Episode 575: Popeye (1980)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Summary

We’re looking at the 1980 film from director Robert Altman and writer Jules Feifer, Popeye. Based on the King Syndicate comic by E.C. Segar, it’s the story of a mariner (Robin Williams) who comes to the port town of Sweethaven looking for his father. He finds a town under the control of a mysterious man known only as The Commodore who has left his right hand man, Bluto (Paul L Smith), in charge of the city which is plagued with ruffians and an overzealous tax collector. He meets the Oyl family, a dysfunctional group whom he must redeem in order to find his father and true happiness.

Father Malone and Paul Zimmerman join Mike to discuss the film while interviews include Allan F. Nicholls, Paul Dooley, and MacIntyre Dixon.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.8	Oh! What am I?
0:38.3	I'm Papa, the sailor. What am I?
0:55.0	I'm Papa, the sailor.
0:58.0	And I am what I am what I am and I am what I am
1:01.0	and that's all that I am because I am what I am.
1:05.0	You got it? I think so, yeah.
1:08.0	And I've got a lot of muscle and I only got one eye and I never heard nobody's and I'll never tell a lie.
1:14.6	Top to me bottom, from the bottoms to me top.
1:16.6	That's the way it is, to the keys that I've dropped.
1:19.6	What am I?
1:21.6	What am I?
1:23.6	I am.
1:24.6	I am the sailor.
1:26.6	Oh, my boy I the sailor
1:28.3	I am the
1:29.3	Salon I must have you right. Arles!
	...

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