Episode 41 – Joey Figueroa About the Epic John Milius, the Teddy Bear with the AK-47
The Drunken Taoist Podcast #41
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Episode:
- Don’t play “Cherry Pie” or Joey will strangle you with a G-string
- Daniele has no problems with superlatives
- Childhood obsession for Milius’s movies
- The four amigos: Spielberg, Milius, Coppola, Lucas
- A picture of Milius with no guns?!?
- Directing as self defense
- Daniele would give somebody else’s right arm for fiction written by Milius
- How a 1/2 hour meet and greet turned into a 6 hour conversation
- Milius would say ‘fuck you’ in a very poetic way
- I love Milius for the same reasons I love Evan Tanner–all heart, all epic
- Alligators with a moat: what the UFC would look like had Milius had his way.
- The Rome TV series
- Carlin talks about history the way Milius directs
- “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star” -Nietzsche
- Milius would never do The Goonies. He only did movies he wanted to make
- Handing a loaded gun to Martin Sheen to “help” him deliver lines better
- Inviting the Hell’s Angels to lunch at the Warner Studios
- Mike V loved the Milius documentary
- Pulling the trigger
- How the Conan soundtrack helped John as he was between life and death
- Conan trilogy?!?
- John Milius: The Teddy Bear with the AK-47, The Zen Anarchist, A Threat to Western Civilization
- “I’m really a hippie. Everybody thinks I’m right wing but I’m really a hippie. It’s just that the hippies wouldn’t elect me as king. And I wanna be king”.
- Sergio Altieri, the Italian version of John Milius
- Joey’s journey into documentary-making
- Daniele’s meeting with Harrison Ford
- Tarantino: one of the few modern directors in Milius’ mold
Joey Figueroa About the Epic John Milius, the Teddy Bear with the AK-47 May 31, 2014 / 1:38:00
