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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On Friday, we got a review, a Mark Runner review
of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I would say it was mostly favorable.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I would say that he enjoyed it, and it translated
to the box office as Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice came in that
number one this week had a fantastic week one hundred
and eleven million dollars domestically, thirty six million international for
a haul of one hundred and forty seven million dollars
for a movie in his first week, which is not
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a superhero movie, and it's I would say it's a sequel,
but you're talking about I don't know what thirty six
years in between something like that.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
It's been quite some time. The original I think came
out in eighty eight, didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It, Okay, So that yeah, about thirty six years ago.
So it's not like you are depending on Generation X
Gen xers to carry this movie. That means there was
a lot of interest from people who weren't even born
when the first one came out.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And it's also just really fun. I mean, you can
tell from the trailers that it's everybody needs a laugh
right now? I think yes. And some nostalgia.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, well see that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
People don't understand the value of nostalgia. And sometimes I
know I can be overboard with a nostalgia, but it
really does have a place in our entertainment offerings.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's one of those drugs that don't leave you with
a hangover.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
No. And also that character, the Beetlejuice character is just hilarious.
I didn't mention it Friday, but there's also been a
cartoon of Beetlejuice. I believe there's also been a musical.
It's just a fun character, just in case you didn't know.
The budget was only and I say only one hundred million,
so it's already made its money back and some it's
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first week out, yeah, it really cleaned house.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It exceeded expectations.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think they were figuring it could make around a
hund thousand over the weekend and it blew right past them.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You don't expect a movie release in September, regardless of genre,
to do that well.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
First week and news are summer movie numbers.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And yeah, I know it's still technically summer, but as
far as summer blockbusters.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You don't release them in September.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, it's a surprise. I think how well the movie did.
I mean I especially if you've been paying attention to
box office over the last several weeks or months. A
lot of stuff is just making a few bucks and
disappearing fast.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, one which is not only making a few bucks
and disappearing fast is Deadpool and Wolverine in its seventh week,
still in theaters. It has a domestic gross and it's
very balanced domestic six hundred and thirteen point eight million,
international six hundred and seventy three million, so it is
well received here and around the world, for a combined
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total of one point two eight seven billion dollars in
its seventh week. And I say it's staying in theaters
because it's still in thirty four hundred theaters, which is
a lot for a time in which movies don't.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Stay more than a month usually.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Also highest grossing R rated movie of all time. And
if you're interested, Ryan Reynolds has about an hour or
so interview on the script Notes podcast. If you liked
the Deadpool and Wolverine movie, you must listen to this.
It's a great look behind the scenes. Actually I did
not know that. I will check it out. It's been
a great podcast for years and years. John Augustin, Craig Mason.
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Craig Mason, the showrunner of Chernobyl and that Mushroom Zombie
show whatever it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Is, Oh, the last of Us.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
That's the last of us Mushroom Zombie Show.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Coming in number three is the biopic Reagan with Dennis Quaid.
I'm always hesitant to watch biopics of people I have
memory of because my memory will get in the way
of what I see on screen kind.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Of looks like him now though doesn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
No, he does, And I mean just you look at
the movie poster of Dennis Quaid, It's like that looks
a lot like Reagan. For those who don't know, I'm
friends with Michael Reagan, and I want to get him
on the show again to get his thoughts because we've talked.
He and I have talked about Ronald Reagan so much
it inevitably colors what I would think of any type
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of biopic or you know, a semi autobrier biographical movie
about him.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I've spoken with ron Reagan a number of times and
I appeared on his old MSNBC show once, and they
all have pretty strong opinions when anybody deigns to speak
for their fathers.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, no, I'm serious. You are absolutely right, and I
wonder how they feel. I mean, I don't haven't read
that any of them are against the movie, but I
wonder what they think about the final product. It came
in third eighteen million domestically, three million Internet notes, just
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three thousand internationally worldwide of eighteen point one million in
it's I think it's is this the first week, second week,
second week, So it's doing relatively well.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It probably had a very modest budget. Let me look
it up real quick.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, twenty five million, So it'll probably make its money back,
and it'll probably do even better on streaming, or at
least you'll have a much longer life on streaming. And
I'll probably get around to it eventually, because I do
like those movies.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It's just that it's.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Can be burdened some when I remember Ronald Reagan, for example,
I remember when he was president, I remember when he
was governor. Those are things that it just makes it
very difficult to divorce that from something that is not
a documentary on screen. So I'll get around to that
(05:50):
and Mark Alien Romulus is still hanging in there. It's
still number four, is coming up on one hundred million
domestically and more than three hundred and fourteen million worldwide commercially.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's a bona fide hit.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, it was a mixed bag for me, but there
was a lot that I did like about it. But
I can see how people would complain about X, Y
and Z. Still, it's a great looking movie and it's
pretty entertaining from start to finish, regardless of how you
might want to pick it apart afterward.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well only way I would pick it apart. And I
think I talked about this with you. I was before
I saw it. I was unclear and unsure where it
would fit in the larger Alien universe. In the different threads.
It's like, is it going to tell us something about Prometheus?
Is it going to tell us something about Covenant? Is
it going to tell us something that we didn't already know?
Or is it just going to stay within this very
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small confines of the pre Ripley universe. And it wasn't
pre Ripley, it was it was I would say, contemporaries
of Ripley was happening simultaneous to Ripley.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I can understand how somebody would get confused about that.
And here's what was really funny to me about it.
We saw the trailer Twala and I and we were
both going nuts over it, over the over the fast moving,
jumping face huggers. I liked it a lot more than Tuala.
I got great pleasure out of listening to Tuala just
absolutely lose his mind over it and dump on it
one day when I came into work and he'd just
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seen it.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
It's so funny because even though the three of us
really love movies and entertainment, our likes and dislikes are
very different, very div You can see a movie one
way and love it, and I can come into something like,
what the hell were you looking at me?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Are talking specifically about the argument we started our day with.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
No but that was just one of them.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's not the only one that we've ever had about
movies or things that we see, like, for example, we
could but I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You know you love the TV show Kung Fu. I
hate that thing.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, and I'm being patient with you because I think
that life is a process of overcoming your ignorance.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Wow, I heard I heard Tuala laugh from the hall.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That was a good one, that had some resonance to it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That hurt me.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That hurt me that twel would laugh that loud over
an insult like that.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, he'll see the lights someday too. It's a magnificent show. Gosh,
all of you. Don't come in here now, Tala trying
to clean it up?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Laugh?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Do you want me to wait? Do you need a moment?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Okay, it's Later with bo Kelly can if I am
six forty we live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
HEF I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And during the past couple of breaks, I was able
to see the video, the bodycam video for the Tyreek
Hill detainment, and some of you have sent me some messages.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
You've sent me the the video as well. It confirmed
my concerns.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm trying to figure out what Tyreek Hill did to
warrant that type of physical response being dragged out of
his car.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
When I find it, you know, I'll let you know.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I've seen the bodycam video and it's very concerning
because at one point he's in handcuffs, sitting.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
On the curb, and then one of the officers put
him in a headlock.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So to Aaron who hit me on Instagram at mister
moo Kelly who said, maybe you should watch it before
speaking the rhetoric you are on the radio, Aaron, I've
seen the bodycam video right now and it confirms my concerns.
I don't know what you thought you heard when I
was speaking to Jackie Ray earlier, but when he's sitting
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on the curb and they put him in a headlock,
when he's already in handcuffs, that's probably outside.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Of department policy. Probably, and I say probably because they've
already put this guy, the guy the arresting, the detaining
officer on administrative duty.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
But we'll see how it plays out. I take back
nothing that I said, absolutely zero. But along lines, along
the lines of Sports DirecTV. Remember that story we're telling
you about how there was a blackout of ESPN and
ABC and Disney channels. People were upset about missing their
NFL games, their college games, and there was always this
(10:24):
issue with cable providers trying to negotiate these deals with
the channels. Well, it's moved to the next phase where
DirecTV is telling customers it's hiking prices next month because
of the blackout of the ESPN, ABC and other Disney channels.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
And this is usually how it progresses. Where there is
a contract dispute, you'll have a blackout of maybe a
couple hours to a couple of weeks, losing certain channels.
Then they'll come to some sort of agreement, and then the.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Next step is the pass along that cost, that added
cost to you the consumer. It hasn't happened as frequently
with the streaming services, but it does happen frequently with
the cable services and the satellite services. So Direct TV
subscribers who just lost ESPN, ABC, Disney owned channels, they're
(11:22):
being told that there will be a price hike starting
October six, a little less than a month from now,
and they're sending out notices two subscribers right now.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And if you have DirecTV, my condolences.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Told you got rid of DirecTV a long time ago
for this just type of reason and others.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But this is what DirecTV had to say. Quote, we're
adjusting the price of your television package in order to
remain competitive in the marketplace while still delivering the best
possible programming adjusting. Look, just give it to me playing.
You know it's like this may pinch a bit. Oh yeah, okay,
I got it's going to hurt.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
TV networks are continuing to increase the fees they charge
DirecTV for the right to distribute the content they produce,
including movies, shows, and sporting events. We remain steadfast in
our commitment to bring you the best programming at a
fair and reasonable price while also gouging you. I put
that at the last part in As of October sixth,
(12:26):
the price of direct TV Stream Choice is going up by.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Six dollars, six dollars out of nowhere to one hundred
and fifteen dollars a month, and Direct TV Stream Ultimate
is increasing ten dollars to one hundred and twenty nine
dollars per month. So for the Direct TV Stream Choice
(12:50):
is going up seventy two dollars per year, let me
put it in those terms, and the Direct TV Stream
Ultimate is going up one hundred and twenty dollars per
year per subscriber, all in one month.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Something tells me that DirecTV is raising prices more than
the cost increase of keeping that entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I have no data to prove that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
It just seems that such a hefty price hike in
one month tells me that they're probably getting more than
they actually need. They're like anticipating of future disagreement and
they're trying to get out in front of it now,
So let's charge them ten dollars a month now. Extra
direct TV satellite packages are also getting price hikes between
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two dollars and ten dollars monthly, depending on tier, also
effective starting October six.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I am so glad I'm done with them. Oh wait, wait,
wait wait there's more. Regional sports fees for some satellite
customers will be increasing by up to two dollars a
monthly on zip code. Well, that ought to tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yes, they're going to blame the companies like Disney and
because they have so many channels Disney, ABC, ESPN. But
that price for all of maybe six or seven channels,
that math doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Ten dollars a month, No, that's insane.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
You know, every now and then there'll be a movie
or a TV show where somebody just cracks and decides
they're going to be honest about ads, and just once,
I would like one of these companies to announce we've
decided we'd like to extract more money from you because
we're greedy. I would admire that so much that I'd
almost be happy to pay it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Just say that instead of saying we're trying to do
our best to give the fair most reasonable price. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
blah blah blah every month. It's not true.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah this adjustment. Yeah, but he stands still while we
performed this adjustment on you.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Yeah, hole, still all right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
We remain steadfast in our commitment to bring you the
best programming at a fair and reasonable price. It is
not fair and reasonable to suggest that you had no
choice but to raise all prices across all tiers and
all services from anywhere to six to ten dollars per month.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It doesn't make sense. We'd like to give.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Our CEO a golden parachute of approximately fifty million dollars,
so you'll be paying an extra ten a month.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Now, thank you, whomen come back. We're going to pay
our respects to the legendary now late James Earl Jones,
who passed away today at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on Demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Ray.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
People will come, Ray, He'll come to Iowa. Paris's they
can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway, not knowing
for sure why they're doing it. Goet arrive at your
door as innocent as children longing for the past. Of
course we want And if you look around, you say,
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it's only twenty dollars for person. They'll have to pass
over the money without even thinking about it. The greatest
money they have in peace, they.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Like, Ray.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Just sign the papers and they'll walk out to the bleachers,
sit in the shirt sleeves. On a perfect afternoon. They'll
find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the
facelines of this set. When they were children, they cheered
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their heroes, and they watched the game Little Bee. Is
that they've dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will
be so thick they'll have to brush them away in
their faces. Ray.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
When the bank opens in the morning, they'll foreclose. People
will come, Ray, you're broke, Ray, you sell now, or
you lose everything.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
The one through all the years, Ray, it's been Baseball
America has ruled by like an army of Steven rulers.
It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased. A game.
Baseball's marked the time, this field, this game, it's a
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part of our past. Ray. It reminds us all that
once was good and it could be a game. People
will come, Ray, people will most definitely come KF.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I am six forty. It is later with Mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And I was
just one of the many iconic moments of one James
Earl Jones. I think people discovered him, of course, when
you're talking about a career which spanned more than seventy years,
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people discovered him and fell in love with him and
his voice at different points along the way. Of course,
he was the voice of Darth Vader, and maybe most
people associate him with that. But until today, there's never
been a day in which I did not know of
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James Earl Jones. And what I mean by that is
I was introduced to him at a very young age.
This is before Star Wars, this is before.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Field of Dreams, this is before he was the voice
of CNN, and that iconic, booming baritone voice was just
known everywhere. I was introduced to him in movies like
The Great White Hope or Claudine Bingo Long Traveling All
Stars and Motor Kings.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was a household name in our house.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
My father would sit me down and say, hey, you
gotta watch this movie, and I remember it was Bengallong,
Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings. And when you look
at it, it was a veritable who's who of African
American entertainers back then. When you had obviously James Earl Jones,
you had Billy D. Williams, you had Richard Pryor, you
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had Tony Burton. If you know anyone from anyone who's
a Rocky fan, they know who Tony Burton is, and
so many more. Ted Ross who was a part of
The Wiz, Mabel King who was also a part of
The Whiz. But James Earl Jones was a part of
that legion of actors who transcended whatever they were in
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they were they filled up the screen.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
His voice obviously was.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Iconic, but also his screen presence was just as magnificent
in many ways. Of course, people are always going to
associate him with the voice of Darth Vader, and there's
nothing wrong with that, but that was just something, I think,
which allow people to even more appreciate the greatness of
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his acting because you never saw his face.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It was it was voice acting of a different kind.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
It is useless to resist. Don't let yourself be destroy
it as all we wanted. There is no escape. Don't
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make me destroy you, Fluke, you will not yet realize
your importance. Whenever need begun to discover your power, Join
me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength,
you can end this, destruct your conflict, and bring order
(20:58):
to the galaxy.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Ever joined you. If you only knew the power of
the dock side would be wong. Never told you what
happened to the Father. He told me enough.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He told me you kill me?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No I do the Father.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Not true?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That impossible, you know would be true. Mark. What do
you most associate James Earl Jones with?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, that obviously, but I also was a big fan
of falsea Doom in The Conan the Barbarian movie. Yes, yes,
he was a good bad guy and you got to
see his face and a terrific wig on him in
that one as well. But especially as radio professionals, I
think we're more attuned to a magnificent voice than a
lot of people are. And what a difference his voice
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is darth Vader made because if you recall the British
bodybuilder actor David Prowse, yep, he was Darth Vader, and
I don't think he knew he was gonna get dubbed.
So think of how different that whole movie, all those
movies would have been with little David Prowse's little voice
for a massive guy. But James Earl Jones had the
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voice that what we always call when people have it,
the voice of God, like Mark Thompson, the Voice of God.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It doesn't work without him, and I think people knew
it in the moment. Look, Darth Vader is arguably the
greatest villain of all time and cinematic history arguably, and
that only works because of James Earl Jones's voice.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Oh yeah, imagine that frightening black metallic costume and then
just kind of like your regular guy next door voice. No no, no, no.
The voice made the character absolutely, But.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
People forget he or sometimes need to be reminded that
he was an egot winner. He won an Emmy, he
won a Grammy, he won an Oscar, he wanted Tony
and that's because he had this wide array of talents, which.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Included even comedy. Because there's a generation who will always
associate him with maybe the Lion King, or they'll associate
him with coming to America. Or what'd you say to
my daughter?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
I told her the truth that a king could not
be interested in her.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
How can you be so sure?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Come now, our a sudden cannot consult with such a girl.
And I wait a minute, Oh huh, I know you
have been inconvenienced, and I'm prepared to compensate you. Shall
we say one million American dollars? No way that well,
then two million.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You haven't got enough money to buy my daughter off?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Nonsense, Joffe, apologize to mister McDowell. I will do no
such thing. The man is beneath me, and so is
his daughter.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Now, don't give a damn who you are. This is America.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Jack. Now you say one more word about Lisa here,
and I'm gonna break my foot off in your royal
eye loudon me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
He could do it all.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
He didn't take himself so seriously that he would not
do a comedic bit. And I think people lost sight
of the fact because he had this huge presence.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
I think for most people they would automatically go to
Darth Vader. But for me, King Jaffy Joffer from Coming
to America is my hands down favorite character. I've watched
Being Along and The Traveling All Stars as keeping It
come on TV all the time. Love that movie, love Mofassa,
Move Fassa, move Fassa, love that film or his role
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in that film. But King Joffi jof I swear that
he made that film for me. Walking In with the
Lion Kate.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes, Oh, We'll have more thoughts and remembrances of now
late James Earl Jones, who passed away today at the
age of ninety three.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Moment you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Before we get out here, we're just going to finish
up our tribute to James Earl Jones. And I was
saying last segment, I came into contact. I never met
him personally, I'm saying, but I came in contact too
with his talent at a very young age, and I
got to see a wide variety of his movies in
the early nineteen seventies before anyone thought of him as
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Darth Vader. But Darth Vader will always be part of
his overall legacy, and it will be contributing to his
legacy going forward. If you didn't know, James Earl Jones
was prescient enough to i'll say, sign a deal in
which they would be able to use his voice in perpetuity. Now,
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Mark Ronner is not going to like this because there
is an AI component to this.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Well, it was with his permission though, No, that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You know, this is where AI can do some good
in the terms of creation of content, where it's not
James Earl Jones just reading the phone book and they're
trying to piece together words and phrases that don't even
make sense like they did in the movie Sneakers.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Right, And he lived long enough to see that Star
Wars became a massive cultural for it. I mean, it
changed all the pop culture. But why and say, Alec
Guinness played Obi Wan. He thought it was just trash
he did, he didn't understand it, he didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Why because he was Sir Alec Guinness. It was beneath him. Right.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
But James Earl Jones, as you mentioned, could and did
do pretty much everything, and he was just a constant
presence in our lives, from our whole life. I mean
he did stage stuff, he did drama, he did comedy,
and then this one knockout. It was knocked off from
old serials like Buck Rogers. He does this and it
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becomes the thing he's best known for. Well, think of
it this way.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He will get to when I say he the James
Earl Jones, the state will get to benefit from it
in perpetuity. It's not just movies, it's not just television specials.
It's also video games, in anything that will ever have
Darth Vader in it, cartoons, the James Earl Jones estate
will be connected to it because they will be using
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his voice or the facsimile of it with AI's help.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, as long as you know, I don't think anybody
involved with fred Astaire wanted to see him dancing with
a vacuum cleaner what twenty thirty years ago when this
stuff really began in earnest. But if Jones and his
estate and his family are cool with it, more power
to him get them paid.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Well.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
There are different levels to this. There's the Freda Staire
version and there's also like the Natalie Cole version where
she was singing with her father and Unforgettable using his voice,
and even in the video version, I remember I was
working with the Grammys at the time.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
You know, they use video or facsimile of him in
the video. So there's always going to be this push
pull with the technology and those who are no longer
with us. But at least now, if you want to
even go further with the Star Wars analogies, with what
they've done with Carrie Fisher and Peter cushing In bringing
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them back to life, if you will in Star Wars properties,
it will be very different with James Earl Jones.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, I mean, it's a case by case thing. If
it's done with taste and with consent, then it gets
more acceptable than just AI harvesting all of us, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
No, but even with Peter cushing In and Carrie Fisher,
those were both done with consent, but there were differing
feelings about how they were used and whether it was
appropriate to use them at that time. I know with
Krry Fisher is a little bit more. It was a
little too fresh I think for people.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, I'll tell you though, as a long time Peter
Cushing fan, I love the old Hammer films, the Dracula
Frankenstein films he did. Was overjoyed to see him in
that incarnation in Star Wars. And I don't know if
it makes me a hypocrite or what, but I was
just pleased to see him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I was too, and that example, they had a physical
actor and then they mapped Cushing's face onto him. But
the technology is getting better and better. Early on it
didn't seem quite right as far as the physical manifestation
you know on screen, but vocally we won't be able
to hear difference. Going back to James Earl Jones, he
(29:30):
did his lines for the movie Rogue one, and you
could tell even then that his voice was beginning to falter.
He didn't sound like the James Earl Jones that we
originally knew or expected.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
It's not a bit of hollow. I think.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I remember what you're talking about, and I remember seeing
that movie at the Cinerama in Seattle and noticing that.
But try to remember, like the chill you got the
first time you saw Darth Vader on the screen when
you were a kid and you heard that booming voice.
I mean, there are people like who who do these lists,
these video lists of great entrances of all times, so
you'll get like this push this dolly zoom of John
(30:08):
Wayne in Stagecoach, and then you know, Darth Vader is
always in like the top five, always.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Is one of the best villains, and it's always linked
to the voice of James Earl Jones, because you don't
get to see the face of Darth Vader. You only
get to hear the voice and the commanding presence of
James Earl Jones's performance makes it unmistakable and timeless.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
And what actually we've seen done where they were able
to go back and re enhance his voice is in
the obi one series, they used his voice and they
use a layering to make it thicker and make it
more deep and more menacing. So that way we saw
him back to true form. And that was the thing
(30:53):
that everyone walked away from the Obi Wan series like,
oh my god, that's how we want to see Darth Vader.
And now they can do that because they have the rights.
They have captured it. And I think as far as
thinking ahead and leaving something for your family forever, you
know they're going to be making Star Wars films, television,
video games, cartoons, whatever, forever and a day you have
(31:16):
now made sure that your family will have have a
legacy or funding however you want to look at it
forever forever what I.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Want to see well, put its way, I kind of
knew it was trending in this direction because James Earl
Jones had removed himself from public life for a while. Now,
when you don't see someone for a while, we saw him.
Last time I saw him publicly for me was Coming
to America too. That's the last thing I saw him
on screen with. I don't remember him doing any interviews.
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You just kind of disappeared from public life, and I
thought it was trending in that direction anyway. So it
was less of a surprise today and more like, yeah,
acceptance because he had given us ninety three years, he
had worked relatively recently, and it was and if you
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saw Coming to America too, it was kind of foreshadowing
this moment because Coming to America too was about the
death of King Jeffrey joufour, in coming to America and
preparing for that and what his legacy would be within
that cinematic universe. And I just kind of like saying,
they're almost like they're self aware to a certain degree.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Yeah, he will definitely be missed. And I don't think
that it's an understatement when you look at any any review,
any report on this, and each and everyone say that
he is one of the greatest actors to ever grace
the screen or stage period. I'll just here in the US,
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but internationally he was internationally known for his talents.
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