The 13th Warrior with David Lowery

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

What if there was a 13th Warrior? What if there was a version of Beowulf so grounded in reality that the climactic battle with Grendel just kind of felt like a shrug? What if Antonio Banderas was the lead in Gladiator instead of Russell Crowe? We’re just asking questions! Filmmaker David Lowery makes his long-awaited return to the podcast to talk about John McTiernan’s Michael Crichton adaptation, a movie that should have kept the title of the original book - Eaters of the Dead. Such a sick title! Anyway, prepare yourself for plenty of Banderas talk, a loving deep-dive into the famous “Banderas learns the Viking language” scene, and a reveal of some Blank Check-related easter eggs in Lowery’s filmography (!).

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0:00.0	Blank Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that... to say what to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the shadow is
0:17.0	a blank check.
0:21.0	Merciful father, I've squandered my days with plans of many things.
0:26.8	This was not among them.
0:28.5	But at this moment I beg only to live the next few minutes well.
0:32.0	For all we ought to have thought and have not thought,
0:35.0	all we ought to have said and have not said, all we ought to have done and have not done,
0:40.3	I pray thee, God, for a podcast.
0:43.0	That's good.
0:45.0	For forgiveness, right?
0:46.0	That's what he's, yeah.
0:47.0	Correct.
0:48.0	I liked it because it talked about saying stuff and not saying stuff.
0:50.0	And at the end of the day, isn't that what podcasting is about?
0:53.0	I was also thinking you could include like when he's introducing himself
0:57.0	with all of his names and who you know the the lineage you could have slipped
1:01.8	podcast into that.
1:02.6	But yours was...
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