Visit redwebpod.com to get this full episode of Movie Club, our exclusive podcast exploring movies from classic to crap. On this week's episode of Movie Club, we continue to branch out into other genres and tackle the Spike Lee heist movie Inside Man. Sensitive topics: racism, war crimes, gun violence "Awkward Meeting", "Crypto", "Echoes of Time v2", "Redletter", "Stay the Course" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey, Task Force, Trevor here with yet another Movie Club preview. This time we're spinning it up, and instead of doing a horror movie, we're doing a heist movie. It's been a long time since we've covered a heist, but it's one of our favorite topics, and this movie is absolutely brilliant. It covers the heist genre so perfectly. So let us know what you think.
Check out this preview and listen to the full thing at redwebpod.com. Inside, the robbers appear to be drilling or excavating somewhere behind closed doors. Meanwhile, Russell moves about calmly. He gives orders to the group of Steves, we find out. All of the robbers have nicknames for each other. Steve, Stevie, Steve-o, things like that. He's not ransacking the vaults, though, we notice.
He's not pulling out all the drawers. He's not shoving cash into bags. Instead, the crew is investing their time over the course of this movie doing odd tasks. They're rummaging through documents. They're shuffling hostages around.
They're isolating individuals, moving them to different groups, sometimes swapping themselves out with the hostages to really create confusion and deepen the web of alibis for whatever comes after this heist is over.
they even start to assess strange rooms not the vault but instead rooms like the supply room they're like this is beautiful yeah i thought watching them do their hostage shell game thing was so cool because you don't they don't explain what they're doing you're just watching them do it and realizing yourself Like, I can't remember where in the movie this takes place, so we might not be there yet.
But there is a scene where one of the female hostage takers comes in and she's hurting people with a gun. And then they shut the door and then the bank robber takes her goggles off and whatnot. And you realize she's another hostage. And so he throws her in a separate room. I was like, oh, so he was using a hostage to act as a bank robber. I was like, oh, that is so cool.
I mean, the level of ingenuity and thought that they were put into it is just something that you don't really see in a lot of heist movies like that.
Yeah, you could tell that it was so methodical and it's just this intricate dance and this cog, this machine that's functioning perfectly. Almost like a very expensive watch with all the different gears. I don't know, man. It's just you could tell that Spike Lee thought ahead. Yeah.
I mean, like this whole movie was planned out. I think that's what is fundamental to a decent heist movie is that it feels like it earned it. It feels like it was clever because that's what you want. I feel like when you watch a heist movie, you want something that's going to outsmart you that has a deep, intricate web.
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