Chapter 1: What iconic film is celebrated in this episode?
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Chat Turn Looks 3 is recorded on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and we pay our respects to them along with our respects to the traditional owners of the land from wherever you are listening. Joining me tonight, Leigh Sales.
Thanks for having me, Annabelle Crubb. Sorry, it just struck me that we're both wearing kind of stage blacks and glasses and it felt like a really serious interview situation. And I just had that sick feeling where I'm like, oh, shit, we're aware and I can't, I've got nothing to ask.
Given how we're dressed, we should be like, Ms Crabbe, this is your five minutes to onstage call.
Remember that time I did that, you know, kind of mime show when I lost my voice? Oh, yeah.
See it in my memory. I'll never forget the anxiety of knowing I was going onstage with someone that could not speak.
Yes, it was terrible for you. I imagine it was dreadful for you, yes. What have you got for me? What have you got for me for the pod this week? Oh, heaps actually. All right, so I'm going to start by thinking about the fact that it's 50 years since the film Taxi Driver was released. Do you know, I've never seen the film Taxi Driver. I knew you were going to say that.
As I was sort of thinking, oh, I might start off talking about this, I thought surely sales will have seen Taxi Driver.
No.
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Chapter 2: What are the main themes of Taxi Driver?
Oh, wow. They were silent and each of them were just thinking, this is just shit and I'm so embarrassed for this guy right now. And then he just went upstairs. Oh, that's so good. And that, of course, became the biggest grossing film in history.
I feel like this podcast is going to be one of those ones where it's just like a puppy gambling all over the room. Oh, mate. What's the word I'm trying to think of? Like just all over the room, glumping all over the room where we just never finish the original conversation. But this reminds me of a conversation I had.
Yeah.
I had this conversation the other day when I was recording my shift for ABC Classic because I'm doing a Saturday afternoon. I've only got a couple of weeks left to go on that. But we were talking about so ABC Classics having their, you know, Classic 100 countdown, the greatest classical music of all time. And I was saying to my producer, Lizzie,
What do you reckon if you walked up to just any random person in the street and asked them, because we were just in our own heads going, what do you think is the most famous piece of classical music of all time? Any random person who's not a music expert and you said, can you hum me a few bars of any piece of classical music that you can think of, what would they say?
So I'm going to ask you because you're not a classical music expert. So if I put you on the spot and said, what would come to your mind as a piece of classical music?
Well, I would say automatically the Queen of the Night aria from the Magic Flute by Mozart. I knew you were going to say this and I know why too. Because my bird sings it all the time, having been trained to sing it by my daughter who subsequently then moved away to university and now the bird lives in my room.
I've heard your bird sing that 28,000 times except it stops before it gets to it. It only does like ba-da-da-ba-ba. Over and over again. He used to be a closer.
Oh, God. Anyway, so I don't actually know any other pieces of classical music.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the famous line 'You talking to me?'
It was right before we were about to go on stage in Wagga Wagga and I was like, oh, I've got to go suck back the tears here because we've got to go out. You hear Spielberg say to him, okay, here's the brief. You've had this alien that's been living in your house for this period of time and he's become your best friend.
You just love him to bits and then the government's knocked on your door and they want to take him away and you really, really don't want to lose your best friend and have them take him away. Oh, the kid. It's... So natural. It's literally like they're taking his best friend away. It's hard to believe he was not having that actual real life experience.
And then you hear Spielberg at the end say, okay, enough, kid, you've got the job.
Yeah, it's phenomenal. Jeremy had obviously sort of seen it somewhere or other and was just like, oh, he hasn't seen this, right? I'm like, no. And then we both
It was amazing. I knocked over on the weekend, just finished a book, Ann Patchett's new book, who we both love, Whistler. Whistler? Yep, Whistler. It comes out on the 2nd of June. Oh, gee, it was just gorgeous. Absolutely wonderful read. I don't want to say too much because it really hooked me right from the start. And even though... there's a kind of reveal in the first chapter.
So it's not really a spoiler. It hooked me through the first chapter so comprehensively that I don't want to give the details. No. So all I want to say is it is a woman and her husband having a kind of afternoon together and they go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And the husband notices that an elderly man seems to be following them.
And they shift from kind of room to room and he's still there and they speed up and they slow down and he's still there. And the husband says... I'm going to go and talk to that guy and see what's going on. And it goes from there. What happens next will shock you. Yeah, it is kind of, it totally was not what I expected. And then it just, the whole book unfolds so incredibly beautifully.
It's really a masterclass in structure. And also, I guess, just in the creation of just the propulsion to keep reading and to keep moving forward. She's really at the top of her game, I think.
Okay, no, I've heard other like hysterically positive reviews of this book and like any Patchett is good Patchett, but this sounds like it's primo Patchett.
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