This is the sixth part of an eight-part series about difficult movies. 

Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 focused on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 4 focused on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 focused on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 7 will focus on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules”.

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Referenced media:

• “The Color of Money” (Martin Scorsese, 1986)
• “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• “Clash of the Titans” (Desmond Davis, 1981)
• “Ben-Hur” (William Wyler, 1959)
• “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)
• “Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
• “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (Terry Jones, 1979)
• “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)
• “Big” (Penny Marshall, 1988)
• “Bull Durham” (Ron Shelton, 1988)
• “Red Heat” (Walter Hill, 1988)
• “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
• “Coming to America” (John Landis, 1988)
• “The Dead Pool” (Buddy Van Horn, 1988)
• “Die Hard” (John McTiernan, 1988)
• “Moonlighting” (Glenn Gordon Caron, 1985-1989)
• “Cocktail” (Roger Donaldson, 1988)
• "Monkey Shines" (George A. Romero, 1988)
• “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988)
• “Young Guns” (Christopher Cain, 1988)
• “Married to the Mob” (Jonathan Demme, 1988)
• “The Thin Blue Line” (Error Morris, 1988)
• “Eight Men Out” (John Sayles, 1988)
• “Running on Empty” (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
• “Track 29” (Nicolas Roeg, 1988)
• “Dead Ringers” (David Cronenberg, 1988)
• “Gorillas in the Mist” (Michael Apted, 1988)
• “Patty Hearst” (Paul Schrader, 1988)
• “Bird” (Clint Eastwood, 1988)
• “The Accused” (Jonathan Kaplan, 1988)
• “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
• “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)

Audio quotation:

• “The Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988), including the songs “The Feeling Begins”, “Zaar”, and “It Is Accomplished” written by Peter Gabriel
• “Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), including the song “Little Green Bag” (featuring George Baker Selection) written by Jan Visser and Hans Bouwens (1969)
• “Whoosh Sound effects No copyright” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEn9icjK0I
• “What If…?” (A.C. Bradley, 2021-now)
• “disgusting vomit sound effect” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLk_eUcn8I