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119 - The Great Waldo Pepper

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

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The Pantheon of Pilots

I just feel such overwhelming grief and loss during the like it's almost irrational how emotional this movie affects me. And much of it is just the power of George Roy Hill and how he's shooting things, you know, how controlled his imagery feels. There's another part of the opening which Roger didn't mention which are all of these photographs. Each photograph is of a pilot and they each have the year that they lived and they died because of the Pantheon of pilots that leads up to Waldo. Yeah. Ormer Locklear, there's Earl Daugherty, there's Speed Holman and there's Ernst-Dudeck.

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