Favorite Dad Movie Deaths

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Voyage. Welcome to watch this tonight. I'm your host, Dan Bettimore.

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I'm a produced writer of film and
television and now a podcast producer. And

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despite having every streaming service, I
never know what to watch. So anytime

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I watch something good, I talk
about it on this show. This way,

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you'll never have the same problem I
do. I watched this tonight.

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There's always something good to watch.
Let's get started today on the show.

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In honor of Father's Day, which
will have been yesterday when this is released,

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I'm doing best dad movie deaths.
I could have done best Dads,

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but that felt a little soft.
I just wanted to do something a little

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more fed up, So I'm doing
best dad movie deaths of recent years.

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You know, these are the ones
that came to mind when I thought about

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this. I'm sure as ones I'm
forgetting. I'd actually love to know what

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your favorite dad and movie deaths are. To me. A great dad movie

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death is one where the character dies
and their role as a father is a

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huge emphasis of how and why they
die, like it's it's pertinent that they

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are a father. So here are
my top three dad movie deaths. Number

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three is Kevin Costner. By the
way, obviously spoilers. Number three is

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Kevin Costner and Man of Steel.
So Kevin Costner, first of all,

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one of the great movie dads,
just period. If you've seen Molly's Game,

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he's really good in that, and
he's really serving up some dad stuff.

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I think his personality just lends itself
to that. He has a real

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grabby toss. He there's just a
real dad quality about him. And a

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Man of Steel and what is you
know, arguably the best part of the

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whole thing. I mean I didn't. I don't think I saw all the

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Man of Steel you know, with
Henry Cavill stuff, But I definitely saw

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a Man of Steel. I definitely
saw, you know, a decent amount

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of it, more than I maybe
some of the other comic book movies of

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recent years. And this idea that
Kevin Costner sacrifices his life to make sure

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that his adopted son keeps his secret
and dies in that tornado and the way

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he with his hand and it's really
underplayed, which Kevin is very good at,

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and it's just a beautiful scene.
It's really to me, it speaks

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to almost like what could have been. I think that the grounded revisionist take

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on Superman. That was the idea
behind relaunching it. Not all of it

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worked, but that I thought worked
beautifully, and so yeah, that's my

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number three. Pick Number two is
John Krasinski. At the end of the

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first A Quiet Place, I think
that I may have gone home and said,

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I, you know, and by
the way, I have a great

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relationship my dad. But I think
I may have gone home and said,

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we all want John Krasinski to be
our dad. What's great about it is

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that throughout the whole movie he's having
conflict with the daughter that he ends up

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communicating with right before he dies,
and because their relationship is so conflicted throughout

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the movie, when it finally pays
off for the end, and he has

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this really like dialed in John Krasinski
intense look and he's looking at her and

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he's signing to her, and it's
it's such a beautiful moment where he signs

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and he says you know that he
loves you, I love you and all

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that kind of stuff, and it's
it's just it really all lands it.

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It feels like, oh, it
had to end this way. I did

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a little bit of research into this, so in the original script, Krasinski's

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character was supposed to sign just I
love you, but the actress who plays

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the deaf daughter suggested that he should
also sign I have always loved you,

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and that made Krazinski cry just when
she suggested it, apparently, and the

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actress who plays his daughter said that
in an interview with met T she said,

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at the end, when he signs
I love you, I said,

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I think he needs to say I've
always loved you because that covers a difficult

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period. Then when I suggested that, he cried, I don't you know.

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It's that movie is so good.
Krazinski is so good in it.

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Quiet Place Part two I thought was
really good as well. It almost feels

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like there was such momentum off of
that. It felt in that moment like

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John Krasinski could do anything he wanted. It, could be the star of

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any movie, could direct any movie. It just felt like anything this guy

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I wanted to do was on the
table in front of him. So A

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Quiet Place was in twenty eighteen.
After A Quiet Place, he does A

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Quiet Place par two, which again
I thought was good. And then he's

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read Richards and Doctor Strange and the
Multiverse of Madness. He does a voice

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in DC League of Super Pets.
He's Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan on Amazon and

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that's kind of it. A Quiet
Place Day one that's in post, but

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he only produced it. He has
a movie called Imaginary Friends that he acts,

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directs, to produce, and wrote
that's coming up, so that movie

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is currently in post. Comedy drama
family follows a young girl who goes through

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a difficult experience and then begins to
see everyone's imaginary friends who've been left behind

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as their real life friends have grown
up. So that's a pretty different kind

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of movie then the Quiet Place.
Obviously it's interesting, you know, I

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don't know, I feel like there's
there was opportunity for more. I you

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know, I like the Jack Ryan
series on Amazon, but I think it's

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sort of like a programmer, right, It's not a sensational thing that's on

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the tip of everybody's tongue. And
you know, I'm sure there's Imaginary Friends

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movie will be good. But I
feel like the promise that he showed with

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the two Quiet Place films, like
if they were off of those two movies,

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if they were like John Krasinski is
directing, Like let's say they make

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a third Dune Jaggers, he's doing
Dune three, you wouldn't be that shocked

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at that time. As time has
passed, I think that's sort of going

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away a little bit, so itterally
see what happens. I think he's had

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a really like a fork in the
road of his career. If the next

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movie doesn't go over like Gangbusters,
I think that feeling that he could literally

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do absolutely anything he wants to might
sort of temper off a little bit.

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And again it's it's not knocking him. I think it's incredible, but it's

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saying that, like that moment in
time where it felt like, if they

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announced he was directing any movie,
you would believe it. If they announced

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he was starting in literally any movie, you would believe it. That there's

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a strike while the iron is hot
moment there that I feel like maybe could

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have been taken advantage of a bit
more, but you know, maybe it

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just did. Some time is real
that literally that scene might be the high

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water mark of his entire career.
It's just an incredible moment. And then

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my Number one, and this is
basically most likely because I've just recently watched

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it, is Oscar Eyes in Dune. What makes it a good like Dad.

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Death is that Oscar Isaac. It's
established earlier in the movie. He's

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talking to Timothy Shaalomay, and Timothy
Shaaloma basically says, Dad, what if

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I'm not the future of House of
Treatise And Oscar Isaac says, a great

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man doesn't seek to lead, he's
called to it. But if your answer

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is no, You'll still be the
only thing I ever needed you to be,

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my son, which she just totally
lets him off the hook basically,

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which is great, that's great dad
stuff. And then when he does die,

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he goes out like a boss.
He is completely naked. He's sitting

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there in front of Skelln scars Guard's
character. Apparently he did an interview with

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Yahoo where he said he was wearing
a cock sock quote and so I have

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not read the original book. Apparently
that's in the book like that with him

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being naked. He said, he
has been so buttoned up and in control

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the whole movie, and suddenly he's
just this vulnerable Christ like figure that's about

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to be sacrificed. I thought it
was shot so beautifully, which that speaks

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to the way it's framed, right, is sort of in repose and the

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way it looks like on the screen
you can see where he would kind of

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come to that conclusion, and he's
going out defiant. Still he has the

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false tooth that when he bites down
on it, it admits a poison.

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And so it's like, even when
he goes out, he's still strong,

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he's still fighting back. And I
think that even though his son doesn't see

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him die, the sort of effect
on the whole movie is that we know,

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and I think it sort of has
a transposition, like we sort of

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know that his strength and his willingness
continue to fight. We see that carried

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forward in the spirit of his son. So like at the end of the

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movie, Becca Ferguson basically says,
hey, we can run off, we

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can leave the planet, and Timothy
Schamay's like, no, we're not doing

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that. You know, Dad brought
us here. We're doing this. We're

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fighting back, and so that all
is transferred in the rest of the movie.

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That is the show for today.
Those are my three Dad movie deaths.

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Favorite I guess for lack a bit
of word, I'd love to know

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what yours are. You can always
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