Wesley Morris
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836 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Wesley Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the story that Rommel Ross wanted to tell about, like, based on... like, you know, quote based on Colson Whitehead's novel. Like, he, there was, there was so much risk taken in these, by these movies, these Best Picture nominees this year. They, they, they were doing strange, unusual, weird things.
And I'm saying this as a person who saw Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, which won Best Picture, a woman about a woman in love with a fish. Like, you know, strange things happen to Best Picture nominees or in Best Picture nominees. But this was the first year where I can understand what it is the public wants.
And what the public wants is movies that not only have they seen, but they want to have like a wealth of movies if they're going to be going to the movies like to a physical movie theater.
They want to go look at they want to look at famous people. They want movie stars like Deadpool and Wolverine are movie stars.
Like this iteration, this Anthony Mackie, Captain America to like two people who aren't invested in the Marvel universe, Marvel cinematic universe. Like he's important. And we all know like what this iteration of Captain America is and does. If you read the comic, et cetera, et cetera. But like, do people, this is Anthony Mackie, a draw for people, right?
I mean, the movie seems like it's doing OK, but my point, my larger point is this is just me saying once again to you, Bill, that the IP is still I think people are now tired of the IP even. Right.
The IP is worn out. It's welcome.
Wait, you guys have never done Rocky?
Was that the year that Gravity and was that the year of Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, American Hustle?
That deck was so stacked that Tom Hanks giving one of the best performances he's ever given. And Captain Phillips did not get a Best Actor nomination.
No, because, I mean, here's, you know, you know me well enough to know that my taste in men... is eclectic, but I'm just going to say for the average person, they're not, they're not looking at Gene Hackman and going,
He gets a little randy in some movies. He is... But I think there's something about his kind of average lookingness.
Like, you know, he did not wear a toupee. He did not hide his loss of his hair. He... always just seemed like he was perpetually 45 years old. Yeah. He came to us 45 years old. And like when he left, he maybe seemed 60. I don't know.
He just seemed permanently middle-aged, which is a thing that just will never happen now.
Yes.
He could be somebody trying to break into the White House.
Anything. I think that his also that kind of does speak in some weird way to what America is. And I know this sounds like cheesy and corny and cheap, but like if you are coming to this country for the first time and you want to you like one of the many things that tells you that you're in the United States of America, it's probably Gene Hackman. Right.
This is a person who in all of the jobs that he could be doing seems credible in them. He's not conventionally good looking. Like the idea that he and Warren Beatty are supposed to be brothers and Bonnie and Clyde is just one of the most laughable things I've ever seen. Like, yeah, adopted brothers. I don't know. I just it's just it's comical. There is something also like unpredictable about him.
And it isn't so much that, you know, I think about him in the French connection. Right. One of the, if you think of, if you diagram the psyche of, you've diagrammed that sentence psychologically, this is like a terrible human being. He's a racist, like racist cop in New York City, shaking down people in bars just for kicks, basically.
Yeah, but you know, Popeye Doyle never had an Eddie Murphy to come and give one of the great rebuttals to the racism in the movies, right? Yeah. Or like to anybody's racism in the movies. Popeye Doyle stands as a singular character Because he's never brought in to heal. Nobody ever wags their finger in his face in a way that means anything.
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