Ben O'Shea: Marty Supreme

Ben O'Shea joins Lisa & Russell to share a review of Marty Supreme. The Timothee Chalmet is a 2.5 hour film about... ping pong. Despite the subject matter, the film has plenty of Oscar buzz. Tune in to hear Ben's thoughts. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Spret the flick with Bellow Shade New Year.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, we do have a new house band in the
in the studio.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
They sound fantastic.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah wow, now what a start. This is a movie
that I think might come up in the Oscar nominations tomorrow,
The Star of Anyway.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, well that's it. Later on tonight they'll announced the
Oscar nominations. And I think Timothy Challo may Timmy to
his mates. So Timmy, Timmy is going to get a
nomination for Best Actor. He is the odds on favorite
to win the Oscar for Best for his performance in

(00:49):
Marti Supreme, which is a two and a half hour
movie about ping pong. So just I'm just going to
to start the year off right. I'm just going to
give you a sense of what you're going to be
in for if you're in your audience crops, because I
was told props work so well. Are so you've got
two and a half hours of this, So there it is.

(01:14):
There is a lot of ping pong in this movie,
and so you might think you might think this is
a strange choice to make a film about, and it
comes from A twenty four. So this is the indie
production house that everybody loves and they and they do
lots of interesting things like everything everywhere all at once,
which won the Oscar for Best Picture a couple of
years ago. And so they do things a little bit differently.

(01:36):
And the director Josh Safti, who along with his brother Benny,
gave us Uncut Gems with Adam a couple of years ago,
so that was a great movie. And Benny Safti recently
gave us The Smashing Machine with Dwayne Johnson, so that
kind of which you relaunched, relaunched him as a dramatic actor.
And so Josh Safti is a great director. And he

(01:56):
did this research by kind of like by accident of
the ping pong scene in New York in the nineteen fifties,
which was kind of it was kind of like Prohibition era.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
There were pong.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Underground ping pong halls in Harlem and that were hotbeds
of drama and larger than life character. This is all legit,
completely legit. And there was a real life US table
tennis champion called Marty Riiseman who this film is very
loosely based on. He was a pretty, you know, straight
down the line character. And Marty in this film played

(02:29):
by Timmy Shallamy is. You know, he's a bit of
a loose unit all. He dreams of his world domination
in table tennis, and back then people were playing in
stadiums like Madison Square Garden film to watch ping pong
and you see that you remember the scene from Forrest
Gump where he's playing in So that was in the
nineteen fifties where this film is set. So that gives

(02:49):
you an idea of the same sort of fervor that
surrounded table tennis back then. Crazy thing, even though it
was still kind of seen as this outsider pursuit. So
you're bit of a rebel, you're playing ping pong.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Wasn't even in the Olympics yet, No, no.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
And so this is one of those clients, one of
those classic tales of someone who is just blindly committed
to achieving greatness. They believe that they've got a singular
purpose in life and they really just stop at nothing
to try and achieve that purpose, and they probably cause
a lot of destruction along the way to those nearest
and dearest. And so one of those is his young
love interest played by Odessa Azion. She has a lot

(03:29):
of trouble dealing with Timmy's ping pong dreams. And this
movie got Gwyneth Paltrow out of retirement. She was sitting
at home doing goop making goop. To be honest with you, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Not your goopy making candles.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Whatever it is that she does with her goop business.
She was doing that and Josh Sati gave recall and said, hey,
we want you to be in this ping pong movie.
She said no, no. Her people said, you forget about it,
Davin Askal, and we're not even going to put the
question to Gwyenneth. She's not interested in your ping pong movie.
He said like, come on, just get me a meeting
with Gwyneth. Can I can convince her? And they're like, no,
I'm not even going to set up a meeting for you.

(04:03):
He kept he kept persisting and persisting. Eventually got to
meet her. She agreed, and she plays this fading Hollywood
bombshell who falls for Marty's charms and and kind of
gets involved as well. So there's a lot of drama.
There's multiple love interests, and lots of rallies, lots going on,
and a lot of ping pops, a lot of the

(04:25):
house bands, kicked Ping pongk.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Scene to go, well, how many no anchovy is on
my Marty Supreme?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Are you giving this movie? I'm going to give it four. Wow.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Good movie to start the year.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Wow. Yeah, So you're you're up with the Oscar buzz,
You're you're on board.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
This is the Best Picture nomination guaranteed and Best Actor
first actor for Timmy Timothy