Continuing our series of overpromising and under delivering…we will underwhelm you by not doing Justice League this week, and instead hit you with “Bad Times at the El Royale” starring Jeff Lebowski and an ensemble cast. Set in the late 60’s, several strangers who are each walking contradictions, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe’s El Royale, a former hotspot hotel straddling the California/Nevada border. Morality becomes different depending on which side of the line you’re on.
This is a fun discussion on a Tarantino-esque film that folds over itself, but leaves rough edges so you can fill in some of the blanks in the story on your own – intentionally.
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Bad Times at the El Royale
The El Royale is run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. It soon becomes a seedy battleground when seven strangers — a cleric, a soul singer, a traveling salesman, two sisters, the manager and the mysterious Billy Lee — converge on a fateful night for one last shot at redemption before everything goes wrong.
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No guest on this one and not much in the show notes either.
However, we remembered the apology that shouldn’t have been was the incident where the minor league baseball team, the Tennesee Smokies had decorated their infield with the Besty Ross, 13 stars flag in response to Nike pulling a show with the same flag at the behest/outrage of Colin Kaepernick who whined that it was a symbol of oppression.
And, Robert and I did have the following exchange after recording where he really liked my take on the cult leader’s meaning in the film:
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The hotel is styled on this actual hotel that was once owned by Frank Sinatra and had an interesting history and also met its demise after its gambling license was revoked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Neva_Lodge_%26_Casino
Here is a story on how the budget got kept down a bit, which was a good thing as the film still lost money:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/why-bad-times-at-el-royale-cast-took-pay-cuts-1151419
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