If the police don't rewatch movies, maybe we ought to do it ourselves. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan revisit the original ‘Death Wish’ from 1974, starring Charles Bronson and Vincent Gardenia. Podcast Manager: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Ronak Nair and Jack Sanders Try Loom today, visit loom.com to get started Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Rewatchables, brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. We're in a new studio for our video podcast. Look at this. Got Swayze. We brought Stallone. We brought CR. We decided to make this big-ass 70s month. Big 70s movies. I have no plan other than we did Star Wars, and we bought a lot of Goodwill. There's a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes. For a big-ass 70s month?
And for which movies we do, yeah. i feel like we're in one for us like century now who did star wars so much leeway so let's do death wish with charles bronson that's next was it worth it call him a mad vigilante call him a hero either way he's always on target we want you to get out of new york permanently never make a death wish Because a death wish always comes true. And you get to love it.
All right, CR. This is a podcast about Death Wish with Charles Bronson and vigilante movies and Charles Bronson himself. And I think all of them tie together. I think this is such an interesting movie. I don't know if it's aged that well. It has... A really awful scene in it, but this movie's also 51 years old. Do you want to start Bronson or Vigilantes?
I want to start Vigilantes, I think. And the idea of these normal, everyday businessmen becoming Batman in New York City, usually, and going out and handing out justice on their own terms, which then you have to read into the audience reaction to the movies at that time. Like, why were these movies popular? Yeah.
Well, and that's why we're doing the pod. So you have this cop vigilante era. Dirty Harry, 1971. Walking Tall, you big Buford Pusser guy. For sure. Three of those. And that was, Dirty Harry was, he's a San Francisco cop. Trying to find a serial killer. He's making his own rules. Yeah. That was, I think, the first. He's making his own rules. Watch out.
Not a lot of movies about cops who follow the rules. No, this one has really set the mark, though, for don't follow the rules. Yeah. Walking tall, sheriff trying to save his town, and he decides to bend some rules. And then Magnum Force was another one with Clint. Same type of thing. But nobody had really put all of it together with normal people until Death Wish. Yeah.
Where it's like, what happens? This guy's an architect. His wife and daughter are brutally assaulted. His wife dies. And he just kind of loses it. Yeah. And this leads to, they're still making these. I mean, I made a list. The Exterminator with Robert Ginty in 1980. Yeah. Remember that one? Yeah. Because I didn't, because I was- I remember the name. I don't know if I've ever seen it.
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