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Speed: Deep Thoughts About Dennis Hopper Chewing Scenery, Keanu Reeves Shooting Hostages, and Why Pop Culture Needs More Insurance Agents
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As Emily tells Tracie this week, the 1994 film Speed is, in a word, BONKERS. This pop culture icon of the early 1990s not only gave us the impossible bus jump that we've always wanted from the movies and catapulted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves to mega-stardom, but it also offered a pretty darn good romance plot in among the explosions, high-speed chases, baby carriages full of cans, and shockingly high body count. But as Emily found on this rewatch, this film is also surprisingly all about money--and that's not just because Emily thinks about money for most of the week in her day job.
Just consider how Dennis Hopper's villainous Howard Payne asks for a paltry $3 million (which he then ups to a baffling $3.7 million). Any actuary worth their salt would have considered the ransom chump change compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of destruction wreaked upon Los Angeles over the course of a single day. But perhaps money isn't everything...Yeah, right.
Take a listen...just remember to keep your speed below 50 mph!
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Chapters
1. Welcome to Deep Thoughts (00:00:00)
2. Why Speed, Not Twister (00:00:54)
3. Tracy’s Memory of Speed (00:02:44)
4. First Impressions and Rewatch Frame (00:05:20)
5. Money On The Bus Goes Boom (00:06:45)
6. Plot Walkthrough: Elevator Setup (00:10:20)
7. The Bus, The Rules, The Chase (00:14:50)
8. Annie Takes the Wheel (00:20:03)
9. Airports, Gaps, and Dollies (00:24:43)
10. Harry’s Discovery and Death (00:29:03)
11. Camera Loop and Bus Finale (00:32:53)
12. Subway Showdown and Aftermath (00:35:53)
13. Follow the Money: Stakes vs Cost (00:38:53)
14. Class, Targets, and Motive (00:42:53)
15. Keanu’s Intelligence Misread (00:46:43)
16. Grief, River Phoenix, and Performance (00:50:23)
17. Romance Amid Chaos (00:53:43)
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