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The Dennis Peck Relationship Test
Fails: Graysmith’s obsession would quickly break his marriage to Melanie
The panel proposes a new category here.
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:34:21Read transcript
- The panel explicitly proposes The Dennis Peck Relationship Test, named for Richard Gere’s Internal Affairs character.
- The test asks whether the featured relationship would survive.
- Graysmith’s fixation is judged likely to destroy the relationship.
Recasting Couch
Directors: De Palma, Fincher, or Lyne. Norman: Richard Gere. Cellist: unresolved.
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:13:14Read transcript
- Laura Sangiacomo is proposed for Jody.
- The director rendered as BDP is proposed for a more sexual version with longer camera moves.
- David Fincher is proposed, with Panic Room cited as a nearby version of the material.
- The director rendered as Adrian Line is proposed for a hornier supernatural version.
- The actor rendered as Richard Gear is proposed as Norman.
- Kelly Preston is considered and rejected; the discussion cannot settle on a replacement cellist.
Recasting Couch
Keep the director; consider John Cazale, James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage, Richard Gere, Bruce Willis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Chadwick Boseman
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:34:12Read transcript
- The panel initially finds no director replacement and briefly proposes John Cazale, James Brolin, or O.J. Simpson for Larry Butler.
- Tom Hanks is proposed as Roy in a 1987 version.
- Will Smith is proposed for a 1997 version and questioned as too handsome or heroic.
- Nicolas Cage is proposed as another 1997 Roy.
- Richard Gere is considered and rejected as too attractive or too old for the 1997 role.
- Bruce Willis is considered and rejected as too old for the 1997 role.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman is proposed for a 2007 version.
- Chadwick Boseman is proposed for a 2017 version.
In the discussion (1)
Approx. transcript time · 01:35:36Read transcript
- Richard Gere is the agreed winner.
Podcast choices
Apex Mountain
Richard Gere and Andy Garcia in 1990; cops sleeping with partners’ wives; slapping.
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:17:32Read transcript
- Gere is affirmed for the 1990 combination with Pretty Woman, and Garcia for the same year's Godfather Part III combination.
- Billy Baldwin is rejected in favor of Backdraft or the film described as Thief of Hearts in the transcript.
- The Valley receives a suggested case for looking cool and wild, contrasted with Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
- Dirty Los Angeles cops is debated against Colors, The Onion Field and L.A. Confidential. Internal affairs and cops moonlighting as hitmen are floated without a clear final declaration.
- Nancy Travis loses to So I Married an Axe Murderer; Metcalf and Sciorra are rejected; Faye Grant gets only a probable yes.
- Imagining one's wife with another man loses to Indecent Proposal after comparisons with The Best Man, The Big Picture and Unfaithful.
- Cops sleeping with partners' wives and slapping in movies receive affirmative answers.
- Gere is tentatively proposed as the apex of an attractive villain, without a firm conclusion.
The Rick Dalton Award for the Greatest Fucking Acting I’ve Ever Seen
Richard Gere at the taco stand.
In the discussion (1)
Approx. transcript time · 00:32:29Read transcript
- A new Rick Dalton acting award is proposed for Gere's taco-stand performance, especially his small gestures, coffee drinking and intimate manipulation.
Recasting Couch
Richard Gere or Paul Newman as Graham; broader Redford, Brando, Hoffman, DiCaprio, and Lakeith Stanfield hypotheticals
In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:16:23Read transcript
- Richard Gere for Graham is proposed and disputed.
- Paul Newman is treated as the most intriguing period alternative.
- Robert Redford is considered.
- Marlon Brando is considered.
- Dustin Hoffman is considered.
- A post-Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio version is imagined.
- Lakeith Stanfield is proposed for a modern version.
Casting What-Ifs
Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, Paul Newman, and several Lecter possibilities
In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:09:37Read transcript
- Richard Gere is named as a possible Will Graham.
- Mel Gibson is named as a possible Graham.
- Paul Newman is named as an intriguing Graham alternative.
- John Lithgow is considered for Lecter.
- Mandy Patinkin is considered for Lecter.
- Brian Dennehy is considered for Lecter and reportedly recommended Brian Cox.
- David Lynch and Ted Levine are mentioned in the wider casting discussion.
Casting What-Ifs
Bruce Willis was chosen after an extraordinary list of stars; Sam Neill was considered for Hans Gruber, while Tom Berenger and Don Johnson are the panel’s plausible McClane alternatives.
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:28:56Read transcript
- Stallone, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Don Johnson, Burt Reynolds, and Richard Dean Anderson are reported as McClane possibilities.
- Because the source novel followed an earlier Roderick Thorp book adapted with Frank Sinatra, Sinatra reportedly held a contractual right of refusal.
- Tom Berenger and Don Johnson are proposed as alternatives who could have worked, though the released film would have been less iconic.
- Nick Nolte is rejected as physically and tonally wrong for the required action.
- Sam Neill is reported as considered for Hans Gruber, but Alan Rickman is treated as impossible to replace after seeing the performance.
- The panel wonders whether Chris Rock or a Wayans brother was considered for Argyle and asks what the final Argyle shortlist looked like; the transcript does not resolve it.
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