Episode #20 - Band of Outsiders (“Bande á Part”)
Now with Aaron!
Andy: “I got this as part of a B&N DVD sale, the same day as ‘Night On Earth.’ I really just got it because Tarantino takes his production company name from the French title of this film, ‘Bande á Part.’ Also, Criterion, motherfucker.”
All: singing the Indiana Jones theme
Andy: I hope the whole movie’s like this.
Oscar: Knowing Godard, I wouldn’t be surprised. (0:01)
Jackie: It’s cold and foresaken here? (0:05)
Andy: Invisibl gun! I has one!
Oscar: Woopwoopwoopwoop.
Aaron: “Arthur, shouldn’t we be babysitting your sister, DW?” (0:07)
Andy: Sidewalk laws were different back then.
Stacey: “Where we’re going, we don’t need… roads.” (0:08)
Jackie: Wait they’re learning English? That’s confusing. (0:10)
Andy: I wonder if Shakespeare in French is in iambic pentameter… that’d be really hard.
Oscar: Now, this isn’t foreshadowing, ya think? (0:14)
Jackie: Stick it up your nose! (0:16)
Andy: He kinda looks like Webster.
Oscar: Yeah, he does! With a haircut… (0:18)
Jackie: What is with people molesting everyone?
Oscar: It’s France! (0:24)
Jackie: What?
Andy: I want this narration in my head, always. I’d be such a dour person.
Jackie: “I’m sad…” (0:26)
Andy: This is what Oscar and I would be doing if we grew up in France. (0:28)
Jackie: Everything’s cooler in France.
Andy: And in black and white.
Oscar: It’s hard to find a more agressively cool filmmaker than Godard. (0:29)
Jackie: This is like Twin Peaks music.
Oscar: Yeah, Audrey music. (0:30)
Jackie: She going to stuff her bra with money?
Oscar: With meat?
Stacey: I thought those were tea bags…
Jackie: Ah…
Andy: And tea bags doesn’t really make it any better. (0:33)
Jackie: Jaqueline! I was found… dead… with my baby. (0:34)
Andy: Why are there tigers?
Stacey: Ah, she threw the chunk of meat.
Andy: Yeah, but, why are there tigers? (0:36)
Andy: This just became a clicktrough adventure game.
Jackie: “I fed the tiger some meat, and now I’m on the boat…”
Andy: Tap A! Tap A! (0:38)
Andy: I’m telling you, this narration should be in my head.
Jackie: Read by Steven Merrit.
Andy: In French. This is how I got the Columbo Delano Disaster album. (0:39)
Oscar: I fucking love Godard.
Andy: Why don’t I live in a Godard movie?
Jackie: Seriously. I’d be so much cooler. (0:40)
Jackie: Ugh. That sweater.
Stacey: It’s amazing.
Jackie: You’re not getting that.
Andy: I’ll get you that sweater!
Jackie: He asked for a knit sweater… that’d be hard to knit.
Andy: I’ll knit you that sweater!
Jackie: Yeah… good luck with that, Andy. (0:42)
Andy: Wait, the tall guy is Franz, the little guy is Arthur, yeah?
Jackie: Yeah.
Andy: I wonder if this is where The Tick got Arthur.
Oscar: S’possible… (0:43)
Oscar: Bjork? (0:44)
Stacey: I like this movie.
Jackie: Holy crap.
Andy: This is the most meta thing I have ever seen in a film. (0:46)
Andy: We. need. to. learn. this. dance. (0:49)
Jackie: It’s like if Cotton Eye Joe was the coolest thing, ever. (0:50)
Oscar: Even the sink is awesome!
Andy: Woah. I was wondering when this movie would get guns. (1:00)
Andy: Man, I can’t believe I missed the film noir festival at the Harvard Film Archive.
Oscar: I thought it was a French movie festival… oh wait, that was the Brattle.
Andy: Wouldn’t this movie fit in both festivals? (1:02)
Andy: Man, there’s a plot. I forgot about that. This is the most character-driven film noir movie I have ever seen.
Oscar: Yeah. You should see “Breathless.” It’s ostensibly a crime movie, but 90 percent of it takes place in a room. (1:06)
Andy: Oscar, I’m calling you Franz from now on.
Oscar: I can accept that.
Andy: You can accept that…
Oscar: …Arthur.
Andy: That’s right. (1:12)
Oscar: He’s Rorschach! (1:14)
Andy: Wow, the dog isn’t barking.
Oscar: She told him not to. (1:17)
Andy: Woah, Jesus, Arthur.
Jackie: Arthur’s been kind of a dick since the beginning of the movie.
Andy: Yeah. But Franz, too.
Oscar: Yeah, they’re both kinda dicks. (1:19)
Stacey: Music by Perry & Kingsley. (1:21)
Andy: Aw, I love it. Were Godard and Cage friends?
Oscar: I don’t think so.
Andy: They should have been. (1:21)
Andy: “Okay, but now it’s really not loaded.”
Oscar: She just has to say that five more times. (1:23)
I’m not writing any more. It’ll spoil the ending.
Andy: If for the rest of my life my walk has a little extra kick, or if my interactions with friends have a little more slapstick, but in a very cool way, or I seduce a femme fatale and rob an old man, you can totally credit this movie. That was incredible. 1 Long Minute of Silence.
Oscar: Jean-Luc God Damn. 9 Minutes, 43 Seconds.
Jackie: Possibly better than High School Confidential. 3 Snaps.
Stacey: I wish I could have been a character in this movie, but I don’t think I could have done that well. 1 Convertible that Won’t Convert.
