In traction the rest of the movie. So Meg Ryan has to has to to keep Hugh Jackman.
00:27:59
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Yep. Well, because he's like missing at first and Meg Ryan refuses to take any of his calls to find out what's going on for the longest time. Yeah, that's true. That's true. He's calling from the hospital.
00:28:10
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is her, um, is her assistant and she's constantly like, what what's his name? Spencer? Or, um, Stuart. Stuart. Stuart's on the phone. Stuart's on the phone. She's like, I don't care.
00:28:23
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yeah um Natasha Lyonne has not smoked nearly enough cigarettes to ruin her voice yet. She sounds surprisingly normal in this movie from 24 years ago. She's little itty bitty baby. Also playing a very straight woman who's in love with romance novels.
00:28:38
Speaker
She's she has. ah Yeah, she's the the character like in a lot of the ro romance novels that I read. There'll be like a character who reads a lot of romance novels. Who's like it's kind of like. um like Jamie Kennedy in Scream, but for romance novels.
00:28:50
Speaker
I love that. I love that. It's like, I know all the rules to this. Listen, this is what's going to happen. And that's basically who Natasha Lyonne is in this movie. So I appreciated that representation. Exactly. um she She's her assistant. Bradley Whitford is her boss, who is a real c creep.
00:29:06
Speaker
yeah Bradley Whitford, to be like such a cutie pie sweetheart on the West Wing, like his most well known role, almost exclusively in movies, he plays this guy, like an yeah asshole corporate creep. Yeah.
00:29:21
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Yeah, yeah. And he just like constantly is like luring Meg Ryan with a promotion, but he won't directly say that he's gonna promote her. um And like keeps like hinting like, oh, you got to kiss me first.
00:29:34
Speaker
Oh, we got to go to dinner. Oh, we got to go to um the opera together. And oh, you got to do all this and then we'll talk about it. And then it never happens. um Which again, very problematic for a film that was produced by Miramax.
00:29:50
Speaker
That's true. That is true. It is it is is very wine Harvey Weinstein coded. Yeah. And um yeah, so she's trying to get promoted. She's trying to get get the to be the head of the this office. She has, after her relationship with Liam Schreiber didn't work out, she has refocused on her job and she is trying to be very successful at her job and does not have time for love, much like Hugh Jackman, who is trying to be forced into a marriage against his will and says he's never felt actual love.
00:30:18
Speaker
yeah And so they're perfect for each other. Yeah. Leo Schreiber's got to get film developed because it's 2001. Yep. Yep.
Nostalgia and Personal Anecdotes
00:30:30
Speaker
And he has the world. Because I forgot. I know. When I saw that, I just assumed he's like, he'll hook it up to the computer and get, because he is like a computer guy. So you'd think he'd have a digital camera. It is 2001. They did exist.
00:30:42
Speaker
They existed in 2001. It's got to be a whole pull plot point. You got to get this weird film developed to at a place where you do that. And like, I had forgotten that that existed because like, you know, we're old enough to remember, like when I was in high school, I had like those little disposable cameras that you would take on like a trip and like take a bunch of photos and then get them developed.
00:31:04
Speaker
Yeah. Even in college, I think we had some little disposables. Yeah. They were like fun little favors. The only cameras that I ever were the had that were like my camera were digital cameras. But um yeah I had a disposable camera. I didn't have like um like an actual film camera that i was like a real camera. But I definitely had disposables.
00:31:24
Speaker
Yeah. I had like a film camera, but it was digital because I really loved photography in high school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um And i yeah I think I should get like a like a digital camera sometimes because the pictures are like still better than your phone yeah camera.
00:31:40
Speaker
You know Oh my God. So much better. Charlie has one. And like when we go pretty vacations. So like if we, when we go to like- not England? Hello.
00:31:52
Speaker
um But like if we're going on like a road trip or something, um he'll like bring it along. Like on our honeymoon, he brought it along and he took some really pretty pictures. Yeah. um yeah And when who I think when we were in Australia, he brought it um and he took some really pretty pictures.
00:32:07
Speaker
um But ah but yeah, so like i'm I'm all for the bringing back of physical media because I lost so many pictures of high school Oh yeah, it's all on Facebook. and once well it was all in myspace and then once myspace went away they like lost all of the like all of your pictures just disappeared because and then like i tried getting yeah i tried getting them back Because I went back, like, ages ago i was bored at my receptionist job. And so I was like, well, maybe if I just, like, get back into my, you know, profile, I can get them.
00:32:42
Speaker
um And, like, I contacted MySpace. I was like, where are all my pictures? And they were like, oh, we changed servers, like, 10 years ago.
00:32:53
Speaker
So those are gone. Yeah. Um, I think now like it, like, I don't think Facebook would do that, but at some point I should like, cause my Facebook is deactivated technically not deleted. So I could go on there and get all of my download, all my pictures, you know, that are on there. Yeah. I think I can, I think they they have like a one button that'll let you do that.
00:33:14
Speaker
Um, yeah, I should do that sometime just so I don't lose them. Cause yeah, all of my photos from college and yeah and like the years after college even are all, cause like you would, You would take the pictures either on a visual camera or on your phone.
00:33:26
Speaker
You would have to physically hook it up to your computer, download all the pictures onto Facebook one at a time. Yep. Write a cute caption for it. Come up with a cute album name. Like, yeah you know, like I fucked the shit out of Megan's 21st birthday party.
00:33:46
Speaker
not ah Not an example on the top of my head, an actual Facebook album. There you go. It was i fucked the shit out of a lot of things in my friend group. okay. Mine was just like back in H-Town for Thanksgiving, babes.
00:34:00
Speaker
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or like pictures from the past. It was like two years ago. Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:11
Speaker
um Yeah, so we meet Breckenmeyer, who is Meg Ryan's brother, who's an actor. Who just came back actor camp. Yeah, and everyone's like, i want to go to actor camp. Where do you sign up for actor camp?
00:34:25
Speaker
I mean, I've been to actor camp. As an adult? like I believe the school at Steppenwolf actor camp. It was three in the summer.
00:34:36
Speaker
And i it was every day. It was actor camp. I went to actor camp. it Was it just for one summer? wasn't for multiple years? No, it was just for one summer. Oh, yeah, that's cool.
00:34:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I chose I was like choosing between grad school and then I got into school at Steppenwolf and I was like, um would I rather go to grad school and be in debt for three years worth of loans and come out with a degree that I'm probably not going to use to teach or yeah go to do school Steppenwolf and meet all the people and do all the things in the things that I want to do?
00:35:15
Speaker
for like ah a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the time. So that's what I chose to do. So um I love, i mean, I would go to an adult adult camp if you could.
00:35:27
Speaker
um Yeah, that sounds great. I love camp. Yeah, i mean, we we talked about this in the Parent Trap episode. We're both pro camp. Yeah. I mean, I so desperately, there was a hot minute when I would just constantly be looking up like adult summer camps because there's so many adult summer camps that you can go to. They exist. They do. Listen, they're if you ever want to pull the trigger, we could totally go together. Oh, my God. It'd be super fun. We would bring Charlie, but he'd end up in the infirmary.
00:35:53
Speaker
He would, he would, yeah. He would get stung by some kind of bug that had not existed in America previously. And then he would be in the infirmary all summer. Right. Or he would like try to do um archery and he would throw his shoulder out and then his he'd have to be in like a sling for the rest of the summer.
Romantic Developments and Tropes
00:36:10
Speaker
And he'd just be that sad kid. Yep.
00:36:13
Speaker
Yep. And he'd just be that sad guy sitting by himself on the sidelines watching Capture the Flag. Aw, poor Charlie.
00:36:24
Speaker
um Yeah, so, um ah yeah, Bradley Whitford is trying to sexually ah harass um Meg Ryan. yeah um they They all kind of take him being from the 1870s in stride because they kind of think that he's crazy. that Breckenmeyer thinks that he's a method actor.
00:36:44
Speaker
love so much. Meg Ryan just thinks that he's nuts, I guess, but still likes to spend time with him. Until he they're they're they're out in the city and he finds his old house.
00:36:56
Speaker
Yeah. That he at his uncle's house that he was living in. And he finds a secret passage that he had, a secret compartment that he had made. And pulls out his mother's wedding ring. And she's like, oh, that's that's weird that you knew about that.
00:37:08
Speaker
Yep. And then someone snatches her purse and he chases him down on horseback, which is... Pretty hot. Let's be real. It's so sexy. yeah Well, it's not just that. It's also like what he says to the the purse snatcher at the end, which is like, he has this like little monologue about how he is going to whip him with his reins of his horse if he dare does something to this woman.
00:37:36
Speaker
And ah the guy goes, I deal with this crazy guy. And then all the people on the bridge above are like, yay for Victorian guy. Totally realistic. I feel like that would happen. If I witnessed that in New York, I would also applaud. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:49
Speaker
Yeah. um ah ah He, Brick and Meyer brings, brings, um so um Bradley Whitford takes Meg Ryan to dinner to supposedly give her this promotion, but is really just trying to hit on her. because oh that Oh, that's right. Sorry. So they're looking for a margarine spokesperson for the this ad. Yes.
00:38:13
Speaker
And she gets Hugh Jackman to do it because he has gravitas and he is an actual dude the 19th century. Yeah. Yeah. And he's hot. i mean, it's not hard to use a teleprompter.
00:38:28
Speaker
You can read, you can use a teleprompter. Also, is weirded out by all the cameras? Yeah, I mean, like, I guess, like, he's been in New York for, like, five days at that point and, like, is kind of over it, I suppose, is the idea. I guess we just gotta deal with it.
00:38:45
Speaker
He is an inventor. He does invent a better toaster in the five, in the six days that in New York. Yeah. He fixes the toaster with a timer, an egg timer. Yeah, I mean, like, toasters have timers on them. Like, you can, they they've done that. But anyway, there's another thing he didn't really.
00:39:02
Speaker
uh, So that's a big success. So so Bradley Whitford tells Melvin Bryant, okay, you're going to get the promotion. We'll go to dinner at this fancy place. Meanwhile, Breckenmeyer takes Hugh Jackman to the club where yeah he hangs out with the he hangs out with exclusively women, which like, good job, Breckenmeyer. Good for you.
00:39:20
Speaker
one of her One of whom he has a crush on, but he is a goofus yep As they're leaving the club, Hugh Jackman dominates the conversation because he's interesting and charming and people respond to that. Yeah, he knows how talk to women.
00:39:35
Speaker
Well, he says, you, Charlie, are a Mary Andrew. Women respond to sincerity. No one wants to be romanced by a buffoon. And that is like, that's so true. yeah.
00:39:46
Speaker
yeah Very true. um I mean, I would go so far as to say that all people, regardless of gender, respond to sincerity. But i maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I certainly respond to sincerity.
00:39:57
Speaker
Yeah, I respond to sincerity. But I like to laugh. Well, no, no, no. It's not not saying that that you're you're not, you can't laugh or be funny. He's just saying that yeah he's he's not making. He's peacocking.
00:40:12
Speaker
Yeah. he's He's not being being sincere. Yeah. He's not. Yeah. yeah He's being ins sincere, which is different than being serious. Yeah. Very true. Very true.
00:40:22
Speaker
um Then they decide, so they get a little drunk and they decide to crash Meg Ryan's dinner date with Bradley Whitford. And you realize that Bradley Whitford is lying about a bunch of stuff because he says he's seen La Boheme a bunch of times, but he gets the character's name wrong. And he says it's in French when it's in Italian. Which, why would you say that? Like, you're talking to someone who clearly knows, like, about things. Like, you can't, like, that's just stupid, Bradley Whitford.
00:40:48
Speaker
Because he's trying to impress Meg Ryan. Yeah. He is. He is trying to impress Matt Ryan. um ah and ah But that that it is moot, because of course, because La Boheme came out in 1896. So irrelevant!
00:41:04
Speaker
So yeah. That would have been a good response to him saying, like, La Boheme, of course, that features no one named Andre and his set is is set in France but is written in Italian. If Bradley Whitford is like, yeah, well, if you're from 1876, it hadn't even come out yet.
00:41:19
Speaker
So suck on that. Yeah. um So this angers Meg Ryan because he's her boss and that puts her in a terrible position, which is understandable. And like, you know, um ah he's like, you should quit your job and not work for that man. And he she's like, that's not how this works. Like, you don't yeah understand what it's like.
00:41:39
Speaker
Yeah. She has to afford her the rent on her beautiful New York City apartment. Her lower Manhattan apartment. Yeah. Which is huge. Huge. I mean, it's not like the biggest one we've seen, but like, it's pretty big.
00:41:54
Speaker
Yeah. And she does share it with her brother, but still like it is, it is a ridiculously expensive apartment. They share Oh, they live together. Yeah. They live together. Oh, I thought that he was at acting camp. No, he was at acting camp, but now he's back. It is his apartment too. Yeah.
00:42:09
Speaker
oh okay well then that makes i'm even more confused about how leave schreiber affords his and he's apparently a successful physicist i don't know um so he writes her and then they go to perform they go to to shoot the commercial and he's like this tastes like garbage i can't that's that's my reputation and he's like yep you have never had to work a day in your life. You need to understand that sometimes we do things that aren't right and like that that aren't like perfect. And you have to like get your shit together. Yeah. And he's like, okay, fine.
00:42:47
Speaker
um Meanwhile, he helps Breckenmeyer for this woman. um and he tells him what to say. And he calls her and says, you've made an impression on me, which like, yeah, which is so sweet.
00:43:00
Speaker
Yeah. pretty hot man i don't know like made an impression on me as a hot thing to say like he writes down all of these really cute like pickup lines for breckenmeyer to use and he's just like breckenmeyer's on the phone with uh and he's like looking at he'd definitely be like really dude really he's like yeah yeah yeah and he uses well and they're not necessarily pickup lines but they're telling him to to be sincere to her to tell her his intentions to tell her that what he likes about her and to be honest with her, which is yeah you know always the right move.
00:43:35
Speaker
And important. and um And Hugh Jackman um disassembles a hundred ballpoint pens to write a letter with a quill when he could have just used the pen write letter.
00:43:55
Speaker
That's correct, yes. As an apology to Meg Ryan. He doesn't understand. Also, it looks better with a quill, you know? Sometimes it's that personal touch. I guess. Meanwhile, Liev Schreiber has been sent to the psych ward because he won't shut up about the time portal.
00:44:09
Speaker
Yep.
Key Realizations and Resolutions
00:44:10
Speaker
Where his doctor is fucking Spalding Gray. Who's Spalding Gray? Spalding Gray is the famous monologuist who, um like... um ah the The Killing Fields, Grey's Anatomy. He is a big New York ah downtown theater guy. He wrote these monologues. Some of them got turned into movies. um
00:44:37
Speaker
He killed himself ah in the... Not long after this movie, probably. Like, maybe mid-2000s, I think. Yeah, he jumped off the Staten Island Ferry. It's wild. um But yeah, very very famous um ah actor, mostly known for his his monologues, the way he would sit on a desk on stage and, like, yeah direct address to the audience. Oh, very cool. um Yeah, really, really cool guy.
00:45:03
Speaker
He plays the psychiatrist in this movie for some strange reason. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he did have appearance, like he was in the movie, The Killing Fields. And that's why, um and that is his, one of his most famous monologue, which I suddenly can't seem to think of the name of, um is about his experience in Cambodia. And it is called Swimming to Cambodia.
00:45:28
Speaker
Swimming to Cambodia is probably his most famous monologue. They shot a movie version of it and like released it in theaters and stuff. Yeah. Oh, cool.
00:45:37
Speaker
2004. Yeah, so just a few years after this. Oh, that's really sad. um Yes, so, ah but Liam Schreiber makes an impression on one of the nurses there.
00:45:49
Speaker
yes he does. And she's like, I believe you. Right. um So, yes, she's like, I believe you about the time travel, and she breaks him out of the psych ward.
00:46:01
Speaker
Yeah, doesn't give him any clothes, but she breaks him out. And he gets back to he gets back to Manhattan and yeah gets ah Hugh Jackman through the time portal because Matt Gryan hasn't um has it responded to his apology, right?
00:46:20
Speaker
I mean, well, this is the I was going to correct you, but you were already going. and The whole yeah commercial bit is the second fight that they have.
00:46:31
Speaker
The first fight... he like writes this letter gets on snuck and breckenmeyer sneaks it into his um or her her briefcase she reads it and then natasha leone writes a reply and goes we can fax it and so they fax it and then they have this lovely little dinner on the roof and they talk about how she's romantic but like you know you just can't live a fairy tale and um then they dance and it's just like super charming because it looks like mc ryan is genuinely having so much fun um and
00:47:03
Speaker
ah And sorry, I just got an email from Kamala Harris where she's making some. What the fuck does she want? She's not running for governor this year.
00:47:15
Speaker
good Anyways, um so she's just so meg Ryan and him have this wonderful little weekend where they bang and then they snuggle and then they go shopping. they bang?
00:47:29
Speaker
think that they bang. I think they bang. Because she's like nakey. It is implied that they bang, yeah. It's implied. And then he makes her breakfast. And then she's just like, oh, no, tomorrow's Sunday. And he goes, but you don't work on Sundays. And she goes, but it's the day before Monday.
00:47:46
Speaker
and And they have this really lovely time. It's very and real. then Then they shoot the commercial and they get into the fight. And she's just like, you need to like be a professional. And he's like, I'm Victorian.
00:47:56
Speaker
I can't promote stuff I'm not passionate about. And he storms off and she puts out a fire and that gets her the actual promotion. um And then, then we get Liev Schreiber who comes back and he's just like, Hey, I guess I missed some, missed out on some stuff. You banging my ex?
00:48:14
Speaker
Cool. And Hugh Jackman's like, yep, I'm very distraught. And he's like, well, we got to get you back. Time to get you back in time. And they send Hugh Jackman back.
00:48:26
Speaker
But then, but then, He gets his pictures developed. Yes, he does. And he's going through the pictures and he's like, whoa, whoa, what's going on here?
00:48:40
Speaker
Mind blown. And we don't see the picture like like all good film. Yeah. But but Breckenmeyer sees the pictures and he's like, oh, so he really was from the 1970s. He's like, yes, that's what i've been telling everybody this whole time. It's like, no one believed you.
00:48:57
Speaker
No, yeah you sounded like a crazy person. You literally were committed for like ah for a week. Yeah.
00:49:05
Speaker
um And then ah then he realizes that, oh my god, everything happened for a reason. he did, he had to go back in time. He thought that he made a mistake by going back in time because it made Hugh Jackman come back to the future. But really it was totally meant to be because he was supposed to go back in time so that Hugh Jackman would follow him to go back to the future so that he could go back to the past and Kate would follow because guess what?
00:49:36
Speaker
Kate's in one of the pictures in the past. And so they rush to this little gala for um country bounty or whatever the margarine company is, ah where it's being announced that she is going to be the new VP.
00:49:53
Speaker
And in typical fashion, everyone, they're like, Stuart's here. She's like, I can't talk to him. Yeah.
00:50:02
Speaker
and they barge their way into this party and they're like just look at the pictures Kate just look at the pictures and she's like I'm literally being announced for my promotion right now you guys need to take a chill pill which like I get it girl needs to like girl needs to go take her promotion and then you guys need to tell her this stuff um and they're like but the time loop the time portal is going to close in 23 minutes they don't have time you gotta have a ticking clock in the third act of um of a movie Of course, of course. And so she goes down to accept her promotion after being called for like a gajillion times.
00:50:35
Speaker
And she's ah she starts giving a great speech. And I'm like, great, she's going to shake this off. She's going to do a great job. But then she just starts repeating herself because she realizes she sees the picture of her. and she' ah Well, first, she sees all the Victorian pictures because they're scattered out.
00:50:49
Speaker
and in her hands and she's like ah ah what and then she realizes she gives herself the go get your girl speech she gives herself the go get your girl speech which happens sometimes sometimes there's a couple of examples now uh we've had of where someone is giving a speech and they realize that they're talking to themselves and are psyching themselves up to do it yeah yeah yeah and she does it to herself and she realizes fuck it I got to take a leap of faith.
00:51:18
Speaker
I got to jump. And so then she's like, still not a hundred percent on board. And she's like, how can I be in these pictures in the past? If it hasn't happened yet, I would have remembered. And Liev Schreiber is like, let me explain time travel to you.
00:51:32
Speaker
We got to get to the Brooklyn Bridge. And we get to the Brooklyn Bridge and he's like, cool. Okay, we're here. um you got to walk across this very dangerous like walkway.
00:51:43
Speaker
And then he got to It's girl, take off your heels before you walk across a girder suspended over the street. suspended over the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:51:54
Speaker
But then like, I kept thinking the entire time, what if this was like, what if this was one of their like, hallucinations after they committed suicide? Because like, what if you believe someone so intently, and then you jump thinking you're gonna go back in time, but really, you just end up killing yourself.
00:52:15
Speaker
And then you're in a weird heaven of 1876, where you get to to be with Hugh Jackman. I mean, I guess it works out. There's worse things that have happened. But I mean, then I have questions because the whole idea of him marrying Kristen Shaw was so that he would have money.
00:52:31
Speaker
And Kate's going back in time. She got and e no money. whatsoever. Well, hold on. There's more because the DVD version of this, which is the version that I saw the most times, like I think I saw this movie in the theater, but I had it on DVD and I definitely watched it a bunch on DVD. And there's something that the DVD is a director's cut and there are several minutes in it that are not in this movie. Oh, yeah.
00:52:57
Speaker
Go on. Including the thing that I remembered that there was not in this movie, the other things I had to look up, but the things that I had to look up were there's a scene where you see Meg Ryan in the past at the very beginning of the movie where like she's in the background.
00:53:09
Speaker
Then there's a scene where the director, James Mangold, has a cameo as himself at a focus group complaining about cutting his movie, which is very meta.
00:53:20
Speaker
Nice. But most importantly, and the thing that I definitely didn't forget, because how could you, The whole plot point of Liev Schreiber being hugh Jackman's great great grandson.
00:53:34
Speaker
Which means.
00:53:37
Speaker
God damn it. Sorry. we out Sorry. Sorry. I'm gonna have to duck that several tens of decibels. The. Liev Schreiber fucked his great great grandma in this movie because they dated for four years.
00:53:56
Speaker
Oh, no. So I can understand why they cut that out. Oh, no. Oh, no. Why would they do that? Why would they write that movie that way?
00:54:09
Speaker
Why would you do that?
Film's Conclusion and Reflections
00:54:11
Speaker
Why would you do... Like, just make Breckenmire the guy that goes back in time. Like, Well, then it would... Oh, yeah. No, that doesn't work either. No, no, no. No, that would i wouldn't make... yeah I mean, I guess that... Well, that would make sense. That would make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:54:26
Speaker
If it was her brother who went back in time. Yeah. Yeah, if it was her brother that went back in time. Or just her neighbor. Like, they don't need to have been exes, really. It's not that vital to the plot. No. It's just like really weird and creepy when you think about it. Or when you yeah when you see it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, but anyway, in both versions of the movie, she goes back in time and he sees her. And instead of announcing Kristen Schaal, he announces her name as the person he's marrying. And then we just hard credits. We are out of there. and We are out, out, no questions at this time. The end.
00:55:00
Speaker
Don't worry how they get money. He invents an elevator. Well, I suppose so. Yeah, he does invent an elevator. In this parallel, alternate, horrifying universe, there were no elevators until 1876.
00:55:13
Speaker
um I have a Charlie's Corner. Charlie yeah was very specific about this corner. So here we are for Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner. Charlie's Corner.
00:55:25
Speaker
Governor. um So Charlie... made me, I had had to pause this movie and go to bed because I was very sleepy and Charlie continued watching it. And so as I'm getting ready for bed, Charlie goes, Emma, come in here, come in here.
00:55:41
Speaker
have to show you something with the movie. And then he like plays a scene of Natasha Lyonne walking up um before Meg Ryan is going to this event in her like gray dress and Natasha Lyonne calling the elevator. I'm like, cool. Okay. Good night. Bye. and he goes, no, no, no. Did you not see that?
00:55:59
Speaker
And I was like, see what? Then he rewinds it again. Natasha Lyonne, when she goes to press the button for the elevator, doesn't press the button.
00:56:10
Speaker
She just touches the metal thing. Because it comes immediately. and he goes, movies are a lie.
00:56:21
Speaker
That's true. Movies are a lie. um ah that ah That's going to be the name of our spinoff podcast where we movies are lie where we just talk about we watch a movie and then Katie nitpicks all of the historical inaccuracies in all of them.
00:56:38
Speaker
Movies are a lie. um So yeah, he also really enjoyed this movie and he liked it because it was delightful. He was like, you, there was no guessing where it was going to go You knew exactly what, what to expect.
00:56:52
Speaker
You were in and out. um I had a fun time. So that's, that's a, that's Charlie's corner. I was actually surprised that he wasn't more annoyed by it, but I guess it's because they specifically didn't make the Duke British.
00:57:05
Speaker
Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. Also, Charlie, um for it because I'm doing this Pride and Prejudice show that starts rehearsals
Appreciation for Classic Literature
00:57:14
Speaker
next week. So we've been watching the BBC miniseries.
00:57:17
Speaker
Yeah. And Charlie had an epiphany um where he goes, I get Jane Austen now. I get it because he's loving it. And so now we're going to watch all of the Jane Austens.
00:57:31
Speaker
All right. Yeah. Yeah. And so he's just he he gets Jane Austen now. He's a feminist.
00:57:41
Speaker
Took him long enough. know.
00:57:47
Speaker
So he's having a grand time. um yeah Another one of Emma's fun facts. Emma's fun facts. Emma's fun facts. This is a very sweet fact.
Behind-the-Scenes Kindness
00:57:56
Speaker
So while they were filming this, um Meg Ryan knew that Hugh Jackman was going to spend his wedding anniversary alone.
00:58:03
Speaker
So she phoned Hugh Jackman's wife to invite her to dinner. And um reportedly, Jackman had to spend the day working. Oh, that is that sweet. That didn't end how I thought it was going to. And then 22 years later, he left her for Sutton Foster. So.
00:58:23
Speaker
and And great that way either. Right. Right? Goodness.
Next Topic Announcement: 'Tangled'
00:58:29
Speaker
Goodness gracious. um Also, Albany, New York was named after the then Duke of Albany in 1664. Okay. Yeah, he's the Duke of Albany in this movie.
00:58:44
Speaker
Yeah. ah And Viola Davis had three lines. She did. Yes, she did. And one of them is the word poop. Yep. Yep, yep, yep.
00:58:55
Speaker
But that's essentially it. That's Kate and Leopold. you have any other thoughts? Now she has an Oscar. Now she has an Oscar.
00:59:05
Speaker
i Much deserved. We love Viola Davis. No, think that's pretty much it. What are we doing next week, Emma? um so next week i realized it's been a minute since we've done an animated rom-com so uh uh we're we're going a little animated we're we're we're doing some disney um
00:59:29
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we're not gonna like one of the voice actors but it's the most rom-commy one that i could think of that wasn't beauty and the beast um i think Kevin Spacey, a voice actor in a Disney animated movie? No, no, we're going Tangled, baby.
00:59:45
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oh Tangled. Yeah, Tangled is great. love Tangled. Oh, yeah, we love Tangled. We love Tangled. We're doing Tangled. But not Zachary Levi, obviously. Yeah, but we're just pretending like it's not Zachary Levi, and we're pretending that- Yeah, he's Finn Ryder. Finn Ryder is just Finn Ryder, because he's a sex and sexy, sexy little beast.
01:00:05
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so So yeah, we're going to do some Tangled. Great. Absolutely. Love it. Yeah. Amazing. Shall we outro? Absolutely. Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
01:00:22
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01:00:37
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01:00:49
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Asking it to love us. Good night. eat They had elevators in the Coliseum.