Kill James Bond! - S3E21: OSS 117: Double Agent

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

In the first time we've ever seen a recast get worked into the plot, OSS 117 gets plastic surgery to look exactly like a deadly criminal, then infiltrates Gay Spectre. You read that correctly. -----... FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. Give money to people crowdfunding for passage out of Rafah first and foremost. While the crossing might be closed, the situation is changing by the day and being able to afford passage out when the crossing reopens is an immense comfort. then purchase ESIMs, then donate to this link if you feel you need a big name attached to the fund to trust it. Please don't only donate money. You have to do other things now. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 tomato sauce. With Euro Spy season? We're edging with Euro Spy season, you say that every week and then you never let us finish. Listen, maybe if you were like good for once... You know we're so back, this is more like we're nearly so gone. Like we're so close. We're one foot out the door. Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond. I am November Kelly, I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon. Hey.
Starting point is 00:00:45 How you doin'? It's, would you believe, it's another OSS-Sondeset movie. I didn't realize they actually made 117 of these fucking things. Yes. No, they keep going with these fucking movies. It's a new guy though, it's the old guy that we didn't like, he's out of here. The old old guy that we did like, still long gone. Yeah, still gay and not here. It's a new guy, though, it's the old guy that we didn't like, he's out of here, the old old guy that we did like, still long gone. ALICE Yeah, still gay and not here.
Starting point is 00:01:08 ALICE It's true. We got a separate guy, we got John Gavin, as OSS Sunday said, something that they explain in the movie as a result of him having had plastic surgery to make him hotter, which I think we can all get behind. ALICE Can't imagine that. ALICE No. Completely reasonable. I love them making the changing face of the actor part of the plot, I really enjoyed that. Also, they dunk on the old
Starting point is 00:01:32 guy because they're just like, oh damn, he's so much hotter now that he looks like different dude. The whole movie being like, he's so hot now, and like, if you were the old actor, you would be a little bit peep. To be fair, fair, they're right, he's an incredibly handsome man. He looks like Henry Cavill's dad. RILEY He's a handsome man. ALICE Yeah. John Gavin, this guy's named, and he was going to be, he was contracted to be James Bond
Starting point is 00:01:57 in Diamonds of Forever. And then Connery came back, kicked him out of the role, and they had to pay him for a Bond role he'd they had to pay him for a Bond role he'd never got to do. There was nearly an American Bond. RILEY We were genuinely robbed. ALICE Yeah. RILEY For having this guy in the Bond film.
Starting point is 00:02:14 RILEY He's quite good. ALICE It's pretty good. ALICE There is another angle to this, which is, this guy had an interesting career outside of acting, and so you can do the kind of Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier thing, and be like, John Gavin, the US ambassador to Mexico from 1981 to 1986. LORRAINE Really? ALICE Yeah, he was ambassador to Mexico, not off the back of this movie, which is not culturally sensitive.
Starting point is 00:02:37 ZACH I guess you don't get the James Bond role, you're just like, alright, whatever, what else can I do? LORRAINE That's such a flex to make your ambassador really good looking. ALICE Mmm, that's true. ZACH That is smart! LORRAINE That's such a flex to make your ambassador really good looking. ALICE Mmm, that's true. GARETH That is smart. LORRAINE That's such a great idea, that's soft power, that is. ALICE Our insanely hot ambassador.
Starting point is 00:02:52 LORRAINE Yeah, but actually I'm mid, compared to the people back home. We're all like this. GARETH Only send the hottest, like, stacked ten out of ten baddies and like, smoke show hunks out there, to represent Britain. ALICE We have a sort of a policy proposal for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on this, ready to go at any time. NICOLAS It's soft power, but it's getting harder.
Starting point is 00:03:16 ALICE Soft, curvaceous power. This movie is OSS 117 Double Agent, or OSS 117 Murder for Sale, or No Roses for OSS 117, or in the original French, Pas de Rose pour OSS Sondes Etes, and I think it's the last one, right? Like, some of those make sense. Yeah. Oh god, it's not. There's like two more. I looked into these and they don't seem like we should be doing them.
Starting point is 00:03:48 No. They seem quite... We may pull the ripcord before then, it may be our last Bond film. OSS takes a vacation as a French Brazilian international co-production. Wow. Rio again, is it? Doing a fucking beach episode? I guess so.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Haha, swimsuit. Swimsuit episode at KJV. Yeah, the OSS Sondeset goes to the Onsen? Mm. The OSS Sondeset baseball episode was like a pretty fun time, to be fair. Yeah, I liked all the OSS filler arcs, I dunno, people complain a lot. Mm. Big titty animakers.
Starting point is 00:04:23 Stopped. ALICE You can't reference a drop of Justin from Well There's Your Problem saying, big titty anime girl, that we did in the sort of pre-recording without me playing it, so- RILEY A big titty anime girl. ALICE There you go. RILEY Wonderful. ALICE That exists within the universe of the episode now, so thank you for that.
Starting point is 00:04:42 This movie begins with a bunch of file footage of assassinations because this was made in 1968, and 1968 is like a bumper year for political assassinations. Everyone had been mega traumatized by JFK and then RFK and then Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, I think, had all been assassinated by 1968, and it was like, this was the hot button issue, right, is people just getting fucking assassinated. This is where you see a bunch of early conspiracy theories about that get born, but it's also sort of something that you can fold into your fiction, and so you rip from the headlines, and you have some actually quite impactful file footage, because they don't do any audio
Starting point is 00:05:25 over it, it's just like, you know, miscellaneous assassinations. Yeah. It's just playing, like, in media res, and then it pulls back and they're like, they're killing a lot of our guys, boys. It almost belongs to the kind of more paranoid style of a 70s thriller, like, you know, Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, or something like that. There are a few little touches in this movie that signify something that could've been better than it is.
Starting point is 00:05:50 But so, we're in Washington, we're in the OSS offices, you can tell because every surface is covered with an American flag. ALICE Yeah. The guy that they are briefing, is he meant to be the president? I was quite confused, because he's definitely a guy who's in charge, and he also looks quite a bit like Ronald Reagan. Which confused me, because I was like, this movie came out in 1968, they couldn't have known Reagan was gonna be president.
Starting point is 00:06:11 They predicted it. I guess he was an actor at that time. Maybe it just is Ronald Reagan, why would he fucking insane? Maybe it's Ronald Reagan, I don't know, I haven't checked. Never mind the thing with the chimp, people don't talk about that. Listen, it might seem like people are just randomly assassinating, like, VIPs and political figures, however, there's actually a hidden hand, some kind of shadowy organisation, and with the kind of inventiveness that we've come to expect from these movies, for about
Starting point is 00:06:39 the 50th fucking time, this organisation is called... We know it's named the organization it's the organization it's the organization it's specter yeah it's the organization you know it's the shadowy hand that controls everything it's not anti-semitic it's just just to be clear i have that drop because because ronald reagan possibly says that all of all of these assassinations right they're not happening random they're being done to benefit, as he says. Enormous advantages to certain political sectors and international financial interests.
Starting point is 00:07:11 What do you see me? No. Uh... I wouldn't worry. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, right, I don't know whether this is doing the kind of JFK thing of, it means like, right-wing fascist Edgar Walker kind of business interests. But I also don't trust a French movie, and particularly a French movie made in 1968, to do that. I'm not trusting the people who made and sold champagne anti-juif
Starting point is 00:07:40 to do a kind of non-antisemitic take on certain vested financial interests or whatever. NM No, because it gets quite Islamophobic in a couple of minutes, so... ALICE Oh yeah, it does. It makes sense to hit both. Even if you do a sort of tasting of the antisemitic champagne, which is a real thing, by the way, I'm referencing something that was in the wake of the Dreyfus affair, when all of right-wing politics in France was explicitly and virulently even more anti-Semitic than a lot of other places at the time, there was a guy who promoted
Starting point is 00:08:10 his champagne by slapping an anti-Semitic champagne label onto the front of it, there are records of it. Yeah, I ended up seeing this because I was actually looking into it, this is so nothing, I was looking into the fucking Dreyfus Affair for a little bit a while ago and I ended up looking into Edou Dreyfus affair for a little bit a while ago and I end up looking into Edward Drummond and like the way his antisemitism is expressed it's like they were saying biologist because they're going like this man is an antisemitic journalist author, he initiated the antisemitic league and the quote here directly from Wikipedia, after spending years of research he synthesized three major types of antisemitism.
Starting point is 00:08:43 In a lab! It's the image of the guy with the Erlenmeyer flask! Like finally, antisemitism 3! Imagining my point! Well, so the guy who coined the term antisemitism was himself an antisemite, right, and he wanted it to sound more palatable than what it was originally called, which was just Jew hate. Yeah, absolutely. It was a scientific racism. And it's bad, to be clear. So what happens in the movie?
Starting point is 00:09:10 This movie is quite thin, but it's also, I had fun with it, despite the fact that it is dubious politically. I had fun with it. I appreciate that it tries to do something different, because you'll notice we don't start with a 009 scene. It's true. There were a few inventive things here. TORNADO And I was immediately like, what are you
Starting point is 00:09:27 doing? For what? Something new? RILEY I guess JFK was the 009. TORNADO Yeah, true, I guess. That's why he was dressed as a clown. RILEY Cause it opens with a scene of him getting shot, so I...
Starting point is 00:09:38 ALICE Oswald had the technology of the gun that kills you instantly. Karno rifle that kills you instantly. RILEY Well, it took him two shots, so... Clearly doesn't kill you that instantly. Kind of a rifle that kills you instantly. Well, it took a two shot, so, clearly doesn't kill you that instantly. Well, depending on who you ask, yeah. Yes. Well, so I like that we have a different set up to the plot, so at this point we cut to Rome, and there's a robbery in progress, and this guy does a robbery- It's almost as if we're jumping into some kind of season of those.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Yeah, yeah, yeah. This guy does the robbery and he sprays the cops and the crowd with bullets as he gets away and he shoots people. Yeah, just kills them. He just kills a couple of cops. He gets away with this briefcase full of cash. He's getting away and he's being chased by Italian cops in like a 60s, like Alfa Romeo, the kind of boxy...
Starting point is 00:10:23 Same cop cars from the Italian job. If you've seen that. ALICE At this point, the soundtrack gives us this jaunty little like, upbeat music, which is quite good. ALICE Yeah, I hope you enjoy it, because it's gonna be here for the rest of the movie. However, for the opening titles, it's not bad. We get a kind of like, a camera in the car looking through the windscreen of these
Starting point is 00:10:45 cops. First of all, I have the kind of wistful feeling of you will never be a 1960s Rome cop cooning an Alfa Romeo past the Castel Sant'Angelo, is one thing. The other thing is that some of the stunt driving here is actually remarkably good. It doesn't really draw attention to itself, but like, they're not doing the thing that a lot of the other shitty Euro Spy movies have done of speeding it up or anything like that. There's no weird cut, it's just straightforwardly, they got a guy, put him in a police uniform,
Starting point is 00:11:16 and went, coon this motherfucker around the coliseum, and he did, and they filmed it. And it was great. Cool. And then inside the ambulance were all the people who got shot are sitting, they all get up, which is quite fun! Yeah! I'm gonna put a marker down now for robbery season, which, you know, save the date, coming soon.
Starting point is 00:11:35 The fake ambulance? One of my all time favorite genders. Time. And we're seeing it before we even establish it as a thing that we like here. So I'm just gonna say that for future reference. Fake ambulance? Easily, easily my favorite of the fake vehicles, way ahead of fake taxi. NICCO-MILES BETTER.
Starting point is 00:11:55 ALICE- As the people he's supposedly shot, who have faked being shot, are in the back of the ambulance, that's when they go, hey, that was OSS117 who did that. He's way hotter now that he's got plastic surgery. He's got the like, cunty rhinoplasty and stuff. Like, damn, is that a spiegel? He's looking good. Look at this guy's fucking jawbones in a tower somewhere in America. But they make it part of this, they're like, listen, we've done this guy up to look like
Starting point is 00:12:21 a famous criminal. Yes. What's that criminal's name? Chandler? Yeah. this guy up to look like a famous criminal. ALICE Yes. What's that criminal's name? is a guy going, Chandler is a trained killer, and I just think back to Matthew Perry, RIP. Chandler. Is it deadly. The deck was stacked from the start.
Starting point is 00:12:50 But the idea was that, so we've made OSS, as someone who said, look like Chandler, from not friends, enemies, actually, he's a notorious criminal. We've made him look like this, apparently insanely hot criminal. And then we're gonna get him recruited into Spectre in order to infiltrate him. It's a great plot! Yeah, that's cool! This is good, yeah. It's a different plot!
Starting point is 00:13:10 We gave this motherfucker facial criminalization surgery. Mmhmm. This is reverse the spy with my face. Yeah! Do you reckon he gets like, OSS-Sondeset dysphoria when he looks in the mirror and he's like, ah! I look like a different guy! And they made him more handsome.
Starting point is 00:13:26 A better movie would explore this, you know? So the OSS bureaucrats, like the various Ms and subsidiary Ms, are going back and forth in their office like, this is pretty risky, and we don't know if it's gonna work, and it's our ass on the line if he fails. So one of them goes to Rome to meet him, and it's like, well how are you gonna infiltrate Spectre, how are you gonna infiltrate the organization, and he's just sitting there with this smug cunt look on his face. Because the movie knows he's hot and they're determined to film it.
Starting point is 00:13:55 The movie knows he is a traitor. Every shot of him is so fawningly done, like they're putting Vaseline on it for the male star, y'know? Yeah, and he's like, I'm not gonna do shit, they're gonna Vaseline on it for the male star, y'know? Yeah. And he's like, I'm not gonna do shit, they're gonna come to me. I'm gonna wait. Mm. I'm gonna infiltrate them dick first by shagging a sexy lady.
Starting point is 00:14:13 He's looking at 8x10 glossy photographs of women. Mmhm. He's just figuring out which woman to fuck will allow him to infiltrate a criminal organisation. Yes. This was not a tactic that was good or legal when the British cops did it, it's not good or legal here. certainly not. We also find out that the director has a foot fetish, because the next shot is this woman
Starting point is 00:14:37 in bed with him, with a mirror very Tarantino-ly posed, aiming directly at the feet, and I'm like, okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. They have Jagged, and he is sensibly asleep in bed. When she picks up the newspaper, and there's a picture of him on the front page, being like, it's Chandler from Enemies! He's a criminal.
Starting point is 00:14:55 There's something I really like about this, and something which you don't really see done in other things, which is- It's really good. She is then, like, sort of edging for the phone, while he's asleep, and she's trying not to wake him up. She gets briefly, like, edging for the phone while he's asleep, and she's trying not to wake him up. She gets briefly, like, protagonist, you know? It's suddenly shot like he's a really threatening presence in the room, and I really really like it.
Starting point is 00:15:14 Even the movies that, like, kind of gesture at it, don't really commit to shooting their bond or pseudo bond as an object of horror, right? And this one does, because like- Yeah, he like stirs in his sleep and we see her like freeze up and everything. Mm. Like- It's great. It's like the opening of The Invisible Man or whatever, The Empty Man.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Not The Empty Man, what's it called? Fuck! I don't know, some kind of man, The Illustrated Man. Whatever the most recent Invisible Man is. The Bicentennial Man. You should watch it. The Rocketeer. So the Ant-Man. We should watch The Bicentennial Man. You should watch it. The Rocketeer. Survey Ant-Man. We should watch the Ficentennial Man as well.
Starting point is 00:15:46 The Aviator. We'll just do a season where it's just all films called The Something Man. Oh, that's a great idea! I like that, actually. Does it include words where like, man is part of a compound word, like the snowman? Yes, 100%. Superman? Men?
Starting point is 00:16:01 Just the film Men. Man. Man 2, Men. She calls the cops. She does. Really good, because like, obviously he's just trying to pick someone who will like call the cops when she wakes up and sees him. So they call the cops and the cops get there. And what I really appreciate is that they do not at any point go like, come out, come
Starting point is 00:16:21 out, you're surrounded, we've got you Chandler. They sneak fully into the house, into the bedroom, you get a shot of like four or five cops tiptoeing into the room with our bond, and then they just dogpile him. He's naked too. ALICE Yeah, that's great. RILEY Really good. ALICE There follows a fight scene, because we have to establish that he can fight.
Starting point is 00:16:42 RILEY Yeah, it's fine. ALICE He loses, cause the boss cop, the detective or whatever, like, gets him at gun point. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And he gets arrested. Fair enough. Which I like! Yeah! Absolutely. And we see this is reported on TV and it's being watched by a mysterious figure.
Starting point is 00:16:57 All the TV news is like, Chandler has been arrested, that was the news, goodbye. I really appreciate that, because they go like, that was the end of the news, and then the news turns off. And you're like, oh wow, I forget that it didn't used to be a 24 hour thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They would just be like, right, I've told you all you need to know, goodbye.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Nothing else happened, get on with your day. Couldn't think of a second story? This is the thing that happened in Rome, Chandler Bing was arrested. Mm. For his many crimes, Chandler Bing has been arrested. Bing executed. Get the death penalty for sure. Ah well.
Starting point is 00:17:33 An unseen Blofeld-like figure is talking to, and I gotta say this now, one of the goons of all time. Yes! Fan-fucking-tastic to see this guy. Both in this movie and in general one of the goons of all time. This is George Eastman. A taken name. Born Luigi Montefiore.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Fantastic. Mr. Surname. Two meter tall guy. Whoa, really? You know he was used for goonin'. He's a big man. He's mea-moldercised! Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:00 He's Mr. Cass, who's our surnamed villain for this one. He's like the synthesis of Mr. Surname and Mongo, cause he's a big guy and he's a Mr. Surname. I'm so excited to get a Mr. Surname. When I introduced him as Mr. Kara, I was like, let's fucking go, we're back. This is Killer James Bond par excellence. And so, Blofeld is like, alright, this guy, he seems like he'd be a good culture fit for the organization, why don't you bust him out of prison, and bring him here, and we'll interview
Starting point is 00:18:32 him. SONIA We have a little scene from The Man From Uncle, because welcome back to the podcast, Gas! ALICE Yep, it's the Gas Hour! ZACH This is fan-fucking-tastic. ALICE I love a gas! ALICE I love this shit, too, yeah. ZACH I didn't see the gas coming!
Starting point is 00:18:45 Okay, so what's happening is he's being transferred from prison to prison right now. And they have, of course, a comical number of guards on him. Yes, a massive amount. Six motorcycle cops outside the van and stuff. There's a helicopter above them, like a journalist goes like, oh it's cool they've got like a helicopter escort and everything, like the president. And then the helicopter lowers down a UFO looking device. I describe this as a kind of helleborn vape-thorible.
Starting point is 00:19:11 I wrote, please god let that be a big magnet. And I was disappointed, but... I know. It's just like, big Catholic. It's way better, in fact. I was so much more excited when it started spewing thick gas. TORRES Yes! We're back, baby! It's gas! ALICE You cut to the helicopter, and Taris and two
Starting point is 00:19:31 of his boys are all wearing leather jackets, gas masks, incredible all-time goon fit. Again, we get some great stunt driving, because all of these guys on motorcycles have to, like, crash the fucking motorcycle to indicate that they have, like, been knocked unconscious by the gas. And every single one of these guys nails it. You get, like, four consecutive shots of guys falling off a speeding motorcycle really well. And compared to the stunt work in, like, some of the other Euro Spy movies we've seen, this is, like...
Starting point is 00:20:02 Yeah. One of them hits a tree. Yeah. It's nice. It's good. Everybody gets knocked unconscious. The leather jacket boys land, bust open the prison van, take an unconscious OSS sonnete, put him in the helicopter, put him in a plane, put him in a different helicopter, in order to take him to the fucking secondary location, right?
Starting point is 00:20:22 The mansion. Yes. Spectre Island. If you remember Spectre Island from Dementia. Yes. Spectre Island. If you remember Spectre Island from Russia with Love? Yes. This is that, right? They kick him out of the helicopter and, inevitably, let's say, nebulously Asian geisha-inflected woman, with music as expected, there's some gongs in the mix as well, it's like, yeah,
Starting point is 00:20:43 follow me. She's not important, she's not named, she's not gonna come back, she's like the secretary, or whatever, functionally, the shit sucks. Now, she leads him past a statue of two naked dudes wrestling. Yes. Which, like, I have a question which will come up later, but just wanted to plant that for now. My notes say this is how Devon and I joined the podcast.
Starting point is 00:21:02 I bought that statue as a perfectly legitimate business expense. The fact that I interviewed you for this in front of like a 12 foot tall copy of Dante and Virgil in Hell doesn't reflect anything about me. The fact that I was creepily moving my hands the whole time, and I kept making like, gay innuendos, I will have you know that I'm a respectable monogamous heterosexual. It's just one of those things, like, it just got away from us. We came in and you were facing away from us on the swivel chair, and when you turn around
Starting point is 00:21:35 really that sets the tone for the whole thing, so. It's true, it's true. Yeah, it's just one of those. As you might be able to tell from some of the subtle illusions that we're making, and the kind of presence of a lot of like, art and delicacy and everything being stuccoed and everything, the deal here is that the organization is not merely Spectre, the organization is Gay Spectre. It's Gay Spectre.
Starting point is 00:21:57 When I noted this down, I noted down Gay Spectre in all caps and I underlined it twice, this is a fantastic direction to take it in, because- NARES Happy Pride month, bitch. It's Gay Spectre. ALICE Exactly, it's Gay Spectre. NARES It's Gay Spectre. ALICE Spectre is valid and welcome at Pride, is the thing. NARES Having your parade float sponsored by Spectre? That's really funny.
Starting point is 00:22:18 ALICE Yeah, I don't know why it's emitting all this gas, but like... NARES It's fine, I guess. NARES Don't even worry about it. It's good, there's so many types of gas. Gas in and of itself isn't a problem. Oxygen's a gas. That's my smoke machine, I put it in the back of the gay Spectre float. They took your smoke machine and attached it to a fucking helicopter.
Starting point is 00:22:38 It's got all the pheromones. Every one of those motorcycle cops bricked up. Everyone in the car's horny as hell, like, oh. Uh huh. Oh. Uh huh. I have to pull over, this is fucking awful. They lead them into the building.
Starting point is 00:22:53 It's not just Gay Spectre, baby. It's 3P KJB Champion. Yes. Kurt Juergens. It's Kurt Juergens. Welcome back. And in fact, there's also someone else's another familiar face here. Did you realize who the doctor is?
Starting point is 00:23:06 I did. The sexy doctor who examines him and has a bit of like a mid-tier smarm flotation is Luciano Pulizzi, who's Fiona Volpe from Thunder Boy. Yes! Welcome back! These guys we love to see! She's so fucking hot, is the thing. Hello Luciano Pulizzi.
Starting point is 00:23:23 As they're leading him into the building, right, he's not asking any questions, right? No. He sees a guy who looks like a primes doer, and he doesn't say anything. And finally this woman who's leading him in is like, are you not gonna ask who that was even? And he's like, oh yeah I know that guy, he's like an assassin or whatever. Not asking questions, but showing he knows what he's about is like the opposite of the way James Bond has ever infiltrated anything. Because if you watch the like, more
Starting point is 00:23:49 Bond or whatever, anytime he's going undercover he's like, what's that? Who's that person? What's this guy doing? What's all this for? My first day on the job. Yeah, exactly. It's well done, I think. It's nice to show that the research was done before he got there, you know? And so he meets the Doctor first, I think. I believe he does, yes. Oh yeah, you're so right.
Starting point is 00:24:14 And they flirt a little bit, and something I like about this is, unlike a lot of other Eurospy movies, it seems like they're both having fun. Like he's hitting her with some fucking atrocious lines. Like some dogshit riz. He's just like, I've never lost control before with a doctor. And she's fucking smiling at him like she knows this is stupid but she also wants to fuck him. This is the thing, right, about this movie. Not for the
Starting point is 00:24:45 first time, one of these Eurospy movies has the vibes of softcore porn, particularly with that single, like, one kinda doodly-doodly-doo soundtrack repeating over everything, but I think this has, and it's strange to say, good softcore porn vibes, in a way, like, it seems congenial. It reminds me of all my favorite parts of Softcore porn. Yeah, I mean, essentially, yeah. Like, the 16mm camera that's clearly been used to capture it, everyone's sitting around with their shirts way open. Everyone knows that it's kind of dumb, but they're going along with it because it's fun.
Starting point is 00:25:20 I don't think I've ever seen Softcore porn. This guy's got a fucking carpet as well, which is fantastic. Like again, just things that won't happen in like, chest hair wise, right? Like just things that don't happen in modern movies like this. So she's clearly like, eyeing him and she's kind of like into it and she's like, listen, we're gonna take you in to see Gay Blofeld. Yes. And Gay Blofeld is, as you mentioned, Kurt Juergens.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Wet Blofeld. Wet Blofeld is now Wet Gay Blofeld., as you mentioned, Kurt Juergens. Wet Blofeld. Niamh. Wet Blofeld is now wet gay Blofeld. He was in Bond, he's in Uncle, he's in OSS 117, 3 Pete, there he is, baby. Observe, Mr. Bond. He's so fucking good in this. His shirt is fabulous. He looks like he's going to the club, it's like black and gold, it's great!
Starting point is 00:26:05 He's wearing, I shit you not, a bronze lamellar nero jacket. It's fantastic. It is the only thing he wears in the whole movie, but like, the thing is, it would be. Yeah, I'd have a clothing like that. Think I'll put on the nero jacket today. And he's playing it gay, of course, he's like doing the like, too much hand movements thing, a little sinister kind of little smile, so he introduces Karras as my trusted assistant. RILEY Please excuse my inexcusable rudeness. Really nice.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Just classic. ALICE Exactly. If it's inexcusable, how would I excuse it? RILEY Exactly. ALICE But so he's like, listen. RILEY Cunt. ALICE Right, you work for us now, I'm not even gonna bother to threaten you, you know what the deal is, you're gonna like, listen, you work for us now, I'm not even gonna bother to threaten you,
Starting point is 00:26:45 you know what the deal is, you're gonna do some work for us, gay spectre. You'll find it pretty convivial. We do like, tennis and shit. You like tennis? Of course you like tennis. He's like, gay Hank Scorpio! You like tennis. They have a pool?
Starting point is 00:26:59 He does, yeah, like, it's fine here, you can't leave unless we tell you to, obviously, but like, it's sick here, why would you want to? Y'know? ALICE And at this point OSS117 cashes in the one first day question, which is, where is your self-destruct button? RILEY Yeah, you gotta know. KEN And he tells him! He's like, oh, it's right here.
Starting point is 00:27:19 This is the self-destruct lever, and if I pull this, everything will blow up. ALICE The fact that it's a lever, I note that he's casually showing off, not a button, not even a switch, his kind of self-destruct crank? That if you crank this in a circle like a generator, it will blow up the building. Ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da ba-da! You turn the one key, it pops up with a little, like, clamshell casing, and then there's just a fucking crank. It's like, alright.
Starting point is 00:27:50 Gotta wind it up. And he goes, and I will do this, I swear to God, at the drop of a hat. Okay? I want you to understand this. Yeah. This is Chekhov's crank, right? It's fully just like, I will do this and blow us all up. I don't even give a fuck.
Starting point is 00:28:03 You need to understand. Yeah. I will crank it by the end of this movie. don't even give a fuck. You need to understand. Yeah. I will crank it by the end of this movie. There's no two ways about this. I'm cranking it. I'm Gabe Lohfeld and I'm gonna crank it. Gonna crank it till it explodes. So the doctor shows him to another Bond classic, you're kind of like, luxurious but very locked
Starting point is 00:28:20 quarters, right? Mmhm. Yes. And they lock from the outside, like, featureless doors, all of this. It's all good, right? And then, they do some more seduction, right? Because she hits him with another classic, we just saw this, in, um, fucking... Oh god, the thing that we just saw.
Starting point is 00:28:38 Deadlier than the male? Deadlier than the male. Deadlier than the male. We just saw that. She hits him with the, I'm here against my will, I've been like fuckin' kidnapped or whatever, and I wanna get out, can you help me? And we see that again, Gabe Lohfelden-Karis are like listening in on this, because it's a loyalty test.
Starting point is 00:28:55 Love that they do this personally. Yeah, it's great, it's fucking great. Let's see if this guy's loyal, I mean we just had a chat with him, he seems nice, like, they're getting along great as well, they're like, this guy's funny! ALICE Tennis and shit. RILEY See if he's loyal. Just give it a little go. RILEY Also, see if he's straight.
Starting point is 00:29:10 RILEY Yeah. Yeah, if he's straight he's gotta get out of here. ALICE I really appreciate that the doctor is like, obviously we're gonna do this loyalty test but I do wanna make out with him first. That's like a key part of this. RILEY I guess that's how they ensure that it's a gay-only organization, is they just have one ten out of ten smoke show on staff to try to seduce you, and if he's not taking it at all, beautiful.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Well so he deduces that her ring that she's wearing is a microphone, and he puts it in the water glass at the side of his bed, and he's like, no, test passed. This makes gay Blofeld, like, more aroused than he's ever been in his fucking life. Genuinely, yeah. Now Gabe Lohfeld wants to fuck him as well. He's running through this fucking house like, Tearama. It's like, out of control. He passes the test and then the doctor like, uh, is just like, oh good, I'll shag you anyway,
Starting point is 00:29:58 but like, for real now, I don't really wanna escape, I just wanna shag. It's her idea as well, it's really nice, you know? Yeah, yeah. But then what happens after that? Good fucking question. My next note says gay criminal Schubert concerto. Did you not notice who's playing cello? This is one of those questions that I can only get hit. It's sidling up to you in a park.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Did you seriously not notice- he's the first shot in the scene. Did you two seriously not notice who is playing the cello in this Schubert? I'm sorry. Don't be mad at me. I Completely missed who was playing cello in this I'm just gonna go ahead and open the movie right now live on the pond It's Hitler HITLER IS PLAYING THE CHELLO! Just scrubbing through this movie real fast, actually. He's the first shot in this- it's Hitler! Hitler is playing the cello in this scene!
Starting point is 00:30:51 I believe you. Weird to film that cameo from Argentina, you know? He's like, no mistaking it, comb over, mustache, he's a little bit older, like, that's the joke. Guys just used to look like this. Hitler is alive and playing the cello for Gay Spectre. ALICE Genuinely did not clock this. Fuck you really does look like Hitler.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Wow, okay. NICHOLAS When I saw Hitler on the screen I just stood up. ALICE Yeah, because you were moved by the beauty of the Schubert concerto. NICHOLAS But my notes here say Hitler improves any film because now anything can happen. ALICE Like Lupin the Third. Yeah, but like, well we've got Hitler in this.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Yeah, like, fuck knows what, we could go to the moon now, anything can happen, we're totally out of reality now. It's a terrible review of Downfall. The Abigail Thorne first act Hitler principle. Anything can happen in this movie at this point. There's actually Chekhov's Hitler. I can't believe you missed cello Hitler! I missed cello Hitler.
Starting point is 00:31:48 I was trying to get Klimas Stalin, and instead I got Klin, so they got cello Hitler. I would hate. Wow, yeah. Huh. That is fucking Hitler. It's definitely him! Okay. Yeah, no, that's fully supposed to be a Hitler joke, there's no two ways.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Nobody has that mustache in 1968, they knew about it. To be clear, what's happening here is that Gabe Lohfeld is organizing a kind of works, criminal, chamber music, like quintet. Yeah, like we're on the Enterprise, they're all just like, it's our pastime. Yeah. This is actually really sweet, like, aside from the fact that it's Hitler. RILEY I'm looking at everyone in the band right now to see if any of them were also like, famous.
Starting point is 00:32:29 ALICE I think it's just normal guys. RILEY I don't believe so, most of them are just normal guys. They all do have the goon affect though, they've got like eye patches and big scars and things like that. It's nice. ALICE Classic goon stuff. RILEY It's a work band.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Wonderful. ALICE Hitler and the Goons. RILEY We see that like, Gabe blowfellers are like, earnestly enraptured by this Schubert concerto. He's like, fuckin', he's like, y'know, he's literally reading along the sheet music. And everybody else is just kind of like, ugh, yeah, okay, fuckin' boss is on his gay shit again. Including OSS117 and The Doctor, who are eye fucking each other. She is wearing a leather double breasted jacket and leather trousers that just... Fuck.
Starting point is 00:33:10 Mm. I have a dress that's got a seminal to that. Really? Yeah yeah yeah. I wore it at a live show one time. Hmm. You were in a Schubert concerto? I remember.
Starting point is 00:33:19 Not of Hitler's playing. There are some seminal big guys in this scene. Oh that's true. Like in the audience, it's a classic big guys convention. Huge games. Yeah, there's a silent joke of two of the big thug-looking guys hitting on the geisha-styled woman with no dialogue, and getting shot down. I feel that was quite well done.
Starting point is 00:33:39 I like the confidence to do that with no dialogue. So OSS-117 takes the doctor aside and's like, hey, are we still, like, fucking tonight? Because I assume that, like, having fucked once, after one hookup we're basically, like, married, right, so it's good. He's like, we're dating now, right? Yeah, yeah. Are we a boyfriend? And she's like, no.
Starting point is 00:33:56 It's heartbreaking when you get, like, too invested in the hookup, you know, but... It's how it goes. Yeah, yeah. She's like, no, we can't, because tonight Gabe Lohfeld is getting, he's like, meeting with a client, so we're all gonna get locked in our rooms individually. Mmhm. Yeah. This is a pretty compelling bit, right, and we do some honest to God spying, because he
Starting point is 00:34:18 goes back to his room. Some genuine spy work here. All the windows get sealed off with big metal shutters. Yeah, it's cool. ALICE He's wearing a cunty turtleneck, which I always appreciate. And he breaks his way through a frescoed over air vent, which, again, the aesthetics of this movie are just fucking sick. It's also helped by the fact that this is a beautiful print.
Starting point is 00:34:41 NICOLA It's so good. ALICE Because it's film, you can get, like, functioning, like, infinite definition out of it, and it's been, like, really well restored, it's like a, like a Gormon print, or whatever. And so, it's just, I dunno, the 60s aesthetic really pops out at me. But so yeah, he does some actual spying by, like, climbing up onto the roof and, like, abseiling down and listening in at Gabe Lohfeld's office window. S As he's climbing the lift shaft we get some upbeat jaunty music, which is quite good. M Yeah, it's not bad.
Starting point is 00:35:11 NM It's alright. It's a listeners' charm somewhat. S So he meets this guy, who in my notes I call Mr Big, I don't know if he is named, but he's like, yo, let's discuss our evil plans near this window. M Yeah. NM Yes. This fish window. S There's gonna be peace in the Middle East, let's discuss our evil plans near this window. Yeah. Yes. This fish window. There's gonna be peace in the Middle East, there's apparently these two tribes in country?
Starting point is 00:35:29 Yeah. Who are warring, and they're gonna have peace soon. In Africa. Africa, okay. Yeah, and this is a point at which I have to attempt to pronounce a name. I apologize to the country of Sweden and Mia Molder." Oh, thank god it's only Swedish. I suspect that this is a thinly veiled reference to the probably, well, I think certainly now,
Starting point is 00:35:53 assassinated Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjelld. Dag Hammarskjelld. There we go, nailed it the second time. Who was, like, killed in the course of trying to, like, brook peace in, I wanna say, the Congo. Yeah. Dog is a cool name. Dog, yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:12 D-A-G. Dog. So anyway, there's gonna be... Peace in the Middle East is breaking out, or not in the Middle East, peace in North Africa is breaking out. This one guy is gonna reconcile these two warring tribes, and we can't have that, it's gonna be bad for business because I work for Barclays and we have a lot of money invested in the conflict. ALICE I think it's also cool that the Barclays guy is like, this guy who I want assassinated is my friend, I know him personally. To me that sells the basis of Gay Spectre, or the
Starting point is 00:36:41 organization or whatever, better, if it's like, all the guys in the 1% fully know the people that they're having assassinated and stuff, and it doesn't like, trouble them, or whatever. I really quite like that. So, we want you to kill him, and also we want you to make it look like one of the other tribes did it, cause that'll start the war going again. And Gabe Lowfield makes an interesting choice to assign the guy who was recruited yesterday? He's like, fuck it!
Starting point is 00:37:06 Which I was like, that's a questionable decision. Really believes in, like, on the job training, like, throwing you into the deep end. He's impressed by him, with the spot in the ring, like, thing, he's like, okay, this guy's passed my test, let's see what he can do, let's get him out there. Give this man a vaccination. You're not getting the Schubert concertos for free, you know, you can't just sit around. Do you even know how much it cost to book Hitler? Not much.
Starting point is 00:37:31 We flew in Hitler from Colonial Dignidad for this. Yeah he's not doing much these days. Yeah I know. He's basically only doing this, actually. He learned the cello though. Yeah. He had a lot to do. A lot of time in exile.
Starting point is 00:37:43 The doctor gives him a vaccination, and he's like, what's in this vaccination, and can we fuck again? And she's like, shut up, and also no. Yeah, he goes, what kind of vaccination? And she pauses for a second and goes, general. Yeah, all of them. You're just gonna be kind of vaccinated, you're gonna be in a state of vaccinated for a little while here.
Starting point is 00:38:02 You're gonna get like 5G reception. Not very useful in 1968. This is gonna be one of those episodes that Spotify will have a little while here. ALICE You're gonna get like 5G reception. Not very useful in 1968. RILEY This is gonna be one of those episodes that Spotify will have a little thing under, because... ALICE Uh huh, uh huh, yeah. But so, she shoots him up with the 5G vaccine, and Gabe Lohfeld is like, right, here's your passport, your name is John Mulligan, you're a press photographer, and you're going to Next Location, I'm not even gonna tell you where where next location fucking is, which I really don't.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Yeah, like this! Yeah, that's good. They keep him on a leash, cause they're like, just go to this place, we're not gonna tell you where it is, and then you will meet a doctor when you get there. Yeah, this is your first go, man. You know, like, we're testing you. I wrote down the phrase chemical leash here, which is, I think it's a really compelling bit.
Starting point is 00:38:44 There's some noir movies that do a similar thing, like Dead on Arrival. Mm. We get the confirmation that he's probably gay, cause he says, you'll meet a doctor and 117 says, uh, is she as luscious as your house physician? And he goes, that's a matter of taste, it's a man. Yeah, and all OSS117 does is like, roll his eyes at him. Cause I, uh, I really appreciate this, you know? Like, inclusive workplace.
Starting point is 00:39:05 Extremely inclusive for the time. The OSS is just like, I'm my boss and I'm this fucking gay shit again. Classic. I'd say maybe too inclusive if you've got gay people in the organisation, and also Hitler. It's a big ten. Alright, I will say that for free. Well, I mean, you'd think it would be a problem for Hitler. I know, that's what occurred to me, I was like, well that can't be Hitler if he's gay,
Starting point is 00:39:25 like... I mean, after Ernst Röhm I think he kinda like soured on... Anyway. So Karas is like, since you're gonna be a press photographer, here are your two cameras, both from Rolyflex, shoutout to Rolyflex, the TLR that he gives him, the twin lens reflex is a weird choice, but like the medium format camera he gives him is fucking sick. Yeah. Really nice.
Starting point is 00:39:45 And I'm Abby. It's not a Horliflex, it's a fucking Sensor Veronica ETR. Of course it is. Didn't have the budget for that. They cover up the fucking logo when it's in shot, but I know what that cunt is. Veronica, respectable choice, very respectable. Yeah, it's pretty good. I got one of those, it's nice.
Starting point is 00:40:00 What the fuck happens? Well, he gets to, he gets to the next location. It's Tunisia, by the way, we never learned this, this is never stated. RILEY Oh, okay. ALICE And the soundtrack starts getting all weird, like, in the way that you've been poisoned. The kind of, like, you know, drugs noise from the spy who loved me. RILEY Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:17 ALICE He gets a status effect. RILEY His vaccine starts to kick in. ALICE Yeah, I wrote down, she vaccinated him against the soundtrack. RILEY Yeah, faxed. ALICE Yeah, I wrote down, she vaccinated him against the soundtrack. Yeah, faxed. Yeah, genuinely. He experiences some side effects, some adverse events happen to my boy. He's like, legs are shaking, like, whoa, what the fuck.
Starting point is 00:40:35 Hashtag fucking died suddenly, yeah. He's magnetic. He collapses onto the bed, bits of like, metal are sticking to him and shit. I write down, because then at this point a mysterious man comes in and fucking inject him with an unknown chemical, something that I would hate to happen to me. He also doesn't swab him, I'm like, well that's not very nice. That's gonna be sore. I write down, this motherfucker gets drugged more than the prisoner.
Starting point is 00:41:01 I think it quite successfully makes the organization a bit scary. ALICE Yeah, it does! I like this! RILEY The organisation, they're just injecting you with shit all the time. You're like, please stop. ALICE Kind of reminds me a bit of the Bourne movie with Jeremy Raner. Oscar Isaac in that. RILEY Yes, I see. ALICE Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe you're here to evaluate me, the kind of mutual paranoia. I saw something in the Quilla Memorandum, it's gonna be in some other spy stuff that
Starting point is 00:41:27 we talk about. I think that hits this pretty well, it's cool. Yeah. So when he wakes up, this guy says, yo, my name's Dr. Sardi. Yeah, do we recognize this guy? Yeah, do we recognize this motherfucker right here? Who is this? Is it Hitler again?
Starting point is 00:41:39 Yeah, that's Hitler. No. This right here, baby, is Dr. Sin from OSS in Bangkok. This is Robert Hossain. Wait, what?! But you've already been in this series as a citizen doctor whose name begins with a you can't go back! This was from the second, Cohen Matthews OSS.
Starting point is 00:41:56 The one that we believe is good. Yep. Shit yeah! Or was that the one with the amazing suicidal henchmen? Yeah. That is correct, yes. Once you have an evil medical license, you're not cashing that in anyway, you're just staying typecast.
Starting point is 00:42:11 They're like, bro, you have an incredible screen presence, come back, just be in my movies, you know? Great voice as well, fantastic voice. Just be the same guy again, maybe? He's so good in this, in that he's playing the same guy, and he was good at it the first time. He wakes him up and he explains, right, we fucking got your ass. What you have been injected with was not a vaccine, but in fact just a regular old poison.
Starting point is 00:42:36 I have given you an antidote to it, because this is smart, like, if you had just run off somewhere else you would have just fucking died. But you came here like you were told to, I have given you an antidote, I will give you the next dose of the antidote at like 24 hours time at my clinic, I give you the next one 24 hours after that when the job is done, and then you're fine. Like, this is the induction procedure or whatever. It's pretty good. I will say that he has to go there for 5pm to get the injection each day, and that's so fucked up. If I've got an appointment at 5pm, I'm not relaxed at any point during the rest of the
Starting point is 00:43:11 day. Yeah. GP's and office hours, you know how it is. I mean, this man has almost as bad of an experience with a GP's receptionist as I've had later in this movie. Poison, yeah. And he still doesn't tell him what he's up to, he's like, go to this villa tonight, attend a reception and meet me there. Fucking go here. this movie. of ten smoke show daughter, and they're going to the reception. ALICE Absolutely. This is Ayesha. RILEY Now we're you're a spy, baby.
Starting point is 00:43:47 Smoke show daughter, let's go. ALICE He sees her son bathing with her, wastes three exposures of 120 on nothing, trying to like photograph her. RILEY Sorry, it's only 6x4.5, I should have signed. ALICE Is it? Okay. Well, still, even 1968, that shit's still expensive, you know? And she's like, what are you doing, fuck off.
Starting point is 00:44:05 And he essentially hits her with the Hugh Grant in The Gentleman kind of sleaze photographer shit. He says, I'm a professional pest. I kinda like this. He's pretty good, like he is pretty charming in this scene. Y'know, they've got a really nice back and forth. He says, I'm doing a series on lonely beauties. It's not a good idea for a series, Magnum wouldn't commission says, I'm doing a series on lonely beauties. Mmhm.
Starting point is 00:44:25 It's not a good idea for a series, Magnum wouldn't commission that, come on, get the fuck out of here. No, I wouldn't. I'm like, well, that would work on me, that line, I have to say. So she tells him to fuck off, and he's like, alright, fine. I guess I'll take my bronica elsewhere. At this point, a guy who I will be calling Mr. Moustache Man enters the fucking show, and this guy, one of the
Starting point is 00:44:46 mustaches of all time, I have to say. Huge, horseshoe-shaped fucking thing. Beautiful. Pulls the entire rest of the face down, he looks miserable. Wonderful, great to see him. Yeah, absolutely. Cause we go to the reception, Black Tie reception. Yes.
Starting point is 00:45:01 And the doctor is there, and he says, that guy over there, that's your target, memorize his face, don't kill him now, but just, that's who he is. In the meantime, you know, enjoy the party. ALICE To be clear, the moustache guy is in the end of this scene, he looms into shot and then we immediately cut to the party where he's not there. RILEY Yeah, it like holds on him to fade out. ALICE Doesn't even fade out, it's a smash cut.
Starting point is 00:45:23 RILEY Oh yeah, yeah. ALICE This is like, check out this guy, now we're here. RILEY Just remember this face generally for later on, okay? RILEY He's lurking. ALICE I think a better movie would probably rely on one of your stock things, like him being in the phone booth, being like, he just walked in, or whatever.
Starting point is 00:45:39 RILEY Yeah, yeah. RILEY I will say I'm gonna rewatch the actual, like, the OSS117 that we watched years ago, after this, and be like, oh, I get all the jokes now. Mm, mm-hmm. That's why Hitler's there. Uhhh. I mean, yeah. So he's at this reception, right, and Sadi is trying to get him to focus on his work,
Starting point is 00:45:59 right, this doctor, he's just like, this is the guy, kill that guy. However, OSS117 is like, pussy? Is that pussy? Is that pussy? Is that pussy over there? Is that pussy I'm smelling? Hold up. Immediately hustling towards Aisha, who has just walked in, and Sadi has to fucking, like, physically separate them on the pretext of a phone call, get him alone and be like, do
Starting point is 00:46:21 not fuck this woman, I will kill you! He genuinely calls him on the phone, and he's like, what? And they're like, do not fuck her. You're here to kill someone. Your life is on the line, man, and all you can think about is pussy? You're all about it! And he's just like, bro, I said I'm gonna kill him, I'm gonna fucking kill him, alright? I'm not doing it tonight, so let me get some pussy. So I've got a free evening!
Starting point is 00:46:44 So he goes back to hit on her, and she's like, I hate these receptions, I'm so bored, and he hits her with another kind of like, 60s Rizz line, where he says, where would you like to end the night? "-Ooooh." "-That is pretty good, yeah." "-If someone hit on me with that, like, could I not say their bedroom?" "-Yeah, lines that would work on me. That's the secret, isn't it? It's not that you give the line, you set the other person up to give the line.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Yeah, exactly. She's clearly into it, and Sadi calls him back in again to be like, stop fucking. You're really helicoptering me on this assassination, bro. Why don't you kill him then? Yeah. Why don't you inject him with poison? This guy, he mostly wants to fuck beautiful women. Women.
Starting point is 00:47:26 And it's like, he keeps getting interrupted by his work as a spy. It's like me and podcasting. RILEY Just like me, for real. ALICE Just like me and podcasting. ALICE You two, like, stop fucking! RILEY I'm the opposite, I'm trying to podcast, and this beautiful woman keeps... So finally he is like, like Aisha leaves, she's like, fuck it, you've just cock blocked
Starting point is 00:47:52 me, or whatever the cis female equivalent of that is, you've clip blocked me. Clam jammed. Nice. Okay. I'm going home. This party sucks, you didn't even get a Hitler. This is bullshit. You couldn't even book Hitler.
Starting point is 00:48:07 I see who's on cello. That's not Hitler. I'm outta here. Fuck this. But like, she is followed by one of the all-time goon cars. I love a car with a couple of goons in it. It's not a Citroen DS with yellow headlights, but it's close. At this point they're playing some jaunty music, it's an odd choice?
Starting point is 00:48:27 Yep. Still the same. Same jaunty music? Mmhm. So the chase that then happens is Aisha's car, Goon car, OSS 117 car, and then Mr. Mustache Man car. Like a club sandwich of goons. Yeah. And we see that, like, the moustache guy who is also talking to one of his boys has a stammer,
Starting point is 00:48:50 right? This is... we're gonna have to take some points off of this, right, because it's clearly intended for comedy. Never explicitly plays it that way, but like... Ehhh. ALICE So, O.S.Sondi's set evades his goons by pulling a cart across the road, causing them to crash, but then we get this quite tense scene where the goons following Aisha pull her over and get her at gunpoint, they've already dug a grave, and they're like, tell us what we need
Starting point is 00:49:16 to know, or we're gonna put you in this grave now. These motherfuckers watched casino. You dig the grave first, or you're there all fucking night. It is true. And she is wearing, by the way, a dress primarily comprised of white marabou feathers, she looks like an albino big bird, and this guy gets her at gunpoint, and he's like, where was your dad the night before last? And he's like, I dunno.
Starting point is 00:49:42 Do you know Gabe Lohfeld? No, I dunno. Do you know Gabe Lohfeld? No, I dunno. And at this point, OSS117 shows up to rescue her by shooting these two guys. Dead. Yes. I like this reveal that she feints into his arms and he puts her in the car, and then goes back to them, and they're fucking faking, they're his boys! They recorded the whole thing!
Starting point is 00:49:59 He's done it again! Has this guy fucking shot anyone for real, ever? No. I do want to know how and when he set this up without the organization realizing. Mmhmm. This is just like, deep cover shit. But so, one of them is like, I've recorded everything she said, it's probably all lies because she's a woman.
Starting point is 00:50:20 Mmhmm. And... Yeah. I know it says 1-7 is like, ah, you guys, you got a misogynist culture, plat-some on the back leaves. That is true. Yeah, the lines are, the truth never comes out of the mouth of a woman, and I know SS Sonnit says, you're a race of pessimists.
Starting point is 00:50:33 And it's like, we just helped you. What, Tunisians? They're like, ahhh, dickhead kind of affect as well. This is bants, yeah. Odd. Don't say that kind of shit to me. Don't do this kind of shit to a woman, Eva. This isn't a good idea.
Starting point is 00:50:46 He drives her home, and is like, oh I'm so sorry that they did that to you, for the record though, do you know who Gabe Lowfeld is? I'm asking as a friend, and not a guy who's in cahoots with those guys. And she's like, no I don't fucking know. Yeah, she tells him what they asked her, and he's like, well now you got me curious. What was your father up to a couple days ago? She's like, I told them, I don't know. Yeah, and then we get like an honest to god horizontal Star Wars screen wipe, which I
Starting point is 00:51:15 really appreciate. Like, you don't see that done very much anymore. Love Star Wars. Never heard of it. You do see it done in Disney's The Acolyte lists. You gotta keep doing the stupid wipes, otherwise it's not Star Wars anymore. Quite honestly. They're good, I like the wipes!
Starting point is 00:51:31 It's good, it's so good. I really like a wipe. I love a wipe, bring it back, Star Wipes only. Killers of the Flower Moon but every transition's a Star Wipe instead. Just the same movie. That's really funny. When he's going to see Robert De Niro in the jail and you star wipe into that, that's a rough fucking wipe.
Starting point is 00:51:48 It's like a one ply wipe. So- It's the roughest wipe I've had since I went to Belize. Walk through the jungle. One ply star wipe is so fucked up, dude. It's one of the worst things you've ever said to me. Yeah, doc. It's nice to see the, like, Sims social interaction, like, double negative thing appear in real
Starting point is 00:52:15 life. Oh god. Devin will remember that. So he goes to see Dr. Sadi, right? Yes, yes. And Dr. Sadi is like, alright, fine. You've gone to the thing, you haven't fucked that woman, I assume, I will give you the first shot of antidote.
Starting point is 00:52:33 And he does some more spying in the course of, like, he's just sitting down, but he is able to get up and move across the room very quickly and quietly to like, see Sadi, like, you know, get the key from behind a book to like, open his medicine cabinet, and like, get the thing and like, drop the thing into a hypodermic. So he knows where the medicine is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Smart. And he's like, well, you're not gonna get the final one until you kill your target,
Starting point is 00:52:58 he's gonna be at the tribal feast tonight, where they're, you know, finalizing the peace accord. Yes. Classic sort of dialogue, he walks in, the guy goes, you're punctual, and they're, you know, finalizing the piece of chord. Yes. Classic sort of dialogue, he walks in, the guy goes, you're punctual, and he goes, I wouldn't be late if my life depended on it. All the time, classic. Yeah, the dialogue we don't highlight all that much, but it's pretty much all like this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:19 Which I like. It's pretty meh. He gets his second vaccination, and he goes back to his hotel. The music at this point gives up entirely, just cuts out. Which is, to be honest, it's kind of better and more tense without it, because waiting in the room for him fucking Mr. Mustache Man, who is not best pleased about the fact that he has been, like, he's had his pursuit interrupted. Oh, it's really good.
Starting point is 00:53:41 Mustache Man isn't waiting, like, visibly in the room, he's out of sight, and like, OSS goes over, picks up the phone and just starts talking into it, just like, alright, get me the American Embassy, I've got something to report. And the moustache man walks in and he's like, gotcha, motherfucker! And then he looks and sees the phone isn't even plugged in, and he's like, are you clowning on my ass? And OSS goes, I am clowning on your ass, I'm afraid. ALICE And to be fair, like, so, the moustache guy
Starting point is 00:54:06 does all of this with a pretty heavy stammer, and while OSS117 does clown on him, he does not clown on the stammer? RILEY He doesn't make fun of a stammer at all. RILEY During the fight I was like, how is he gonna exploit a stammer to kill this guy? ALICE He doesn't exploit that stammer, no, he just hits him really hard with a phone. RILEY During the fight scene they play this, uh, upbeat, jaunty music?
Starting point is 00:54:28 It's the same? Why- why- A- It's the same one. S- It's the same, same music again. A- I will say this for Mr. Moustache Man, he's got some fucking moves. Like, he gets knocked unconscious at the end of this fight. S- Pretty good. A- He like, fuckin' spin kicks, like, the guy, he's got like a knife, it's pretty well done.
Starting point is 00:54:45 Yeah, he gets knocked unconscious. We go to the camp, right? And they're doing all the, as you'd expect, sword dance stuff. This is genuinely, if unintentionally, enhanced by the fact that this camp has a shitload of first generation land cruisers scattered around it. Like, it kind of suggests that these guys have just been Toyota warring each other, and they're just also incidentally keeping up the cultural traditions.
Starting point is 00:55:13 However, the cultural sensitivity is gonna take a fucking nosedive. Because... Yeah, my notes here say, at least OSS117 isn't in brownface, and then I've crossed that out. Cause he is! here say, at least OSS117 isn't in brown face. And then I've crossed that out. It was so badly lit. I couldn't tell. But no, he is, he is in brown face. He enters in disguise. The peace broker, his name is Van Dyke, who like retires to his tent and they, they gas him and kidnap him. They plant a little time bomb that like blows up the tent and makes everyone think that he's been-
Starting point is 00:55:45 ALICE They swap his body with Mr. Mustache Man's. They leave him in the tent to get blown up, which probably fucking sucks. like- SONIA He was already dead, he died when the window fell on his neck. ALICE Oh, did he? Uh, yeah. Well, I guess it doesn't suck then.
Starting point is 00:55:58 RILEY It's not that clear, but like, one thing I will say is, he's got a little gadget, he's got the gas that knocks you out instantly, in spray can form. He hits a guy with the fuckin' Lynx Africa! He just fully, just like, a guy's going like, hey where you going? He just, you know, sprays him in the face. Shhhhhhh. And this guy gets knocked out.
Starting point is 00:56:15 Classic. Like, oh that smells fucking terrible. He falls unconscious. The next day, Dr. Sadi calls this in. Yeah, he calls this in on the radio, and his call sign is Donald Duck. And Gay Blowfold's call sign is Snow White, this diva. Yeah, yeah. And Mr. Carras' name is Goofy. Yeah, he picks up the receiver, he's like, you know, like, go for Goofy Actual or whatever.
Starting point is 00:56:46 Now, what I will say does bring you out of this metaphor somewhat, is that the codename for Van Dyke is the Watchdog of the Arabs. Which doesn't quite jive with the Goofy Mickey Mouse shit that they had. Remember that character in... Maybe it's one from The Vaults? It's like, Sadi says that and you're like, brother, you gotta use the code names, we're doing a Disney thing right now. You can't get that on Disney Plus anymore. I went to Disneyland a while ago and it's like, yeah, Mickey, Donald Goofy,
Starting point is 00:57:19 Jack Sparrow, Snow White, the Watchdog of the Arabs. Maybe it was a Fantasia thing? He's in the Small World, right? ALICE Yeah, yeah. RILEY They had to update that one really, like, remarkably recently if you look into it. ALICE But yeah, so they think that the assassination has come off, right, successfully.
Starting point is 00:57:36 And so at this point, Gabe Lohfeld is like, alright, it's time to pull the double cross. Cause, you know, I might have been fond of this guy, but we don't need him, we don't even need to pay him, we can just kill him. Yeah. Mickey Mouse will never eat his cheese, is what he says. Yeah, they get off the call and then like, Mr. Surname and the Colonel I believe he's got, they're still doing the fucking bit to each other. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:00 Which again, just a great goon, like, great interaction, wonderful stuff. One of the all-time goons. Saadi has like a whole other goon, like his own goon, his personal goon, his like GP receptionist, to like do his typing and stuff, Yousef. Yes. And he's like, right, Yousef, I'll fucking, I'll leave you in the office, because I've just had a phone call from Aisha, like, that doesn't sound at all like a pretext to get me out of the office. Being like, I'm sick, or whatever.
Starting point is 00:58:30 Yeah. Come over, it's not a trap. By the way, meanwhile, Van Dyke is like, being kept in seclusion in, like, a sort of secret room or whatever, and he has like an honest to God existential crisis when he reads the newspaper about his own assassination and then sees himself in the shaving mirror, which I really like. And then he just fucking drives off. Yeah, they don't try and stop him! Genuinely no one's watching this guy, like-
Starting point is 00:58:55 Yeah, he hits the bricks! Oh, I guess his whole plan is, we'll just kidnap this guy and put him near enough by that he'll get there just after the news breaks. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Like, he just spawns somewhere in town and is like, what the fuck? Oh no, I gotta get to the embassy! ALICE So if you remember OSS117's misogynist boy, he is waiting in the back of Saadi's car, and let me tell you, one of the uncle chops
Starting point is 00:59:21 of all time of the OSS misogynists is just like a whip crack. It's like right between the shoulders. Like, yeah. Just fantastic. Beautiful. So, Van Dyke escapes sort of semi-drunk driving to the embassy or whatever. One of the cops, I think, climbs up a stop sign to get away from his car, but the shot is fully like, the cop's job is to be cunti stop sign, he's just hanging onto a stop sign.
Starting point is 00:59:47 And meanwhile, Asundi Set goes to the clinic to try and get the medicine. Yeah. Yeah. He ends up having a fight with the doctor's goon, and they play this upbeat, it's the same music, it's the same, it's not tense. It's just like, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Yeah, but how long is a movie? What, like five minutes? What? Meanwhile, Mr. Surname has been deployed to the area. Yes. And he arrives, he's in a taxi on the way to the clinic, and the taxi driver puts on the radio,
Starting point is 01:00:33 and it's this jaunty little tune on the radio. It's the same fucking music. It's the same music. I will admit, when it was the same music on the radio as well, I did laugh. Yeah, that's funny. But only because I was starting to get so mad about the fucking music. And then they just keep playing it!
Starting point is 01:00:47 ALICE I felt like the filmmakers were trying to antagonize me. And they succeeded! GARETH If it's a punchline, you have to stop actually playing the music afterwards. It doesn't work. ALICE Yeah. They keep going.
Starting point is 01:01:00 GARETH To keep doing it. ALICE This taxi driver, by the way, you can see the fucking Uber rating going down, the longer carousel at the back of this cab, because he's like, right, well take me to the doctor's place. And then immediately he's like, well how long is it, how long do I have to listen to this like jaunty little tune, he's like, oh probably like 45 minutes or whatever. He's like, it's 50 minutes, and then like, earnestly, 15 minutes of screen time later
Starting point is 01:01:23 you cut back to the two of them in the car and they turn around again. You're like, I hope they never get there. I hope they're just in the car for the rest of the movie. ALICE Yeah, cause he finds out that, like, Van Dyke is alive, so he goes to, like, Mr. Big's house instead. And the taxi driver's like, oh, it's like 20 minutes back in the opposite direction. And it's like, we're both fucking one star. Yeah, they have this fight, but ultimately, before he can get the antidote into his veins
Starting point is 01:01:50 or whatever, OSS117 gets sick, he gets incapacitated. Yeah. It's a good fight because he's suffering from acute symptoms. Yeah. He's got poison disease. Yeah. His vitamin levels are falling. He's not got the vitamin anymore and it's like, he's fucked.
Starting point is 01:02:05 His RNA's been altered, he doesn't have a soul anymore, he can't get into heaven. So this uninsouled man, like, beats Yusuf, like collapses a wardrobe on top of him. He consecrated this guy, yeah. He's about to try and get into the cabinet, it collapses, and Sadi comes back in having like, obviously worked out the bluff. M- Sadi coming in is like the reason this fucking guy was cast, because holy shit, he eats this. He walks in so slowly. S- Ice fucking cold!
Starting point is 01:02:36 M- Sits down at a desk, looking straight at OSS as he's like sweating to bits on the ground, lights the cigarette, and all of this is like uninterrupted, smokes it for a little bit and then just like, looks at him and then it cuts away. He's fully gonna watch him die. Yeah. He sits behind his desk and like tucks himself in just to watch him die. Tucks himself in, under a big blanket. Really good, yeah. Mmm, yeah yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:58 Just like eating popcorn, right? Untucked. Now. Karis gets to Mr. Big's house, and Aisha is there, and he's like, listen, you have fucked us, or fucked up here somehow, and as punishment for this, I'm gonna kidnap your daughter. And Aisha goes, but wait a second, I'm his daughter, don't kidnap me. And we get maybe one of my favorite deliveries of any line that we've seen, where he just goes,
Starting point is 01:03:23 "'Shut your mouth, baby!' Yeah, yeah, yeah. BEEBEE. I thought he said BEEBEE originally, and I was just like, oh wow, it's a useful drop. SHUT YOUR MOUTH, PLAYBOY. At this point, like, the dad Mr. Big pulls out a gun and we get a kind of like, couch cover based old man gunfight. Yeah. Mr. Big gets hit, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:45 Yeah, he gets winged. Mr. Big gets hit and he goes, oh, if I die, then a dossier with all of the info will go to cops, and you don't want that, and the guy looks at him and he's like, well if that goes to the cops I'll kill your daughter, so you should probably stop that from happening, shouldn't you? And like, pushes the phone towards him with his foot and then leaves. Yeah. Oh!
Starting point is 01:04:04 Yeah. Par excellence. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Par excellence. That's some good gooning. He's taken Aisha with him, of course. He's a master. They fly back to Spectre Island. Yeah. By the way, OSS Laundi Set was saved by his boy who shoots Dr. Sadi and gives him the
Starting point is 01:04:18 injection. Yeah. Whatever. There are like ten minutes left in this movie. It's a crowded last act. And so he comes into Gabe Lohfeld and he's like, listen, I brought you this woman, I've done a bit of a kidnapping, I've tried to like salvage the situation. Gabe Lohfeld hits him with the worst feedback you could receive from your boss, which is, he goes, ["Oh my dear God, when will my prayer for one single intelligent husband be answered?"
Starting point is 01:04:49 The performance review's not going well. He delivers all of his lines like this. Yeah. This is the worst feedback you could ever get from your boss, he's like, you fucked up, and now I'm gonna kill myself. Yeah, this is the worst feedback ever, is that he goes, he says out loud the words, all is lost, and then immediately walks over the room to the self-destruct button.
Starting point is 01:05:08 This isn't feedback anyone got from their boss since fucking the Battle of Iwo Jima. Like, I've never fucked up this bad at work, you know? Walk into the room and your boss goes, all is lost, and immediately goes to kill himself. Yeah, like flipping the cover off the self-destruct crank. Yeah, he's winding it up. ALICE He's fully, like, thought about destructing myself, and Karas is like, quite reasonably under the circumstances, I don't want to get self-destructed, so I have a sort of constructive rebuttal to this performance review, which
Starting point is 01:05:41 is I have a gun and I'm gonna shoot you to death with it. RILEY Yeah, like, he just gets like fucking chewed out for these last few minutes, you know, like, Gabe Lohfeld is like, here's what you should've done, you're an idiot, you fucked this up, and he goes over to like, the thing, and he goes, you know, Karas, what does a captain do when his ship is sinking? And Karas looks at him from it and he goes like, I try to get an escape road out of there, I imagine. And this guy goes, no, you coward. He goes down with it and then immediately tries to open and set off the explosion, and
Starting point is 01:06:13 is just simply shot by Karas. ALICE It takes a long time to crank the thing, like... RILEY It takes a minute to crank the thing, yeah. ALICE Why did you hook it up to like a dynamo? RILEY Why is it a crank, dog? What mechanism could that possibly... ALICE I know. By the way, so, OSS117 gets a fucking helicopter to Spectre Island. DYNAMO. Why is it a crank, dog? What mechanism could that possibly be? I know.
Starting point is 01:06:25 By the way, so, OSS117 gets a fucking helicopter to Spectre Island. Also, Gay Spectre Island, or Spectre Fire Island, thank you. The like, guy he recognised on the way in, when he's like, oh that's one of the world's greatest killers, runs into him on the stairs, effortlessly judo throws him down the stairs, never seen again. Fantastic exit. Perfect. No, no.
Starting point is 01:06:44 That's all I need. During this fight scene, Mr. Krauss, I have this music. This joint is saying music again! ALICE The fucking French army show up and surround the place. We get a climactic... I've written down some things, and I don't know why I talk the way that I do. I've written down the phrase, roof fight, the boat fight of land. RILEY Yeah. Because you are so right, they're not that I do, I've written down the phrase, roof fight, the boat fight of land. RIght. Because you are so right, they're not on a boat, they're in a building!
Starting point is 01:07:10 I'm not though, because the boat fight of land is a train fight. Roof is kind of the inverse of a boat. Well, it's one of those things where, like, it's the same sort of principle where if you get thrown over the side you're out of the fight, right? Like, there's some commonality with fighting on the roof versus fighting on a boat. Will And the keel of the roof points towards the clouds, which is in many ways the ocean of the sky. Will That's right. Yes.
Starting point is 01:07:34 Will Birds are the fish of the yonder. So at this point, Karas has a clear opportunity to kick 117 off and doesn't because it's quite badly choreographed. Will Yeah. Will And in the end end Karas falls off. Meanwhile Club Blofeld's, I wrote Club Blofeld because of his shirt, Gabe Blofeld, is like trying to hit the self destruct lever, and I'm like, oh yeah, right, he's gonna hit the self destruct lever as they run out of the mansion, blow it up dramatically, right? Nope.
Starting point is 01:07:56 No, he actually doesn't manage. And also, Karas isn't thrown off the roof anyway, he genuinely slips coming off a ladder, and just goes off the side. Yeah. Ladder safety is very important. I also write down at this point, no word on that doctor then. Wouldn't worry about it. Which doctor?
Starting point is 01:08:11 Oh yeah, she just left the movie. No word on that geisha lady then. I imagine now you'll get arrested. Yeah. No word on HITLER! Did Hitler just get away? Did Hitler get away? Yeah, no, I see.
Starting point is 01:08:27 Oh, it says 117. I feel like you had a more urgent mission here. Hitler doing the dive out of the window from Danger 5? Where's Hitler, dog? I feel like you should have eyes on that guy. Do we have eyes on Hitler? Do we have eyes on Hitler? He's got eyeballs on Hitler. Did he get away?
Starting point is 01:08:47 Has he been arrested? Did it make the news? Is he in the next one? Cannot confirm, Hitler. There's like, French army outside, and they're like, we've got the place surrounded. And OSS-117's like, chill, I'm gonna take Aisha, I'm gonna get in this helicopter, I'm gonna fuck off. And they go, nice.
Starting point is 01:09:02 But Anton Chekhov is furious in the back of the theatre, he's like, no, what about blowing up with the leaf, no! He didn't crank. He didn't crank that shit? Chekhov's Hitler. And so, they get in the helicopter, Aisha's trying to like, kiss and fuck and make out with him, in such a way that it looks very much like he's gonna end the movie by crashing the fucking helicopter.
Starting point is 01:09:24 And then you get the like, phah, end. And that's the fucking movie. I might as well say you couldn't afford to blow up the set, why do you have the same music in the credits, where is Hitler? Shut your mouth, baby. Don't worry about it. These movies, they like to leave you with a couple of questions, you know? Questions like, did Hitler get away?
Starting point is 01:09:45 Yeah. Was that Hitler? You can't just show me Hitler and then not... You can't put Hitler in the film and then not tell me what happened to him. It's just a background, it's like, there's Hitler. Maybe it's a coincidence. Except it's not a background. There's a frame that's just Hitler.
Starting point is 01:10:02 Maybe it's a coincidence that that guy looks a lot like Hitler. ZOE Yeah, I guess, you know, maybe he already had the mustache and he thought that if he shaved it, it was giving in. ALICE Maybe he was playing Hitler in another movie and he had a conflict, so he had to like... ZOE If my boss was gay, I don't think I would dress as Hitler. ZOE I think in many senses my boss is gay and I haven't dressed as Hitler at any point.
Starting point is 01:10:24 ALICE Whereas if your boss wasn't, if it wasn't gay you would dress as Hitler If you were straight, I'd be dressed as Hitler right now. Let me just tell you that for free If my boss was gay I double wouldn't dress as Hitler. It won't affect the podcast because this is pure audio The most controversial set of live show themed outfits. I guess listeners, you don't know that we're not. Like, I can tell you that we're not. But do you believe me? Oh, no one's no one's drawing little like a chibi art of us
Starting point is 01:10:59 in the live show fits for the live show where we dress as Hitler. Admittedly, that was poorly thought out. And that live show fits. For the live show where we dress as Hitler! Please note. Admittedly, that was poorly thought out, I thought it would be, because like, we want to dress in the flight suits for the Top Gun thing, I thought if we all dressed up like Hitler it would be it. But, um, I see the problem. Um, that's fine. And for the Lawrence of Arabia live show I've got some ideas as well.
Starting point is 01:11:25 Oh, I've been there. We have a Hitler based system on this podcast. You're talking about Adolf Hitler. Yes! Okay. We have a science based system. Yeah, we do, man. It's called the Scum System. We have a science-based sister on this podcast. It's called the Scum Sister, and it says...
Starting point is 01:11:49 Smarm! Culture sensitivity! Unprovoked violence and misogyny! I think it's probably gonna get a pretty high Smarm score, because they're constantly doing little fucking lines to each other, even though they're not very good. Mmhm. Yeah, high Smarm. Very high Smarm. OSS has a pretty high smarm threshold.
Starting point is 01:12:06 Higher than Bond, actually, in a lot of cases. It's been smarmier, though, the series, like... Oh, I get it, it's because this guy looks hot. That's true. Like, that's the problem. A lot of the Eurospies have similar lines being delivered by, like, the worst looking man I've ever seen. Mm.
Starting point is 01:12:21 This guy looks kinda nice with it. You're doing the HR meme? Ex- I- yes, 100% Yeah. Five? Six? Five? On that basis? I'm not sure if we want to establish the precedent that it's okay to be smile me if you're hot, but like, every day of my fucking life.
Starting point is 01:12:37 Cultural insensitivity. Full on brown face. Brown face. Fully brown face. Just do brown face, yeah. I don't love the completely non-character cardboard cutout geisha lady, either. I don't like that they sort of imply that the gay specter is a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, I don't like that the plot of this is two North African tribes that are just not named, they're just tribes, generally. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:06 Yeah. There's a lot not to like about this, if I have to be honest with you. Yeah, a peace between them is only gonna be established by like, one white guy. One white guy. Who is magic. Six? Mm. Yeah, I think I could do six.
Starting point is 01:13:19 Sure. I'll see six. This one's probably gonna save it. Unprovoked violence, I mean... Not a ton. No, I mean, like, he hits the, like, moustache guy with the phone, but the moustache guy's clearly there to, like, murder him, so... Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:33 So who was that guy? Who does he work for? Why was he there? I don't know who he worked for, really. Yeah. There's no real reason for him to do any of the things that he did. Yeah, who was he working for? Was he just a rogue?
Starting point is 01:13:44 Who's that guy? The Moustache Man is a sort of complex character who has his own interests. Yeah, what the fuck was that guy? Oh well, whatever. Yeah, we just accept the presence of henchmen in these films, and we never stop to ask, like, wait, this is... Who's he gooning for? Yeah!
Starting point is 01:13:59 Whose goon is this? Please come and collect your goon! Good point! Who was that guy? What were you doing, man? Getting on the town, I'm like, there's a goon at the fucking cheese counter, could whoever is in charge of this guy come get him. You were the wrong Phil? Yeah, but- Is it unprovoked if we don't know who he works for?
Starting point is 01:14:20 I think that's pretty provoked, like, he's just an unknown man. He just attacks? I don't know, yes! No one claims- I guess it's still unoked, like, he's just an unknown man. He just attacks! I don't know, yes! No one claims... I guess it's still unprovoked if you don't know who his employer is. He's in his hotel room, like, I think that's a kinetic situation for anyone. It's a stand your ground, it's fine. Yeah, that's fine.
Starting point is 01:14:40 The only other unprovoked violence I think would have to be folded into misogyny, which is the incredible violence of fake kidnapping this young woman, and threatening her with death in order to extract information from her, which you then use, you having saved her from that situation to gain consent for sexual intercourse with her, which is... not good. ALICE Yeah, the whole sort of looking through glossies of women to establish your cover at the start, similarly. RILEY Don't like that.
Starting point is 01:15:08 ALICE But that's misogyny, I think, more than it is unprovoked violence, so... ALICE You got a 1 for unprovoked violence, and then maybe like a 5 or a 6 for misogyny? RILEY Yeah. ALICE I'd do a 5, I think? ALICE Yeah, okay. ALICE We've given the same for worse, I think. SONIA That gives it a total score of... 17. Which
Starting point is 01:15:26 is worse than the Charlie's Angels films, not the first one. ALICE I mean? SONIA It's on a par... it's kind of like one of the bad men from Uncles. Yeah, it's pretty par for the course for OSS Sunday set, the series, actually. ALICE I'll be honest, until the sort of collapse of The Last Act, I was pretty much enjoying this. Like, I had fun with this. RIght, I still enjoyed the last act even, it just wasn't good.
Starting point is 01:15:48 Yeah, I got bored about halfway through it. It writes a big check with cello Hitler, and I just... Yeah, you dumped that really early in the movie. Yeah. I also like, that is the end of the news, and then the news turns off, I think that's good. All the cars in here, it goes without saying, are incredible. The print looks phenomenal.
Starting point is 01:16:08 I just... ALICE Oh. An Isogrypho, yeah. RILEY Technicolor, take me back. It would not be difficult to just start doing Technicolor again, you just need to not pay actors thirty million per fucking movie. Just use that money for something. TROY No, actually, I think we should do that.
Starting point is 01:16:22 ALICE That's right, these actors, they've had it too good for too long. No, I think actors should be paid more, actually. You wanna pay Hitler more to be in this movie, interesting. I think normal type actors should be paid more, I think the top echelon should maybe be paid something to a factor of ten to a factor of a hundred less. Well, I mean, y'know, this is the kind of power that you get from union collective bargaining, innit? That's right.
Starting point is 01:16:45 I know it's easy for me to hate from outside the club. Next bonus episode, I believe, is my pick. Which makes it Cruising with Al Pacino. Fuck yes. Hell yes. We're gonna watch Cruising. Fucking rules. It doesn't stick for landing, but it's fantastic and I'm so happy that it exists.
Starting point is 01:17:04 I love Pride Month. It may not even come so happy that it exists. I love Pride Month. It may not even come out in Pride Month, but I love Pride Month. Uhhh... It will, just. Just about. It's the last week of Pride Month. Whatever, I'm not gonna stop having Pride. No.
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Starting point is 01:17:38 It's a good deal. ALICE It's a good deal, it's a good time. We have a lot of fun here, and hopefully you all too, if you do subscribe already, thank you so much, and we will see you next time. Bye everyone. Bye! Goodbye! Au revoir! You're talking about Adolf Hitler! Thank you for listening to yet another episode of Kill James Bond.
Starting point is 01:18:02 In two weeks time, on the the free feed it's yet another euro spy I'm just waiting for it to load in front of me here on the computer it's some girls do it's the sequels are deadlier than the mail let's fucking go that shit might be okay let's find out I'm willing to believe but if that is simply too long for you to wait next week on the bonus feed on patreon.com slash KillJamesBond, you can find The Birdcage. With just myself and Abigail, November was predisposed. Oh, it's a rare combo. Had a lot of fun, I think it's a rare combo. Now I've got 92 of you fuckers names to read out so let's just really crack straight ahead
Starting point is 01:18:51 with that. Thanks to all of our patrons or whatever but like special thanks of course to our £15 and above patrons and those are LowBjorn's daughter CandyFoxFrey Aloysius Gustavo Lyra Jack Holmes Jordan Gammie Mike Berg Hannah Oberhart Nick
Starting point is 01:19:03 Boris Jason Harger Naoto Mori George Roja Kentucky Fried Commie Drone Lover Yarrick Jack Holmes, Jordan Gammie, Mike Berg, Hannah Oberhardt, Nick Boris, Jason Harger, Neotomori, George Roja, Kentucky Fried Commie, Drone Lover, Yarik, Melody, Mauro Gonzalez, Labor Delender Est, Jay Martindale, Tripp Topp, O, Jonathan Gird, Max Gimane Hart, Mothman, Jack Trummond, Beefcrime, Kit Devine, Library Hitman, Stazzy Kins, Lyndon Rose, Anne Hedonia, Maeve Victoria Roth, Rosie Can't Fail, Anya Top, Troy Hudson, Artemis, Beth Lucy Stabb, Forest L. Norvell, Emery, Arthur Sex Crimes, The Project Project, Whitney Wolverine, Claire, Loretta Mazur, Demme Fatale, Joyous Uwu, Touchable Tip, Zan
Starting point is 01:19:37 Hutchins, Just the Worst, Ash Not in Florida, Hell, This is Just a Slur, Typed Out, I Can't Say This, Cayenne Vendell Donner, Lenina Skatach, Trans Commissar Sausage, some sort of silly Canadian creature, Trans Robot, Steve Widdishan's Violet Cyber, Annie Ruby, Rope Trick 2024, Clarification, Bronin, Alex, Noblesse Oblihy, Connors, Cool Big Sister, Isopod Gal, Gay Perry, Wall Scott, Liz and Ash, still in India, Corvid Cultist, John 2089, Seng Shen, Lady Arianne, Quinn Valeri, Philippa Smith is currently a line intersecting a plane at an angle of less than 90 degrees. Wolfie is normal, Robert Greensmith, Abigail, Mega Combi, Finn, Ross, Al Irwin, Miss Sight,
Starting point is 01:20:22 Identified Lemon, Cariad, Lo Pandora Hex Zoe Shepard Josh Simmons Off to the protests I'll pick you up on the way Emily Queen of Sloths Lauren Bastin Talkative Tiger and on Pride Month saying this one last Turfs eat shit and die alone Kil James Bond is November Abigail and Devon Our producer is the wonderful Mr. Neighbours Bay our podcast art is by Mattie Lepchanski and our website is by Tom Allen. Bye!

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