Movie Mindset 01 - Tony Vision
Added 2023-04-27 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
Welcome to Movie Mindset! In this inaugural episode, Will and Hesse guide you through two of the collaborations between director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington, Man on Fire (2004) & Deja Vu (2006). Join us as the ultimate auteur of the action-thriller meets the ultimate American leading man in these two propulsive explorations of justice, time, duty, depression, vengeance, destiny and sick-ass explosions.
Wait. I just went back to confirm this. It is around 26 minutes. Denzel is meeting with the special unit after the autopsy of Claire. Confirming her suv had been stolen. “Solve her murder solve the bombing”
On three different screens we see a woman in black lingerie.
I find this fascinating. Was I tricked into being attracted to ladies?? What is the message?
Hardcore Virgin
2025-10-12 13:39:23 +0000 UTC
Yeah but in airplane he at least doesn’t say smoking glue…he sniffs it etc….
I’ve seen ppl snort vodka smoke all sorts of stupid shit
Eat full boxes of blood pressure medication whatever weird and old fashioned way to get high
And I ain’t never saw no man snort hash
Now I isn’t saying it’s impossible
I’m just saying that …
Well actually. You’re right. That’s good characterization. The sex god is a nerd and nerds like airplane and they’re not cool and they don’t do drugs and it would make sense that if he is riffing on a quote from airplane the sex god would make a mistake.
The boy and girl on this episode should be ashamed of themselves. It took me writing this comment to realize that. I apologize for wasting not only your time. But mine.
I love this episode.
Hardcore Virgin
2025-10-12 13:13:47 +0000 UTC
I’m starting my journey through MM and this was a great first ep. It’s crazy how Scott’s films track enormous world events - Russian imperialism in crimson tide, the patriot act in enemy of the state, etc. his suicide was a tragic loss to cinema
mutism
2025-06-04 01:29:40 +0000 UTC
Yes, these films are good. But more importantly, they are awful
This is how Janis Joplin feels
2024-12-12 12:16:42 +0000 UTC
omg I need Will to watch Uptown Girls and for there to be a MM episode about it asap please. I vote Riding in Cars with Boys for a double feature Brittany Murphy ep…a girl can dream lol
Hannah Mosman
2024-09-03 14:01:51 +0000 UTC
Wait didn't realize. Didn't realize that Jim Caviziel was playing himself in this film.
DukeNukem64x
2023-10-25 22:44:10 +0000 UTC
17:10 okay watching this movie, I have been convinced.
DukeNukem64x
2023-10-25 17:20:33 +0000 UTC
Finally listening to the 1st MM episode. Never watched any Tony movies, but I agree with the dunk on Ridley.
DukeNukem64x
2023-10-25 17:05:16 +0000 UTC
Thanks for this- went on a Scott/Washington bender in our house and loved it. Ended with Unstoppable. Only thing- why is there a city of 750,000 people in Western PA? Anyway, thanks so much!
Goji
2023-07-03 03:52:47 +0000 UTC
Great episode. Hate what you did to the terminator music at the end credits though. Garbage rendition of a sick movie song.
Lawson
2023-06-02 00:47:32 +0000 UTC
The Desus and Mero Denzel interview is verrrrry cool this made me have to rewatch, hard recommend
Benjamin O Levine
2023-05-22 13:13:08 +0000 UTC
Just watched man on fire. Jesus that movie made me go through every single emotion known to man. I don't know why I never watched it before.
Marcus Wrightus
2023-05-14 23:45:03 +0000 UTC
I find your failure to get the “I picked the wrong week to stop smoking hash” line as a reference to Airplane! disturbing
Nick Muscatiello
2023-05-13 02:06:28 +0000 UTC
Rewatched Man On Fire and they forreal don’t make movies like that no more!the opening credits…every kill scene is him just torching people or places…Creasy keeps getting shot..I completely forgot how he was under arrest after the kidnapping…Denzel’s quiet confidence…Christopher Walken doing his best. A great film with a peaceful ending for Creasy.
Jordan Brewer
2023-05-11 19:33:27 +0000 UTC
Deja Vu: “…The kind of happiness that could arouse envy in us exists only in the air we have breathed, among people we could have talked to, women who could have given themselves to us. In other words, our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption…” Walter Benjamin
Daniel Epstein
2023-05-06 21:55:36 +0000 UTC
What was with the scene in Deja Vu around 25 minutes in where Denzel and Val are standing around with a group talking shop while the camera swoops around with several cuts and in the background of each shot are computer monitors with women in lingerie in them. It feels like this was an era of movies that did easy-to-spot subliminal messaging.
pixelsnbits
2023-05-05 06:15:27 +0000 UTC
Don’t know about that particular one, but a lot of trailers reuse scores from other movies yea
J.P. McD.
2023-05-05 01:37:36 +0000 UTC
Wait does that Deja vu trailer have the music from the end of all the Saw movies? Also loved Hell on earth but I've been hyped for Movie Mindset since the announcement
Eamon Short
2023-05-03 15:31:44 +0000 UTC
Talking about Bush era time capsules made me think of Jarhead, which is interesting to go back and watch. It's like at this turning point culturally.
greenboots
2023-05-02 08:35:33 +0000 UTC
So sorry, I just went through this too. Highly recommend embracing movie mindset and watching as many movies as possible as a distraction from grief. <3
greenboots
2023-05-02 08:28:30 +0000 UTC
This was perfect timing for me, I just did a big Tony marathon about a month ago. Man on Fire is one of my favourites of all time, but I was floored by the quality of every single thing in his filmography... I think Revenge and the Fan were at the bottom of my list, but still so good. Obviously he's the king of action movie spectacle but there is a level of skill and humanity in his movies that you never get from Bay or others like him. RIP to the legend
Zach G
2023-05-01 21:10:59 +0000 UTC
Is it really that bizarre? Hitchcock was considered a maker of silly big-budget genre films by his contemporaries and his films are maybe the most analysed ever.
Arthur G. Pym
2023-05-01 17:23:47 +0000 UTC
Zero Hour!, but yeah, definitely more a reference to Airplane! rather than the original
Jeremy
2023-05-01 05:46:22 +0000 UTC
Elle Fanning was the child actor who dropped her doll in Deja Vu, did they mention this?
Eric Wiley
2023-05-01 04:55:02 +0000 UTC
I think one of the main appeals of art criticism is that it could open you up to appreciate the care and craftsmanship put into something that you otherwise wouldn't notice. The genre of the piece in that case is kind of irrelevant.
Michael
2023-05-01 03:35:27 +0000 UTC
one of the little things i caught during man on fire is the during the weapons purchase montage he they show him buying the rectal drug smuggling device with all the weapons and cell phones and a rocket launcher… and an ass pod. he knew then, that somehow, someway, something was going up someone’s ass and they probably weren’t gonna like it.
Matt Arthur
2023-05-01 00:44:16 +0000 UTC
It's not my cup o' tea, but I can understand why people like silly, big-budget action movies. But to enjoy getting into the minutia of making them (unless you're a filmmaker yourself) let alone subjecting them to detailed analysis, and even then wanting to listen to others perform that analysis is so bizarre. Is there an audience for this sort of thing outside of a very small niche?
tysonw81
2023-04-30 19:35:46 +0000 UTC
i agree there needs to be more a thesis of this is gonna reach its potential. it’s sorta woven through, but…
Nathan Explosion
2023-04-30 18:37:50 +0000 UTC
Cole
2023-04-30 06:05:03 +0000 UTC
Theme song is 👨🏻🍳😘
Brett Anders
2023-04-30 03:52:16 +0000 UTC
I just got done watching these two movies for the first time (writing this before I listen to the episode, which I’ll probably do tomorrow), and I think Tony Scott loved kitsch even more than he loved explosions, and I think we can all agree that he loved explosions like Bill Clinton loves poontang. That hackneyed shot of the girl dropping her doll in Deja Vu is pure kitsch, such a hackneyed tear-jerker. The shots of Dakota Fanning swimming in Man on Fire border on Epsteinesque, as pedo as the volleyball game in Top Gun was gay. Well, maybe not that pedo, since that was a really, really homoerotic volleyball game, but they were still some creepy shots. I got a Karen Greenlee vibe when Washington looked at the body in the morgue, so maybe Scott had a thing for pushing sexual taboos. Was Scott behind the camera when Linda Lovelace shot the movie with the dog? It would be fitting.
Fanning gave the only really good acting performance in these two movies. The woman playing her mother was a dime, I’d never seen her before. Casting Jesus (or whatever that guy’s name is, Jim Christ or however you spell it) as the villain in Deja Vu was clever, and having played Jesus and also being a religious nut job in his own right must make his agent get loads of calls for playing villains since everyone wants to cast Jesus as a villain.
Demented Avenger
2023-04-30 02:32:05 +0000 UTC
she co-hosts seeking derangements, and it's a grand old time :)
our lady of reclaimed teeth
2023-04-30 01:03:54 +0000 UTC
This needs to be corrected- The Hunger is 1000x gayer than Top Gun
Nicholas Abrams
2023-04-29 23:40:02 +0000 UTC
Yo! Where can we hear more of Hess?
Nicolas Lemieux
2023-04-29 19:49:19 +0000 UTC
we don't know his actual birth date but we're gonna pretend he made it to a round 20 and he's gonna have a great party
etienne
2023-04-29 16:19:53 +0000 UTC
That sounds completely gut wrenching. fwiw this fellow slop fiend is sending you as much love as is feasible via the web at this time ❤️
drewb
2023-04-29 15:47:20 +0000 UTC
listened to this episode bawling my face off organizing the end of my cat's life, two thumbs up
etienne
2023-04-29 12:35:37 +0000 UTC
Will your the son my father wish he’d had
CJ DiVencenzo
2023-04-29 04:28:41 +0000 UTC
Just popped in the Deja Vu Blu-ray that I received from a Netflix red envelope today. Watching incredible mid-00s trailers for a Mark Wahlberg football movie “Invincible”, a Kevin Costner swimming movie, and now The Prestige. And now the “YOU WOULDNT STEAL A CAR” piracy trailer holy shit!!
J.P. McD.
2023-04-29 04:00:53 +0000 UTC
They call that the ol razzledazzle
Martin
2023-04-29 03:28:45 +0000 UTC
OOT GOAT
J.P. McD.
2023-04-29 01:22:42 +0000 UTC
He did time for our stories
Ben
2023-04-28 23:27:18 +0000 UTC
Damn they really finessed us with the movie mindset ep huh
james
2023-04-28 21:26:26 +0000 UTC
my favorite thing about MoF is that it gives no fucks about plot logic and the emotional logic is heightened to absurd levels. like the explosion at the club. the reaction of the crowd makes no sense, tony is portraying the reaction of his audience. how he wants us to feel while creasy rubs out this part of the brotherhood. it rules.
Nathan Explosion
2023-04-28 20:34:49 +0000 UTC
this was great … lets fuckin goooo
Matthew
2023-04-28 19:05:01 +0000 UTC
A long time ago my mom referred to smoking weed as "taking a snort" so maybe it's some sort of boomer slang?
Elbows Maginty
2023-04-28 18:47:48 +0000 UTC
I put a little salt in to coffee along with cream and sugar it makes it taste better, you need to season everything
Casey Kiesling
2023-04-28 18:44:34 +0000 UTC
when does felix get his spin off podcast
Reece Coren
2023-04-28 18:32:41 +0000 UTC
Save our white daughters!!!
The wazzzzaaapp bud light dude
2023-04-28 18:03:05 +0000 UTC
good podcast
Shawn Hayes
2023-04-28 17:48:35 +0000 UTC
LMFAO you did not have the boys make a cover of lets all go to the lobby you sick sickos
Thomas Carroll
2023-04-28 17:16:48 +0000 UTC
Oh fuck yes I'm so hype for this
Thomas Carroll
2023-04-28 17:16:37 +0000 UTC
Always loved this trailer for deja vu
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=khFEdsBEVU0&pp=ygUPZGVqYSB2dSB0cmFpbGVy
Aram Fingal
2023-04-28 16:25:44 +0000 UTC
So good
Sam Schick
2023-04-28 16:00:28 +0000 UTC
Wrong pódcast bud
Dylan Rich
2023-04-28 15:29:23 +0000 UTC
I saw Man On Fire about a decade ago and I just realized that the entire time I was listening I was picturing "The Kingdom" as well. "Wait didn't the car blow up during a softball game?"
Gumbo Pie
2023-04-28 15:08:31 +0000 UTC
not far enough in to see if you talked about this but Denzel is the one who likes to do weird shit to food right? Like if you're paying attention he'll be putting salt in his coffee or eating an orange like an apple, etc
Doug Cartel
2023-04-28 13:27:18 +0000 UTC
Serious comment, I don't know any of the movies, but if there are any that star Jack Nicholson, we need a Branson Nicholson bit please thank you.
DukeNukem64x
2023-04-28 13:09:50 +0000 UTC
No but really Uptown Girls really is a great film, you watch it trying to put your finger on what this Brittany Murphy / Dakota Fanning vehicle is - it’s absolutely not a romcom, it’s not exactly a coming of age movie, ultimately it’s Brittany Murphy’s mind palace in conversation with itself, soothing her own anxieties. Not literally, but that’s the vibe. It’s phenomenal.
Michael Carroll
2023-04-28 12:32:10 +0000 UTC
Fuck anyone shitting on my Scotties, they hit and missed but always swung. Fuck all your bunting asses.
NoPrefect
2023-04-28 07:51:15 +0000 UTC
Man, with the concentrated caucacity that is Radha Mitchell (literal actual human name "Radha Rani Amber Indigo Ananda Mitchell") as a mother...
NoPrefect
2023-04-28 07:46:26 +0000 UTC
Don't do that!
Greg
2023-04-28 05:22:58 +0000 UTC
Went to the optometrist and they told me I got that Tony/Tony Vision 😤
Dick Wolf
2023-04-28 04:57:18 +0000 UTC
Looks like Hitler youth.
Nolan
2023-04-28 04:00:06 +0000 UTC
So I’m supposed to believe Dakota Fanning is half Mexican.
Nolan
2023-04-28 03:59:09 +0000 UTC
I’ve really been looking forward to this and it’s great. I love Tony Scott. Man on Fire is an incredible film and the style Scott cooked up there and with Deja Vu were cranked up to 11 for Domino (2007). Domino gets a ton of hate, but fuck ‘em, because I love it.
Hesse is a fantastic co-host. Looking forward to the next episode.
Waffle Poet
2023-04-28 03:43:51 +0000 UTC
Out of Time (2003) also feels like it could have been directed by Tony Scott. Fun to watch Denzel play a character that’s a sleaze ball.
Dean Painter
2023-04-28 03:27:46 +0000 UTC
Hook it to my veins!
Eamonn Curley
2023-04-28 03:06:09 +0000 UTC
Just a heads up the Pelham remake was dreadful. Travolta was funny in a cringe way.
Poppy Chulo
2023-04-28 02:24:02 +0000 UTC
JC saw his bullet ridden car at the ferry. He didnt have a feeling. He knew!
Dank Spilf
2023-04-28 02:15:48 +0000 UTC
I saw both of these films and Unstoppable somewhat recently. Although I wasn't big on Tony Scott beforehand, I thought they were all very good. Deja Vu in particular was excellent, I'm glad you picked that one, as much as I love Unstoppable. It's such a shame Scott died when he did, he was at the peak of his talent.
Btw, is the Pelham 123 remake good? I haven't heard much about it
Gordon Schmidt
2023-04-28 01:10:16 +0000 UTC
Dope… not gonna lie, this is the only one imma listen to. You can guess why, lol
Eater
2023-04-28 01:06:33 +0000 UTC
Great episode. My one note is that, speaking as a Mexican national who has spent a lot of time with family in the country, the Mexican police, sadly, are about as bad as they’re portrayed in the movie. Mexico City’s level of violence is unrealistic, but many parts of central and northern Mexico law enforcement has so thoroughly been corrupted by organized crime that folks don’t call the police to report crimes. The movie is uncharitable, to say the least, to Mexico generally. Sadly, the portrayal of the police isn't that far off the mark.
Isaac Suárez
2023-04-28 01:05:19 +0000 UTC
Deja Vu is incredible but omg Man on Fire, despite its awesome tonyvision, made me wanna self-harm so hard
JD
2023-04-28 00:59:15 +0000 UTC
I just watched 'Deja Vu' a few months ago on a DVD that I ended up selling.
Dan
2023-04-28 00:56:30 +0000 UTC
only half an hour through and loving it, my personal favourite Tony Scott films are Man on Fire and Domino (which I always think of as Woman on Fire) but Deja Vu is up there too
Declan Kennedy
2023-04-28 00:48:04 +0000 UTC
A+ Walken impression
Justin R
2023-04-28 00:20:31 +0000 UTC
In so happythank you hesse and will
Jared Sarnie
2023-04-27 23:21:38 +0000 UTC
This was good
Chad Dopamine
2023-04-27 23:20:10 +0000 UTC
I got time. You don't, but I do.
Mulloy
2023-04-27 22:22:48 +0000 UTC
Yo, I fuck w/ this first episode
Eater
2023-04-27 22:05:04 +0000 UTC
Wait why did they use Hello Zepp for the trailer of Deja Vu?
Angelo J Sibilio
2023-04-27 21:45:18 +0000 UTC
It’s been one episode, hypey.
snafujesus
2023-04-27 21:28:16 +0000 UTC
we love hesse! we need more hesse!
Ricardo Pleasure
2023-04-27 20:26:35 +0000 UTC
Montenegro??
snafujesus
2023-04-27 20:22:41 +0000 UTC
This pod gave me acid flashbacks of watching both these movies at least 5 times a year on FX after middle school
Zach
2023-04-27 20:07:20 +0000 UTC
I wonder what the inside of an old couple’s home would look like after the backblast from an RPG. My man JW Creasy definitely knows.
Paul F. Holzfäller
2023-04-27 19:48:57 +0000 UTC
Just an excuse for Will to slurp down five mega sized diet cokes and a trash bag full of popcorn
bwen
2023-04-27 19:25:37 +0000 UTC
Denzel Washington in A Tony Scott film
'The Mark Has Been Made':
https://youtu.be/wIQTxXeUCa8
Yairo Martis
2023-04-27 18:47:22 +0000 UTC
The "I picked the wrong week to stop smoking hash" has to be a reference to Airplane, or whatever movie that was spoofing.
hotspur
2023-04-27 18:45:46 +0000 UTC
I saw Man on Fire in the theaters and it was fantastic. RIP Tony!
Ozzie
2023-04-27 18:38:38 +0000 UTC
Top tier content
Max Lopez
2023-04-27 18:31:56 +0000 UTC
this rocks
Evan
2023-04-27 18:22:08 +0000 UTC
Lets fucking GO
The True Horror
2023-04-27 18:16:36 +0000 UTC
Sam Neills famous insane asylum digs from in the mouth of madness
Shawn Hayes
2023-04-27 18:06:07 +0000 UTC
Let the boy watch.
Hick Rhodes
2023-04-27 18:02:30 +0000 UTC
I love movies! 😸👍
Michael Oswell
2023-04-27 17:33:05 +0000 UTC
I disagree, it was one of my favorite movies from 2004, along with Kill Bill Vol 2 and Million Dollar Baby
Joseph Pajerek
2023-04-27 17:25:08 +0000 UTC
wtf is Will wearing
syd
2023-04-27 17:24:56 +0000 UTC
Deja Vu was released in December of 2006, yet Will kept saying it was a 2007 film. Great ep other than that though
Joseph Pajerek
2023-04-27 17:23:47 +0000 UTC
:]
caroline
2023-04-27 17:10:06 +0000 UTC
anyone interested in my two tickets to tonight's movie minset show at 9:30? face value @ $21 each
Mika Braginsky
2023-04-27 16:57:29 +0000 UTC
2h15m is a bad sign
J.P. McD.
2023-04-27 16:38:02 +0000 UTC
Movie Mindset is when you just describe the entire plot of a movie on your movie podcast.
Cody Johnson
2023-04-27 16:30:48 +0000 UTC
will say this word again, "Debussy"
Sean Schuster-craig
2023-04-27 16:29:31 +0000 UTC
If you are doing rourke then you got to at least briefly talk about the rainmaker. It’s perfect casting.
Tvvvv
2023-04-27 16:19:12 +0000 UTC
You picked the wrong brother.
Poppy Chulo
2023-04-27 16:16:25 +0000 UTC
Now I have another pair of podcast perverts to listen to while I wait for episodes of sleazoids to drop, hell yeah.
calvin kilby
2023-04-27 15:56:21 +0000 UTC
We get it you watch movies
calvin kilby
2023-04-27 15:55:03 +0000 UTC
No
NovalisGuy
2023-04-27 15:47:13 +0000 UTC
Denzel is always good but Man on Fire really sucked IMO
Rich G
2023-04-27 15:40:46 +0000 UTC
Very excited for this I love Hesse
kt
2023-04-27 15:40:34 +0000 UTC
I'm so hard right now
nick
2023-04-27 15:35:25 +0000 UTC
???? tony scott is the GOAT
Luis Gomez
2023-04-27 15:21:13 +0000 UTC
Can’t wait to listen to this. Made me remember the verhoeven episode with Adam McKay - peak chapo there. More verhoeven more McKay
Ben Zaretsky
2023-04-27 15:17:37 +0000 UTC
I take it back.
Whucko Jaang
2023-04-27 15:14:18 +0000 UTC
Podcast for the new American century started using this for their film eps. Thieves.
NYCM&AHole
2023-04-27 15:13:07 +0000 UTC
will’s face for the cover photo is sending me lmfaoooo
Greg Newton
2023-04-27 15:00:14 +0000 UTC
literally walking around my house going
"mov-ie mind-set" *clap clap clap clap clap*
Beehive Fucker
2023-04-27 14:59:34 +0000 UTC
Get Rich Evans on you hackfrauds.
THEKILLERWHALE
2023-04-27 14:58:01 +0000 UTC
Great episode! Maybe the second best leftist film critique podcast, behind Horror Vanguard.
Michael
2023-04-27 14:53:42 +0000 UTC
Christman better be on this pod
TugNuggins
2023-04-27 14:48:59 +0000 UTC
The original Man on Fire from 87 with Scott Glenn and Joe Pesci is excellent too, IMO!
John Douglas
2023-04-27 14:36:50 +0000 UTC
Holy shit, 2 hrs?! Sick!
Secularhumanist
2023-04-27 14:34:37 +0000 UTC
Yesssss been waiting for this
Kroy
2023-04-27 14:29:03 +0000 UTC
So excited for this
Neil pearson
2023-04-27 14:24:45 +0000 UTC
The bemusing adulation Tony Scott gets from the Chapo Boys is their most enjoyable wrong opinion
EnKaff
2023-04-27 14:22:58 +0000 UTC
the people love and demand more Hesse!!
Chloe
2023-04-27 14:22:28 +0000 UTC
inquiring minds would like to know
CS
2023-04-27 14:20:38 +0000 UTC
love this hosting combo
zach
2023-04-27 14:20:32 +0000 UTC
I'm gay for movies and for Will and for Denzel and I'm just absolutely queer as fuck for Hesse
MTG'S magical roast beef pussy for president 2028!
2023-04-27 14:20:31 +0000 UTC
You just love to see it. Let's fucking go!!!
Gurjot
2023-04-27 14:19:51 +0000 UTC
The popcorn 🍿 can't be beat
James Blackmon
2023-04-27 14:19:33 +0000 UTC
love y'all thx for keepin the slop spigot spewing topnotch slop ✨❤️
Malaparte_Animal
2023-04-27 14:18:44 +0000 UTC
Leeetttssss fffuuuccckkinnggg gooooooo!!!!
Mike Loudin
2023-04-27 14:18:31 +0000 UTC
😲
FDRomanowski
2023-04-27 14:18:30 +0000 UTC
At cinemacon rn, can't wait to listen
Shawn Provencher
2023-04-27 14:18:18 +0000 UTC
will tell me your favorite steak preparation ive never heard it before
original gay pussy eatah
2023-04-27 14:18:09 +0000 UTC
I attempted to watch Deja Vu but it sucked.
Whucko Jaang
2023-04-27 14:11:08 +0000 UTC
I'm pro airline episode as well!
Brian O'Connor
2023-04-27 14:09:15 +0000 UTC
I’m ready to be enlightened.
Seph
2023-04-27 14:08:52 +0000 UTC
Cool cool cool
Nicholas Conti
2023-04-27 14:01:26 +0000 UTC