Alex Ross Perry
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes.
There's very little like, oh, what about this part?
It's basically like, what about the mosquitoes?
What about when they find the water well and they all start drinking water?
What about when the Mongols give them a sack of water and they say they're too poor for horses and they're just like, okay, well, we have no questions about why you people are wandering around out here.
I put this movie closer to Jerry than The Revenant.
But Jerry is like abstracting everything to the millionth degree, which is so cool.
Jerry's...
Is Van Sant still on the board?
Well, also, I mean, this is insane.
Chris Columbus is winning.
Who the fuck wants this over a Psycho remake episode?
But the other, like to us, like in the movies we like watching at home, there's like the two kinds of this kind of movie you're describing is something like The Martian, which has a kind of identical problem solving structure.
And then there's the kind of like seafaring adventure shipwreck in the heart of the sea where it's just like another thing of like, can these people survive?
I think a lot of people like that movie.
I think a lot of people find that to be a really worthy seafaring adventure.
A lot of people?
And he has, like... He's saying he's Costanza-ing it.
Yes, and then he's overcorrected... No, no, nothing happens.
I mean, what you're describing is the way Mosquito Coast is structured.