Episode 212: LOOPER (2012) with Seth Zarate

The Man Hunos Bruno, our resident Bruce Willis authority, Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back and talking to his younger self on Trylove! LOOPER put Rian Johnson on the big-budget map and earned him the director’s seat on a fuckin’ STAR WARS movie. It’s the movie that tried to convince us Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt could feasibly look like the same person with varying degrees of success. It’s also packed to the gills with moral inquiries into the mutability of self, musings on the origin of male pain, the responsibility of men to correct their own mistakes, some really cool shotguns called blunderbusses, and Paul Dano making one specific, pitifully funny noise. Find Seth… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate - On Trylove episodes about IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986), THE FACULTY (1998), TIME BANDITS (1981), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), 12 MONKEYS (1995), and THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “"Powerful Love" by Chuck and Mac from the LOOPER soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 212: LOOPER (2012) with Seth Zarate 2:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:14 - Going back to LOOPER 11:44 - The movie’s multitude of ideas 26:09 - The slow-burn second half 31:03 - Johnson’s ‘gotta put a twist on it’ 36:06 - Sara and the movie’s gender politics 52:25 - If Rian Johnson could direct a straight genre movie 1:00:26 - The Junk Drawer 1:08:38 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:15:49 - Cody’s Noteys: Timelove (time travel movie trivia)