 The fact that people were complaining in Amazon about not making a living wage and yeah, Bezos is buying million dollar yachts. So I replied back and I said, if you take his net worth, which is like 450 billion and you divided his net worth by $50,000, which is a really good living wage for people to be working. That's 3.6 million people making $50,000. If you divide his net worth by $50,000, that 50,000 could go to 3.6 million people. So yeah, he can afford to pay them a living wage. Jeff Bezos, what a great guy. Got a lot of them. Hey, welcome back to our stupid directions. He's Corbin. And I think this was on Amazon Prime, was it? What? What we're about to do. Oh yeah. We suck. Hey, we're not sponsored. I don't know if I'm just saying anything. Yeah. All right. Jeff Bezos is killing me now. Yeah. He's everywhere. I'm caught with Rick. You know who we are. Contents, juicy. Follow us on Instagram. Do things. Reviews. Yeah. Today we're doing a movie of you. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you already did that. I already did it. And the end. Take two. Go kill the squirrel. Oh. What are you doing? Oh, the fan. It's hot in here. Cinema. We're watching KG3. Again? Oh. Cinema Bundy. The film that's directed by, say his name for me please. Praveen Kendragula. Kendragula, I don't know if I'm mispronouncing that. Produced by DK and Raj of Family Man. And then starring. You picked up on during the trilogy. And then starring a whole bunch of, I think locals, most of them. It's got that whole. There's a few that I think I've done a few things, but mostly people besides one do not have a picture. So, and like. Are they all from the same? Because it felt like they really did the thing. In a village. They made a movie. In a village. About a village, yeah, that it was in a village. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So yeah, if you haven't watched it, it's 90 minutes, about around 90 minutes. Yeah. And I don't know about you, it felt kind of like 45. Yeah, it's a quick. It's a quick, and it's a, I don't know about what you thought of it. I thought it was a very fun, enjoyable film. Yeah, so we'll do our best. We'll do it at the beginning. No spoilers. Go watch it. And then come back to be spoiled. Yeah. Try to do a little bit of non-spoiler here. Yeah. There's not a whole bunch of spoil, honestly. It's a very simple story. The trailer, if you see the trailer. You know what the film is. That's what the film's about. It's very simple. Now what it doesn't give away, obviously, is it shouldn't. It doesn't give away the climax and the conclusion, which is death for all. By the hand of, you guessed it. Thor. Jeff Bezos. As Thor. It was a crazy twist, isn't it? There's Bezos with the hammer, swinging it around. So my initial thoughts. What do you think about it? My initial thoughts are mostly letters, because that's what initials are. Yes, of course. And it is an adorable movie with heart that's very whimsical and funny, gets kind of serious, and does leave you with this message of, it does have a heart at the end of it. And I felt like this is the kind of movie that the world needs right now is a movie where you can just watch something and laugh and be moved a little bit and really be encouraged by this points out the better nature of humans. Yeah, right? Absolutely. And you don't often, I really enjoyed this film. There's a few things that I'll mention later. But it's overall, you don't get a film like this often anymore. No. A very simple story. That doesn't really have the normal arcs of a film like here comes the bad guy. Here comes this big ol' plot twist. I love, speaking of the bad guy, I love that they didn't go in the direction that I was predicting it would go with the bad guy. No. The guy. The brother. The brother is kind of guy who gets who she puts in his place at one point. I agree with you. That's not stereotypical. And then it kind of just ends and everyone, sorry, I don't want to give away a thing. We will when we hit spoiler. Okay, so non-spoilers is basically a very enjoyable film that I think, I don't think you can come out of this not enjoying it. It's just you'll feel good when you come out of the theater and it's a relatable story, especially if you love cinema and you kind of, when I was younger, I did this exact thing with my friends. I got a camera, we went into the woods and we tried to make films. And most filmmakers, most directors have that as part of their story. If you hear about Steven Spielberg's story, he did that. Ron Howard did that. Tarantino did that. It's just what filmmakers do. I feel like it's very common, especially obviously with my generation because we've had cameras easily accessible to us. Almost our whole life. Not my whole life. I grew up in the, I was born in 1991 until about late nineties to early 2000s. They weren't, I don't think easily accessible to everyone. No. Outside of the big old clunkers. Yeah, the kind that Spielberg and Ron Howard were playing with growing up. But it's I think a very relatable story. I thought all the actors for the most part did a very good job, especially since probably most of them aren't experienced actors. And I took that as part of what I was watching. I remember it from the trailer. This isn't a film that you need to put a hat on to critique it in terms of higher level artistry in that regard. Just let it be what it feels like. It almost kind of feels like a film crew is capturing these guys doing the stuff with the camera. And it does, it carries some weight to it compared to other places. Cause like if you took the story and you did it in America, it wouldn't have the same level of heart that this one has. Because this one really does tap into the realities of what these guys would be facing. And like especially when he's talking to his wife and he's like, I'm a rickshaw driver. This isn't giving away anything yet. We're getting there. And you know, think about what other options do we have to actually better our life at this point? This is, it's not just though we're going to do this because it's fun. This has the possibility to hopefully better our life. And what other options do we have? And that's part of the heart of the film that I love. Yeah, and I laughed out loud multiple times in the film. I thought it was a bunch of funny moments. And it was also very cultural to the, I don't know the state that Tullugu. Right. I know there are Tullugu speakers in Tamil Nadu and all over South India, but I don't know the specific region if there is a specific region that Tullugu people speak in. But in terms of their favorite film stars that they were trying to emulate are Mahesh Babu and Prabhas, who is the, I don't know if he's the lead in Bahubali. Yes. And so like you saw all these things of him trying to be the hero of the, and it was so funny. It was so endearing. It was, it's people that like as opposed to like if you made it here in America, everybody knows how films work here really. Right. You have a director, you know, for the most part like what a camera does, cause obviously. Unless, and that's what I found really endearing about this, unless you work on a student film that's like not AFI, not USC thesis film school stuff. Like I just recently worked on one. They, it was a favorite to a friends who needed someone to dropped out and to like, would you possibly, right? So it was this, it was this project. It was a high school film. And it was actually, I encouraged them when we were all sitting down. I said, this little thing you did for your project actually turned out better than some short films I've done for New York Film Academy or AFI. But the frustration you get working on something like that is you're standing there watching them do their thing and you don't want to offer it. But they're coming up with the kinds of things these guys are. And you're like the kid in the story going, guys, you, you wear the same clothes for the same shit, guys. You gotta, you gotta, the lighting has got to be the same. And since I'm sure there's gonna be something you can confuse, he's talking about what they did in the film. Right, okay, spoilers. The filmmakers, not the film itself. No, no, no. I know there's gonna be some people. The filmmakers in the film, there's gonna be some people that are very confused. Yes. Because people always get confused by stuff we say. So I wanted to confirm that. The film does not feel like a student film. So take off your diapers and get ready to be spoiled. Yeah. I don't know what that means, really. But here it comes. I want to talk about everything. Yeah. I thought, one, I want to talk about the score. I thought the score was really nice. It was, it was heavily in there a lot of times. Like a lot of times. Yeah. There were montage sequences. Yeah. And they put like, even when people were speaking dialogue. Yeah. And sometimes I was like, do I like this? But I think most of the time it added a really good element to it. Yeah. And it brought the heart, what scores can do to Charlotte. To films and they bring the emotion out of you. That's just what music does. Yeah. And so I thought the score was really nice. I did too. And I felt, I felt like really, the film kind of hangs its hat on our lead guy who's the rickshaw driver. Yeah. And I felt that all of the performances, his was the one that not only gave him the most in the script, but I felt like he did a very good job of being kind of the epicenter of the film that everyone else kind of rotated around. I think it's Vikas, right? Yeah, I think so. He doesn't even have a picture, but it looks like he's done at least a few things. He is a solid, good. Well, he's also good. He did a very good job. He's the strength. I thought he did it really well as well. And the other characters are more character characters. Right. Obviously the guy that plays the hero, he's a very eccentric. He gets full of himself because he wants to now be the hero of the film. Yeah. And then obviously the camera guy who plays kind of like he's supposed to know how to take pictures, but he's putting everybody in the Titanic. Yeah. Which I thought was hilarious. The Titanic pose was great. I also love when Monk, is that her name? The wife of the hero? The main wife? Yeah, the one who was sold the vegetables. Oh, yeah. The angry one. When she shows up and she says the name right the very first time, unbelievable, first take. Ah, she's so good. And that's the other part about this is that they're just, everybody's so adorable. And when it got to the end, just before the end, when there was a moment where they're all working together, no, it was the very end. When you're watching the credits roll and they have that final scene, I'm watching all of the characters. I'm like, you know what, you got me. I care about all of you guys. I'm watching them at the end and I'm like, I actually genuinely cared about every single one of you guys. And I wanted you guys to succeed. I love that everybody was believable. Nobody was cliche, even though they were being over the top and melodramatic for the movie. Yeah. And I also liked something that I think, I don't know if this would have been an option or a choice, but the people who were visiting, I liked the fact that they were Indian that were coming through and visiting and that it wasn't somebody like from Europe or an American coming through that like became, if you've seen this, you're now in the spoiler section, you know how this ends. Where basically she kind of saved the day. I liked that it was an Indian that did that and not like, it could have come across very poorly if it had been, first of all, a bad white actor, but they had come across as like. If it was Hollywood, it would have been a white savior. That's exactly my point. Exactly. Hollywood loves doing that. Yeah. But no, I did like them. I didn't often like their writing, those two. Those two characters? Those two, the ones that were looking for the camera. I thought that the writing of their dialogue was a little strange to me at times. Like it didn't seem authentic sometimes, but that's why I don't think it was the acting because the other times I was like, oh, they're good actors. I enjoyed them. It's just sometimes, I don't know if you picked, if you thought about that, but sometimes their dialogue seemed a little strange to me, those two. Yeah. Did you see that? I noticed there was a difference and I don't know, it didn't stick out to me and where I can get that specific. Gotcha. There was definitely a difference to it. I enjoyed her because she actually, especially at the end, I thought she did a really good job. Yeah. And so that's why I was like, it's probably not her acting. It seems more like the writing of that because I didn't see that style in the rest of the film. Maybe it was because they were obviously, mostly speaking English and the writing and that just seemed a little different to me. And they also might have wanted to convey the fact that while they were Indians, they were also very much outside. Yeah. And so they wanted to give you, if they wanted that, they got it. They wanted to give you a definite feel change between them and the group. You definitely got that. Yeah. I thought the writing was really, really good because they won, like you said, they made you care. Yeah. And also they surprised you a bunch of times. Like when he dropped it, me and my wife were like, Oh! Not the camera, not the old guy! And I love two things about the drop. Yeah. When the drop came, that shocked me. I'm like, oh no, they broke the camera and I love that we have no picture on the actual TV screen you're watching it on. And they're talking, that they dropped it on grandpa's head. I love that. That was a laugh out loud moment for me. And the very end when he was like, I can't even read. I can't even read. That was great. This had multiple hilarious moments that I laughed out loud. Like obviously when they were trying to cast people and then like somebody came out and was like, if you wouldn't try to look like you were trying to molester, she would. It's like so stocky, they're outside the girl's school. Yeah. If you want to be the heroine, do you want to be the heroine? Yeah. Until like it's the writer of this is a, let's see, I don't know if you want to shout them out. Yes, yes, yes. Vasanth Marangati, it does screenplay and then another collaborator. Oh, there's three for screenplay. Praveen Khandragula. He's the director. And Krishna Prathiyushra. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, I thought the writing was one of the strongest things about this. And like I said, you don't get these types of films that literally just ends and everyone's happy. Right. And it says everyone is a filmmaker. I think it said kind of right after, right? Something along those lines. Yeah, it says everybody's something like that. Everyone's a filmmaker. Kind of. Kind of. I create exactly what the call was. Me too. But it's a great message. It's you just, you don't, it's refreshing when you just see a film and the entire time you're just happy. Yep. And you're not really like worried and obviously everything artistic-wise, like acting and writing is all good because obviously that could derail, you could have a happy film that like, it could have a bunch of shower work cons from DDLJ walking around. Once again, if you've seen that review, you know what I think about it. Okay. I feel like I have to preface everything. Qualify it. Yeah. But the fact that it's, you just walk away, it just ends when everyone was happy. And it actually was the ending, you don't get that. You don't. And I actually didn't see that coming. I was shocked that basically the climax of their problem, because that's good writing. This is very, the story is very well written where you get the climax and it's typically the situation where your heroes are in a situation that seems insurmountable and you don't know how it's gonna be fixed. Well, typically that happens three quarters of the way through. Yeah. 10 minutes left. And I thought, what are you gonna do? Yeah. How are you gonna end this? You've only got 10 minutes to wrap this kid up and you have just given us the insurmountable odds part. Very, very quick. It's very quick. It started fast. Like it started immediately. I found a camera. Right. Immediately he gets home. I wanna make a movie. I was like, got a camera. What are we gonna do with it? It's like, oh, here you are. Great writing because it didn't need to be, this could have been one of the movies that we watch and we say they could have clipped 45 minutes off of it. Yeah. They did. Yeah. To have us the right run time. Like this, that's an independent film. I thought, it's probably one of my, I'd have to look. I know we've had quite a few good Tolugu films that we've seen, but I would put it up there with one of my favorites just because I could watch this a bunch. A bunch of times. It's a great recommendation. First of all, it does bespeak to the love that people have for making movies because this wasn't just about, we can make money. Yeah. And I love, they did play into that a few times. There was a subtle message in there about why you make movies. Because there is the temptation to, are you gonna make the film because you just wanna make a film? Or are you doing it because, like his fantasy, the guy screaming, we're gonna make billions, we're gonna make billions. Yeah. So. Yeah, which obviously we've talked about before how a bunch of Indians do care about just what the box office is, even though they're not involved in the box office whatsoever as opposed to thinking, everyone should see this film, it's such a great film, it's going to make billions. Right. You don't really see anybody yelling that about Avengers, even though you know what's gonna make it. Yeah. But no one's like, oh yeah, it made a billion dollars. We don't care Disney's making more money. Not at all. I mean that's evident by, when you see the movies that get nominated for Globes and Oscars and Saddle Awards, a lot of them barely had any kind of box office at all because it's not about that. Yeah, so like Ega, obviously we loved, but this is artistically way better, but obviously Ega is so fun. It's just a fun romp. Uh, side rock. Oh, that was a fun one. We enjoyed that one. Yeah. Obviously Bahubali, no. In case you didn't know that. Care-dash of, that was a good one. Yeah, it was. We liked that one artistically. It was very similar in terms of- And Rajasthanalism. Like the style of it. Yeah. To this one. Yeah. Except this one was way funnier. Yeah. Because that one wasn't really trying to be, the old school classic was just a great one. Yeah. It was. But this would be one of my favorite ones, and it did remind me, it wasn't a serious or artistically independent feature as like the two I always leave out in our, and when we talk about the Assam list, I always leave these two- Oh, billet rock stars. Both of them. Where she particularly used family and friends in a village and those had more poignant, profound messages to them that bode well on the international film circuit. But this one, I feel like it had the exact same heart. It just doesn't fall into that niche, which is absolutely fine. It doesn't need to. I actually liked that it falls into a different niche. Me too. Because like I said, that's what I'm saying. You don't get a film like this often. It's almost like English vinglish. You just felt so happy in English vinglish, and it ended happy, and you just love that. Yep. That's why I said at the outside, right now, this is a movie that, for a number of reasons. First, the lightheartedness. You forget about all the serious crap going on in the world right now. You get to escape for 90 minutes. And then it also, like I said at the beginning, it reminds you of, in many respects, the better qualities of people, not the negative qualities, and leaves you with, you know, we'll always be together. It's got that kind of an ending to it. Yeah, absolutely. And in the end, everything's gonna be okay. He won't lose his rickshaw because they found the camera. It doesn't make any sense, but you feel good about it. But let us know what you thought about this film, what should be the next Telugu film we watch, and have you watched Famo Man Season 2? Because it is upon you.