Blockbusters and Birdwalks

This is part of a series about movies from 1971. 

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Referenced media:

• “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Jurassic Park” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
• “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018)
• “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
• “Wag the Dog” (Barry Levinson, 1997)
• “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
• “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
• “Magnificent Ambersons” (Orson Welles, 1942)
• “It’s All True” (Orson Welles, 1941-1942)
• “The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)
• “West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
• “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (Robert Wise, 1951)
• “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970)
• “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Plato’s Stepchildren” (David Alexander, 1968), November 22, 1968, Episode 10 of Season three of “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)
• “The Thing from Another World” (Christian Nyby, 1951)
• “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1971)
• “Get Carter” (Mike Hodges, 1971)
• “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
• “Summer of ’42” (Robert Mulligan, 1971)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)

Audio quotation:

• “The Andromeda Strain” (Robert Wise, 1971)
• Theme from “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018), written by Mark Snow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-GcS1UQyg
• “RUMSFELD / KNOWNS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa learn something new about the birds and the bees: avoid “the Great Imitator”.

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Referenced media:

• “Johnny Dangerously” (Amy Heckerling, 1984)
• “Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• “Leave it to Beaver” (Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, 1957-1963)
• “High School Confidential” (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• “Reefer Madness” (Louis J. Gasnier, 1936)
• “The Explosive Generation” (Buzz Kulik, 1961)
• “Teenage Mother” (Jerry Gross, 1967)
• “Teenage Father” (Taylor Hackford, 1978)
• “Sex Hygiene” (Otto Brewer and John Ford, 1942)

Audio quotation:

• “Mom and Dad” (William Beaudine, 1945)
• “Chicken Clucking And Other Chickens Sound and Noises 🐔 VIDEOS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ptZkZAuzc
• “Johnny Dangerously” (Amy Heckerling, 1984)
• “17 "Ticking Clock" Sound Variations in 30 Seconds” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWxsqkw0EaE

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa glory in Mae West as the avatar of Pre-Code Hollywood

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Referenced media:

• “Looney Tunes” (Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising, 1930-now)
• “Angels with Dirty Face” (Michael Curtiz, 1938)
• “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
• “Call Her Savage” (John Francis Dillon, 1932)
• “Safe in Hell” (William A. Wellman, 1931)
• “Footlight Parade” (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
• “Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932)
• “Tarzan the Ape Man” (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932)
• “The Story of Temple Drake” (Stephen Roberts, 1933)
• “The Jazz Singer” (Alan Crosland, 1927)
• “King Kong” (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
• “Gabriel Over the White House” (Gregory La Cava, 1933)

Audio quotation:

• “She Done Him Wrong” (Lowell Sherman, 1933)

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky.

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Referenced media:

• “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
• “Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)
• “One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)
• “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)
• “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)
• “An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)
• “All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
• “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
• “Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
• “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
• “Patton” (Franklin L. Schaffner, 1970)
• “Zabriskie Point” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
• “The Boys in the Band” (William Friedkin, 1970)
• “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)
• “The Liberation of L.B. Jones” (William Wyler, 1970)
• “Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
• “Waterloo” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)
• “Hi, Mom!” (Brian De Palma, 1970)
• “Greetings” (Brian De Palma, 1968)
• “A Man Called Horse” (Elliot Silverstein, 1970)
• “Let It Be” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)
• “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970)
• “Cotton Comes to Harlem” (Ossie Davis, 1970)
• “The Out-of-Towners” (Arthur Hiller, 1970)
• “Watermelon Man” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970)
• “Two Mules for Sister Sara” (Don Siegel, 1970)
• “Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg, 1970)
• “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (Russ Meyer, 1970)
• “Catch-22” (Mike Nichols, 1970)
• “Myra Breckinridge” (Michael Sarne, 1970)
• “Perry Mason” (Gail Patrick Jackson, 1957-1966)

Audio quotation:

• “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970), including “Airport Love Theme”, “Airport (Main Title)”, “Joe Patroni Plane or Plows?”, “Ada Quonsett, Stowaway”, “Inez-Lost Forever”, and “Airport (End Title)”, written by Alfred Newman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzJzvVCvI&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhBK5_wKcr55aTy2erljUve&index=1
• Trailer for re-release of “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkXef2leWA

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa visit where the eagles cry, on a mountain high, far from the world we know, where the clear winds blow.

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Referenced media:

• “Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984)
• “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986)
• “Entertainment Tonight” (Al Masini, 1981-now)
• “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “The Road Warrior” (George Miller, 1981)
• “Annie” (John Huston, 1982)
• “Rocky III” (Sylvester Stallone, 1982)
• “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (Nicholas Meyer, 1982)
• “Poltergeist” (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)
• “Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
• “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (Colin Higgins, 1982)
• “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (Amy Heckerling, 1982)
• “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
• “Sophie’s Choice” (Alan J. Pakula, 1982)
• “Gandhi” (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
• “The Verdict” (Sidney Lumet, 1982)
• “Tootsie” (Sydney Pollack, 1982)
• “The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)
• “The Deer Hunter” (Michael Cimino, 1978)
• “Coming Home” (Hal Ashby, 1978)
• “Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977)
• “Sgt. Bilko” (Jonathan Lynn, 1996)
• “Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment” (Jerry Paris, 1985)
• “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
• “Dirty Dancing” (Emile Ardolino, 1987)
• “Heartbreak Ridge” (Clint Eastwood, 1986)

Audio quotation:

• “Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984), including “Police Academy March”, written by Robert Folk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRxgXzk_L0s
• “An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982), including “Up Where We Belong”, written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Will Jennings
• “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), including “Full Metal Jacket”, written by Abigail Mead and Nigel Goulding, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNVFpNA2B30&list=PLOKfQ2dxS6KLVZ1ZFLfvDqRL_77BkHabU
• “Dirty Dancing” (Emile Ardolino, 1987), including “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life”, written by John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz, and Franke Previte, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3NndBTqC3Y
• “Heartbreak Ridge” (Clint Eastwood, 1986), including “Heartbreak Ridge Intro Music”, written by Lennie Neihaus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hh1k1vmQrM

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch.

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Referenced media:

• “My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964)
• “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966)
• “Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007)
• “All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)
• “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
• “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
• “National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944)
• “Doctor Dolittle” (Richard Fleischer, 1967)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)
• “Flaming Creatures” (Jack Smith, 1963)
• “Bye Bye Birdie” (George Sidney, 1963), 
• “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
• “The Nutty Professor” (Jerry Lewis, 1963)
• “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
• “The Little Shop of Horrors” (Roger Corman, 1960)
• “Jason and the Argonauts” (Don Chaffey, 1963)
• “PT 109” (Leslie H. Martinson and Lewis Milestone, 1963)
• “The Great Escape” (John Sturges, 1963)
• “Blood Feast” (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)
• “Beach Party” (William Asher, 1963)
• “Flipper” (James B. Clark, 1963),
• “The Cool World” (Shirley Clarke, 1963)
• “The V.I.P.s” (Anthony Asquith, 1963)
• “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
• “Tom Jones” (Tony Richardson, 1963)
• “The Haunting” (Robert Wise, 1963)
• "High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• “Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934)

 Audio quotation:

• “Cleopatra” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), including “Overture” and “Requiem”, written by Alex North
• “Indiana Jones Whip sound FX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMQ4A1n4NU
• “Theme from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, written by Earle Hagen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider Johnny Cash, a man with many chapters in his book of life, and wonder if they got to see the right one get made into a movie.

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Referenced media:

• “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991)
• “Ray” (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
• “Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984)
• “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018)
• “A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005),
• “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
• “Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
• “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (Mike Newell, 2005)
• “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)

Audio quotation:

• “Walk the Line” (James Mangold, 2005), including the songs “Cocaine Blues” and “Long Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man”
• “Hurt” by Johnny Cash (2003), written Trent Reznor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
• “Theme from ‘The Dukes of Hazard’ (Good Ol’ Boys)”, written by Waylon Jennings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Wqo3CvtUc
• “New York, 1969” from “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 20123), written by John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glf5KmRGvOk&list=PLxA687tYuMWiRzSL6tJxmPbIEinvT00AH&index=19

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa examine one middle brow entertainment that earned an inflation-adjusted box office gross of over $1,000,000,000 in North America.

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Referenced media:

• “The Bridges of Madison County” (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
• “Indecent Proposal” (Adrian Lyne, 1995)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “In the Heat of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967)
• “On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan, 1954)
• “Fitzcarraldo” (Werner Herzog, 1982)
• “My Best Fiend” (Werner Herzog, 1999)
• “The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)
• “How the West Was Won” (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall, 1962)
• “The Andy Griffith Show” (Sheldon Leonard, 1960-1968)
• “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)
• “A Patch of Blue” (Guy Green, 1965)
• “The Flight of the Phoenix” (Robert Aldrich, 1965)
• “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold” (Martin Ritt, 1965)
• “Thunderball” (Terence Young, 1965)
• “Bad Girls Go to Hell” (Doris Wishman, 1965),
• “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” (Terence Fisher, 1966)
• “Horror of Dracula” “Terence Fisher, 1958)
• “The Chase” (Arthur Penn, 1966)
• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott, 1982)
• “War and Peace: Part I” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• “War and Peace: Part II” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• “War and Peace: Part III” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
• “War and Peace: Part IV” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967)
• “I Love Lucy” (Jess Oppenheimer, 1951-1957)
• “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (Carl Reiner, 1961-1966)
• “Lawrence of Arabia” (David Lean, 1962)
• “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)

Audio quotation:

• “Main Title”, “Lara’s Theme”, “Lara Reads Her Poem”, “Intermission”, and Lara and Komarovsky Dancing Up a Storm” from “Doctor Zhivago” (David Lean, 1965), written by Maurice Jarre
• “Colonel Bogey March” from “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957), written by Kenneth J. Alford

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023.

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Referenced media:

• “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)
• “Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now)
• “God’s Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014)
• “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
• “Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011)
• “The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014)
• “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)
• “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
• “The Flash” (Andy Muschietti, 2023)
• “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)
• “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)
• “Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
• “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)

Audio quotation:

• “Sound of Freedom” (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023)
• Theme for “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now), written by Russ Landau

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider whether it’s worth having the best-paid, part-time job in the history of movies.

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Referenced media:

• “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• “Gran Torino” (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
• “A Star is Born” (Bradley Cooper, 2018)
• “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018)
• “Green Book” (Peter Farrelly, 2018)
• “The Favourite” (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
• “American Sniper” (Clint Eastwood, 2014)
• “Scent of a Woman” (Martin Brest, 1992)
• “Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
• “Cry Macho” (Clint Eastwood, 2021)
• “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
• “Flags of Our Fathers” (Clint Eastwood, 2006)
• “Changeling” (Clint Eastwood, 2008)
• “Mystic River” (Clint Eastwood, 2003)

 Audio quotation:

• “Saturday Night Live”, Season 44, Episode 10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5TEsdb918c
• “The Mule” (Clint Eastwood, 2018)