Trope on a Rope

By The Badger's Apprentice

TROPE ON A ROPE is a weekly podcast where Jeff and his mate Colin, along with their guests discuss and dissect the common movie tropes that have come to define cinema.

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November 27, 2023 17 - PASSENGER 57 (1992) - STAKES ON A PLANE - PART TWO
Salutations fellow traveller, put your seat back, pop your headphones in and join Colin and Jeff as they take a look at 1992's Die Hard Clone PASSENGER 57, a film whose runtime is only a few minutes longer than this podcast about it. In this episode we learn not to disparage the mental state of Mr Charles Raine, to always bet on black, and that climbing into the wheel-well of a modern passenger plane is likely to end in a gruesome death.

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1h 15min
November 15, 2023 16 - RED EYE (2005) - STAKES ON A PLANE - PART ONE
Welcome aboard, please get yourselves comfortable, stow your bags and tray tables, and pay special attention to your cabin attendants because this flight aint gonna be your usual city-hop. Because for the next few weeks we'll be looking at STAKES ON A PLANE. They'll be terrorists, hijacking, hostages, and emergancy tracheostomies. We start our assent into madness with 2005's RED EYE, so make sure to keep your seat belts fastened, cuz sh*t's bound to be crazy.

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52min
October 30, 2023 15 - DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES (2023) - THE REVENGE HEIST - PART THREE
And so, weary traveller, we make it to the end of our journey through the murky undertaints that make up THE REVENGE HEIST, so pull up a chair by the fire and have yourselves a cup of mead as we delve into 2023's surprisingly fun D&D:HAT.

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1h 15min
October 17, 2023 14 - NOW YOU SEE ME (2013) - THE REVENGE HEIST - PART TWO
Come closer... closer still... no, like, really close. Uncomfortably close... okay, maybe back off a bit. But still stay close, because the closer you look, the less you'll see, because that's how miss-direction works, a basic tenet of magic performance that most people know about but this movie - 2013's NOW YOU SEE ME - seems to think is a concept beyond mere mortal understanding. This film also thinks that the words "magician" and "sorcerer" are interchangeable... but never-mind.

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56min
October 05, 2023 13 - THE ITALIAN JOB (2003) - THE REVENGE HEIST - PART ONE
The crew's been gathered, the targets picked, and plans drawn up because the con is on. But this ain't your regular heist movie, this is the specific REVENGE HEIST, where our heroes need to get back at those who have wronged them. So over the next few episodes we'll be watching as justice is served, ironically by thieves... is that how irony works? Anyway, first up is 2003's american re-imagining of the classic British movie THE ITALIAN JOB, 85% of which is not set in Italy.

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59min
September 19, 2023 12 - 8 MILE (2002) w. Christian Stoner - MUSICIAN/ACTOR - PART THREE
Join Colin, Jeff, and special guest Christian Stoner as we round out our look at musicians who've turned their hand to acting in films that are not about them, but also not-not about them. This time come with us as we travel back to 1995 Detroit, a blue and green tinted industrial landscape and our hero Bunny, as he tries to be king of his corner of the world for at least a week.

>>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "THE UNSOCIABLE ACTOR," where he chats with creative types about the pitfalls and positives of social media: https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKcsJcfecBrJP56FWZbys?si=56ba24cdb5ee42cd

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51min
September 07, 2023 11 - PURPLE RAIN (1984) w. Christian Stoner - MUSICIAN/ACTOR - PART TWO
Dearly beloved, we are gathered hear today to discuss the beautiful 1984 oddity that is Purple Rain. Join Jeff, Colin, and special guest self proclaimed "greatest Prince fan ever" Christian Stoner as we attempt to purify ourselves in the waters of lake Minnetonka, before turning on Jeff because though he liked Purple Rain the movie, he didn't like Purple Rain the song, so deserves everyone's scorn. You scorn can be directed to the social media links below.

>>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "THE UNSOCIABLE ACTOR," where he chats with creative types about the pitfalls and positives of social media: https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKcsJcfecBrJP56FWZbys?si=56ba24cdb5ee42cd

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1h
August 21, 2023 10 - HOUSE PARTY (1990) w. Christian Stoner - MUSICIAN/ACTOR - PART ONE
There are plenty of movies about musician's rise to fame and glory, but not as many that star actual musicians playing exaggerated versions of themselves, and fewer still where they don't care about fame and glory but rather that they get to the party on time, dance, rap, and get their f**k on. Travel back to the early 90's as we're joined by CHRISTIAN STONER, writer of the show's main theme as together we delve into what he confidently describes as "the best movie of all time."

You know what time it is.

Also stick around for the end, where we play the full version of the title music "Black."

>>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "THE UNSOCIABLE ACTOR," where he chats with creative types about the pitfalls and positives of social media: https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKcsJcfecBrJP56FWZbys?si=56ba24cdb5ee42cd

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1h 4min
August 07, 2023 9 - DEEP IMPACT (1998) - DEATH FROM ABOVE - PART THREE
Welcome to the end of our end of the world deep dive with DEEP IMPACT, the less flashy sibling of '98's big swinger ARMAGEDDON. It didn't have the budget, the special effects, the spinning cameras or Bruce Willis trying to beat Ben Affleck to death with a pipe, but it did have heart, annoying astronauts, and Denise Crosby.

>>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "THE UNSOCIABLE ACTOR," where he chats with creative types about the pitfalls and positives of social media: https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKcsJcfecBrJP56FWZbys?si=56ba24cdb5ee42cd

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1h 6min
July 24, 2023 8 - DON'T LOOK UP (2021) - DEATH FROM ABOVE - PART TWO
Welcome back to part two of our dive into end of the world films, specifically asteroid/comet impact movies. This ones a bit of a fudge because technically this is a metaphor for something else, but still a horrid reminder that if any of these impact events happened in the real world we'd be too busy spinning conspiracy theories to do anything about it. Sleep tight kids.

>>>If you like this you may like our mate Paul Tonkin's podcast "THE UNSOCIABLE ACTOR," where he chats with creative types about the pitfalls and positives of social media: https://open.spotify.com/show/3vKcsJcfecBrJP56FWZbys?si=56ba24cdb5ee42cd

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52min

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