The French Connection

The French Connection is a cop movie from 1971 about two Brooklyn cops chasing drug dealers in New York City. It's a buddy cop movie and a breakout role for Gene Hackman. Other big hits from 1971 include Fiddler on the Roof, Nicholas and Alexandra, Clockwork Orange, and The Last Picture Show. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is also a classic from that year. We are here counting down the best picture Oscar winners from worst to best all the way up to number 31. Wow. Yeah. So what are we talking about today? We're talking about the French Connection from 1971. Yes. So what is your history with the French Connection? I had no history with it. I had probably heard, I think I'd heard the name. I had no idea what it was about. Yeah. I think I guessed French Underground. You guessed it was about World War II spies. Yeah, French Underground. And then I thought when I looked it up, it said legal drama, but it's not in one of those things. No, no. It's like a buddy cop movie. That's a cop movie, definitely. Well, they're buddies. I guess. It is a cop movie. They're partners, aren't they? Is this the, I know we're not supposed to talk about this yet, but is this a cop movie for Gene Hackman? Yeah. Yeah. He did have a supporting role in Bonnie and Clyde, which we talked about last week. So a few years later, we're only kind of jumped four years from our last week we talked about In the Heat of the Night. But this is, yeah, this is his breakout as a looting man. Okay. So let's just get into our losers, that's our tradition. Yeah. So speaking of tradition, Sittler on the Roof is a big hit this year. I love Sittler on the Roof. It's a long movie, though. It's a very long movie, yeah. I would say the musical, more than the movie, but the movie version has a lot going for it, too. They couldn't get Zero Mostel, who is the star from the Broadway production, but they got Topol, Tim Topol from the London production, who I think is great. He's been in a lot of other movies, an Israeli actor. He's great, and it's about familiar with both the play and the musical, right? Yeah. I've seen the movie at least a couple of times. Yeah. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but my kids loved it. Yeah, this is a throwback to the more big-budget musicals of the 1960s era. Yeah, and we would, I mean, this was in 1971. Right. One of the last? One of the last musicals of this scale. None of them would, there are a lot of flops, like in the late 60s, Camelot and Hello Dolly and Dr. Dolittle. Dr. Dolittle, yes. This one was a big hit, but really, the trend was definitely ending. The musicals would just fall out of, I mean, Grace was a few years after that, a different type of musical, but even after that, the 80s, there's hardly any musicals. Yeah, I think... Now we've got La La Land, which is unusual now that... Yeah, I think before the 80s... Is Barbie a musical? There's some songs in Barbie, yeah. I wouldn't call them a musical, though. Kind of a one-off song. Yeah, pretty much every decade there's a musical in the top 10 grocers of the year, but then in the 80s, it's almost... Before November of 1989, I think the biggest musical hit was The Best Little Horror House in Texas, which was like 67th for the decade. But then at the tail end of the 80s, The Little Mermaid was released, and that kind of rejuvenated the musical, or at least animated, really one of the best songs of course written by Grace's family, I think. Well, I think Finland on the Roof's soundtrack we used to listen to all the time. Yeah. Yeah, great song. Okay, Finland on the Roof. Yes. Staying in Russia, we have Nicholas and Alexandra. I don't know this movie, but it's probably about the star. Yeah, it's a lot of historical epic about the last days of the Romanovs. Alexandra wasn't his wife, though, right? Yeah. It was his wife? Yeah, Alexandra Romanov. Okay. Anastasia was the daughter. I was thinking it was Catherine or something. No, Catherine the Great was another Russian leader, but I think... That's Rasputin, isn't it? Yeah, Rasputin. Yeah, he looks like a Rasputin. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean... This looks like a musical. Is it not a musical? It is not a musical, no. Okay. It's just a drama, historical drama. It's all right. It's a very... You know, it's a historical epic. Fascinating period of history, I think. Yeah, it is really crazy. It's a brutal death, and... We're talking about riches to rags. Right. If I recall, it does somewhat downplay the more negative aspects of the Romanovs, but... Right, yeah. This wasn't the time to make the... Decay. Yeah. I mean... Yeah, and then really taking the peasants for granted, and then sending them off to a world war that they didn't see why they were there. But again, 1971 wasn't a good time to be on the side of the Bolsheviks. So, you know... Oh, okay. It was the final revolution. Yeah. The Soviet Union was... This was kind of in the middle of the Cold War. Yeah, so there seems to be so many parallels between that and France in the late 18th century. Yeah. Okay, I think the Russian Revolution and the French Revolution. Yeah. It was just the decay of the... Oh, yeah, the... Of the royal, whatever... Right. What do you call that class? The aristocracy. The aristocracy. Right. And leading to... Fomenting a rebellion from the... Right. Completely impoverished. Yeah. And leading to a very violent overthrow. Very violent overthrow. That had a lot of... In itself, there were a lot of bad tendencies and, you know... Right. And then also, it kind of became a empire that, one could say, betrayed the ideals of the revolution itself. One could say. On the opposite side of the coin, we have The Clockwork Orange, which is very much not a throwback movie. This is definitely Hollywood. At least, part of The Clockwork Orange, right? I wouldn't have noticed the movie. Right. I might have thought it was... It is a famous novel by Burgess, Anthony Burgess. I would have gotten it confused with Agent Orange. What's the... Swing on Green? No, Swing on Green. The one... Yeah. Agent Orange? Agent Orange. Yeah. Anyway. I don't think that's what it is. Clockwork Orange is a dystopian future movie. Directed by... I didn't expect it that way. Oh, yeah. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Oh. He's one of the best directors of all time. Really? Yeah. It was a very startling movie. Eyes Wide Shut? Yes. That's his last movie. Is that right? Yeah. I have no idea why I knew that. I've never seen it. Yeah. Probably most famous for Dr. Strangelove, which we talked about in our My Fair Lady episode. For us. Instead of once. And the 2001 Space Hobbit movie. Okay. He's not like a rom-com guy. No. No. He makes very old and austere movies that are just stunningly beautiful. He's a great filmmaker. This movie is, as I said, a dystopian future. It's about this sociopathic maniac played by a very young Malcolm McDowell. And the premise of the story is he's apprehended by law enforcement and they put him through what's called the Ludwig Technique, I think. They put him through a technique that kind of deprograms him to make him docile. That's kind of a commentary on free will. Oh. Yeah. Very ultra-violent movie. But not on my list. Not on your list. It is very much admired. As much as I adore Stanley Kubrick, I'm kind of a dissenter from the general praise that is given to this movie. It does look great, but I just find it repulsive. You know, I'm not going to... The podcast is about a completely different movie, so I'm not going to get into it. Okay. But it's very memorable. Okay. And then finally we have The Last Picture Show. Yeah. I do love it. Drama by Peter Bogdanovich directed it. It is a... Is that Phyllis? Yes. Yeah, Clarice Leachman plays a housewife, kind of a bored housewife. She's great. It's about the... It's set in the late 50s. It's about a dying Texas town. The title refers to the fact that the movie theater in the small town is closing down. That had been the site of the town's activity. That kind of focuses on the group of teenagers who are coming of age. Baby boomers. Yeah, baby boomers. You have very young Jeff Bridges, civil shepherd. Oh. And then the older generation have Ben Johnson, Clarice Leachman, Alan Burson. Some really strong casts. Okay. Yeah. But that's The Last Picture Show. And I'm followed by a nominee. So just to look at the big hits from the year that was, 1971. Summer on the Roof was one of the biggest hits of the year. The biggest hit was, according to the list on the numbers.com, was Billy Jack's. I've never heard of him. Western. Yeah. Well, they have it listed as a Western. I think it's set in the present day, though. And it's sort of about a Vietnam vet who becomes kind of a vigilante in protecting a group of hippies from corrupt law enforcement. Right. Very heavenly type stuff. Yeah. The French Connection is also a big hit. Also, it was talked with Lawrence in The Last Picture Show. Ed Nobbs and Bernstein. Yeah. You remember that. Yeah. Diamonds Are Forever, or one of the James Bond movies. Okay. Yeah. It's a very different type of audience. There's Shaft on there. Willy Wonka and the Taco Factory is kind of far down on the list of moneymakers, but that's become a real classic. Yes, it has. Yeah. Even more so than Best Picture nominee, Dr. Doolittle, from four years earlier. Right. People still watch Willy Wonka. It's a classic. And Remade. And Remade, yeah. Dr. Doolittle's been Remade, too. Yes, it has. Eddie Murphy played Dr. Doolittle. Yeah, so that's 1971. The French Connection. The French Connection. When was it about? It's about these Brooklyn cops? Yeah. New York somewhere? It's New York City, I think. It goes between Brooklyn and Manhattan. And they are chasing these drug dealers. Yeah. And trying to get the big catch or whatever. And so the movie just follows them trying to get them. Okay. I don't know how to describe it. That's pretty much it. Cops and drug dealers. Cops and drug dealers, yeah. Gene Hackman. And there's a lot of... I had a lot of questions about how much of this sort of started because there's so many familiar things. Oh, definitely. And this reminded me a lot of old cop shows, first of all. Yeah. Just that it looked that way. Plus, I don't know. I think a lot of not-so-old cop shows, too. Yeah. A lot of the techniques. Right. It feels kind of like an episode of A Liar. Yeah. Those are old, too. Yeah. But anyway, I should have written down what some of them were. But definitely that sort of the two gritty cops that are trying to... They're trying to make that. It's like they've got the hunch. The one guy has the hunch. Yeah. And he's got to get his supervisors to go along with it. But they're kind of rogue. They're like on the edge of rogue, not rogue. Yeah. It seems like that's been done. Oh, right. Yeah. A lot now. So is this part of a long line of that? Or did this really... No, this was kind of revolutionary in its time. I think it led to real success. It takes a lot of techniques from the French New Wave, which was just a movement in terms of editing, changes, and how movies are filmed. That took place in France. The director, William Friedkin, was a fan of those. And just kind of... I don't know if it's really the first, but it's kind of bringing those techniques into a modern day cop story, which is very different than what you would see around this time. So it was very... You see a lot of handheld cameras shaking. Yeah. Also the soundtrack. Yeah, the soundtrack is very kind of different. It's important. Yeah. So it's got all these strings and that kind of thing. It's not as much as... What's that movie we watched? Birdman. Birdman really leans into that. But after watching this movie... There's more percussion in Birdman. Yeah. After watching this movie, I thought it seems like they took what was in here and then just leaned into it. Because that discordant music kind of fits the overall genre of the movie. It's not this pretty package that is... It's a different kind of storytelling, which you're going to have to explain to me, because it's not like a 1940s storytelling. Right. Well, I mean, it's... Yeah, that's a big aspect to the movie, because it is very different in terms of how it's telling the story. This is our second straight crime movie. Okay. So In the Heat of the Night was four years before. And I think one of the distinctions that is most immediate is, in that movie, you see a much more stark contrast with the good guys and the bad guys, where you have the heroes expressing ideals that they are emblematic of. Right. Particularly in the Sidney Poitier character. Right. The Rod Steiger character, as we talked about, is much more complicated. He's great. But you still, as the movie goes on, you see a bit of integrity in him, that he's still... Right. Exactly. He still wants to pursue justice. He's kind of a bad detective, and all the wrong people he arrests is because his prejudices get in the way. But it's not like he's trying to railroad someone he knows is innocent. He thinks they're guilty. He's just a bad detective. Yeah. I think that is such a good example of how we follow the perceived good. Right. And the perceived good, what he finds out during that movie, is his perception was off. Yes. And that people don't, in general, follow a bad. There's something that they perceive as good in that. And that movie did a good job of that. But, yes, as you're talking about it, this is very different. Strikingly so. I mean, this is a very... We must have had bad cops before, but they were probably just... I don't even know that it's bad cops as much as it's just a general amorality that runs through this movie. Because it's not about... They're not hunting murderers or thieves. They are... Certainly, I'm not saying that... There definitely is a moral component to drug trafficking. But the movie doesn't dwell on that. We don't see... Gene Hackman's not motivated by what drugs are doing to the community. We don't see any of that. It's just... I think that these guys want to get out of narcotics, and so they're sick of doing the nickel and dime, the low-level stuff, and they want to get the big one. So it's very selfish motivation. There's no... Very sort of primal... Almost like a nature special, where it's like predator versus prey. Where it's... The scenes are set up kind of like stalking the prey, almost like a lion hiding in the weeds. And then you have a big chase, which is just like trying to overtake the gazelle that's trying to get away. And like... It's almost... There's something that's animalistic or not fully human about the stakes. Until the end, where they learn how to kind of set a trap. And that's how it's resolved. But it's very much... There's very little moral coding. And so that's a real shift in kind of deconstructing the genre up to that point. Yeah, so this definitely seemed like you had used the term gritty before. Definitely, yeah. That's a very gritty movie. I can see what you're saying about deconstructing. It has some really great scenes. It's kind of a... Very famous chase scene. Okay, yeah. Where he's driving the car under the elk trail. That's a pretty cool scene. That's a brilliant scene. It's been studied for 52 years now. Yeah, it's a spectacular scene. Yeah. It is the best or one of the best chase scenes in movie history. Yeah, I... So that was a real highlight of just watching the movie. This is, I should say, this is not like my kind of movie. I don't understand movies well enough to appreciate the finer points. But I... I mean, I don't love it like I loved last week's movie. I certainly don't hate it like I hated American Beauty. There's nothing offensive to it. I mean, it has racism and has a lot of offensive topics. But the other thing that I really loved was that scene. You have a few pictures up here. One is the chase scene that we just mentioned. Another one, the middle one, is the bearded guy, the French guy. And I loved how the cat and mouse Yeah, it looks like animals. Oh, you're right. So that cat and mouse of getting... Gene Hackman's character is trying to follow discreetly follow this French character where he's not sure if he knows that he's following him. The French character clearly is trying to figure out So he does it by they're in the subway system and he gets on a train and then at the very last second will get off. So that's a really good way to find out if somebody's following you. And it's such a hard thing to do if you're the one following to be able to do that discreetly. Anyway, And you just are not Yeah, apparently that was taken from the real based on a movie that's about a real life detective drug thing. But the names were changed and it's fictionalized but the actual detectives were on the set. They're actually in the movie. Okay. The most prominent role one of them has is their chief. Okay. He's trying to get them off the case with one of the real cops. But yeah, that particular scene came from like they described actually happening Oh really? It's just a brilliant move and it was so so good. Yeah, it was really well done That punchline of him waving at the end to finally reveal I know you're following me I won. Really well done. The other picture you have up there is that guy I mean, he was working with the French Yeah, he was the other French guy. So, he's the one Gene Hackman is sort of chasing on part of the train scene. The train finally comes to the elevator train finally comes to sort of a crashing stop. And this guy stumbles out and anyway, Gene Hackman is following him from below and anyway he ends up at the scene where he Yeah, very famous on the poster Yeah Really well shot with the guy in the far round shot in the back Another deconstruction of the archetypes Yeah, because shooting a guy in the back you're a sinister Okay, the other part that scene deconstruction Adam said this right away is like, you go through all of that Yeah and then all you get is you know the little guy that's a lot of effort for, and that's kind of a persistent theme through the movie he goes through all of this without any big victory, payoff kind of thing there's no big satisfaction This is part of throughout the 70s is this portrait of New York City as hell on earth Yeah Going into throughout a lot of the cinema of the 70s in particular where it's almost like a little Odysseus going into the underworld like you're kind of visiting the pit of hell the most famous um example of that is probably Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver I'm sure you haven't seen I will actually see Midnight Cowboy, which is also kind of part of that I don't think so, but we will Oh we will, okay That one's more I mean I haven't seen it in a while it's more about trying to find humanity amidst the squalor very much as I said, it's amoral and it makes 1971 look really like, that doesn't seem very positive at all the whole thing The scenes of France were nice Yeah, well I think that's kind of the distinction We started in Marseille I think it's Marseille Yeah, I mean you kind of see the water and the Alain, the French guy, has this really nice estate And in New York it's just Yeah, but I think that's part of the deconstruction that's about how the noble cops are bringing order to the chaos and that's all a lie it is just kind of squalor out there the cops aren't the heroes I think we kind of get that meeting, when we first meet Popeye Doyle, he's dressed up as Santa Claus and he beats up He beats up African-American gentlemen really Not very nice No! He's terrible Yeah But you see the kind of hell on earth in that scene because it's like all the settings are very much broken down they chase into an abandoned field and there is the climax is in an abandoned factory or something That's another scene that seems like it's been done a lot maybe it had been done prior to that a lot but it seems like so many cop movies die hard any ghost even you're in this warehouse broken down warehouse and not sure where this is it's in so many movies, shows, stuff like that I don't know if that's Yeah, you also see in that alley where they apprehend the guy in the beginning there's like this fire on the ground kind of like the ground's on fire randomly it's kind of a hellscape There's scenes in New York where it's like there's you know there's that steam coming out from underneath what is going on under the street that is you know, it is It is like hell and it's like a place where even just those scenes of how many shots we get of the physical tearing apart of this Lincoln this luxury car which we saw almost gently lifted onto the ship and lifted off from France and then it gets to New York and it's just kind of tearing it apart That's another scene where it's like the only real police work we see is from the good cop if you want to call them that we're noticing the weight differential that's the only kind of gumshoe detective work we see I have a hunch and I'm going to beat someone up until I find out my hunch is right Which is how a lot of people see the cops now Yeah, I mean I think I use the word deconstruction a lot, but I think that's what this really is Yeah I mean I should say up front I don't really have very strong feelings about this movie one way or the other It's just a lot I appreciate about it I think I'm kind of maybe on the same boat as you It's not like I love it but I see why it is appreciated There's not much that I dislike about it Yeah, I mean I think it's well made and it's kind of an interesting movie to talk about They have a scene where somebody is trying to get into a room They're at a door I don't remember what scene it was but they show the hallway and it's so narrow It's like a prison It is like a prison Yeah, that's where Popeye lives Oh, it's so horrible Yeah, I've seen Sandcup too a bit Oh, that's right Yeah, you see him You're right, his top buddy He has to break in because he can't come to the door Yeah The one woman in the movie Yeah There's also, I guess a woman's daughter in France There's not a lot of female energy No, there's the one guy's wife too Yeah There's a lot of that but they had to find that hallway I can't imagine because you used to live in a building with a hallway That must have been a six foot hallway Right? Yeah, carpeted and things on the side that made it feel Don't miss walking down the hallway but can you imagine going down that hallway to your home Yeah So then, also the ending Yes So it ends with that gunshot but we don't really see who gets shot Well, I mean, he shoots one of the cops Well, no Isn't that how it ends? It ends with a bang Oh yeah, it ends with a bang and then we see the text on the screen And nobody gets shot It's not the French guy It's not the French guy Because we're told that he gets away He gets away It's so interesting because it's so dissatisfying Right The guy gets away This person This person got, you know, probation The only one that got time The actor? Was it? No, I thought it was like I don't know It was somebody like Why does that person get time? She's looking at the French actor who was kind of the accomplice Oh yes, yes He got like five years or something Yeah But everybody else is like You see this, also, deconstruction of justice Yeah Of like, well, how can this be? Like, that guy had hardly anything He wasn't You know All these other people that are actually lead lives of crime are you know, just cycled back through it It's very, like, wow Because I thought, wow, is this a based on a real story? Like, is this all fictionalized? Right Yeah, so it's It's based on real events but it's fictionalized Names are changed No car chase Even in the book when they decided to make the book William Friedman said Everything you need in a cop movie except a car chase So then they designed a car chase Which is fantastic I watched a YouTube video of Gene Hackman talking about the making of this Oh, yeah It's quite insightful Yeah, because he's kind of Anyway, so he talked about how he hadn't done I guess he'd been acting for a while But he had never done anything where you were outside so much Outside, in New York City when it was cold He talked about how it was how much he was pushed by the director William Friedman He also directed The Exorcist A couple years after this Yeah, so he Some of the things I thought were interesting Yeah How much running he had to do He had a bum knee He was like There was a lot of running and how he had to be in the first week of shooting He thinks it was the second day I think he said It's when he had to be Santa and beat up that guy It was really hard for him It would be really rough The director had to This is what you're supposed to do He had to learn to embrace this bad character that would use words that he wouldn't use You'd think you'd be used to as an actor Anyway He was He was talking about that scene where they go into that bar where a bunch of drug He's got to go in almost overturn tables He said the I wish I remembered Somebody he went out with He said the name another actor or the director or something They went to a bar with a bunch of bad guys and he kind of did that in the scene acting like that to show them that in mind that's what he's got to do when he goes in there and he suddenly opens the door and he just sees this cast of characters that even as an actor he's like I'm going to get beat up But they were all cops All of those we thought were extras they were all actually cops that played the druggy in that one scene Oh, ok Gene Hackman is actually kind of a gentle guy in real life I hadn't known that Not exclusively villainous roles but plays a lot of bad guys A lot of heroes I've known him more from his later stuff where he is the more gruff but kind of heroic guy He did a comedy too Royal Tenenbaum So I had a more positive but I know Adam has talked about his impression of Gene Hackman as a tough guy you know almost bad guy kind of thing and watching this movie I'm like ok I see where you get that No, he's essentially the protagonist He is the protagonist but anyway, watching that where he's like this yeah, like you said this gentle guy that's gotta be the tough guy The movie's been in the news lately they were a censorship controversy where the version available to streaming services is edited from the original they take out a clip where he says Hackman's character says some racial slurs I was wondering that because in the YouTube video I said he was talking about how hard it was for him to use the n-word I was like, I don't even remember that part of the movie It's a really awkward edit that they put in There's a scene where in the movie where the Hackman and Roy Scheider characters coming into the police station and they have a really brief dialogue exchange where the Hackman character makes a couple of racial slurs and in the version that's available for streaming it's a really awkward cut where you see Scheider walking in and then this is an abrupt cut where he's like 10 feet ahead of where he was it's really obvious that it was cut It was a controversy because it was never put out like this is an edited version it was just done and people noticed it and Disney, who kind of owns the rights to the movies now because they own everything they're just not forthcoming They said it was a director's cut but Roy Scheider I mean he's passed away now but there's interviews with him specifically mentioning that scene and how it played at the time so it's definitely part of a theatrical cut and there's just no indication on why they edited it Yeah Presumably it's because of the racial slur that's used I mean the word comes up in The Heat of the Night which we saw last week in that case it's on the side of the villains But it's sort of like Disney's trying to protect the reputation of cops Yeah, I don't know I mean this is the Disney leadership I'm sure isn't at some point I don't know Yeah, there was a controversy because there's just no answers really forthcoming and it was the version I was showing on the Criterion channel and Criterion is an organization that's very much into preserving film and the artistic vision and so they said, hey this is the version given by Disney and you don't even know So, yeah Anyways, that's a controversy So, anything else on the French Connection? No I think that was OK Yeah In 1981, a film arose With scenes intense, the story flowed The French Connection Chased untold Cops on the hunt, the truth unfold Hackmanshine A crime exposed Right But I don't think the volumes need to be shorter for a moment Some poetry lessons So, the movie got 8 Oscar nominations 2 of its actors were nominated You know what we should do? What? We should have you compose a numeric and then I'll come with the chat GPT and see what chat GPT composed and then we see who does it better That's all I've got Sure OK, good You'll remember to bring the limelight I mean, I can always look it up while I'm here Oh, of course I don't want to do too much work at it What performance was Jeanette Hughes nominated? Well, Jeanette is Of course, yeah Yeah, Roy Scheider Roy Scheider was nominated I can say Fernanda Rey It was Roy Scheider Most famous Most famous probably for Doss Oh I don't know that I've ever seen Doss What year is that? 75 So, it was The French Connection won 5 of its 8 nominations Director Eugene Hackman won his first So it's 2 Oscars It's his first leading role too, right? I don't remember if it was his first ever leading role It was his big breakthrough as a leading man He won Best Actor He will win a second time for another Best Picture winner which we haven't gotten to yet But both his ones are for Best Picture winner The editing one of course is definitely The cartridge has a lot to do with that And last Roy Scheider lost to Ben Johnson And the cinematography and the sound also lost I'm surprised I didn't get a score nomination, I really liked the score Anyways The Actress Award went to Jane Fonda for Suit I've never heard of it It's kind of a crime thriller where she plays a tall girl who gets involved in a crime or even trying to solve a crime Yeah This was a very controversial time for her I think her father pleaded with her not to do anything controversial at the Oscars So when she won, she just said there's very much that needs to be said but this isn't the time to say it so I'll just say thank you Yeah, of course, Lutron won Best Supporting Actress for The Last Picture Show And so there we have it Are we ready to see what is coming up next? Well, I think I've been on the same ones a lot My guesses are Well, we didn't see where it ranks Yeah, French Connection I mean, I kind of had it towards the middle which I probably still do Yeah I don't get terribly excited about it It doesn't look terribly polarizing Most people have it I mean, 11 is pretty high but Yeah, I went to USA Today to see what things were great and why they were so impressed but Merv just said her scene is really cool and Espen will be really good too I don't know I don't know Yeah I also got a fair amount of bonus points so it's up on AFI Yeah So well, it's almost quite today So we're getting into Top 30 The Top 30 So all these movies are going to be in the Top 30 Everything else is in the Top 30 We've got 6 left from the 70s 5 from the 60s and then 3 each from the 30s the 40s, the 50s, the 90s the 00s the 2000s and the 2010s all have 3 each and then the 80s has 1 Wow But that one's been holding out for a while now Is that mine? Amadeus Amadeus No Country for Old Men It's going to come up in the next 30 years Parasite Moonlight and The Best Years of Our Lives They're all going to come up eventually Mine are My guesses are The Departed That'll be our third straight crime movie 12 Years of Slave All Quiet All Quiet on the Western Front and Rebecca Actually All Quiet on the Western Front does come up next It's from 1930 I'm going to take Midnight Cowboy That might have some outlier Okay From 1969 Alright, let's see what it is Yes Oh, so we've completed another decade Oh Now there's so many to think about I really liked In the Heat of the Night There's some really good ones I really like In the Heat of the Night Spotlight and Forrest Gump And We've watched some good ones Yeah Last Weekend's Seeing Hard Locker French Connection I think Yeah Ben and Henry Yeah In the Heat of the Night is my favorite of this ten But another really good movie Titanic is I think What do we have it at? 38 I think that might I think so too I would put Spotlight at my top so far That's really impressive Over In the Heat of the Night Yes Yeah, I would probably have the two Ernest Bartman ones after Marty Yes, and I was very impressed from hearing the dialogue and that lie she tells at the end It's so intriguing I mean, I like that movie If I'm making my top 5 I think Titanic would make mine too I really love Hovering With My Valley Sometimes Millionaire House I don't know I still love Rain Man Yeah Chicago I don't know I really like it Alright Oh! 12 Years a Slave is coming up next Bummer It's a short block Alright So we will be back next week with 12 Years a Slave 13 13, good year Alright Until then The Balcony is closed The Balcony is closed That's what I got from Cisco Oh