The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts
4/5/20263 hr 22 min
Tracy Letts - Pulitzer and Tony winner, but most importantly The King of Physical Media - makes his much-anticipated Blank Check debut on an episode about a film that has no legitimate BluRay release. The irony! This week, we're discussing Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of Indonesian political unrest. We're discussing the star-power of Mel Gibson, the improbable performance of Linda Hunt, and, because this is Blank Check - the trench run at the end of Star Wars. Plus, we present the King of Physical Media with some meticulously chosen discs. Log your physical media using CLZ Check out Night Owl Video if your are in the Brooklyn area. Listen to The 1988 Movie Draft, The 1982 Movie Draft and The Legal Draft Episodes of The Big Picture Read the Linda Hunt Interview Listen to Mike Duncan's Revolutions Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] Blank Check with Griffin and David. Blank Check with Griffin and David. Don't know what to say or to expect. All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.
Griffin Newman· Host0:18
A podcast caught in the fire of revolution.
Speaker 20:24
So that's the part, that's the, the tagline.
Griffin Newman· Host0:26
I've been going tagline-heavy on this series, mostly, um, not because I'm trying to avoid doing an Australian accent. I could nail it- [laughs] ... if I wanted to.
Speaker 20:33
You ever done an Australian accent?
Tracy Letts· Guest0:35
I haven't. I'm told that the secret is really.
Speaker 20:38
Real- really.
Tracy Letts· Guest0:39
R- Riley.
Speaker 20:41
Riley.
Tracy Letts· Guest0:41
Riley.
Griffin Newman· Host0:41
What's ... I feel like the one that's gotten really big when I see people- Riley big ... doing, like, Australian accent, uh, Instagrams is, "No."
Speaker 20:48
[laughs] No.
Griffin Newman· Host0:50
No.
Speaker 20:51
No.
Griffin Newman· Host0:51
We're doing it terribly.
Speaker 20:52
That's sort of the ... Yeah, we're, we're, we're- But that they- There's a lot of notes in here ...
Griffin Newman· Host0:54
there's a no with an R. We've been, uh, really upsetting the entire continent this entire series. Just so you know what you're walking into, Tracy.
Speaker 21:02
Luckily, this movie isn't set in Australia, but we have been ... You know, our, our, our knowledge gaps about Australian history and culture have been exposed a little bit. Uh- Look, we thought- Yeah, I've heard some of this, some of your Australian- Mm ...
Tracy Letts· Guest1:12
prejudice. I mean, let's- You have heard [laughs] our Australian bias. [laughs] Oh, oh, 'cause I, I admitted to it- [laughs] ... 'cause I grew up in Britain.
Griffin Newman· Host1:17
Yeah.
Tracy Letts· Guest1:18
Yes. Okay, so you've heard.
Griffin Newman· Host1:19
Right.
Tracy Letts· Guest1:19
Yeah. I'm copping to it, you know?
Griffin Newman· Host1:21
And we thought it was a positive stereotype to assume that upon meeting, every Australian takes out a knife and compares whose knife is bigger than the other's.
Speaker 21:29
Correct.
Griffin Newman· Host1:29
We did not think that was offensive.