Chapter 1: What exciting news is shared about The Take podcast?
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Chapter 2: What themes are explored in the film Jimpa featuring Olivia Colman?
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I heard your stomach rumble there. You need to have breakfast. Sorry, have we started? I expect so. Okay, did we start with you going one, two, three, four, five? No, we started with your stomach. I was out of my stomach. Okay, fine. Thank you very much. Have you had breakfast? Well, I've had coffee. That doesn't count as breakfast, does it? Don't really do. You know this.
Chapter 3: How does the film The Christophers portray family dynamics?
You know I don't do breakfast. Well...
Chapter 4: What is the verdict on the horror film Obsession?
You do, but a little bit later. Yes, exactly. It's called tea. All right. Okay. All right. Well, here we are in the same room. That's the only way that I noticed this thing. Had I been staying in your house, then maybe I would have had breakfast because you could have forced it upon me.
But as you know, what happens is yesterday I rang you to say, Simon, I don't suppose there's any chance that I can stay in your house. And it turned out there wasn't. You said, no, it's got an Australian in it. Australian from California. So how can they be an Australian from California? Originally from Australia, moved to California. Oh, okay, fine. Does that make sense? Yep.
And that kills that joke, stone dead in that case, fine. What was the joke? No, no, no, it's just that I thought that would be... Why are we in a room anyway? Why are we here? We're here because after we record the show here, we're going to do take one now, we're going to do take two, then we're going to take ultra. Yes, live. Live, live. Just like this. Just like this.
And then I'm going to fly, fly like the wind from here to Gatwick Airport for... to go to Nice, because I'm going to Cannes, and I'm going to Cannes. Can you use the C word? Yes, I know the C word. And I'm going to Cannes because it is the premiere tomorrow night. What is tonight? Wednesday, Thursday. So by the time you're listening to this tonight.
of the director's cut of ken russell's the devils which is finally being released and as you know i was kind of involved in in finding some of the missing scenes and we've been trying to get it released for ages anyway it's finally happening so the premiere is tomorrow night in the salbon well at 9 15 in the evening or the morning in the evening okay so you could do nine
At 15 in the morning for the Devils. But in Cannes they do show movies all the time, don't they? They do, yeah. So in your carrier bag, your on bag, your accent, what do you take to go to a thing at Cannes? I've got my suit because you have to wear a black tie apparently. But I don't have black tie. High heels?
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Chapter 5: What unique elements are present in the film Normal?
Do you have to have high heels still? There was a whole year in which there was a whole, the protest, because they said that women had to wear high heels. And so all, I know, just ridiculous. How about it's like, that sounds like something from the 50s. I know. And so the way that all the women protested was they all went up barefoot.
They literally, even if they had heels, they took them off and walked up the carpet barefoot as a protest, which was quite right. So yes, I'm going to do that. And then that's going to finish around about midnight. And then I'm on the first flight out. On Friday. So are you ignoring the nightlife of Cannes? Yeah. What about having a dip in the sea? No. Why not? Have you been to Cannes? Yes.
Have you been to Cannes when the festival's on? Not that festival. I mean when another festival has been on. What other festival? TV. Selling TV. We were selling the HTV show. I didn't know this. The places were full of, you know, representatives of TV companies around the world. So you go and sit next to some oik and you say, this is a very good show. And they go, really? Why?
You go, well, because of all these reasons. Okay, thanks. Next. Did you have any meetings on yachts? All the meetings were as short as West Street and going to see Keir Starmer, which by the time this goes out might have become hugely important. But did you have any yacht meetings or were they all in tents or in cubicles? They were all in hotel lounges, that kind of thing.
And whilst you were there, did you go swimming? I think so, because the weather was really, really nice, and we were staying in a nice hotel, and they had their own beach, so we went down and... The hotel had their own beach. Yes, yes. Which hotel are you staying in? I've got no idea. Okay, well, the hotel I'm staying in doesn't have its own beach. Really? Well, you should have a word. Okay.
With the devils. Yeah, and they're going to say, yeah, you're here for one night. Stop complaining.
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Chapter 6: How did Olivia Colman and Sophie Hyde collaborate on Jimpa?
Okay. That's very exciting. You're off to Cannes. So I'm going to get up and I'm going to say, ladies and gentlemen, here it is. You know, Ken would have been thrilled. The director's cut of Devils. Then I'm going to watch it because they've done, you know, they've remastered the whole thing. And then I'm going to... You should stand up again and protest like you did that time.
Mark Hamill dragged out of the film he's introduced. It's not like that. It shouldn't be like that. How dare you? Out you go. And take your heels with you. Actually, I do think that I should go wearing heels. I think that would... I've got size 14 feet. All the women barefoot and all the men in high heels. That would be fun. Very good. Well...
Until we get to that moment where Mark is taking off and disappearing to his showbiz lifestyle. Thank you. You have to do some work. Yes. And you need to talk enticingly about the films you're going to review. Well, we've got an absolutely packed show. We've got reviews of The Christophers. Sir Ian McKellen was on the show last week. Fabulous interview about that. So that's out this week.
We have Obsession, which is a new horror movie, which I can guarantee you're not going to enjoy. I won't see it then. You won't see it, exactly. But why not? Why not? I'll do it when we get to the review, okay? Body horror. And Normal, which is the new Bob Odenkirk movie directed by Ben Wheatley. And also, our very special guest... Oh, yes. Guests, in fact. Guests. Olivia Colman.
Must be about the most fated... Well, one of the most fated UK actors at the moment, you would think. And you asked a killer question about, was it harder to work with your daughter or the Oscar and BAFTA winning Olivia Colman? All this is to come. Sophie Hyde is the director...
And it's one of those things where it reminded me a little bit uncomfortably of COVID because I'm sitting in my room in North London and Olivia's in Canada and Sophie Hyde was in Adelaide in Australia. So we were spanning the continents. But it's a very interesting conversation. And that movie is Chimpa.
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Chapter 7: What challenges did the filmmakers face in releasing Jimpa?
And so you'll hear that chat in this take. Yeah. And then we're going to have to put the review in take two because we've got too much in take one. And I think we're also putting it on YouTube so that everyone can watch it. Yes, we will do. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. And also in take two, a review of Northern Soul Still Burning, which is a documentary about Northern Soul music. That's a good title.
Yeah, very good. All very entertaining, I think, maybe. Correspondence at KermitandMayor.com. Tell us about a film that is out that we might be interested in. So, Obsession, okay? 18 for strong violence and gore. And that's why you're probably not going to enjoy it. So, IndieWire, talking about Obsession, said it was proof that the Craigification of
of the Craigification of 2020's horror is in full effect. And what they meant was that this is the latest horror film from someone who, like the Filippi brothers, who made Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, and Zack Kreger, who made Weapons, which he really liked, and Barbarian. Made their name in comedy, often online comedy, shorts, and then went on to make really sharp, really nasty horror movies.
Bear in mind that, you know, you could go back to Jordan Peele and Get Out, because obviously he has a background in comedy as well. So there is this definite sort of train of people coming into horror through comedy and then doing really interesting stuff.
So Fright Fest had been doing screenings of Obsession, which I knew in advance, so I kind of knew, okay, it's got the Fright Fest stamp of approval. Written and directed by Curry Barker, who made a splash in a sketch comedy duo called That's a Bad Idea, was making short comedy and horror shorts for YouTube.
Made his feature directorial debut with a found footage horror film called Milk and Cereal. Now, this obsession. So this follows Bear, played by Michael Johnson, who is this sort of shy, retiring guy who works in a music shop. And he's got a massive but unstated crush on his friend and workmate, Nicky.
She's his closest friend, but he wants to let her know that he wants her to be more than just a friend. And actually we meet him at the beginning, practicing the speech in which he says to her, look, you know, you mean more to me. And then it cuts away and actually he's just practicing it. And his best friend is going, that's rubbish. You know, that's absolute rubbish.
You're not going to get anywhere with that. He can't get up the courage to tell her that he loves her instead. She loses a crystal necklace and he goes into a crystal store, you know, a sort of hokum store to buy one. He can't find the right one. What he does find instead is this thing called a one-wish willow. And it's a box. That sounds like trouble. Sounds like trouble.
With a willow in the middle of it. And when you take it out, it makes a funny noise and you break it in half and you make a wish, okay? And he says, yeah. And of course, as is the way with horror films, you know, it looks like it's like a novelty. It's a kind of retro thing. But on the other hand, the thing might work. So he buys it for her to give it to her.
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Chapter 8: What insights are shared about the performances in The Christophers?
There's also the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. Oh, that's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah, I'll find that's where it is. Okay, well. I mean, on the one hand, there's sort of, there is a tradition in movies, like, you know, in Big, it's the thing about, oh, the fairground thing, you know, you make the wish and it will actually come true. And then what do you then do with it?
Well, apparently, the writer-director first got the idea for this, he was watching an episode of The Simpsons, and it was an episode of The Simpsons that refers to the monkey's paw.
So the monkey's paw, as you'll know, because you're a big Stephen King fan, that's one of the kind of the urtext tales of horror, which is basically, be careful what you wish for, because your wish may come true eventually. And in this particular case, that is absolutely what happens, that he wishes for something and then it does come true.
Now, on the one hand, that's a kind of, you know, that's an outlandish fantasy. The reason it works, however, is that underneath it is a very real story about coercion, about control. I mean, the fact is he makes this wish that then effectively imposes his will on somebody else. I mean, it's not a million miles away from spiking somebody's drink.
There is something really sinister about the fact that he has done this. And from then on, what happens is that she becomes more and more cracked because what's happened is that her free will has effectively been overtaken. And... That bit that you heard at the end of that, of the laughter, the laughter and the smiling in this film is really, really scary.
Remember those horror movies, the smile movies, in which you smile and really bad things happen. And I talked about Mia Goth at the end of Pearl, in which there's just this one shot of her smiling and it holds it and it holds it for three minutes and the smile becomes really, really terrifying. This has got really, really, really scary smiling in it.
And then it's got the kind of the moments of what's described, as I said, in the BBFC, you know, violence and strong gore that kind of remind you of the grisly moments of Bring Her Back. I mean, I thought it was really, really well done. There's a bit of... Ringu in the people moving in a strange way going on there. There's a little bit of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
But most of all, there is this whole really weird story about imposing your will on somebody else and then having to deal with the effect of that. Does A Wish count as that? Well, that's the point. It's a horror trope. As with all horror films, they only actually work if they make some kind of sense. And the monkey's paw thing is always it is literally be careful what you wish for.
And that is something which people say in the real world, not just meaning wish for it means be careful what you long for, because the thing is, you might get the thing that you long for. And that may not be something that you actually necessarily want. There is a great central performance by Indy Navarette, who plays Nikki, and she is amazing in the film.
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