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2024 was full of movies — as were the 140+ years prior, because film sure has been around for a long time. Ellie and Scott talk about the best movies they watched in 2024, even if those movies weren’t released in 2024, which means Scott reaches back only slightly to the summer for some Glen Powell, while Ellie takes full advantage of the freedom and brings one from 1936. Hey, some plots just stay relevant.

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Ellie Kemper, Scott Eckert

Ellie Kemper  00:09

Hey everybody, welcome to Born To Love the show where we talk to the people we love about the things they love. I’m Ellie Kemper.

 

Scott Eckert  00:16

And I’m Scott Eckert, and today I’m going to be talking to one of my favorite people. Ellie, that’s right. This is a host only episode. We’re gonna be talking about something that both of us love, and that is the movies our favorite movies of 2024 not necessarily movies that came out in 2024 but movies we saw for the first time in 2024 is that right, Ellie?

 

Ellie Kemper  00:40

That’s exactly right. Movies You and I enjoyed for the first time in 2024 regardless of when they were actually released. I’m very excited about that. I couldn’t be more excited, Scott, before we start talking about movies, what have you been loving this week?

 

Scott Eckert  00:56

Well, Ellie, the answer is obvious, and anyone in the LA area, I’m sure we’ll have the same answer, and that is firefighters. I don’t know if you listeners are aware, but there’s raging wildfires that have destroyed entire neighborhoods not so far from you and me. Ellie, yeah, and that’s, of course, a very scary thing if anyone’s listening in LA obviously, our hearts go out to you. Ellie, in fact, I think you’re evacuated, you’re recording not from your home, is that right?

 

Ellie Kemper  01:23

That’s it. I’m in San Diego. Our hearts go out to everyone who has suffered loss during this time. It’s a very scary and hard time, and I think I know where you’re going with this, Scott, because what better comfort during times of devastation and loss than heroes? And I will let you talk about your heroes.

 

Scott Eckert  01:43

That’s just firefighters. I love. I mean, look, I’ll tell you right off the bat, I’m a firefighter fan. At any time. They’re they’re the coolest because they they save lives in everyday ways, normally, like someone’s got a heart attack. Woo firefighters, very likely to respond. But then when the it’s part of my French, when the shit really hits the fan, like your house or your entire neighborhood are engulfed in flames, they also step right up and and I’ve been so close to it, Ellie, and I know you have as well. Like we smell the smoke, we can we can see it, you know, there’s, there’s friends who’ve evacuated. You evacuated. But, thank you, firefighters to how many firefighters do you think are listening to us talk as they fight at the hoses are raging, and underneath their fire helmets are our little air buds, and inside those air buds are the voices of Ellie Kemper and Scott Eckert. How many do you think if you?

 

Ellie Kemper  02:44

I’m gonna go with at least three dozen. I think three dozen are tuned in right now.

 

Scott Eckert  02:50

Well thank you to those three dozen.

 

Ellie Kemper  02:53

Scott, I know this is your love. This week, it’s your turn to talk about love. But this week, the love is overflowing. So just as you’ve been loving firefighters, I think what you’re getting at and all that is loving camaraderie, community, lifting each other up. I have seen so many people helping one another during this time, and I know this happens during crises, and thank goodness it does happen. The communities come together. You witness random acts of kindness, you witnessed intentional acts of kindness, and it’s all over the place. And I feel again, it’s like you’re grasping for you know, light during these dark times, and that’s where you find it. You find it in it sounds cheesy, it sounds cliched, and it sounds absolutely true, because that’s what’s happening. And I’ve, you know, you just there’s too many to count but friends, helping one another, schools, communities, helping one another. It’s a very it’s a bright spot during this really hard time.

 

Scott Eckert  03:50

Could not agree more.

 

Ellie Kemper  03:51

Oh, here’s an example. We’re renting a house, okay? And the owner of our house is the nicest. It’s the nicest couple you’ve ever met in your life, and they’re just so thoughtful and caring. And this is pre fire. They’ve just they’re great people, and they’re very helpful. And Michael, my husband, and I, left for, you know, San Diego a little while ago when the fire started, and our owner is like, is there anything you need me to grab from the house that maybe you forgot. And my husband has this box of like, what he calls important documents, which, by the way, he just forgot. I’m like, Michael, pack all your important what are your important documents? A passport, a driver’s license, what else? I don’t know that that’s it.

 

Scott Eckert  04:38

I mean, those are important documents, no doubt, I imagine they’re in a box called important documents, right, yeah.

 

Ellie Kemper  04:44

So I had mine, and by the way, that’s included, I have his birth certificate in my box of valuable so I had my box, okay.

 

Scott Eckert  04:53

You have your husband’s birth certificate.

 

Ellie Kemper  04:56

Yes, yeah. I know everything about him. I know where he was born. I know how much he weighs, to whom.

 

Scott Eckert  05:06

What state?

 

Ellie Kemper  05:07

And in what hospital, and what state he has all his little treasures in a box, where in the world is Carmen, San Diego box. I don’t understand why he has this box. It’s like disguised, I think, to throw off any robbers like they would […]

 

Scott Eckert  05:22

[…] be telling our millions of listeners exactly where it is.

 

Ellie Kemper  05:25

God, all those firefighters gonna come straight into my house? No, here’s the thing, here’s the thing. Good luck to anyone trying to steal that. Because it’s not, it’s not in our house anymore. Our owner said, Is there anything else I can grab from you? Michael Coleman says, Oh, I have this. You know, it’s like this toy box, it’s a explorers kit for kids, but it actually has some important stuff in there. Could you grab that? He doesn’t stop there. He says, there’s also a pair of green shoes that I have. And so I guess my point is, my the owner didn’t flinch. He says apps. He didn’t blink an eye. Absolutely. He has the Nat Geo box. He has the green shoes. I guess it’s random acts of kindness like this. I just think, my gosh, what a nice thing.

 

Scott Eckert  06:12

What avery kind thing, to have a landlord like that, and to have a friend, a neighbor, who would be willing to do something like that, pick up a pair of shoes or some important documents hidden away in a funny child’s box. You’re bringing that up. Ellie has has raised a sort of semi philosophical, I don’t want to get too serious on this podcast. I do. I we had to evacuate just for one night, and I don’t know. I had never been in a position of making a go bag before right the separate and apart from, like, what do you actually need, like clothes and flashlights and money? Like, separate apart from that, what are the things that you own, that you really, really need, or that you want to save? And I was really refreshed. I that that it’s actually very few things. I don’t know what your experience was to say there were, I was like, oh, let’s get these photo albums. And after that, I had to strain and there’s all this crap in my garage that. And more than most people, I sort of think about mementos and leaving things behind and all that kind of stuff. But when push comes to shove, it’s like, nah, I don’t need any of that shit.

 

Ellie Kemper  07:23

Yep, Scott, I couldn’t. I had the exact same experience when I we were packing up. I thought, I don’t know what’s happening. I need enough stuff for the next few days, but I also need things that I might want to have for the rest of my life. And besides those important documents, I don’t even have photo albums because everything I’m saying I didn’t take them, because everything is digital, it is somewhat refreshing to realize it’s things, things can be replaced, if they have to be and if you can replace them, but it’s things, not people. So it was sort of that I had the same experience, and I don’t want to speak for everyone, but that is sort of a little philosophical reflection. You and I both had Scott enough of the philosophy, enough of Michael’s little toy box. Let’s get to the what you and I like to call the meats of our episode movies. When we come back, we’re going to talk all about the movies Scott and I loved in 2024 stay tuned.

 

Scott Eckert  08:33

And we’re back Ellie back and better than ever to talk about the movies we love from 2024 so little peek behind the curtain, you and I have each picked three movies that we saw for the first time in 2024 now we had initially said maybe, you know, naturally movies that came out in 2024 but then you said, no there were a couple of old movies I saw for the first time in 2024 that make the list. So we expanded it. There’s old and new movies. The only criteria is we had to see them for the first time in 2024, I’m thrilled. I love talking about movies. I love talking to you. Ellie, would you like to go first? What was one of your favorite films from 2024?

 

Ellie Kemper  09:13

One of my favorite films from my experience of 2024 Carry on The movie.

 

Scott Eckert  09:22

What? Carry On with.

 

Ellie Kemper  09:26

Karen eggerton.

 

Scott Eckert  09:28

Yes, and Jason.

 

Ellie Kemper  09:29

And Jason Bateman. Jason Bateman, the thriller, the like TSA thriller, right?

 

Ellie Kemper  09:34

The action TSA thriller takes place 100% at LAX. I think the whole movie is filmed. Well, part of it’s on the belly of the plane, but most of it is in LAX if I Scott, first of all, have you seen Carry On?

 

Scott Eckert  09:49

I have not seen carry on, but my wife has seen carry on. I’ve done a fair amount of reading about carry on, so I’m thrilled for you to tell me why it’s. Your favorite? I, it’s very recent. Came out, like, oh yeah, a couple weeks ago, right? It came out about right under the wire.

 

Ellie Kemper  10:08

Right under the wire. It just barely making the 2024 release deadline. I, it has not stood the test of time. I don’t know how it will age. I don’t know that I’m not a soothsayer. I know that I loved it. And here’s the thing, Scott, this is where we’re gonna get a little gonna maybe I’m gonna get a little tripped up during this conversation. I do not explain plots very well, but that’s not what we’re looking to do. But just as you know, so you know, my recaps of the plots are gonna be confusing and murky, but this one, luckily, has a pretty straightforward plot. Taryn eggerton, a former track star, a child, a childhood track star who didn’t pass the police test or whatever and couldn’t become a police officer and lost all his ambition and drive and works at the TSA but doesn’t even really want to, like, elevate his position within the TSA. He’s just lost a lot of ambition. What I loved about this movie, first and foremost, what I loved is that Jason Bateman looks like my brother John. He always has, always will probably so to imagine, Jason Bateman plays the villain in this he’s just this horrible criminal. He’s the one who’s, I didn’t finish explaining the plot, did I the criminals? The criminals are trying to sneak on some noxious oxide, or noxious gas, nerve gas, nerve agent onto an airplane in a carry on bag. And Taryn eggerton Is the TSA agent who has been told he has to let it through, otherwise he’s gonna they’ll kill him and his wife, who’s pregnant, and all of this stuff. Oh, but moreover, do you and I have talked about Die Hard as a Christmas movie as a lot of people.

 

Scott Eckert  11:55

Because this is not the kind of movie you normally like, Kelly.

 

Ellie Kemper  11:58

No, it’s not. And that’s why I was so happy to love it, because it does take place on Christmas Eve. It is the hot first of all, I’ve talked about how much I love travel during the holidays, so I’m not hoping for nerve of like someone to smuggle nerve agent onto an airplane, but I loved watching all of this unfold in an airport on Christmas Eve. Like, are you kidding? My home away from home, sort of my Oasis, my like dream scenario. Being in an airport on Christmas Eve and to see all this chaos unfolding really got me in the Christmas spirit. Really kept me on the edge of my seat or my couch. I watched the whole thing in one fell swoop, which I don’t often do these days. Nobody does. We have all these different ways of viewing movies. It was an exhilarating holiday film that was also a little bit funny at times, like they had jokes here and there.

 

Scott Eckert  12:49

If a thrillery action movie won you over. I’ve got to check it out, because it must be special. I mean, you, you those are not your cup of tea, even comparing it favorably to Die Hard, blowing my mind a little bit, one of the greatest action movies ever made during Christmas season. And to say that this sort of got you even more than that, that’s enough. Enough. Said, I’m gonna watch it. I think it’s on Netflix. I can’t wait.

 

Ellie Kemper  13:15

Check it out and call me in the morning. Okay, Scott, your turn. What was one of the movies?

 

Scott Eckert  13:21

One of the movies, one of my favorite movies of 2024 a little bit different in tone. Ellie, I think you may have seen it. It’s called Inside Out two.

 

Ellie Kemper  13:30

Oh my gosh, Scott, I haven’t seen it.

 

Scott Eckert  13:33

You haven’t seen it. Ellie, oh my God, all right. Well, let me just say briefly, first of all, cards on the table. I’ve never seen the original. Inside Out. It’s a Pixar movie starring Amy Poehler, a bunch of very, very funny people. They play the emotions inside a little girl’s head, and Amy Poehler is joy, and there’s anger and there’s sadness and whatnot. Now, apparently, the first movie is all about how joy has to come to terms with the fact that we have to experience all the emotions you can’t be joyful all the time, sadness, anger, et cetera. They’re part of our lives. That seems like a real great movie, and people tell me that it’s phenomenal. I believe them, because I’ve seen the sequel and I can’t I don’t think that I was ever so emotionally shattered by a movie, as I was by inside out too. I’m not going to explain the whole plot. I’m going to instead explain Ellie, the central conceit that I think is so smart, and that and that I it brought me to tears. Okay, in the sequel, we learned that when the little girl grows up, she goes, she’s becoming more of an adult. She’s going through puberty, whatever that there’s complicated systems of belief start, start shaping in her own mind. And all of these ideas together that you grow they end up shaping what. What they call in the film, your identity. And, long story short, she has a new emotion called anxiety. And all these negative ideas are growing up. And you can see this, the identity, her identity is changing. It’s becoming twisted, right? And at the beginning of the film, her identity is, I am a good person. And then because of anxiety and all these negative memories, you can see her identity becoming twisted and broken and bad. And I won’t spoil it for you, Ellie, because you haven’t seen it. I won’t spoil it for the listeners. What they say? I’m about to start crying right now. What her new identity is, just floored me. Absolutely floored me. And it’s not,  I am a bad person, right? It’s, it’s more nuanced than that. It’s and it is. It is so deeply true. And I think it really gets at like I don’t know what it means to be a human being.

 

Ellie Kemper  16:07

Oh my gosh, Scott, I’m angry with you for picking such a profound movie as your first one, when I’m rattling on and on about carry on and the well.

 

Scott Eckert  16:20

It is also a animated children’s films.

 

Ellie Kemper  16:23

Well, Scott, everyone who I have talked to, who has seen it has a similar reaction, though not as eloquently said as what you just did, but that it is, it’s so much more than a kids movie, but you’ve made me it’s a little bit of a cliffhanger, because I’m thinking, Well, what is her new.

 

Scott Eckert  16:42

What is her new identity? It’s something good, right? It’s not no, it’s bad. The whole point is it’s bad. It’s growing. The anxiety is growing, a new identity for her. And you see it, and it’s like, oh no.

 

Ellie Kemper  16:57

And then oh, don’t tell me.

 

Scott Eckert  16:58

I’ll say one last thing about it. Ellie, I was, like, brought to tears, huge tears as I’m watching it. I’m like, my 12 year old daughter must be just this. This should be a road map for her entire what remains of her childhood. And afterwards, I was like, So what’d you think? And she was like, yeah, I was fine. She was unmoved, completely unmoved by by the emotional content of the film.

 

Ellie Kemper  17:25

That just sum it up. I’m always thinking, Is this about me or is this about my kid being a parent? I mean, are there’s this issue about is this my issue or my kid’s issue inside out too? Was your issue? In a good way, you loved it. Jenny, not as moved the one actually experiencing the change. But you know what, Scott, she’ll re watch it as a 43 year old, and she might have a fully different experience. Okay, sorry, I just revealed your age.

 

Scott Eckert  17:50

I’m doing the math. Is that? That is right, that is correct. Yes, no, I’m 40.

 

Ellie Kemper  17:54

There’s no math involved, aren’t you 43?

 

Scott Eckert  17:56

Yeah, no, but I forgot my own age. I was because it’s now, it’s 2025. I’m gonna turn […]

 

Ellie Kemper  18:01

I never go by the I never go by the calendar year. I just go by how old I am, your actual age.

 

Scott Eckert  18:10

All right. Ellie, okay, now what’s your next movie? What’s your next just stop making fun of me.

 

Ellie Kemper  18:15

No making fun of you just how you couldn’t figure out how old you were. Okay Scott, full disclosure, I have seen part of this movie before, but I never saw it in its entirety until 2024 okay, what is it? You can guess what it is. No, I don’t mean take a guess. I mean, you could be able to guess what it is, but you’re not going to it is the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana.

 

Scott Eckert  18:48

The Taylor Swift documentary wait, this is different from the concert thing that she did, right?

 

Ellie Kemper  18:55

There’s an eras movie I’ve seen that everyone’s seen that. This is a documentary. It was released in that fabulous year, 2020 it was released January 31 I looked it up 2020 and I saw part of it. I saw part of it when it was released, in fact, around Valentine’s Day. But I fell asleep before the end, not because it was boring, but because I don’t know COVID was encroaching on all our lives, and I was already exhausted. I am so fascinated with this woman, I don’t understand how she completes things during the day, normal things, where her drive comes from, where? What her who makes this person? How such a person comes to dominate a culture for so long?

 

Scott Eckert  19:43

Did the documentary answer these questions?

 

Ellie Kemper  19:46

No, and that’s what I loved about. I was watching her, you know, eat spaghetti with her best friend in some like, I wasn’t sure what house they were in. She was having this big spaghetti dinner with her, like, best friend, I think, from childhood, but I’m. Sort of thinking, when did she have she was, like, never really a child. She was a child, but she was songwriting from the age of six. She became famous at like, 15.

 

Scott Eckert  20:10

Let’s be honest, this on those six year old songs probably sucked, right?

 

Ellie Kemper  20:13

Oh, they, I mean, they were the worst. No, Scott, here’s what’s so fascinating, that documentary, so well done. I don’t again, I’m not like a documentary expert, so I don’t know how to measure a documentary, other than the fact that, like it told a story really well. The facts seem accurate, and I love the subject matter, so I love that. But also, they released all this previously unseen footage, home movies, specifically of Taylor Swift, like opening up presents at Christmas time when she’s eight, singing a song on her guitar when she’s nine. And I’m telling you that pluck and that joie de vivre, that’s joy of life, joy of living.

 

Scott Eckert  20:53

What language was that? Was that English? What?

 

Ellie Kemper  20:56

No false […] Viva. That was her, that was that was in her from day one, like she just, she loves living, and she loves music, and she I a little bit, I’m Listen, it’s a documentary. Everyone’s gonna have a point of view. All right, suddenly I am a documentary expert. I think what they were pushing for in this is that she’s vulnerable. That’s her trademark vulnerability, right? That’s how that’s what she writes a lot of her songs about. She’s vulnerable, she’s human, just like the rest of us. She’s been hurt, she’s been crushed. But oh, how does she rise from those ashes again and again, the reinventions, etc, etc. And the other thing is that I just want to say this, there are so many adults out there that young kids are watching. I feel so lucky that she has permeated the pop culture as she has, I guess I should just say, permeated the culture as she has, because at the end of the day, I think she’s such a positive force and influence on the world, and I just loved taking who doesn’t. Love peeking behind the curtains. I loved seeing her write music in the studio, chowing down as she composed lyrics, tickling the white ivories in her own apartment, as the cat also just lazily walked across her keyboard. I mean, it was such intimate glances at this woman. I just loved the movie. I can’t believe I didn’t watch it in its entirety in 2020 having said that other things were going on, hats off. Check it out. You’ll love it. I think Jenny will love it, your daughter.

 

Scott Eckert  22:39

You’ve blown my mind Ellie, both of your picks, all right. Ellie, my second one a lot more conventional. And I think this one you mind you, and I may have talked about, I don’t think that you are a big fan the movie Hitman on Netflix. HITMAN, starring Glenn Powell, is what is the writer, Richard Linklater, Oscar winning, writer, director, Richard Linklater, it is a do you know this movie, Ellie, have you seen it?

 

Ellie Kemper  23:07

Hitman?

 

Scott Eckert  23:08

Oh, she doesn’t like it, yes, Hitman.

 

Ellie Kemper  23:12

No, it’s not. Listen, I watched the first 20 minutes.

 

Scott Eckert  23:16

You watched the first 20 minutes and you gave up on it.

 

Ellie Kemper  23:19

Didn’t love it for me.

 

Scott Eckert  23:21

Didn’t love it for you? Loved maybe for me. I hear that. I hear the diplomacy in your voice.

 

Ellie Kemper  23:26

Did you hear it? It’s take it away.

 

Scott Eckert  23:32

All right. For the for listeners who may not be familiar with this movie, it is about a schlubby guy who is sort of a tech dork who volunteers to help the Texas Police Department. And his day job is he’s a philosophy professor, and it turns out that what he does is he helps do sting operations for people who are trying to hire a hitman to kill someone. But it turns out that the Hitman is really just a cop, and then they arrest them, because you can’t hire anyone to kill someone that’s against the law. And then one day, this sort of dorky Professor type has to pretend to be the hitman, like the guy who normally does it. Can’t do it. He has to this sort of dork has to pretend to be a bloodthirsty killer in order to get the person that they want to get on record who’s trying to hire hitman. And he ends up discovering that when he’s pretending to be the hitman, guess what? His personality completely changes. He completely convinces all these people that he is, in fact, a suave sort of assassin from the movies, and that’s the very basic premise. It sort of becomes a rom com because one of the people who tries to hire him is a gorgeous lady that he sort of ends up falling in love with. There are all sorts of delicious twists, but you didn’t see the end. Of the movie, so you don’t know what they are. Why not? Why were you not charmed by this movie, Ellie? Because I think that it has a reputation for being just very charming.

 

Ellie Kemper  25:11

I can’t explain why I it’s like trying to ask me why I don’t like cold weather. It’s like, some people love cold weather. I don’t like it. Well, I don’t like it because I get Ray nodes. You know, do you know what Ray nodes is? It’s when your fingertips turn yellow because you’re cold. I did not know this well, so that’s why I don’t like cold. Yeah, it’s a syndrome, but I don’t like it. I don’t like the cold. I didn’t like Hit Man. Hit Man didn’t give me Ray nodes, but I just I it wasn’t for me. I can’t explain it. Why did I, like carry on, but not Hit Man?

 

Scott Eckert  25:46

That is a very curious question. But I do think that it’s a charming film. And and I really end up I don’t see lots of rom coms and romances, and I, and I was surprised that I sort of bought this one. I was very surprised that that I liked it as much as I did.

 

Ellie Kemper  26:04

It’s a testament to the performances, to the direction and to the writing. Scott, it’s time for my third and final pick. This is a movie that I saw in 2024 wife versus secretary. Scott is a 1936 movie, as you may have imagined. I did not stumble upon it on my own. My husband, Michael, is a film buff, and he loves movies, as most film buffs do. So this movie, Wife Versus Secretary is in 1936 it’s a rom com, but it’s also a drama, and it stars, all the stars of the 1930s Clark Gable, Myrna, Loy and Gene Harlow. You know me, Scott I it’s not like, I’m like, oh, all of these old Hollywood mega stars. I just love that era. You know, I’m not gonna pretend to be someone I’m not. That’s not who I am. I don’t know much about these actors. I’m sorry, I don’t, by the way, read all about Jean Harlow. Her life is insane. Died at the age of 26 married four times, born in Kansas City, had like, died to the.

 

Scott Eckert  27:12

Age of 26.

 

Ellie Kemper  27:14

Yep, she had like, she’s like, this world renowned, you know, bombshell screen, siren of the 1930s I think she only worked for like, six years. I mean, talk about getting in and getting out. She just did her thing. So this movie is great because it’s like, again, like, I’m not, I don’t know so much about that era of film, but that movie is funny. It’s, it’s scandalous. It’s about, obviously, you might be able to guess it’s about a magazine publisher who essentially, sort of falls in love with his secretary. They’re working long hours together. The wife, Myrna Loy, is beginning to she’s being told all this stuff like, Oh, you better keep an eye on him. He’s like, you know, working long hours with this hot chick, Secretary. Jean Harlow, they’re not actually having an affair. They’re actually are working hard together. The Secretary is falling in love with him. Clark Gable, but he’s not really falling in love with her. But what happens is, finally, they escape to like Havana for this night of work together. Okay, this the wife calls like, where are you? Where are you? And and guess and she’s she can’t get ahold of her husband.

 

Scott Eckert  28:30

She makes a telephone call to Cuba in 1936?

 

Ellie Kemper  28:34

Yeah, I don’t know how it happened, but guess who picks up the phone?

 

Scott Eckert  28:38

The Secretary.

 

Ellie Kemper  28:39

At 2am in the morning. Secretary, so the wife is like, you’ve got to be kidding me. I’m out of here. I’m leaving for, you know, England. So she’s about, she packs up all her stuff a.

 

Scott Eckert  28:48

Very international film.

 

Ellie Kemper  28:49

Yeah, oh, yeah no they wanted to appeal to a white audience. And so what’s her name? Jean Harlow, the Secretary comes up to her. She’s like, look, you’re making a huge mistake. She’s like, your husband loves you. Nothing happened between us, but if you do leave, something will happen between us, because I’m going to get them. So I loved the movie. It was, it’s always so wonderful to me to watch something where you’re like, oh my gosh, plus Sachs, which I’m sorry to speak French again, but it’s like, there’s nothing new under the sun. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This movie could have come out this year. It was only 1936 it wasn’t like 1000s of years ago, but the plot is something that could, I could see in a, you know, Netflix movie today. It’s all about fidelity, infidelity. Hot secretaries, hot wives, who also might be suspicious of their husbands having an affair. Hot It was a wonderful film, Wife Versus Secretary. Check it out. One of the top my favorites of 2024.

 

Scott Eckert  29:49

I’m shocked, floored. Don’t have any idea what to say. Wouldn’t have expected you to pick a movie that’s about 90 years old, but now. I gotta check it out. My last movie. Listeners of the podcast can probably guessed it. Ellie, I’m sure you know what it is. I mentioned it last week. What was my favorite movie of 2024 you recommended it to me.

 

Ellie Kemper  30:12

I was waiting for this one. Why don’t you say it? It’s your movie.

 

Scott Eckert  30:17

Anora, the story of a young stripper who lives in Brooklyn and has a kind of whirlwind romance with a Russian oligarch, a teenager who’s got more money than he knows what to do with and is a fool and asks her to marry him. And then things go from there. It’s a hard R, lots and lots of nudity and sex and drugs. And, I don’t, I’m not. I wouldn’t describe myself as a prude. I’m not really, normally into movies like that. And yet this one was so deeply human. And I really, completely fell for the story and the characters and and it’s a rare movie that I just genuinely had no idea what was gonna happen in the next five minutes.

 

Ellie Kemper  31:08

Like most movies, original right?

 

Scott Eckert  31:11

Yeah, exactly yes. I agree completely and absolutely original. Carry on. I’ve not seen it. I’m sure there are plenty of twists, quote, unquote, but like, I think I probably know the shape of that movie, and that’s not a knock on, carry on, no but Anora, I, like, I genuinely was like, I don’t, I don’t know how what’s gonna what’s going on, what’s gonna happen.

 

Ellie Kemper  31:34

Hard agree. I believe the same. I said this during our podcast. Maybe I think it’s the same director as the Florida project. It’s, it you. It’s unlike anything that you norm, it’s, I think it’s very original. It’s not like stuff I’ve seen. I am up. You called yourself not a prude. I am a prude. I was not. I found the nudity, sex, all the explicit imagery in there, part of the story. I embraced it wholeheartedly. It is such a human story, like you said, and you didn’t know what was going to happen next. It was fantastic, Scott, what a great movie to end on that you and I both have seen this movie. Both you and I love this movie. I think it’s again. Now I’m really going to hand it off to the performers and to the director for pulling off such a feat. I mean, you’re like, you’re you’re emotionally invested in this film, like on overdrive. Scott, we have just finished our discussion of our favorite movies encountered this year when we come back. Scott, I think we’re gonna play a round of love is really blind movie edition, so stick around for that.

 

Scott Eckert  32:58

And we’re back ready to play Love Is Really Blind. Ellie, this is the game where I’m gonna give you five items and ask you to rank them, but you don’t get all five ahead of time you’re gonna rank them blind. And it’s called Love is really blind, because, you know, we’re very sensitive to copyright. We don’t it’s not like the Netflix show today’s version events, whatever is, who would you like to have dinner with? Ellie from one to five, who would you like to have dinner with? And these are fictional characters. Oh, fictional characters from films that came out in 2024 so movie characters from 2024 you’re gonna rank them. Who do you want to have dinner with? I love this. Here we go, number one, not in your rankings, but the first one I’m gonna give you Wolverine, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. I know Ellie. What do you know about Wolverine? You’re not a superhero person. What do you know about him?

 

Ellie Kemper  33:51

I know that. What do I know about Wolverine? Scott? I know Hugh Jackman plays him, and I know that he has claws.

 

Scott Eckert  34:01

He’s got big, old metal claws. What else would you say? He’s a friendly guy?

 

Ellie Kemper  34:04

I have no idea. I know that Deadpool and Wolverine is like a comedy, so I’m assuming that they think it’s funny, like Wolverine thinks he’s funny. I’m assuming.

 

Scott Eckert  34:16

Mostly Deadpool thinks he’s funny. Wolverine is more of the straight man in that duo. But, yeah, he’s a gruff guy. Gruff man. Where would you have to rank him? One to five Dinner.

 

Ellie Kemper  34:25

Hard five.

 

Scott Eckert  34:26

Hard five.

 

Ellie Kemper  34:27

Scott, even if you were delightful, of course, I don’t wanna have dinner with someone with those claws. So hard five. Next, intimidating.

 

Scott Eckert  34:33

All right, Glinda the Good Witch, played by Ariana Grande.

 

Ellie Kemper  34:38

Scott, you are just killing these I would love to have dinner with Glinda or Galinda, as all the inside wicked people will know that’s a little inside joke Glinda played by Ariana Grande, not Kristin Chenoweth. I would say I do like her a lot. I love that movie. I loved her performance of that I know. It’s confusing. I’m not having dinner with Ariana Grande, but rather Galinda. I’m gonna put her at two, because she’s chatty. I mean, she’s sort of despicable, but I I know this type, and once I get down to dinner with her, once I sit down with her, I know I’m gonna find all the good that she has inside. So number two.

 

Scott Eckert  35:19

Winner over she because she she judges people. She’s a little judgy, totally. You know, she seems nice to her friends. I think you’d be one of her friends.

 

Ellie Kemper  35:26

I wouldn’t at the beginning of dinner, she’d be like, Who is this woman she like, didn’t like her. I’m sure she put on makeup, but you can’t tell. And then by the end of dinner, I’d have her in my I’d have her I’d be in her good graces, and she’d be in mine. Okay, number two.

 

Scott Eckert  35:40

All right, next one. Next one, The Penguin. Now, I don’t know if you know this. This is technically a TV show on HBO Colin Farrell, a handsome Irish man puts on a giant fat suit and plays a Batman villain who talks, who talks like this. So he’s a murderous sociopath, Batman villain played by Colin Farrell in a fat suit.

 

Ellie Kemper  36:08

Scott, this one. Okay, listen to me. People have told me that Colin  Farrell, especially Colin first performance, is just like incredible as the penguin and people are sobbing, and I don’t know the story of the Penguin or why they’re sobbing, but it must be emotionally heart wrenching, but I’ll tell you this, I don’t know having that. I don’t know what The Penguin has gone through, so I don’t want to trivialize it.

 

Scott Eckert  36:35

I think it’s okay for you to characterize him as a bad guy. He did. He’s the worst. Yeah, he’s a real but he said the appropriate name for him is super villain.

 

Ellie Kemper  36:46

Then why are people crying about?

 

Scott Eckert  36:48

I don’t know. I think they cry too much if they’re crying at the penguin did some sad stuff happened to him when he was a kid in this new show. But and call  Colin Farrell’s performance is impressive, largely because he’s a beautiful Irishman playing a grotesque.

 

Ellie Kemper  37:04

They’re always gonna get. Yeah, well, Scott I’m gonna put that then at I mean, obviously it’s four.

 

Scott Eckert  37:12

Yes, I think that’s right. I think you might prefer Wolverine with the Wolverine, but we already the rules. Are the rules. All right. Next one. Ellie, we’re rat. We’re rounding it out here, Garfield, the cat, oh, Scott played by Chris Pratt.

 

Ellie Kemper  37:25

Not fair. None of this is fair because I don’t want to have dinner with Garfield. I mean, lasagna.

 

Scott Eckert  37:34

Well, yeah, that’s probably what you’d eat, right?

 

Ellie Kemper  37:36

Well, that would be fine, because I like lasagna. And so that part actually, okay, now I’m focusing on the positive.

 

Scott Eckert  37:43

Taylor Swift, like spaghetti. You like lasagna.

 

Ellie Kemper  37:46

Garfield, Scott, it’s gonna be three. I mean, it’s like Garfield, whatever. I guess he’ll be funny. I don’t I haven’t seen Garfield. I only read the comic strip.

 

Scott Eckert  37:54

Garfield, the cat said number three, so I don’t know. All right, so you’ve locked yourself in. The next one is gonna be the number one person that you want to have dinner with, Ellie Lily bloom. Do you know who Lily Bloom is on?

 

Ellie Kemper  38:10

Oh, I’m so angry. Lily Bloom is the character played by Blake Lively in it ends with us.

 

Scott Eckert  38:16

A movie I have not seen, but that I know that you don’t like very much. So, okay, all right fine. That’s unfair because, because you said that you like lots of things about it, and I know that the lot of the performances are great. There’s a tremendous amount of drama in the making of that.

 

Ellie Kemper  38:34

That movie was almost one I wanted to talk about on the pod, and then I realized it’s too complicated. I can’t scratch the surface. It’s all too new. But Lily Bloom is the character. Yes, she’s played by Blake Lively, but she’s more than that. She’s a character from a book, and now she’s a character in a movie, and she opens a flower store.

 

Scott Eckert  38:52

She opens  she’s a florist.

 

Ellie Kemper  38:54

Oh, did you not know that?

 

Scott Eckert  38:56

I don’t know very much about her. Her name is bloom, and she’s a florist.

 

Ellie Kemper  38:59

Yes, Scott.

 

Scott Eckert  39:00

does she herself bloom throughout the course of the story?

 

Ellie Kemper  39:03

Yes, Scott.

 

Scott Eckert  39:05

Seems irresistible to me.

 

Ellie Kemper  39:07

Well, the thing is, I don’t know I’m having dinner with her. It’s fine, but I’d rather have dinner with Galinda. She’s my number one pick. All of a sudden, I would put Lily bloom ahead of Garfield, and I would put her ahead of the penguin and probably Wolverine. No, I think it would go if I could reorder it my way it go, Glinda Wolverine, Lily bloom, all right, but that’s fine. Lily Bloom is one that’s fine. She’ll be fine. We’ll talk about […]

 

Scott Eckert  39:38

Glinda Garfield, Penguin and Wolverine. Well, that was such a delight. Ellie, I had so much fun playing Love is blind talking about movies. Is there anything you’re looking forward to this week? I think both of us are looking forward to the same thing. If I’m being honest, I don’t want to step on you, and that is for these fires to be over, at least. We hope, yes, by the time. Listeners hear this, maybe it will be in the rear view, and we hope so in our hearts go out to everyone who’s been displaced, etc. Ellie said it better than I can now.

 

Ellie Kemper  40:11

All right, Scott. Well, that wraps up our movie episode. Thank you so much everyone for joining us for another episode of Born to Love. If you want to find me, I’m @EllieKemper on Instagram.

 

Scott Eckert  40:20

And I’m @meScottEckert on Twitter, be sure to leave us a five star review, and if you have any thoughts or questions for the show, send us an email at borntolovefeedback@gmail.com.

 

Ellie Kemper  40:30

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Scott Eckert  41:19

We’ll be back next week with more Born to Love. But before we go, I’m gonna leave you with the immortal words, the biggest cinematic quote from 2024 Thank you, Deadpool, I am Marvel Jesus. That’s not really how he says it.

 

Ellie Kemper  41:36

Scott, it sounded good to me.