UNLOCKED: Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX - A Reel Politik Audio Commentary

Reel Politik Podcast

Tom and I recently got together for a lovely, if relatively brief, reunion where we hung out at mine, watched some films, listened to about 500 versions of the Civil War-era folk ballad Pretty Peggy-O, and got a lil wavy. The first film we watched, ie the one for which we were most lucid, was Clint Eastwood's 1982 techno-thriller FIREFOX, a tale of aeronautical espionage (unrelated to the titular internet browser) in which the Russian-speaking "Mitchell Gant" (Eastwood) must learn to *think* in Russian in order to fly one of the Soviet Union's state-of-the-art mind-controlled warplanes. As well as a rare venture by Cool Guy Clint into spy movie territory after the divisive and strangely homophobic The Eiger Sanction (1975), Firefox was at the time the most expensive film ever for director/producer/star Eastwood's Malpaso production company, with cutting edge-special effects accounting for more than $20,000,000 of a $21,000,000 budget. If you go on your torrent site of choice, the 1080p copy of Firefox will probably the same one we're watching here, the audio of which we have synced up to the recording of our commentary, so you can do the same with your copy of Firefox. I also own the film on blu-ray, but it's the wrong region for my Russian blu-ray player, so this was my first viewing. До встречи comrades! - Jack