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Tarantino's scenes; Denzel-Tarantino set confrontation; Towne's phone-dictated rewrite; Navy withdrawal; Tony Scott's mutiny-training response
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- Tarantino's scenes are the Silver Surfer scene, the Star Trek Captain Kirk exchange, and the dialogue about the submarine films The Enemy Below and Run Silent, Run Deep.
- The hosts cite a 1995 Premiere article saying Denzel confronted Tarantino on set about the N-word in his films and refused to take it private; per GQ, Denzel later apologized and called him a fine artist, and Denzel's daughter was a PA on Django.
- Robert Towne got an urgent call from Simpson and Bruckheimer to rewrite the nature-of-war scene and dictated it over the phone while they recorded.
- Dinner for Five with David Milch and Jon Favreau is recommended for Milch's story of a Simpson rewrite call; the 7 a.m. texts are called far milder than Simpson.
- High Concept, a biography of Simpson, is recommended as salacious and fascinating.
- The hosts say Robert Mueller as FBI director often quoted Hackman's 'we're here to preserve democracy, not to practice it'.
- After a two-year process, including videotaping the lieutenant commander Denzel based his performance on, the U.S. Navy pulled out once it learned the script involved a mutiny.
- The Navy had backed Top Gun; Tony Scott responded that if mutiny never happens, why is there mutiny training for naval officers.