Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Blank Check with Griffin and David Blank Check with Griffin and David Don't know what to say or to expect All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check
The story of two friends who got a podcast, did bits, and then fell in love.
So true.
Now, this movie does have a perfect tagline.
It's a really great tagline. Do you know the tagline?
No. Was that it? That was a riff.
That was a little bit of a riff.
It was a riff on it.
It's the story of two friends who got married.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the tagline for Green Card?
It really is. And yet, it is all this study of what is the weird charm of this guy? Totally. And part of it is, this guy is why no Shrek? Is he emotional terrorist?
You know, like, I thought you were going to do something like... I wanted you to do something like in a French accent, like, I am a beast, or the beast will come out.
Right.
Or something like that.
Right. This movie is trying to present Gerard Depardieu as like the Walt Disney version of the beast, who's not actually that bad of a guy, but obviously has this kind of like rough, oafish personality. And then you're just like... You know, it's really close to like just we took all the bad things out of Gerard Depardieu and left the baseline.
I mean, I'm sure.
Gerard Depardieu was hot and sexy, guys. I hate to break it. I do not get it. That's fine. We can discuss.
We'll discuss that.
But it was not like a shocking proposition in 1990. This is the thing. Times change. Or do they?
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Chapter 3: How does Gérard Depardieu's persona affect the film's reception?
Like, he made a bunch of silly... Like, he probably did something... Also, French comedy is... I know.
I don't want to offend someone who is French.
My mother is French. Yes. Yes.
Are some of the most insane stupid things on the planet.
Or isn't it always like, oh, my daughter, she married an immigrant. Oh, no.
Sacre bleu, right? A lot of that, right?
A lot of that. Let's also acknowledge that Depardieu's breakout was in the movie Going Places, which is basically just about a fucking contest. I'm sure a bunch of French listeners are going to explain how I'm not paying proper respects to Going Places.
No, I don't think so. Going Places, you know what in French it's called? Like, you know, that was the American title for Going Places. And then we'll introduce our podcast. In France, it's called Les Valuses, which means the balls. Yeah. It's like slang for the balls, but like, that's what it means. That's what it means.
Every year I can, I've been going for three years now, and every year there's some movie that sort of pops up that's like... the French pick and it's like often there's like a French comedy and you're like, oh, wow, this is just playing so much differently here than it would.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Peter Weir face in making Green Card?
That's a good movie. Is it? Is it? Have you seen it? The Cedric Lepage film? Yes. Correct. Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah. And I remember when I was just like looking at that, I was like, is this like the biggest French movie? It's just called Paris.
Is this the biggest French movie of all time? Or is everyone?
What if we had like New York?
Right.
Because there was Perry and Don Perry were around the same time. And Don Perry is much better. Don Perry is Louis Garel and Romain Derise.
Yeah, that one's fun. That's about like some, you know, shaggy boys, right? It's about depression.
Yeah, it's about two brothers. That movie rules. And then Perry, I'm trying to remember, but I have seen as well.
It's got a huge cast, man. A lot of Frenchies. Romney Doree is in that one too. Yeah. What's he up to these days?
Yeah, I realized because he's so good in All the Money in the World.
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Chapter 5: What humorous incident involving Jeffrey Katzenberg is mentioned?
Somebody can correct me. But basically, the long story short of this is that it seems like Jeffrey Katzenberg might get eaten by a lion in this video.
Right. The lion gets aggressive.
The lion gets aggressive towards Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Chapter 6: What significance does the 9 train have in the context of New York?
so when this film I want to say begins with RIP to her we love her we miss her the nine train little shot of a nine train disappearing yeah you need to tell us about the nine train you don't know about the nine train I don't know you're kind of pre nine train back in the day I was born in 1990 Yeah, well, the 9 train was still existing then, but it was on its way out.
So back in the day, Ben, you know on the 7th Avenue line, the red lines of the subway, right? There's the 1, 2, and the 3, right? The 2 and the 3 are express. In Manhattan, the 1 is the local. There used to be a 9 train on that line, too. Weird. And it was a local as well. It was the same as the 1 in every way, except... There's no 8 train. There used to be an 8 train, Ben, long ago.
What the hell? Yes, there used to be an 8 train as well in the Bronx. Let's not talk about that right now. But the 9 was skip stop with the 1 north of 96th Street. So like when the 1 is on its own. And the idea was just like, oh, a rush hour, like just to speed things along. These trains kind of like hop. And it was too annoying.
And I think people who lived in upper Manhattan and the Bronx didn't even like it that much. For me who lived on that line, but not in the skip stop area, it did nothing different from a 1 train. But I was just still always if we got a 9, I was like, look, a 9 train.
It was so funny to get to the platform and be like, what's here? One, two, three. Okay, cool. I bet I can guess what the fourth train is.
Nine!
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Chapter 7: How does the film 'Green Card' reflect on the rom-com genre?
Skipping all the way over. Yes. So when Peter Weir, this movie has great New York, I would say, energy in general. I would agree. Is navigating a subway station. He hears a chorus of voices led by the unhoused singer, Harry Stewart and the Erasmus group, sorry, the Emmes group singers named after Harlem's Emmes house for the unhoused. And he was like, I love this. I want this to be in the film.
So that's why those guys are in the movie. For the opening. Yeah.
I do want to call out because I know what happened while I was in the bathroom. Oh, Uh-oh. I do think Hans Zimmer's score in this is great.
I agree. Oh, yeah.
We already talked about that. I just wanted to second it.
Did you hear us or did you just think?
I heard David saying this was an early Hans Zimmer score. It's a great score. I think a lot of the early Hans Zimmer comedy scores have aged to varying degrees. Yes. Some of them age better than others.
I was just talking with Esther about his kind of early like world music.
Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Esther Zuckerman share about the film's characters?
It's interesting to hear it now, obviously, knowing what he turned into. Correct.
Which he turned into something interesting as well. It's just completely different. But this is like, it's so much my problem of the modern rom-com, which barely exists, but what does exist feels like it is just trying to be one step elevated above the Hallmark Christmas movie churn. which is this could have been shot anywhere and we're pretending it's anywhere else.
And rom-coms benefit so much from like a place of specificity, from the feeling of like neighborhood haunts and like the rhythm of whatever the fucking city or the town is. And like just the fact that I put this movie on and immediately it's like subway drummer, people getting on and off the train. No, I mean, I'm like, this is set in a place, right?
And it speaks to very quickly what is kind of actually the biggest point this movie is making. We talk a lot about the cinema of men will literally blank to avoid going to therapy.
One of your favorite tropes.
Yeah. This is and I think this movie is dead on the money.
Can I say it?
Yeah.
Women will literally get married to get a great apartment.
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