Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: SUSPIRIA (2018)

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

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This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, bonus episode for the month of February in the year of 2022. 2022. 2022. Here we are. It is the second month of the year. It is the second bonus episode of the month. And once again, I say it is the year 2022.

There might be a theme here. There might be a theme here. Choose everywhere. Choose everywhere. It's some sort of pattern. And did we shoehorn this in? I don't know. If only we were doing this seminal film,

it takes two today. Unfortunately, we are not. But we will. Soon. That's a promise. Starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. We really should do a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie one day. Freaking yeah, we should.

I loved those. Don't they have a spooky one? They were detectives. Double, double toil and treble. They also have, yes, the whole detective TV series. I think the listeners would be interested to hear about those. Remember how they started all of those with, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Actually, it was bedtime. That's how they all all of those with it was the best of times it was the worst of times actually it was bedtime that's how they all started that's fun I barely remember that I remember they had to solve the crime and get home in time by bedtime oh I thought it was for dinner time in dinner time no bedtime okay it was the best of times

it was the worst of times sorry actually it was bedtime okay fine fineily knows her shit i know my fucking shit henley um but we are so the theme is the second of something that's correct i believe that is right tony heads we we threw a little poll to you of sequels and remakes and what you wanted covered and you chose the Suspiria remake which came out in 2018 oh it was I'm so glad I am so glad me too I'm fucking ready to hear about this one. People have told us it's crazy and not very much

like the original Suspiria. Right. I'm freaking excited to hear about this one. I'm thirsting for it. I'm just imagining I'm parched. I'm parched. And the only thing that would quench my thirst

is hearing about this superior movement. I imagine Chris Martin watching this film and just falling in love with Dakota Johnson. This is what did it. Little known fact. Little known fact. This is what sealed the deal between Chris Martin, lead singer of the band Coldplay, and Dakota Johnson, the star of this film. And of the Fifty Shades of Grey series, famously.

Famously. Famously, this is the first time we've ever seen her forehead. Fully exposed. It really threw Henley. We do need to talk about this. I guess we should talk about it right now, which is just I was convinced. I have to tell you guys, I was convinced she was wearing a forehead prosthetic for this film. I just assumed.

Dakota, I'm so sorry. I mean, she's fine. She's dating Chris Martin, lead singer of the band Coldplay. No, I think Dakota Johnson is beautiful. She's dating Chris Martin, lead singer of the band Coldplay. No, I think Dakota Johnson is beautiful. She's stunning. I think she's one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen in my life. She is the most beautiful large foreheaded woman we know. I think that's why I was so shocked to see her natural hairline.

Do you think that's her natural hairline? I think it is, Emily. It's a wig, but I mean, it's, yeah, I mean, I don't think that they, I don't think it's a prosthetic forehead. No. Can we talk about it for a second? Because the it's yeah I mean I don't think that they I don't think it's a prosthetic forehead no can we talk about it for a second because the bangs are really the bangs you know some people have a

look bangs are tricky and and a thing that I came to realize I had bangs once recently and I didn't love them and a thing I came to realize about why they never, I could never get them to work is I think I have a very, and see now I'm, I don't want to bring it up because now you're going to see it.

I think I have too short of a forehead. And I could never get the bang look I wanted. Cause I re I just don't think I have enough real estate for the bangs to happen. And some people have more. Some people have a face for bangs and I think that comes down to foreheads. Yeah. And I like couldn't like she's beautiful. She also looks great with bangs. And it's sort of the forehead. It's a cup of the forehead and the hairline. It's like the way the hair can fall and have it still hit in a good place. Yeah. Maybe, honestly, she's forehead blessed, if you ask me.

It's true. I mean, she looks great, great with bangs. No one pulls off bangs like Dakota Johnson. I mean, transformative. And it is just kind of jarring to see her without them, just because they're a part of her look that's why do you remember when people freaked out when the gap in her teeth closed it was like a big point of like fans like freaked out because she had to have some I can't remember now I think she had some sort of like oral surgery and some side effect of it was that her gap in her teeth was slowly closed and fans panicked and were like, where did her gap go? Where did her gap go?

And she was also very sad about it. And she had to address it on a talk show where she was like, had to. I'm sad about it, too. You guys, I didn't do it on purpose. God, we are human beings are so fucking weird. So weird. Imagine being like a real person. She's a real person.

She's a regular person like any of us. And she has to like talk to strangers about the gap in her teeth. She has to be like, guys, calm down. I get it. Like we're deranged. That's insane. Celebrity. But also culture is really crazy.

But I can't stop. I can't stop. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed with it. We're conditioned. Okay, but we're here to talk about Suspiria. We are here to talk about that. And I am so freaking excited.

I, oh my God. This is one that people talk about. Oh my god, this is one that people talk about. There is a buzz surrounding this movie, and I don't know why. And I can't wait to get the answer. Yeah, yep, yep. Let me tell you, it was directed by Luca Guadagnino. Oh, call me by your name. That's right.

And it's pretty different from that movie. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. It's written by David Kajanik based on the original that was written by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, and Alec Weck. And it is streaming on Amazon Prime.

It has a 65 around tomatoes 64 on metacritic 6.8 on imdb pretty even right right in there yeah that's like across everyone agrees um the budget was 20 million box office 7 million this was a failure financial failure this was a failure um let me give you guys some trivia okay it dakota johnson did two years of ballet training in preparation for the role of this film isn't that a lot i mean in mean, in terms of ballet training, that's not very much. But in terms of preparing for a role... Actor training. I just feel like she knew two years before this movie was happening

that she had the lead. That feels kind of crazy. Yes, I know that Luca Guadagnino got rights for it six years before making it. And at one point, a different director, David Gordon Green, was going to direct it. And it went through different actresses but yeah i guess she must have found out earlier but yeah usually you hear

someone doing six months of prep that's like typically what i feel like i hear an actor doing working out for six months or whatever but i mean ballet that's no that's fucking no joke ballet's no joke and to learn it as an adult would be, I mean, maybe she had taken, I don't know, but yeah, it's a lot to like get into your body. And I couldn't really figure out what Dario Argento's reaction to this film was. It sounds kind of lukewarm, but Luca Guadagnino says like, oh, he loved it. He loved it. But every quote, every quote with Dario Argento, he said, like he, one of the quotes is it's a refined film like luca guadagnino who is a fine person guadagnino makes beautiful tables beautiful curtains beautiful dishes all beautiful

like that's what he had to say about the movie yeah like a backhanded right it's like a way to be try to not outright say like i don't like this movie I don't like this movie also it's very funny to be like no no he loved it don't ask no you don't have to ask him I'm telling you he loved it I'm telling you why ask him stop he loved it it reminds me of um in our 13 ghosts episode

Emily when you were like Roger Ebert review was like it looks good and you're like it's exactly like what you would say if you hated everything about your friend's good and you're like it's exactly like what you would say if you hated everything about your friend's play and you're like the production design is so good oh you make such beautiful things beautiful tables

beautiful curtains what I was struck by was the beauty I really I loved the beauty of it just gave a feeling that I liked you know it just felt good. The score is composed by Tom York. Oh, that's fun.

Yeah, it's fun. And it says he followed Radiohead co-composers Johnny Greenwood and Phil Selway into film scoring. And I just wanted to say Johnny Greenwood has really been killing it lately. He has just done so many scores. He did Power of the Dog, which is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. But it was great. When I'm editing, I always use film score as temp music. And I use a lot of Johnny Greenwood.

He's great. But if we're going to say a band member who turned into a film composer, that's the best. It's obviously Trent Reznor. It absolutely is Trent Reznor. What did I just watch that he scored? Gone Girl. Oh, Gone Girl! I saw with you. So good.

It feels like this movie really should have done better than it did. It's pretty sad that it was kind of a bust in the box office. It's sad, yeah. It's pretty's pretty that sounded like you were like it did sound like you got like genuinely really sad oh i i interpreted as being a mean girl like this movie really should have done better it's pretty sad no no i think that it's i everyone knows this. This is a cliche at this point, but it is so depressing to think about all the people who work so hard on something for so many years and it doesn't work out. And it's like just a flash in the pan.

No one remembers it. And it was bad. Yeah. I like I'm genuinely sad about it. Oh, Henley. I don't think you need to spend your emotional energy there. I don't think, I think it's not right to get your mental health. The good news is that

it's a really, I think it's a pretty good movie, and I feel like they should be proud. Unfortunate that more people didn't see it, but they did good work on it. It looks great. They're probably proud. They're probably proud. And, you know, sometimes

you don't get the critical acclaim. You don't get that box office success. But that doesn't mean you didn't create a great work of art. Thank you so much. I just needed to hear that. Okay, so should we watch this trailer? I'm really excited for you guys

to get a little peek at it. Ooh-wee! I'm scared. When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator. One, two, three. I feel like I'm not even here yet. You have to decide what is it you want to be for this company.

Darkness. Tears. And sighs. I'm making some kind of deal with them. I don't know what you're talking about. There's more in that building than what you can see. It's all a mess. The one out there. The one in here.

The one that's coming. okay i want to say that her forehead doesn't seem as intense in motion I think it's just the stills. It's just the stills I've seen that were shocking to me. But when she's like talking, it's fine. And I think it's the combo of that and like the wig. Sometimes a wig on a head just... And the center part. It's like a little uncanny valley.

You're like, wait, what is... It's the center part too. What is it? Center part combo. I like her with red hair though yeah i think that's fun she looks great she's great in this i wanted to see more dancing yeah in that trailer there's a lot of dancing in the movie but unfortunately the best dancing scene is really intercut with one of the hardest to watch things. Otherwise, I'd say just fast forward to this part, but

it's the best and the worst part. Well, too bad for me. I don't like the look of that hook. Whatever that hook situation is. I don't like the look of that hook. That's a nasty hook. That's a nasty hook for sure. It's big. Don't like it.

If you'll remember in the original Suspiria, it's like real bright colors, like it um and yeah if you're if you'll remember in the original suspiria it's like real bright colors like very neon and uh luca guadagnino said that this movie is not not necessarily a remake but more of an interpretation because they've changed quite a lot in it and it's like this one's real muted it's an hour longer than the original holy shit that's an interesting choice yeah I mean you know we don't love a two and a half hour movie but it's two and a half hours yeah it's two and a half

hours it sure is okay there was a part where I was like this is so crazy and I paused it and there was yeah 50 minutes left and I was like this isn't the end but it wasn't okay um okay we should fucking get into it we should get into it I left and I was like this isn't the end but it wasn't okay okay we should fucking get into it I had totally forgotten

everything about the original Suspiria except for that it had to do with dance and then in the trailer they pulled out that like diagram thing I was like oh right it's like witches wow okay let's freaking dive in. Yeah, so I was, as I was watching it, I was like, how the fuck am I going to recap this

movie? I was getting real nervous. There's a lot to unpack. It's nuts. It's nuts. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna see what happens. We're gonna get to it. Everyone can do it, Sammy.

It's you, baby. It's you. Ooh. Okay, let's get the kill. I can do it, Sammy. It's you, baby. It's you. Okay, let's get into it. Let's do it. To hear the rest of this episode, join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash tsdwpodcast and get access to all of our bonus episodes. We have video bonus episodes.

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