BONUS PREVIEW: Bonus Ep34 Dave (1993)

I Don't Speak German

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Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We continue our election year series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama-satire(???) Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President, kindasorta accidentally pulling off a (well-meaning) one-man coup d'état, enmeshed in the plots of the evil White House Chief of Staff (Frank Langella), and falling in love with the First Lady (Sigourney Weaver).

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0:00.0	Wanted, ambitious individual for leadership position.
0:07.0	Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment.
0:12.0	Challenges, many.
0:14.0	Rewards, numerous.
0:17.0	Failure, possible.
0:18.0	Your employer, the American people.
0:22.0	The few chosen have been the president.
0:29.0	And welcome folks to bonus
0:30.0	to bonus episode, whatever number it is, the second in our series about movies about the American
0:37.8	presidency and our last one, about Air Force One, was rapturously received. I suppose, I don't know really, nobody said anything to me, but I assume it was.
0:49.3	So of course we're going to be continuing with, and we by the way is me and Daniel Harper who's
0:55.7	who's here also I hope anyway yes I am here you are not speaking into the void or if you
1:00.8	are I am also here in the void so it's fine.
1:03.2	I was going to say we're both in the in the void in the dark
1:07.6	echoing void. No no it's it's always good to know that I'm not talking to myself
1:12.2	because I often do that.
1:14.0	So anyway, yeah, so yeah, this episode is going to be about the movie Dave.
1:22.0	When was this released?
1:25.0	So there's some context clues, but...
1:28.0	1993, May 7th, 1993.
1:31.0	Yeah.
1:32.0	Yeah. 7th 1993 93 yeah yeah the it's it's it's very 1993 isn't it
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