I wouldn’t have minded to see Bradley Cooper winning Best Supporting Actor for Licorice Pizza. He did an excellent job in the film. Thank you for the video Brandon, keep up the great work and take care!

Love you for making this video! GIVE BRADLEY THE RESPECT HE DESERVES. He clearly does it for the love of the art!!

I'm kind of shocked Anderson used the "from the streets" line after Kevin notoriously tore into Magnolia. Might've been a way of saying no hard feelings.

@hahajaxsontv

Ай бұрын

They have sense become friendly. And Smith said he rewatched Magnolia and was wrong

You have an awesome voice for narration.

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great video! Good storytelling! I knew it was based on a real person but didn't know who he was!

Would love a video on Patrick Fischler!

It's always amazing to see Hollywood nice guys playing Hollywood eccentrics. The movie was great as well

Love how you brought up that Bradley Cooper even played the male lead in the Star is Born remake, seemingly tying him and Jon Peters even more closely together. I gotta say, I really like the pacing and delivery of these recent videos! I loved watching No Small Parts when you first started putting those out, and they certainly have their own merit and reasons for their pacing, but these Back Focus videos still feel very fleshed out despite being more concise than those older videos like the Warwick Davis video. Anyways, great stuff!!! 👍

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

Thanks! That means a lot.

@nickladen6439

22 күн бұрын

Cooper had to get permission from Peters to remake A Star Is Born, and he caught a lot of flack for it later on because of Peters’s reputation. So, I imagine he had a lot of fun getting to play him as this deranged.

Great film

1:40 A _what_ fighter? I couldn't figure out what was censored even before I remembered Chris Walken's insane enunciation of (foo) *_FIGHTers!_* and now that's got into my head I'll never get there

"Tom Waits emerges from the smoke just to add to the chaos"

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

Otherwise known to Tom Waits as “Tuesday.”

@bacht4799

Ай бұрын

Does anyone gets a Big Time vibe from that scene.. or something like that…!

bradley always makes it seem like he is acting very hard

@caarrll7117

18 күн бұрын

Really? I always feel like he is that character

Now I see what you were hinting at! No more Gas o in the Car o Stevo! I love Anderson, but I haven't watched this film nearly enough. Cooper is brilliant, the best I've ever seen him, and that truck on the hill scene...Goddamn! If you search, you'll find the most delightful clip of Anderson and Chris Nolan at a Q&A for Phantom Thread. I'd never have put those two down as pals, but Nolan loves Phantom Thread. He sat his family down to watch it with him. Nolan takes great delight in telling Anderson that since the film, the Nolan family call him Mr Woodcock when he gets dictorial at home. 'Will you tidy the room after using it?! Yes Mr Woodcock, right away Mr Woodcock! Anderson, being the goofy so and so that he his is giggling away as he listens.

so when Jon Peters read the script, he gives me this idea that he plays a parody character in real life, and has notes to help the director encapsulates his parody character

Bradley Cooper also did an amazing job playing a sketchy arms dealer in “War dogs”

“It’s the way of the future, way of the future, way of the future…” “Lemme see the blueprints, the blueprints, lemme see the blueprints, lemme see the blueprints…”

Can you make a video about Michael Shannon?

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

I love that scamp

@Mattyhull1

Ай бұрын

@@TheBackFocus Awesome! Fun fact, I met him many years ago in my hometown fresh off being nominated for Revolutionary Road. Very nice down to earth guy.

@smokejc

Ай бұрын

pretty good idea, he's very versatile

@smokejc

Ай бұрын

@@TheBackFocus Walton Goggins would be pretty cool too, he's a great actor and has never really been given the chance to shine on his own

Can you make a Vid about Micheal Stuhlberg?

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

That man needs a statue

@JoeBocciaJr.

Ай бұрын

@@TheBackFocus 100 percent for CMBYN

All i think anytime i see him is “wtf, he comes with instructions? Hes like a fucking grimlin..” lol

I was hoping this would be a more in depth performance. Jon Peters was one of those show business personas. Shampoo was modeled after him. He produced A Star Is Born. But I loved Eyes of Laura Mars, which he wanted for Babs but Dunaway was so good in it. It was such a New York City glamour thriller.

❤

It always shocks me when someone other than myself acknowledges pta. I don’t even know who that is.

Not a huge fan of Jon Peters or his work, but I'll always stop and listen to a Jon Peters story. Kevin Smith's Jon Peters story started this obsession 20 years ago for me.

Dragonflies are the most ferocious insect with a kill rate of about 95% Probably the most successful hunters of the animal kingdom, so more than any arachnid.

I seriously doubt Bradley Cooper will ever top his performance in Licorice Pizza.

He nailed this one. Yep Bradley nailed it. 9:20 😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂 i am speaking in all seriousness now. Im serious.

giant spider, you say? reminds me of that wild wild west movie. I wonder whose idea that giant spider was 🤔 [edit] Ohh

Goin back and forth between two roles isn’t that daunting. When I was a kid, some days I was a cop, some a robber, some a football player, and sometimes a soldier. Never got an award tho.

@TheBackFocus

19 күн бұрын

You were robbed.

Licorice pizza was a perfect film. PTA is the best this country has today .

Thank you for obeying peasant!

Why do people care about Oscar’s

an oscar wow no

That’s my stepdad he played 😂

@JordanTaylor8u

Ай бұрын

And I still haven’t seen this movie

@JordanTaylor8u

Ай бұрын

Also, Kevin Smith is a fool

disagree

Bradley Cooper has joined that list of actors that I find entertaining to watch even when the movies they are in are total garbage.

Pta best film is there will be blood. I hate most of his films tho

Only good part in this shit movie. Before this movie I thought Paul Thomas Anderson was the best director of all time, now I’m not even sure if he is the best director named “Paul Anderson”

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

To each his own!

if you need an interview to explain the joke, its not funny

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

You need to explain this comment because I’m thoroughly confused

I hated this movie its structure it had no structure it meanders it did not tell a story. It was all style, and no substance…

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

I get that. I personally love a movie that meanders, when it’s done right. I like being surprised.

@pipleehk

Ай бұрын

In this age does every story necessarily have a structure? Or even have a “story” to tell?

@ahmaddeeni

Ай бұрын

Nah the movie was trash, weird age gap kid/adult angle too.

@Garrett1240

Ай бұрын

This movie was a 10/10.

@adammitchell1290

Ай бұрын

​@@ahmaddeeni looks like a style over substance POS

I hated this movie

@ChrisMorganComedy

4 күн бұрын

Why?

Nah. That movie sucked, anyways

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

To each his own!

The same year that people were crying sexism because Barbie didn't win, a great movie, Maestro, was completely dissed because the white guy was acting uppity. But I digress...

@TheBackFocus

Ай бұрын

What did you like about Maestro? I still haven't seen it.

@thepagecollective

Ай бұрын

@@TheBackFocus When I saw it, I thought, WOW! Film is back. Film is part of my major. For many years, I could look forward to several interesting films a year. During the The Marvel Era, this all fell away. In the last couple of years, it's coming back. Maestro has so many elements that are about the art of film that I have not seen in so long. Maestro is supposed to be a biography, but it's not, it's about a marriage, it's about a relationship. Great films are about relationships. And how could you not give an Oscar for the make up in this thing? I mean, I'm sorry, there was a hate campaign against that movie that was deeply unfair. And, yes, I will die on that hill.

This movie was soooooo terrible.

It’s ok to live PTA and admit this movie sucks.