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Welcome. My name is Rob. I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast.
And I've been known to hang out at a lighthouse or two. We had some of those back home.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode. Joining me is the official fact checker of Sooner or Gator Productions.
And a man who just likes to be a light unto others.
You may know him as Igboonoo but his mom and even Don Fauder. I'm a calm Don Ford. Hey man.
You light up my life. You give me hope to carry on.
Whatever we do one of these it is to review something. That's fine.
And this is no exception. The guy that directed the witch Robert Eggers has a brand new film in theaters.
And it's called The Lighthouse.
So we're starting this whole thing? Yep. We got think Josh and our best friends.
Allied integrated marketing. We love our vendors. They let us see movies early so we can talk to you guys about them.
You can spend your entertainment dollar wisely. So you got Roland Defoe.
You got Robert Patterson. He's Batman.
And then you have a newcomer named Valeria Caramon. I'm a very interesting pivotal role in this.
Let's just go by what the MDib says.
Okay. The MDib says the hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Yeah. So there's a little bit more to this as well. They wind up stranded because their rescue boats caught up in a storm.
But there's a very bold choice made by the filmmaker here.
He films this in a style that has not been used basically in a very long time.
It's basically based on the very early days of film.
Okay.
To capture the time frame. I see.
The frame is very, very tight. It's not rectangular. It's square because that's how they film the movies back then.
Also a very, very dark style of film where they had to use lights that were so bright.
There were times the actors couldn't even see each other.
Really?
And the crew wore sunglasses.
Oh, is that because of the outside shots that we're trying to do?
Just in general.
Oh, really?
Because I was kind of interested on this.
A little thing of the story, though, is where you have Defoe playing Wake or Thomas.
Who's the season lighthouse caretaker?
Okay.
He's been doing it for a while.
And you could tell he's probably lost one or two cans of the six pack mentally because of being on the island too long.
And then you got Edward from Twilight.
Mm-hmm.
Stupid. He's Batman now.
Yeah, whatever.
But he's in this one and he's the greenhorn.
Coming in.
He used to live in Canada.
He used to do the logging.
All that stuff.
But he just wanted a new start.
Decides he can make some money doing this.
And they're scheduled to be there for four weeks.
Right.
Okay.
And basically besides Valeria's role, there's only four other people in this film.
And they are just, you see, the two of them are the caretakers leaving on the boat.
Right.
Who don't say word.
And they're in that film for about five seconds.
There's kind of like a deuces route.
Yeah.
There's two more who are helping carry stuff onto the island who don't speak at all.
Beyond that, you got those three people in the rest of the film.
That is it.
Well, because I think that's really, that's the intention there.
Yeah, exactly.
To show that they're out there by themselves and this is going down.
Totally.
They are in pure solitude.
This island is like way out there.
You're talking miles and miles and miles out in the middle of nowhere in the ocean.
And it's probably the way they filmed it.
And I thought maybe they filmed that set an old and abandoned lighthouse.
I thought when I was watching this film.
But, but the, yeah, but the issue is with it is that I found out it was actually filmed in the studio.
Correct.
So the, you know, that kind of surprised me because I really thought maybe they did this in the ocean.
But looking back how they were able to make the waves come in and the rocks and making an old.
Well, the exteriors were done in Nova Scotia and they built the lighthouse out basically out of wood.
Okay.
And after the filming, the people in the town wanted them to keep it.
But it was, it wasn't going to be able to withstand the elements because a lot of your exterior shots too.
They didn't need wind and rain machines for most of it.
Like it was really going down the way you saw it.
Yeah.
You saw this.
I did a lot of reading on it.
The way you saw the film, most of that was the conditions they were dealing with.
And that was the outside shots you were talking about.
The exterior shots.
Okay.
And then you've got the fact that it was in black and white because again, this is the late 1890s.
This looks like, I mean, the feel of this just looks creepy.
And then you added that this is the guy that directed the witch.
Yes.
A couple of years ago.
Did you see a lot of influence of that on this film?
Yes, I did.
And the witch was one I was really interested in seeing and it actually kind of flopped from me.
It made my bottom 10 of the year a couple of years back.
It did indeed.
Which is why I was interested to see how you saw this one.
I'd still go in with an open mind, even if we go in with a terrible smell like film.
We'll still go in with the open mind fairly.
You invoked his name.
Yes, I know.
I apologize.
But the visually very, very well done, very well done visually.
It is a dark, it is a dark, dark film overall.
And even the relationship, how Winslow and Wake, the two caretakers are DeFoe and Pattinson.
It shows how, first off, Wake is, he is giving him the big, you are being the green horn.
You are being initiated.
You're getting the grand jobs.
I'm going to try to tear you down.
The big, you know, rubbing of the experienced guy on the green horn.
So he gets a share of just being just ripped apart verbally and all that stuff by DeFoe's character.
There was a lot of things I read here too about the work they did on the dialogue and the accents.
And just the way that whole vibe came together.
How did that work out for you?
DeFoe, I thought he was really good.
Okay.
He was good.
He really had that accent down where you really thought this guy was a guy who is living in the lighthouse.
Been there for time upon time, but time he really does an incredible job on acting on this.
I will give it to him 100% on this because he really had that feel.
The look, the accent, as if this guy has been doing this for decades.
And it's really taken a toll on him mentally.
How about Pattinson?
Pattinson, I thought he really did good too overall.
Not as good as DeFoe, but still good.
Not as good as DeFoe.
Yeah.
And so you see how their relationship builds and how when you get the alcohol out and when they're not supposed to have the alcohol.
And actually they could out be singing songs and acting and buddy buddy and doing the dancing.
And then they wake up the next day and he's just ripping on him again as the green horn again.
This film, what I really did like about it, it shows how rough life was like on these things.
You get some supplies.
You, it is a shack.
There's no plumbing.
You have to go out to the well to get the water.
There's no, you know, minimal sanitary things like you're talking bedpans and stuff like that.
And that really makes a point of, you know, the bedpan issues a couple times in this film, but it's real gritty.
But it shows how life would be like on one of these things back a hundred years ago or 120 to 130 years ago.
What life was like, which I really enjoyed.
My downside to it is I really liked where it was showing how insanity is starting to take the toll a little bit of solitude of the solitary.
And being solitary can cause insanity.
Absolutely.
It just got the weird way to try to show the insanity.
It got kind of that artsy kind of, it goes up and just show some weird stuff, especially with carements character.
There's some weird scenes on there where they're trying to make the point, but I think they're going to artsy to the extreme too far.
Yeah.
How to make the weirdness of how I understand they're trying to say this is what's going through this guy's mind now.
And it can get gritty.
There are some adult situations.
There is some nudity in this with a cameraman in on this.
This is why don't take the kids because you have a lot of explaining this one.
Yeah, I don't think it would really enjoy something like this because it's just a dark movie saying how solitude could turn you insane and how two people who are stuck together,
longer than they wanted to be, and how it could just take a toll on them.
And it does, there are some brutal scenes on this is does get brutal in the end, especially the last last 25 minutes as the madness takes its toll.
I like what they're trying to do, but it just got way, way, way too weird.
And I think got too brutal to make the point, especially with seagulls.
That's all I want to say is seagulls.
Yeah, there was a reference to that scene.
I haven't read up on that.
So I don't want us to spoil anything.
Yeah, exactly.
That's all I'm just saying seagulls, nothing more.
Anything else you want to cover before we get to the final analysis?
I like the attempt, but yeah, let's do the final analysis.
Well, then let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you a thumbs up, thumbs down.
We're not going to give you letter grades, numbers, fog horns, anything like that, or leg horns for that matter.
I'm going to ask Don up the two questions.
Question number one is, would he see this again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, from the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's how it goes.
Full price at a theater, down to a twilight showing, down to a no pen intended, down to a matinee, down to early morning on a weekend, down to second run at the dollar theater, down to obtaining it physically, down to streaming it, and down to cable Don.
Would you see the lighthouse again?
Yes.
Oh, all right.
How far you want to go, see it?
Get the cricket chirps, lady.
Oh, I'm ready.
The on cable.
That's it.
But you still see it again, at least.
Yeah, I wouldn't see it, but I wouldn't take my way out to see it, because it just got too weird.
One thing that I really forgot to say earlier, real fast is how, like during the day, they have to put the fog horn out, and how that could start driving you crazy.
Crazy.
When they test the tornado sirens over here, that 20 seconds is more than enough.
Imagine hearing that thing for about five, six hours straight.
No, no, no, no.
So I like what they're trying to do with it, but the weirdness just got too weird, and some of the brutality was not needed.
All right.
Good, Tim.
Robert Eggers, and he also co-wrote the script directing the lighthouse.
For me, this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
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And I didn't read the marketing.
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