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Returning guest Seth Zarate grabs his trumpet to blow down the Walls of Jericho!

It’s the movie that came up with the thing where a lady hitchhikes by showing a bit of her bare leg instead of pointing out her thumb! IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is also a funny early romantic comedy that, in lieu of a balance between “rom” and “com,” often leans into its uncomfortable scenarios without giving the audience a clear indication of how they’re supposed to feel about its antics.

Find Seth:

- On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate

- On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate

- On Trylove episodes about THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986), THE FACULTY (1998), TIME BANDITS (1981), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), 12 MONKEYS (1995), and THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)

PROTOTYPES FOR THE ROM-COM (Dec 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/prototypes-for-the-rom-com/

As of this recording, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is available to stream on The Criterion Channel and Tubi. If you don’t have those or don’t want to use them, click here: https://archive.org/details/it-happened-one-night-1934_202108

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” from IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 204: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) with Seth Zarate

5:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:37 - Blueprints for the “rom” and the “com”

20:13 - The third act

23:48 - The trope characters

37:38 - The Hays Code

50:47 - Shapeley, little freaks, and The Guys of this movie

53:27 - The Junk Drawer

Socialite divorcee Tracy Lord is engaged again to the nouveau riche George Kittredge, which puts her back in the spotlight of Spy Magazine’s writer and photographer, who’ve been put on the scent by Tracy’s ex-husband in a transparent bid to win her back. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY helped reverse Katharine Hepburn’s slumping career, but it’s also a fun rom-com that leverages class politics (old money, new money, and no money) in punchy scenes with writing matched only by its delivery.

PROTOTYPES FOR THE ROM-COM (Dec 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/prototypes-for-the-rom-com/

As of this recording, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is available to stream on HBO Now. If you don’t have that or don’t want to use it, click here: https://archive.org/details/nupcias-de-esandalo_1940

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Title sequences by Franz Waxman from the THE PHILADELPHIA STORY soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 203: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

4:24 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:29 - Dialogue, writing, and the unraveling performance of class

15:35 - Meeting messy and nuanced characters

38:20 - The ending

46:00 - The Junk Drawer

57:42 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylibs – Cukorian Romance (ad libs)

With a BANG, POW, THWAP, and ZAKOW – it’s the original live-action Batman!

In this episode, we discuss the film’s greatest gags, its surprising self-awareness, the compelling choice to make Batman’s first live-action outing a straight-up parody of Batman, and what this version of Batman has on the ones that have come since.

As of this recording, BATMAN is available to stream on HBO Now. If you don’t have that or don’t want to use it, click here: https://archive.org/details/batman-the-movie-1966_202211

A COLLECTION OF BAT-LABELS, collecting the explanatory labels on everything in the 1966-1968 Batman TV series: https://batlabels.tumblr.com/

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Opening credits theme by Nelson Riddle from the BATMAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 202: BATMAN (1966)

1:52 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:28 - When Batman was a piss take on Batman

18:05 - Stupid jokes that are also very sharp and funny

24:45 - The villains who just want to get their bits out

33:54 - Location location location

38:13 - Comparing this to other Batman films over the years

41:03 - International politics, respectability politics, and Robin is a eugenicist

47:18 - The Junk Drawer

51:28 - Cody’s Noteys: Superhero Scrapbook (Batman movie trivia)

Listening note: Zencastr fucked up Harry’s track at the start of Cody’s Noteys. It was a fun round, so I elected to keep the episode going and truncate Harry’s track where I could. Sorry for the poor listening experience.

Produced by Motown founder Berry Gordy, THE LAST DRAGON is a genre mashup of kung fu, blaxploitation, and comedy that clings to its Hero’s Journey trappings only long enough to get a great joke or scene out of it. Leroy seeks the Final Level – a mystical unknowing of the self – while beset by the baddest martial artists in Harlem and distracted by the prettiest girls on TV. It’s badass, it’s goofy, it doesn’t really work, and it doesn’t really have to.

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Glow” by Willie Hutch from the THE LAST DRAGON soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 201: THE LAST DRAGON (1985)

4:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:49 - A fish out of water story where the fish can walk just fine tbh

20:42 - Leroy’s self-identification as a black man

33:48 - The expansive plot

51:54 - The Junk Drawer

54:38 - Cody’s Noteys: How to Train Your Trylove (movie dragon trivia)

Here we are, old friends. 200 published episodes of our podcast. Thank you so much for listening to even one episode! We get so much out of doing this podcast, discussing movies, learning about our friends, and meeting new people while we’re at it.

To celebrate, we each came up with a different Trylove-themed game with which to challenge the others. That’s right: It’s an all-killer, no-filler episode exclusively dedicated to Noteys. Each competition highlights each Boy’s strengths and weaknesses – with startling, climactic results you won’t want to miss.

Fuck you, James Woods.

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Raindrops” by Huma-Huma.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 200: Oops! All Noties

2:11 - Some thoughts on 200 episodes of Trylove

7:52 - You Can Find It In The Show Notes (Trylove episode description trivia)

30:10 - Did We Start Recording? (Trylove episode quote trivia)

45:59 - Aaron’s game (trivia about movies that were almost made)

1:14:35 - Cody’s Noteys (Trylove Letterboxd ratings trivia)

1:35:42 - Fuck You James Woods

𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙶𝙾𝙳 𝚍𝚊𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚍.

In production for decades, Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD is a stunningly crafted piece of mixed media that impresses on levels of both scale and detail. Its broad narrative follows an agent of the end of the world on a mission to restart the universe violently. Telling its story without dialogue, its visuals and soundscape chart several cycles of death, calcification, and rebirth in a post-apocalyptic existence structured like circles of hell, each defined by unimaginable anguish and exploitation. From wet, gloopy shit mines and cold metal corridors to desert fortresses and a literal black hole, MAD GOD is a lean, mean journey that moves and reads unlike anything you’ve seen – and despite its unimaginable cruelty, it may even end up in a kind of hopeful place.

Lotta little freaks in this one, too. Enjoy.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Long Way Down” by Dan Wool from the MAD GOD original soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 199: MAD GOD (2021)

4:54 - The episode actually starts

6:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:44 - A collection of scenes in mixed media

17:02 - Harlan Ellison, consciousness, and nature

20:41 - Worldbuilding and leaving loose ends loose

29:18 - Meanness vs the “hopeful” ending

30:41 - MAD GOD as critique of CAPITALISM

42:00 - Jason gets Beanboozled

44:58 - The live action segments

47:56 - The Little Freaks of MAD GOD

54:42 - Cody’s Noteys: DAD GOD

Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence.

ROADGAMES is about an American man hauling meat through the Australian outback who REAR WINDOW (1954)s himself into believing he’s seen evidence of a murder. It’s also about the feeling of coming back to a community after identifying yourself against it for so long. It’s a bit goofy, a bit spooky, sometimes pretty trippy, and often a lot of fun.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Main theme from ROADGAMES by Brian May from the ROADGAMES soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 198: ROADGAMES (1981)

2:05 - The episode starts

3:48 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

17:44 - Jason - Quid’s headspace & the community of the road

27:43 - “Jones or Smith” and the final act

36:50 - Quid & Hitch

53:16 - The Junk Drawer

58:20 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud

It’s a horror comedy, so we simply had to know what Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt) thought of it! THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD is a strange, pioneering movie. That’s about as much as Jason can type about this movie because he wasn’t on this episode and didn’t see the movie.

Enjoy!

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Tonight (We'll Make Love Until We Die)” by SSQ from the THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD soundtrack.

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is maybe the freakiest movie from maybe the freakiest director. It’s a bit of a Brian De Palma kaleidoscope, blowing his obsession with showing you the unseen mechanics of a scene into a grand, grotesque, obscene scale.

Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/

“The Hell of It: My Top 5 Favorite Songs from Phantom of the Paradise” by Kelly Krantz at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/10/12/the-hell-of-it-my-top-5-favorite-songs-from-phantom-of-the-paradise/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Life at Last” by Paul Williams from the PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 196: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)

1:43 - The episode actually starts

3:24 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:52 - Why Kelly loves PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

12:46 - Pessimism and corruption

21:46 - Beef, Swan, and performance

26:17 - “Life at Last”

29:54 - De Palma’s mechanics and the movie’s earned confidence

37:25 - “Nobody gets out alive”: The ending

49:25 - Who’s the little freak?

Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence.

Purificazione isn’t really a witch. The spell she casts on Antonio, a man promised to another woman, doesn’t really have any magic to it. But that doesn’t stop him from creating a narrative that leads to Purif being blamed for the whims of the cosmos (the death of a child, the richness of the soil, etc.). But as the village becomes more and more contemptful of her, it becomes clear that the demon isn’t an external force invading her body or soul – it’s the conservative norms of the society she lives in that afflict Purif, causing her to doubt her sanity and act irrationally.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Sabba Fantastico” by Piero Piccioni from the IL DEMONIO soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - IL DEMONIO (1963)

2:11 - The episode actually starts

4:38 - The ‘true story’ setup

13:44 - Tradition, folk horror, and Purif’s place in the community

18:02 - Dahlia Lavi as Purif

25:18 - Salvatore and the tension between Purif’s view and the audience’s view

37:38 - The possession scene and creating multiple understandings of the self

53:30 - The Junk Drawer

1:00:05 - Cody’s Noteys: Teemin’ with Demons