The Nextlander Watchcast 009: Das Boot (1981)
Added 2022-08-29 16:30:02 +0000 UTCWe're joined one more time by special guest Drew Scanlon to close out sub month with the mother of all submarine movies in the director's cut of Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot!
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(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:13) - Intro.
(00:00:44) - Our film for this week: DAS BOOT (pronounced boat).
(00:05:22) - But just what IS Das Boot all about?
(00:11:29) - Talking cinematic depictions of Nazis in German cinema and German censorship laws.
(00:16:17) - Some history on the film's production and the book it's based on.
(00:24:47) - When you watch a movie in a foreign language, do you remember it in that language? Or in yours with an accent?
(00:25:38) - We, as a society, were not ready for submarines.
(00:27:08) - How anti-war is Das Boot?
(00:28:40) - The captain's respect for his adversaries, and open disrespect for German command.
(00:38:37) - Food, food, glorious rotting food. And boy howdy what a stink.
(00:45:15) - Break!
(00:45:34) - And we're back, and talking about the long stretches of tension and terror.
(00:52:14) - Brad talks sound design.
(00:56:34) - Is the captain good? (At his job, we mean.)
(01:01:05) - One of Alex's favorite scenes, the scene on the German supply ship.
(01:08:17) - The Gibraltar suicide mission, and some of the movie's model work.
(01:15:17) - We're going down, down, DOWN!
(01:22:42) - Wow! They made it! Everything's gonna be alright now, right? Right?!?
(01:31:45) - Final impressions.
(01:39:35) - Our sub mission has come to a close.
(01:44:13) - Outro.
Comments
Drew asked if this was the first West German film dealing with World War II, I believe that would have been 1959's The Bridge which deals with the waning days of the war when the Nazis are posting child soldiers to assignments with minimal training and supervision. Criterion put out a great edition of it recently so it's pretty easy to find. One actor I identified immediately in this movie was Günter Lamprecht, the Captain hanging out in luxury in Spain, who was in a bunch of Rainer Werner Fassbinder films including one I hope you all check out, World on a Wire. A great SciFi flick that unfortunately had a pretty mediocre American remake in the mid-90s called the Thirteenth Floor.
Nick C
2022-09-05 19:26:37 +0000 UTCOverall general comment. Alex or editor in question. The movie lines etc that are included are so flipping perfect. Kudos production landers 🥰
Frillz
2022-09-01 20:42:38 +0000 UTC
