S8E21: Problems With Translations

It's reassuring to hear you're not happy, Bret. The rant made me laugh because it mirrors how I sometimes feel. Chin up. Hope the brief ray of light hits you soon.

Clint Flicker

Oh, and the underwater death of the guy in Under the Skin got to me, too. Nightmarish

Richard Evans

The movie death that got me was the guy who was locked in his stage coach and set on fire in the remake of 3:10 From Yuma disturbed me. I had the idea of dying that way while your antagonists are enjoying it all in comfortable safety outside the stagecoach.

Richard Evans

That scene haunted me, and was more impactful than the D-Day beach annihilations. Possibly because the knifing was more personal and involved just a few people.

J Hay

Does anyone know if Bret discusses the end of American Psycho, book and movie, on any of the episodes?

Sodaheiress

I know I'm late to the comments but here's an obscure murder in a movie that's always stuck in my mind. The great movie Atlantic City by Louis Malle. Sarandons sisters boyfriend is knifed to death on a parking carousel by the drug dealer he ripped off. It's completely silent, yet terrifyingly violent.

Michael Madonna

The boy getting run over by the teens in the car for a game in Toxic Avenger haunted me for a long time. The lady in Superman 2 getting wrapped up by the computer wires. The boy in Maximum Overdrive that got run over by the steamroller Private Pile shooting himself on the toilet…

David Eugene

Adam Goldberg getting knifed in Saving Private Ryan was pretty fucked up. Buddy could have saved him but he was too scared. Death in Alpha Dog was pretty messed up too.

Stephen

Adam Thompson

Paul Richardson

Armie Hammer is doing podcast interviews now. Adam, you need to put a call in bro https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13536501/Armie-Hammer-GRATEFUL-career-ending-cannibalism-allegations.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0mfBwIcw7VjGt12JyUKQlnOAba4iHJf4E4iOp9WoOywSTNWuIniyN9eFI_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

Harry Roth

I really enjoy the lore of the recent Bret psychology episodes

Grant

Does anyone know Adam’s full name? Asking for a friend

Anna Sofie Jespersen

Here's stand-up comic Richard Jeni finishing Bret's roast of JAWS 4 on the tonight show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5jHhN-lfQ

Edi Panta

No, he would not have tolerated such perversions.

Pp358

Ew

Senseless

I’m kinda tired of the QA format. Give us more guests. Give us Jewish guest, give us Steven Spielberg and his pro vaccine 💉 stance! Give us Joe Biden and his pro vaccine 💉 spiel ! Give us Benjamin Netanyahu And his invade Palestine strategy! Anything other than more QA

Knokkel knokkel

Bret was going to be on his podcast but someone fd it up.

Jonathan Davis

Hey you 2 why don’t you get Bill Maher to come on you’re practically neighbours… he’s hawking his book … could be amazing 🤩

PETER GREER

All fantastic!

N.M. Janice.

Aaah, nice!

Sander August Schadenberg

It actually has now been translated and is about to be published - at least in the UK - this September!

Oskar O

Oh and the dude at the end of The Fly Brundle Fly pukes on!

David Willis

Two of the most fucked up murders for me were the tied up victim in Cruising and the tortured girl in Fulci’s The New York Ripper. Definitely the first death in Texas Chainsaw and the screaming guy they burn in The Thing messed me up as a kid. Alex in Jaws is a great shout and surely John Hurt in Alien! The chainsaw in Scarface of course but that’s quite cartoonish ditto the fire extinguisher in Irreversible.

David Willis

Attempting to read it in Spanish, it’s original language, right now!

Stephen Curry

‘You FOOLS!’ lol

GC

Body Double is so good

Jack

Never liked the novella as a categorisation. To me those all qualify as relatively short novels. A novella should be sub 100 standard pages imo

Chris De Burgha

Loved it personally. He's easy to criticise but no one else sets such a vibe as murakami when he's on form imo. 800 page books just glide by

Chris De Burgha

I agree with Bret on Marquez. I felt 100 years and his general “magical realism” style impenetrable. It’s just a thing with me, it’s not to my taste. I do however love the work of Mario Vargas Llosa.

Samer Akl

Yeah that one has a real edge. I started watching it with my 10 year old the other day, forgetting it was rated ‘15’ when it was released in the UK in ‘87. Had to fast forward quite a few bits.

James__

I just watched that new Andrew McCarthy documentary. I really enjoyed Bret's cameo.

Justin

Nothing Bret said remotely resembles the entitled whining of snowflakes.

R. M.

Enough with the Q&A’s! No wonder Bret has been so depressed

RFR

Talking about epic Houllebecq - his biggest novel (700 pages ish) is great, and came out two years ago. For some reason it has not yet been translated into english.

Sander August Schadenberg

I suggested this a few years back, and I agree it would be a fascinating conversation. I'm pleased to hear she's working on new books.

Romeo Delta Charlie

More a Maine Coon shaved for kicks by its owner.

Romeo Delta Charlie

Contract killing of Arthur (Tom Wilkinson) in Michael Clayton; ruthless, clinical and chilling in its realism.

Romeo Delta Charlie

I hated Norwegian wood. I know the way murakami writes about women has become a meme at this point but it was noticeably ridiculous in this one

maddie

Yeap he somehow survived a shotgun to the face… …. Live by the sword die by the sword…I think they based Riggs from lethal weapon on him, except he lived and became soft

Lionel

Nope

Nick Not Nolte

Dolt

N.M. Janice.

Yeah i saw that on the dvd. Friedkin said he made it bad on purpose so the studio would use his ending. I kinda liked the alternate one too. They are like transferred way up in Alaska or something right.

Alexander Quattlander

There is an alternate ending where William Peterson lives, the studio forced Freidkin to film it…..it was better with his death….

Lionel

Nick Not Nolte

How bout Steinbeck with Of Mice and Men or The Pearl. And Orwell's Animal Farm. Somerset Maughams Up at the Villa.

Alexander Quattlander

Robocop is a great call.

Paul Richardson

Love Basic Instinct. You ever see Verhoeven's early masterpiece Turkish Delight?

Alexander Quattlander

I just watched the Visconti film and it reminded me of BEE's latest every day dread. Lol.

Alexander Quattlander

I just read this and liked it. It was a little soft and amateurish with story but easy and fun to read and a bit unique with a lot of cool references to books and movies i like.

Alexander Quattlander

How bout the decapitation scene in The Omen. And Tom Sizemore in Heat. Or William Peterson in To Live and Die in LA.

Alexander Quattlander

Basic Instinct is a masterpiece. Love the crazy Ezterhaus stuff. "She got that magna cum laude pussy that done fried up your brain."

Alexander Quattlander

The shark death in License to Kill disturbed me as a kid. Most James Bond movies were cheeky adventures but that film ramped up the violence. Murphy’s death and the acid death from Robocop disturbed me as a kid. Come to think of it, 1987 was a pretty grisly year for film deaths.

Gatsby

Yep, Jaws was partially inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Chief Brody briefly references it during the scene when he and Hooper are trying to convince Mayor Vaughn to close the beaches. Also, Quint is loosely based on Captain Frank Mundus who used to catch great whites off Montauk, New York, in Long Island.

Billy Schafer

Norwegian Wood sucks

Alex Bielovich

The murder scene in Witness featuring Danny Glover really rattled me as a kid.

Paul Brady

What do you take from Death in Venice. Why is it so great?

Stephen Curry

Goodbye Columbus - rad novella by Roth, although the didnt love it as time went on

Darren Ankenman

For the true fans of Michel Houellebecq… Somehow someone convinced him to agree to do a docu style porn starring himself and some escorts paid for by the documentary production. He may have tried to tie it up legally but it looks to have played on Mubi. The film is called Kirac 27. Here’s the fascinating trailer https://www.dagbladet.no/video/trailer-kirac-27/2nvZZcAV

Darren Ankenman

The Old Man and the Sea is a true, great Novella.

Nick

Or a beatnik. Black turtleneck, in The Valley, in early September, probably 90 degrees, no wonder he was surly.

Brian Kenna

Three great novellas: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote) Death in Venice (Thomas Mann) The Time Machine (H G Wells)

Paul Richardson

Was great again. I think q and a is my preferred format, however, if you guys could get Camille Paglia on the show, I think that would be a next level move! Did you know that Jaws( I used to say it Yaws when I was little) is actually based on a true story believe it or not. In the early 20th century, there was a rogue shark that plagued the New England shoreline, killing multiple people. Sometimes sharks will go rogue, kind of become serial killers, like they’ll get a taste for human flesh and hunt humans as preferred food. Just like in the movie, everyone was out fishing, trying to catch the shark, and some guys off of New Jersey actually caught it. But in reality, it was a bull shark not a great white. Bull sharks are very dangerous, too. Lions can become rogues, like if you’ve ever seen ghosts in the darkness with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, I’m sure you have.

Stephen Curry

Eddie and the Cruisers was apparently a favourite of missing Manic Street Preacher Richey Edwards. Platform is the only Houellebecq I’ve read twice, and it wasn’t chosen at random. I think it’s fantastic. As for Auster, I re-read Oracle Night and Leviathan in recent years and recommend both. They’re short, utterly compelling and quite representative of his broader work. The other one I remember really liking is The Book of Illusions. Glad Bret is enjoying Giovanni’s Room.

Stuart Chivers

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

richard owain roberts

Get BAP on the cast

Harry G

Bit weird in the latter case. None of the lesbians I know remind me of Sharon Stone.

Keith campbell

Did that Irvine Welsh podcast collaboration get scrapped?

N.M. Janice.

Thanks for answering my question and sharing your appreciation for Paglia (the “g” is silent). She’s working on two big books and not doing press, but I think she’d do a podcast with you (like she did with Jordan Peterson). Send her an email and see! I think it’d be epic. cpaglia@uarts.edu

Brian James

Recently saw Tom Berenger in "Betrayed." Ruggedly handsome. Great film too. Also saw "Basic Instinct" recently too on 4K and totally disagree with Bret here, could watch that one over and over. But I always thought the gays had issues with "Cruising" and "Basic Instinct" because they were portrayed as murderers.

John Q. Thompson

I’m 17 minutes in and this is absolutely the funniest monologue/dialogue I’ve heard from BEE in quite some time. I love it.

Mark DeCaro

Bret had the air of a cranky Persian cat in kindergarten.

Pp358

After a few slow pods this was refreshingly upbeat!

Elizabeth