We're joined one more time by special guest Drew Scanlon to close out sub month with the mother of all submarine movies in the director's cut of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot!CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.(00:00:13) - Intro.(00:00:44) - Our film for this week: DAS BOOT (pronounced boat).(00:05:22) - But just what IS Das Boot all about?(00:11:29) - Talking cinematic depictions of Nazis in German cinema and German censorship laws.(00:16:17) - Some history on the film's production and the book it's based on.(00:24:47) - When you watch a movie in a foreign language, do you remember it in that language? Or in yours with an accent?(00:25:38) - We, as a society, were not ready for submarines.(00:27:08) - How anti-war is Das Boot?(00:28:40) - The captain's respect for his adversaries, and open disrespect for German command.(00:38:37) - Food, food, glorious rotting food. And boy howdy what a stink.(00:45:15) - Break!(00:45:34) - And we're back, and talking about the long stretches of tension and terror.(00:52:14) - Brad talks sound design.(00:56:34) - Is the captain good? (At his job, we mean.)(01:01:05) - One of Alex's favorite scenes, the scene on the German supply ship.(01:08:17) - The Gibraltar suicide mission, and some of the movie's model work.(01:15:17) - We're going down, down, DOWN!(01:22:42) - Wow! They made it! Everything's gonna be alright now, right? Right?!?(01:31:45) - Final impressions.(01:39:35) - Our sub mission has come to a close.(01:44:13) - Outro.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.