Movies: Strange Days
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What is Strange Days and why did the hosts pick it for this episode?
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Hello and welcome to The Best Movies You've Never Seen, our podcast about movies. The idea behind this podcast is that I, Stephen Fennec, I'm the movie guy, I pick a movie to show to my co-host Trevor Long who's not seen it before. That's right. And that's right 99% of the time and even when he has seen it he's probably forgotten it anyway. So it's like he's seen it for the first time. What did we do last week? I forget. I'm not even lying. It was Dunkirk. Actually, I do remember. That was very good. That was a memorable movie. Today, though, we are doing a film from 1995 called Strange Days. Now, warning, there is some explicit audio that you're going to hear. Not us, but the audio that we play. I might drop one.
And this is, I put this in my hidden gem category. Right. This is a movie that I've waited to do on this show since we started the show five years ago. Wow. And it's only just come, I've owned it on disc for years, but it's only just come onto Disney Plus. And I thought, we're doing it. Let's go. How do you know?
Strange days.
I just look. Every week I look in Just Watch and, oh, it's available now. I've been looking for years. Interesting. Yeah, and suddenly it's there. It's produced by 20th Century Fox, which is now owned by Disney anyway. Right. It's part of Disney Plus now. Released in 1995, stars Ray Fiennes, Angela Bassett, the two main characters, directed by Catherine Bigelow. And co-written and produced by James Cameron. Wow. James Cameron actually came up with the story back in 1986, but shelved it due to his commitment to other projects. So he was obviously making Terminator remakes and sequels and other films. But... He revived the idea at the behest of Catherine Bigelow, who happened to be his ex-wife. What? They weren't married at one point.
Obviously, amicable divorce then. So Catherine Bigelow also directed, and we've done this movie, Point Break. Oh, we did. Yeah, with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Yeah. So after he helped – James Cameron actually helped her rewrite Point Break, by the way. James Cameron had a hand in Point Break as well. So he handed in what he called a scriptment, which is a cross between a script and a treatment. But he had other commitments. I think this was in the early mid-'90s we were talking about. He was working on another little movie called Titanic at the time. He should have dedicated some to this. So he had to head off. It's not like he had to build a whole full-scale replica. Well, it's not quite. It's like 90%.
Near enough. The screenplay was finished by Jay Cox, who was mainly responsible for the dialogue and fleshing out the film. But he did also do – he came back and did some editing work on it, especially in the final action scenes – But he couldn't be credited for that because he's not in the editors' union. Dear God. So couldn't get the credit. But he joined the editors' union before he made Titanic. Right. And he is credited actually for one of the editors of Titanic also. Wow. Now, why is it called Strange Days? You know, I love it when they say the name. They don't in the movie. No, they don't. But the movie's title comes from the Doors song, the Doors album, Strange Days. Never heard of it. By the Doors.
You never heard of the Doors? I've heard of the Doors. Yeah, but Strange Days. Couldn't name a person or an album or a song. There's a cover version of the title track in the movie as well during – played by, in the film, they actually played the song Strange Days, but unless you know it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is Strange Days and why did the hosts pick it for this episode?
0:06–10:21
2
Who made Strange Days and what inspired its story development?
10:21–35:43
3
Who are the main characters and which actors play them?
35:43–46:33
4
How does the Squid technology work and why does it create a black market?
46:33–1:05:48
Speakers
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