May 23, 2025

Desert Movie Draft (w/ Ian Naude)

Desert settings always make for a great cinematic experience! This was just as true for Nolan’s Oppenheimer even if the desert was being used for something highly problematic. In this episode, we take turns drafting our favorite movies with desert settings. They span a wide variety of genres from sci-fi to thriller to classic epics to animated musicals! And as it turns out, talking desert movies is not so dry after all.



https://www.establishingshotpod.com/



Feedback:
Email us at establishingshotpod@gmail.com
Leave a voicemail from the button on the right side of the screen on our website https://www.establishingshotpod.com/



Support the Show:
Join The Establishing Shot Family for early, ad-free episodes, bonus content, and access to our Discord server where we talk movies all the time: https://www.establishingshotpod.com/support/



Guest Info:
Ian Naude
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/honeybadgerian/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ianalistairnaude/



Follow Eli and the Show:
Eli on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/theeliprice
Eli on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/eliprice
Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EShotPod
Show on Instagram: https://instagram.com/establishingshotpod
Show on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@establishingshotpod
Show on Facebook: https://facebook.com/establishingshotpod
Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/establishingshot.bsky.social
Show on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@establishingshotpod
Show on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@EstablishingShotPod

but I am excited to get into our movie draft Yeah, I Just texted Ian this earlier today what our draft was gonna be so I hope I gave him enough time to come up with a good list

Ian Naudé (02:50:03.261)
Yeah, we killed it. Nothing.

Ian Naudé (02:50:16.83)
I'm ready.

Ian Naudé (02:50:28.725)
Yeah, I've got a list.

Eli Price (02:50:31.091)
great. Don't show it to me because I might steal your pics. Yeah, we're gonna be drafting in line with the asteroid city, which takes place in a desert. We're gonna be drafting desert movies or movies with deserts in them at some point, you know. But yeah, so I'm excited. I feel like I've got

a really good list. I think we'll probably, we didn't really discuss this off mic, but do you have enough to draft seven each on your list?

Ian Naudé (02:51:15.196)
As long as you don't take half of mine, I should be good.

Eli Price (02:51:19.333)
We'll wing it. We'll just see where we end up.

Ian Naudé (02:51:21.542)
And I've got some in the back of my mind I can throw in if you take a bunch of these.

Eli Price (02:51:25.055)
Great. All right, let's do it. Yeah, we'll shoot for drafting seven each. You know, seven is a good number. So let's do that. But yeah, you're your first time guest. So you get the first pick. Yeah.

Ian Naudé (02:51:40.453)
sweet very pleased to have that first pick i'm going to go with raiders of the lost ark which is one of my all-time favorite movies put that on anytime and you're going to be having a good time so love that movie

Eli Price (02:51:47.661)
Mmm, good pick.

Eli Price (02:51:57.147)
Yeah, yeah great pick and you know, that's right in line with a Dial of destiny came out this month. I've actually been rewatching these and loving it Yeah, I had never seen King of the Crystal Skull I know a lot of people hate it Dislike it. I thought it was a fun movie. I didn't really understand I understand why you might think it's not that great. Maybe but the

The amount of hate people have of that movie is like, I just don't understand it. I thought I was still in, yeah. But yeah, Raiders, great pick. I...

Ian Naudé (02:52:30.793)
Yeah, it's a bit much.

Eli Price (02:52:42.831)
I have a lot of movies on my list that I love, but probably none that are... that everyone will love along with me. And that is like, not just like a crowd-pacing pick, but is one of my like, 5 star, 10 out of 10 movies. And you might not think of it right away when you think of desert movies, but...

It's full of deserts. They're just not Earth deserts. They're deserts on the planet Tatooine and places like that. So I'm going to pick Star Wars.

Ian Naudé (02:53:15.521)
I think this is on my list.

Ian Naudé (02:53:21.821)
Ah, that was not on my list, but that one's great.

Eli Price (02:53:26.383)
Yeah, Star Wars. I'm not going to say the fake name of A New Hope, because that's not the name of the movie. The name of the movie is Star Wars.

Ian Naudé (02:53:35.201)
That's a great pick. I don't know why I didn't think of that.

Eli Price (02:53:38.299)
Yeah, yeah. It's not it's not Earth deserts, but they are definitely stiff, you know, chock full of deserts for sure.

Ian Naudé (02:53:42.378)
Yeah.

Ian Naudé (02:53:47.093)
Good pick, that was great.

Alright, so next I'm going to go with Mad Max Fury Road. Just... Yeah, I'm sure it was on your list. Yeah.

Eli Price (02:53:51.247)
Alright, where are you going next?

Eli Price (02:53:56.157)
Oh, that's a gut punch.

Eli Price (02:54:00.439)
Yes. Yeah, that's one of, I always say, if I had to say, what if you were to ask me and I had to answer what's the best action movie of all time, I would say Mad Max Fury Road.

Ian Naudé (02:54:13.713)
Yeah, it's an incredible movie of action and speed and desert. It's entirely in the desert. And it's just like you. It's a five out of five for me. I love that movie.

Eli Price (02:54:21.295)
and deserts.

Eli Price (02:54:30.651)
Yeah, yeah. Man, I actually have a few like just like five star movies on this list. That was that's actually one of them. Mad Max is one of those for me. But actually, I think I have one more on my list and I'm going to go ahead and take it. And that is no country for old men.

Ian Naudé (02:54:57.217)
That was my next one.

Eli Price (02:55:00.735)
Man, you gotta love sniping picks off of people right before they're gonna take it. Most of the time it ends up happening to me. I would have been really having a hard time picking between this one and Mad Max, so I guess it's better that you went ahead and took one of them so I didn't have to struggle with my pick.

Ian Naudé (02:55:05.073)
It's fun.

Ian Naudé (02:55:18.213)
Yeah. If you had taken med, Max Al is going to pick no country for all meds.

Eli Price (02:55:23.719)
But yeah, No Country, you know, like one of probably the best Coen Brothers movie and just one of my, it's one of those movies that like I watched early on in my like, you know, I guess journey into loving movies and have just like grown to love it even more. It's such a good movie. But yeah.

Ian Naudé (02:55:45.541)
It really is. And I've actually so Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors and he wrote the book for Old Men. Have you read the book as well?

Eli Price (02:55:51.119)
Okay. Right.

Eli Price (02:55:55.979)
I know I haven't, but it's good. Incredible.

Ian Naudé (02:55:59.554)
It's one of the rare exceptions where I think the book is just as good as the movie or the movie is just as good as the book. They're both just perfect. They're both like perfection, you know. Such a good movie. Great movie.

Eli Price (02:56:07.14)
Okay, yeah.

Eli Price (02:56:12.423)
Yeah. Yeah, I'll have to check that book out sometime. Yeah. All right. You're this is your third pick.

Ian Naudé (02:56:21.077)
Third pick. OK, so it's starting to get tricky now. So that one's been taken. I'm going to go with animated movie, which I think is kind of forgotten these days. Prince of Egypt. It was on your list? All right. It's a desert movie. It's a great movie. Yeah. So.

Eli Price (02:56:31.825)
Okay.

Eli Price (02:56:38.175)
Mmm, that was on my list. Yeah.

Eli Price (02:56:46.675)
Yeah, it is.

Ian Naudé (02:56:49.965)
And I'd kind of, songs are peak, you know, they're great. And so like I'd forgotten about it until recently, I saw it, someone had posted about it online and I was like, that was a great movie. So.

Eli Price (02:56:50.879)
Man the songs on that are so good. Yeah.

Eli Price (02:57:03.867)
Yeah, it's been a long time since I've seen it, but yeah.

Ian Naudé (02:57:07.373)
Yeah, me too. I need to rewatch it because it was a good movie.

Eli Price (02:57:12.135)
Uh, so I do have one more.

Five-star movie that I watched probably a couple years ago That this is one of those so like we were talking earlier how like When you're doing these jasper like man do I pick make picks that to kind of make the people happy or picks? That'll make me happy and I always like to do a little mix of both So this is one of those that probably most people are not familiar with maybe but it is I Think I want to say it's a

Ian Naudé (02:57:33.92)
Yeah.

Eli Price (02:57:49.031)
movie by Vim Vendors called Paris, Texas. To me, it's just an incredible movie. There's...

Ian Naudé (02:57:53.075)
Oh yeah.

Eli Price (02:58:02.579)
I don't even know what to say about it, but the desert is definitely a prominent feature in the movie. And man, it's just an incredible character study into this guy that's the lead actor. Great movie. If you haven't watched that one, I highly recommend it. Really good movie.

Ian Naudé (02:58:23.645)
watched it I just wrote it down on my list of things to watch so but I'm aware of it like I've heard of it you know people talk about life so yeah so for my next one number four I'm gonna go with this is tough

Eli Price (02:58:28.9)
Oh yeah, it's incredible.

Eli Price (02:58:34.832)
Right, yeah.

Eli Price (02:58:38.955)
All right, cool.

Eli Price (02:58:42.569)
Mm-hmm.

Ian Naudé (02:58:50.197)
I'm just gonna go with the one that I like the most, which is going to be...

I'm gonna go with the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Eli Price (02:59:00.999)
Hmm. Yeah, I was actually just thinking I wonder if I should take that next. Oh Yeah for sure it's actually caught up with this very recently I'm trying to remember why I did but um, oh I remember I watch a watch I listen to a podcast called film spotting and they do like a March Madness bracket

Ian Naudé (02:59:05.513)
It was on your list too?

Eli Price (02:59:28.147)
They've been doing decades. And so it was the 60s, best of the 60s bracket back in March this year. And so I was catching up with 60s movies that I hadn't seen. And yeah, that was one of them. I was like, I need to watch this. So yeah, it really great. The score on that movie is so like iconic.

Ian Naudé (02:59:40.257)
and that was one of them.

Ian Naudé (02:59:50.621)
It's just emblematic of our love, like my idea of the West, you know, at that time. Like even if it's not that way, that's like my idea of it. And the score is perfect. The scenery is perfect. The cast Eastwood and his prime is great.

Eli Price (03:00:00.596)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (03:00:09.415)
Oh yeah. Yeah, so I've got some different directions I can go. There's at least one more movie that I really love, but probably most people haven't seen that I could take. But I'm gonna kind of go, I'm gonna kind of, ugh, man.

So, okay, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna go ahead and take like the pick that I think is like more crowd pleasing, that I do think is a great movie and do like a lot. That way I can kind of do what I want, maybe with the rest of my picks. And I'm gonna go ahead and take There Will Be Blood. Paul Thomas Anderson's film. Daniel Day Lewis, just incredible, like man.

Ian Naudé (03:00:56.725)
Ah, I didn't write that one down.

Ian Naudé (03:01:05.257)
And that's it.

Eli Price (03:01:05.883)
Every time I think about that movie I want a milkshake though.

Ian Naudé (03:01:11.113)
It's obligatory I think if you watch that movie. That movie has, isn't Paul Dano in that movie? Dano, Dano? Yeah, I love him.

Eli Price (03:01:14.213)
Yeah.

Eli Price (03:01:18.423)
Oh yeah. Mm-hmm. He plays like the... I think the character's name is Eli. His character's name. He's like a priest and his name is Eli. Yeah.

Ian Naudé (03:01:25.513)
Oh yeah, it is. I love any, I love Paul Dano anytime he's in anything. He's...

Eli Price (03:01:33.327)
Oh yeah. He was great in the Fae-Womans for s-

Ian Naudé (03:01:35.837)
Yeah, he was. He was really good. And he's playing a different role too. Usually he's playing a little character that's kind of off, you know. That one's kind of down the line. Okay. So next. Okay. Cool. Um, this is my fifth. I'm gonna go with the movie Holes.

Eli Price (03:01:43.119)
Yeah. Yep.

Eli Price (03:01:49.343)
Alright, we've got three more picks.

Eli Price (03:01:54.035)
This is your fifth.

Eli Price (03:01:59.875)
Okay, good pick. I didn't actually, so I didn't write it on my list because I already had so many that I would choose over it that I was like, I like holes a lot, but I just didn't even write it down. But I do like holes.

Ian Naudé (03:02:11.709)
Yeah. I like it. Like it's not out of all the movies I have on the list. It's not the best, like cinematically, technically made. It's not going to beat the others, but it's one that I just enjoy. I can put it on and I enjoy it. Yeah, exactly. So that's it. That's why I'm picking it. Yep.

Eli Price (03:02:26.087)
Yeah. It's a nostalgia pick. Yeah.

Eli Price (03:02:33.799)
Yeah, yeah, good pick. So. I think. Yeah, I'm going to go next. I'm going to go with a film by director Kelly Reichert. It's kind of I don't know, I guess you might call it like a neo Western, if that's a genre. Kind of. Yeah, it's a film called Meeks Cut Off.

Ian Naudé (03:02:58.749)
I'm curious what this is.

Eli Price (03:03:04.387)
Um, yeah, so it's, I mean, it's a, it's an incredible movie. It's, um, uh, Kelly Riker kind of, she really is a great director. Um, because she doesn't, she does so many different sources, genres. Um, this is a movie set in like the mid 1800s, uh, following like, um, basically some settlers like on the Oregon trail.

basically. But I would call it like a, it actually stars Michelle Williams. She's one of the main characters. Paul Dano's in it too, actually. Meeks Cutoff, M-E-E-K apostrophe S, Meeks Cutoff. But yeah, it's so, I would call it a neo-Western, because it is a Western in a sense. Like they're on the Oregon Trail. They're.

Ian Naudé (03:03:44.385)
What's the name of this movie again? I need to write this down.

Eli Price (03:04:02.915)
There's a guy that's sort of a rogue cowboy-ish kind of guy that's leading them. And the reason I would call it sort of a neo-Western is it's kind of like flipping the perspective that you would normally have in a Western. So the main characters are, the characters that you actually get the most perspective from are the women. And so you'll have these scenes where the men are up.

Up ahead of them and they're like discussing and like making decisions and you can't really hear what they're saying But you have the perspective of the women and it kind of yeah It kind of it's kind of like flipping the power structures in a way Which plays out in the movie really? interestingly but really Say that again

Ian Naudé (03:04:38.663)
interesting.

Ian Naudé (03:04:49.969)
curious. I'll check it. Yeah, I'm curious. I'm gonna check that one out.

Eli Price (03:04:55.171)
Yeah, Meeks Cut Off. I really enjoyed that movie. Watched it a few years ago, I think. Yeah, that's definitely one that most people probably haven't seen, but hopefully they will after hearing me talk about it. Yeah, this is your sixth pick. Where are you going to go?

Ian Naudé (03:05:15.229)
Number 6. I'm going to go with Dennyville News Dune Part 1.

Eli Price (03:05:25.691)
Great. I was wondering if one of us was going to get there. I don't think I was going to pick it. I really enjoyed this movie, but I didn't love it.

Ian Naudé (03:05:38.373)
Yeah, that's kind of where I am, you know? And it's one of, the book is one of my favorite books of all time, it's in my top three. Yeah, and so the movie, like you said, I really enjoyed it. Didn't love it, not like I loved the book, but really enjoyed it. And of course it's all desert, you know?

Eli Price (03:05:47.335)
Yeah, the book is incredible.

Eli Price (03:06:00.039)
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I do feel like so yeah, I was out when I saw the movie. I was telling people At the end of the day the book is kind of unadaptable For a movie, but if you're gonna adapt it, it feels like he did the probably the best job you could do um There's just so much in the book. You're so much in um paul atreides head

Ian Naudé (03:06:29.161)
Yeah, and the way it's written, it's written so perfectly in the book, like the inner monologues are perfect in that book. How do you translate that to film, you know?

Eli Price (03:06:29.575)
that like it's hard to make that come across on screen well.

Eli Price (03:06:39.587)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Eli Price (03:06:45.455)
Yeah, yeah, the voiceover can only really do so much like voiceover narration. Yeah All right, this is my sixth pick. I have two more picks. I feel like I have a lot of pretty serious movies and So I really need to lighten things up. I already picked one Coen Brothers movie But I'm gonna have to pick another and go with Raising, Arizona

Ian Naudé (03:06:47.361)
They go, yeah, it's not the same.

Ian Naudé (03:07:10.23)
Oh, gotcha. Good pick.

Eli Price (03:07:11.931)
which is such a fun movie. Have you ever seen it?

Ian Naudé (03:07:15.937)
I haven't seen it, but I'm aware of it, you know? No. So, yeah, that's a good pick.

Eli Price (03:07:22.139)
Yeah, it's, I mean, it's got a great performance by Nick Cage. Um, it's, it's got a lot of wild stuff going on and it's funny. Um, you know, the Coens are actually, I feel like a really good at comedy. Um, uh, no country is not a funny movie whatsoever. Uh, but raising Arizona is, is very funny. Um, and.

Ian Naudé (03:07:25.727)
Uh-huh.

Ian Naudé (03:07:37.013)
They are, yeah.

Ian Naudé (03:07:41.482)
No.

Ian Naudé (03:07:46.769)
Yeah, they've got humor like with the Big Lebowski, you know, Fargo. Fargo has some dark humor in it.

Eli Price (03:07:51.186)
Oh yeah.

Eli Price (03:07:55.207)
Yeah, most of their movies do have a lot of comedy. Dark sometimes, but yeah. Yeah, Raising Arizona, I recommend it. It's a fun movie.

Ian Naudé (03:07:57.821)
Yeah.

Ian Naudé (03:08:03.645)
Yep, I wrote it down. It's on my list.

Eli Price (03:08:07.484)
Alright, this is your last pick.

Ian Naudé (03:08:07.601)
So this is my last pick. And honestly, I'm kind of agonizing over this last pick because I've got a few, like, multiple good ones. OK, cool. Looking down the list, I'm just going to go with the one that I liked the most, even though I don't think it's the most crowd-pleasing one. But out of the ones I've got remaining, I'm going to go with the Book of Eli.

Eli Price (03:08:18.091)
We'll do honorable mentions too.

Eli Price (03:08:37.863)
Mm.

Ian Naudé (03:08:38.508)
which I really enjoyed. So that is my pick. Yeah.

Eli Price (03:08:45.471)
Denzel Washington. Yeah. It's hard, you can't really talk about the movie a whole lot, cause it'll spoil it, if someone wants to watch it. But yeah, it's a, I feel like it's a fun movie. Yeah.

Ian Naudé (03:08:52.657)
Yeah. If you haven't seen it, it's a it is. Yeah. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. You'll like it.

Eli Price (03:09:03.964)
Uh, yeah, and it's about me. Um,

Ian Naudé (03:09:06.981)
It's literally the book of Eli.

Eli Price (03:09:09.775)
Yeah, it's about me. They asked me like, you know, who do you want to play you in the movie? And I said of Denzel Washington, of course. So.

Ian Naudé (03:09:17.185)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Eli Price (03:09:21.171)
Yeah, that's your dad joke of the episode. Man, so like I have, let me count. One, two, three, four. I mean, I have like six, seven, or eight more movies that I would love to pick. I feel like...

Ian Naudé (03:09:23.797)
That's awesome.

Ian Naudé (03:09:41.353)
Yeah, I've got five more movies and there's a bunch I didn't write down, but.

Eli Price (03:09:51.595)
So, man, I feel like one of these really needs to be on this list, even though there's a couple that I like more personally, but I feel like this has to be on the list because I feel I watched it. Again, I actually watched it recently with that 60s movie bracket for that. Yeah. And I feel like.

Ian Naudé (03:10:14.849)
I think I know what.

Eli Price (03:10:19.555)
this movie before I say the name is like the quintessential desert movie and so much so that like the desert feels like a character that is like beating down on everyone in the movie especially like yes see if you can guess it yeah but it's you know beating down you know even like almost the sanity of these characters especially the main character

Ian Naudé (03:10:31.509)
Do you mind if I try to guess before you submit? But you can finish what you're saying, I just wanna guess.

Eli Price (03:10:49.48)
as you go through the movie. And yeah, Ian, try to guess what it is.

Ian Naudé (03:10:52.945)
pretty sure it's Lawrence of Arabia. Yes.

Eli Price (03:10:55.631)
You're correct. Lawrence of Arabia. Great. I mean, it's it really is a great movie. Peter O'Toole is just incredible. As Lawrence. But, yeah, it's a really, really super interesting character study on this guy. And, yeah, the desert really does feel like a character in the way that. Oh, I'm blinking on the director.

Ian Naudé (03:11:04.053)
He kills it.

Eli Price (03:11:25.735)
this one, David Lean. The way that David Lean like will like he has these shots where like it's the it's like the desert in the horizon and like you have like maybe a setting sun and like the characters like going across the horizon on camels like silhouetted it's just it's beautiful but also like really gives you the

the feeling of just like these people are in a desert and it's like it's awful.

Ian Naudé (03:12:00.381)
Yeah. Yeah, it's those iconic shots. They're beautiful, but also lets you see like it's almost menacing because you see the danger of the desert is present in those shots. And you're right. It's incredible movie. I thought of picking it, you know, but it's like it's not. You're right. I feel like it has to be on one of our lists because of what it is. So.

Eli Price (03:12:10.463)
Yeah.

Eli Price (03:12:28.035)
Yeah.

Eli Price (03:12:31.547)
Yeah, yeah, I just feel like it, you know, you have to pick it. It really does feel like the quintessential desert movie. So we picked it last. We got we slipped it in there. Did you have any honorable mentions that you wanted to?

Ian Naudé (03:12:38.119)
It is, yeah.

Ian Naudé (03:12:44.381)
Yes, I do. Some ones that I didn't pick that I think are also great movies are Tremors. It's a good movie. Let me see. Cars, the animated movie Cars. The first one, he's stuck in a death. Yeah. The Martian with Matt Damon. So yeah. And then Palm Springs.

Eli Price (03:12:51.931)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Eli Price (03:12:58.479)
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't even thinking of that, but yeah.

Eli Price (03:13:08.455)
Right, another planet, just like Star Wars.

Ian Naudé (03:13:13.577)
It's another good one.

Eli Price (03:13:16.451)
Palm Springs with the one the comedy Yeah, Andy Samberg Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I actually picked that on um on the time travel draft Yeah, I thought it was hilarious This might be a hot take but it's got that same like Groundhog Day sort of thing But I liked it more than Groundhog Day, honestly It's a probably a hot day I do

Ian Naudé (03:13:19.741)
Yeah, it isn't like, yeah, with it. 80's Sandburg, yeah. So.

Ian Naudé (03:13:29.161)
Yeah, funny movie. Yeah, hilarious.

Ian Naudé (03:13:38.303)
Yeah.

Oh, that is a hot take.

Eli Price (03:13:45.327)
To be honest, I need to rewatch Groundhog Day, but.

Ian Naudé (03:13:47.045)
Yeah, but I can kind of see it like Palm Springs feels fresh, you know Um, so I get that

Eli Price (03:13:52.303)
Yeah. Some honorable mentions for me. I had on my list. There's a couple that are that I. Want one or two for sure that I really think are incredible movies. One is a HUD with Paul Newman, it's a 60s kind of Western. It's almost like a Shakespearean tragedy sort of feeling movie.

Ian Naudé (03:14:14.046)
Mm.

Eli Price (03:14:21.707)
Is like in the form of a Western? But yeah, Paul Newman is great in that movie has like kind of the tragic, you know character Another one I really like is this is a director I've watched a lot of in the past like year or two Jim Jarmusch is dead man with Johnny Depp It's a black and white sort of

Eli Price (03:14:52.027)
If I had to say, like, so Wes Anderson makes strange, you know, quirky movies, and I feel like Jim Jarmusch is another one of those guys. His movies are very different than Wes Anderson's, but very strange movies, and this is like his take kind of on a Western. And I think it's a really great movie. Those are two like big ones. I also had Wild at Heart by,

David Lynch with Nick Cage. Hiller Highwater was a great movie. Of course, another Coen's in True Grit. I haven't seen the original True Grit, but I love the Coen's. Badlands, have you ever seen Badlands? Terrence Malick.

Ian Naudé (03:15:25.825)
Yeah. That was a good movie.

Ian Naudé (03:15:36.609)
but account

Ian Naudé (03:15:42.621)
No, I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it.

Eli Price (03:15:47.151)
Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, those are I think that's all the ones that I had on my list. Yeah, there's a there's actually like just a ton of great movies with deserts.

Ian Naudé (03:15:58.173)
Yeah, when you first said like earlier today, when you first said, you know, we're going to do desert movies, my initial instinct was, oh man, it's going to be rough. But when I started thinking about it, I was like, well, there's this and this and this and that's a desert and this counts and that's the thing. And I was like, came up with this huge list of like, uh, like 12 or 13 movies just off the top of my head. I'm like, okay, I guess that was easy. There's a ton out there and you, a ton that are great that I didn't even write down.

Eli Price (03:16:10.036)
Yeah.

Ha ha.

Eli Price (03:16:23.401)
Yeah.

Eli Price (03:16:27.484)
Yeah, yeah, I mean.

There's a there's a lot of them, but uh, but yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and read through our lists Ian ended up with Raiders of the Lost Ark Mad Max Fury Road the Prince of Egypt the good the bad and the ugly holes Dune part one the book of Eli Yeah, it's a good list And then I ended up with Star Wars

Ian Naudé (03:16:53.246)
Yeah, I'm happy with that.

Eli Price (03:16:59.271)
No Country for Old Men, Paris, Texas, There Will Be Blood, Meeks Cut Off, Raising Arizona, and Lawrence of Arabia. Yeah, these are both really good lists. I do, I really do like that you got an animated movie in there. I like to try to get animated movies in the list and I didn't squeeze it in this time.

Ian Naudé (03:17:09.362)
And you also have a good list.

Ian Naudé (03:17:19.999)
Yeah.

Yeah, you gotta, you gotta... Yeah, I always try to like... Cause I think animated movies need to be like, they need a little step up, you know? So anytime I can, I'm like, here you go. Especially in a studio movie.

Eli Price (03:17:32.803)
Oh yeah, there's. Yeah, I was trying to think I was trying to think earlier, like, man, are there any Miyazaki movies that are in the desert and not just.

Ian Naudé (03:17:42.217)
That's exactly what I was thinking. I was going through the list, and I was like, if there's any Miyazaki movie that's in the desert, I'm writing it down. I couldn't think of one. Could you think of any?

Eli Price (03:17:49.935)
Yeah. I guess like the closest you could get is maybe in... I don't think it would really count, but in... Oh shoot. Nausicaa, they're kind of like making places into sort of deserts, but it's like a strange...

Ian Naudé (03:18:02.993)
Is it Nausicaa? That's what I was thinking.

Ian Naudé (03:18:11.065)
That's the closest one I could think of, but I didn't write it down because I didn't think it was like on the line, you know. So, yeah.

Eli Price (03:18:13.471)
Yeah.

Yeah, I felt the same way. But yeah, I always like to get an animated movie in there. Man, you beat me too. That was the only animated movie I had written down. Yeah, yeah, you just beat me to it. Yeah, that was fun. I enjoyed that. Yeah, do you know, I talked about I always wing the recommendation of the week. Do you have?

Ian Naudé (03:18:27.561)
Prince of Egypt.

Ian Naudé (03:18:35.489)
Yeah, I like that.