116 - Straw Dogs
Added 2023-02-14 08:00:00 +0000 UTCSometimes, a man is forced to defend his honor; Quentin and Roger defend theirs in their discussion of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 Straw Dogs. Based on the book “The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm,” your hosts take a look at Peckinpah’s intentions and where this sits in his filmography. Then, they’ll discuss the film itself, covering Dustin Hoffman and Susan George’s performances, the ugly nature of this movie, and whether Straw Dogs can be considered a Revengeamatic. Plus, our very first Magnetic Home Video box and an examination of IB Technicolor.
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I remember a guy who I painted with in college….he was 47 and I was 21 at the time so this was part of his youth. He gave me a list of movies to check out. This was one of them. Something about the violent/graphic scenes in the 1970’s always come across as more raw and disturbing then when modern movies recreate them. Maybe underlying bleakness of 70’s? I can’t pin it down since I wasn’t born until the 80’s.
Jeremy M
2024-12-27 07:14:36 +0000 UTCI just watched this for the first time right before listening to this episode. I loved the insight you guys provided! Your analysis and the movies were both great and multi-layered. After listening to you guys in Rogan, I had to check out your podcast! There are a few things that really came off as interesting to me about this movie. I hope I'm not spoiling it by discussing it. 1. The taunting/teasing Amy was doing was more for Charlie than the other guys in that scene when she's undressing upstairs. Also, she screamed when Charlie got killed in the end because really she was secretly in love with him all along more than with David. Everything she did implied she really cared a lot for him, even after he was an accomplice to what she went through with Norman Scutt at the middle of the movie. 2. When Amy and David went to the get together at the church after the infamous scene, it was disturbing her reaction to the priest "taring" things that were then mysteriously not torn anymore and then the "glass full of milk", all implying things that would be easy to relate to a person being violated sexually. Really all the taunting of the whistles going in and out and all the other stuff with the red jello. Why would a priest do magic acts like that? It's almost as if religion was mocking her suffering. 3. The killing of Janice Hedden seemed almost like an eye for an eye for Amy being violated. At the end, David protecting Henry Niles though he didn't know he had killed Janice Hedden earlier, was almost an indirect "than you" for the man who took unintentional revenge on the family who did what what they did to his wife. Very odd though, that David left his wife with all the bodies by herself in the house to take Niles to the village.
Martin G
2024-12-20 02:17:28 +0000 UTC“Old” is QTs most hated word 🤣
Alex R Wagner
2024-12-15 22:43:22 +0000 UTC
