S02E13 - One Man

Published: Dec. 2, 2018, noon

The same story told by three different directors in three different settings, we jump all over the place covering Yojimbo (1961), Django (1966) and Last Man Standing (1996) by Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Corbucci and Walter Hill respectively. Each follows the same basic plot of a wandering, dangerous man seeing an opportunity to ferment chaos in an isolated town between two gangs. SPOILERS for all three as they’re essentially the same story. Also: Dashiell Hammett. A wolf with fleas. Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018) is too shiny. She’s the brains. Go home to your mother! Sukiyaki Western Django (2007). Damp squids. Our best General Esperanza impressions. Desperado (1995). The American psyche. The Rock is indestructible. Django Reinhardt. Colt 45. Macho punctuation. Tumbleweed wranglers. We play a game of “One Man in a World…”