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Movie Meltdown - Episode 425

This is an episode years in the making... we sit down for not only a group discussion of Lindsay Anderson\'s O Lucky Man!, but we also talk with the star of the movie \\u2013 MALCOLM McDOWELL! We get his thoughts on this often over-looked film as well as his role in creating the project and his relationship with the director. Plus we feature a bonus segment with one of the co-stars of the film Jeremy Bulloch (aka Boba Fett).

And as we finally come to terms with just how you lose the spirit of life, we also mention... Ladybird, The Florida Project, Easy, Mother!, Judex, The Boxtrolls, If\\u2026, Alan Price, Greta Gerwig, Whiplash, the aspect ratio set wrong, If\\u2026, movies should be more like American short stories, Patton Oswalt, Holy Mountain, it\\u2019s a wonder my wife hasn\\u2019t murdered me, Brooklyn, trash on the streets, majestic feel\\u2026 picaresque quality, trying to interpret a dream, the word spiffy\\u2026, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, after we won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Robert McKee, it\\u2019s creating this unnatural look, Jerry Maguire kicked you right out, so personal and so dense, Putney Swope, Ghost World, fictional brothers, a city of zero waste people, Voltaire\'s Candide\\u2026 Heaven is my Destination by Thornton Wilder and Kafka\'s Amerika, I Heart Huckabees, I feel like he ruined a whole generation of screenwriters, it\\u2019s a spectrum of guys, it\\u2019s sort of that first short story everybody writes, the It Follows toothpaste, Willem Dafoe, people used to say my name with three syllables, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, taking on different aspects of things he\\u2019s shoved into, Peter Greenaway, just a voyeur, The President\'s Analyst, a blunt-faced British guy\\u2026 with wry expressions, Terry Gilliam, stylistic for the sake of it, Philip Stone, the role of you, Mike Birbiglia did that one time at a La Quinta hotel, he was teaching ballroom dance to dwarf inner city kids, you\\u2019re not lost in the dream of it, Monty Python films, this weird hierarchy of society based on the color hat you wear\\u2026 and cheese tasting, it\\u2019s almost like too much my kind of thing\\u2026 for me, he\\u2019s like the human sloth, Ramsay Bolton, a passive observer, a half-human half-pig\\u2026 dinosaur, the old American hobo symbol for crazy kids, encoded meaning, our day-to-day lives are just filled with absurdity, Warren Clarke, I had lots of strange things going through my mind, seeing a different perception, Don\\u2019t Look Back, it\\u2019s a document of the process of making a movie, Ken Russell, what a weird world, you can have tea but you\\u2019ve gotta pay me for the biscuits, the gold shiny suit and post-apocalyptic world, after my break-up with the movies, getting performances out of non-actors, his voice always reminds me of wearing a shirt that\\u2019s just slightly too small, Never Apologize, a totem for you to react through, are pigs just fleshy dinosaurs, we are very fortunate, detritus, Brechtian artifice and alternate egos.

Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for the 1973 film O Lucky Man!, so watch it before you listen.

\\u201c\\u2026that scene, that and a couple of others, you just stop and you\\u2019re like - \\u2018What the hell am I watching? Like this is\\u2026 so bizarre.\' "