Blank Check with Griffin & David
The Mosquito Coast with Sean Fennessey
April 19, 20263h 6m · 38,441 words
Show notes
We all have those moments where we just want to disengage from conventional society. We often yearn to go "off the grid." But, would we ever want to go to the Mosquito Coast? HELL NO. Sean Fennessey joins us to chat about Peter Weir's 1986 film that tests the limits of Harrison Ford's likability to the extent that Ben Hosley would describe it as "anti-smile." Allie Fox is a bad hang. The Mosquito Coast? GOOD MOVIE.
Highlighted moments
This is the one movie where he's just kind of a heel. He's just, he's wrong. Everyone knows he's wrong. He's wrong from the start.
“if it's William Hurt at the center of this movie, five minutes in, you're like, well, fuck this guy.”
“I think Weir's worldview as a filmmaker is like, more than anything, defined by how hard he interrogates the relationship between the indigenous and the settlers in his homeland.”
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