Name: Quentin Tarantino Analyzes the Differences Between Bill Murray & Chevy Chase Movies
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Quentin Tarantino Analyzes the Differences Between Bill Murray & Chevy Chase Movies' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-29. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
The 80s and the 50s were the worst time for movies ever because it was just
this kind of politically correct time.
Now in the 50s it was different because that was just society was that.
In the 80s it was self-censorship was going on.
What started that?
Well, it was just the rise of political correctness after the 70s where
everything was just go as far as you can.
Then all of a sudden everything got watered down.
In the 70s you had movies where it's like characters weren't necessarily the
hero.
They were fucked up but they were interesting characters and you sit down and
you follow them whether it be Travis Bickle or Charlie Rain in Rolling Thunder
or Joe, Peter Boyle's character in Joe.
They weren't the heroes but you could even have heroes and they could die
meaninglessly at the end.
That was actually considered a commercial ending back in the 70s because it
just shows how you can't win.
Everything's fucked.
You just can't win in America.
It's just the way it is.
You go and you fight in Vietnam.
You survive Vietnam and you get shot in a liquor store during a holdup.
Everything was cynical.
Then all of a sudden in the 80s all that was washed away and the most important
thing about a character was that they were likable.
And that was every character had to be likable and the audience had to like
everybody.
And even a movie that pushed the envelope and tried to do chancy things, well
it could do it for about an hour.
Then the last 20 minutes would be them literally going back on everything they
did the first hour apologizing it and making everything fine.
I'll give you a good example of that.
Okay.
It's just like, okay.
The critics always really preferred Bill Murray movies to Chevy Chase movies.
However, it does seem as if the point of all the Bill Murray movies is that he's
this kind of hip, cool, curmudgeon, smartass guy who in the last 20 minutes
gets a transformation and becomes this nice guy.
Yeah.
And almost apologizes for who he was the entire movie, the whole rest of the
movie before that happened.
Groundhog Day, Stripes.
Stripes, Groundhog Day, Scrooge, you know, the whole thing.
I mean, like for instance, Stripes.
How does he go from where Warren Oates kicks his ass, deservedly kicks his ass.
He deserves to get belly punched by Warren Oates in that movie.
How does he go from being this incontoclastic, I don't give a fuck about
anything, I get beat up by Warren Oates, to now he's rallying the troops.
And now he's getting their, you know, he's getting their army on during the
parade.
And now he's like leading a secret mission.
And same thing with like, with like, with Groundhog Day.
I mean, does anybody really think a less sarcastic Bill Murray is a better Bill
Murray?
I mean, maybe it's better for Andy McDowell, but not for us as the, as the
viewer.
Yet, yet, Chevy Chase movies don't play that shit.
Chevy Chase is the same supercilious asshole at the end of the movie that he is
at the beginning.
He never changes in his stuff.
He's always like a bit of a dick and is always completely sarcastic.
I mean, unless they cast him playing a dope like he is in the, the, uh, the
vacation movies.
But when he's playing like a Chevy character, he's, uh, you know, he never
apologizes for who he is.
Stays that way throughout the whole film.
And even if there is a, a slight change, that's not the whole point of the
movie.
Yeah.
Is like turning him into a nice cuddly guy.
Have you ever worked with him?
No, I've, I would, I'd love to.
I'm a gigantic fan of his early work, like the Fletch stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just think in Saturday Night Live and so many of these.
Oh, the whole first season of Saturday Night Live, like pretty much all those
early movies.
Except for Oh Heavenly Dog, all those early movies.
He seems today to be this like really uncomfortable person.
He seems, it's almost like, I, it, like too many people paid attention to him
for too long and it freaked him out.
Like, I don't know him, but when I see, you know, stories about him or
interviews with him or, you know, any, any weird controversy that happens with
him, I'm almost like, I think the guy just got overwhelmed.
Yeah.
And now he's just like, get the fuck away from me.
Get the fuck away.
You know, like everything is get the fuck away from me.
It seems like.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Exactly.
You know, I'm a big fan of his.
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