Rewatchables Reference

• Last Plummer/Foster scene – 'I sold my soul and I\'ve been trying to buy it back ever since'.
• First Jodie Foster / Christopher Plummer scene on the Brooklyn Promenade.
• First Clive Owen / Denzel phone call ('piña colada' exchange).
• The interrogation scenes collectively.
• The Albanian identification sequence (Chris's dark horse pick).
• The setup/beginning of the bank robbery – the meticulousness of the robbers entering as painters.

• Bill said this was 'the longest list I think we've had in at least 20 movies'.
• The interrogation scenes.
• The Albanian subplot/scenes.
• The Spike Lee dolly shot with Denzel after the hostage gets shot.
• Jodie Foster's Rothschild quote – 'When there's blood in the streets, buy property'.
• The Chaiyya Chaiyya opening/closing song by A.R. Rahman.
• The Terrence Blanchard noir jazz score.

• Chiwetel Ejiofor's New York accent – 'free soloing that accent,' his British keeps breaking through.
• Spike's video game commentary feels era-specific and dated.
• Albania as the go-to country for movie debauchery.
• Not much – the hosts noted the movie holds up remarkably well.

• Clive Owen nearly turned down the role because he'd be in disguise the whole time; they added the direct-to-camera monologues so he could be visible.
• Spike cast the kid after seeing him in a Chappelle Show sketch.
• Marcia Jean Kurtz was cast as hostage 'Miriam' because she played a bank robbery hostage named Miriam in Dog Day Afternoon.

• Samantha Ivers as 'the queen of Hackensack, New Jersey' – 'Marisa Tomei in 'My Cousin Vinny' times a thousand'.
• James Ransone – especially the 'he got the drop on you' scene.

• Peter Gerety as the mayor – Bill's pick, 'I never even knew what that guy's name was,' the definition of the category.
• James Ransone.
• Ken Leung.
• Basically everyone in the movie except the six leads.

• Al Palagonia – the construction worker who identifies the language as Albanian. Spike Lee's real-life friend, an investor (not an actor) who sits with Spike at Knicks games; Sean passionately argued for him citing his 'you look like a fucking optical illusion' line in 25th Hour.
• The hot Albanian translator – 'comes in for three minutes, completely owns the scene'.
• Kim Director as Stevie – 'Julia Fox 15 years before Julia Fox in Uncut Gems'.
• Ken Leung.
• The little boy, the bigot cop, the turban guy.

• Willem Dafoe – his character has nothing interesting to do, set up as antagonistic to Denzel but immediately apologizes; Bill said 'he's in like episode 24 of season three of Law and Order'.
• Spike and Dafoe met in a men's room during intermission of a Denzel play (Julius Caesar) and Spike said 'we should work together' – then shoehorned him in.

• Recasting Willem Dafoe's role since his character was the weakest.
• Queen Latifah (Bill's pick – going female).
• Tom Berenger (Chris's pick).
• William Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Harvey Keitel also mentioned.

• Filmed at 20 Exchange Place, a former 'Wall Street' bank repurposed as a cigar bar; interior was a built set.
• The Cartier diamond ring was real, borrowed from Cartier for three days, valued at $1.5 million.
• Spike hired graphic artists House of Pain for 10 days to build the 'Gangsta is Genocide' video game from scratch.
• In 2011, 'Inside Man' 2 was officially canceled; a bootleg sequel 'Inside Man: Most Wanted' was made in 2019 straight-to-video with no original cast.

• Clive Owen – yes, 2006 with Children of Men AND 'Inside Man', 'on the short list of best two-film releases in a single year by an actor ever'.
• 21st century Jodie Foster – yes, 'kind of inarguable'.
• Fixers – debate between Madeline White, 'Michael Clayton', and Winston Wolfe; Winston Wolfe won.
• Post-Heat heist movies – 'The Town' won, with 'Fast Five' second and 'Inside Man' third.
• Juicy Fruit – yes (beats Chuck Yeager's Beeman's gum in The Right Stuff).
• Denzel – no; Spike Lee – no.

• All the hostages riding together in one car at the end to pick up Clive Owen – 'almost an unforgivable fuck up'.
• Where did they get all the materials to build the false wall? 'That's a lot of raw materials... you did this in 12 hours'.
• None of the seven crew members making a single mistake during interrogations.
• Clive Owen coming out in a Yankees hat and sunglasses looks suspicious.
• Christopher Plummer confesses to being a Nazi collaborator way too easily.
• Why didn't Plummer burn the Nazi document/ring instead of leaving it in a safety deposit box?

• Yes, enthusiastically – Bill said it could be an amazing 10-episode Netflix show, like 'Lost crossed with Inside Man'.
• Chris suggested 6-7 episodes with the heist happening in episode 3 or 4, then the last two as the comedown.

• What exactly does Jodie Foster's Madeline do? Does she have an office?
• How did Clive Owen know about the Nazi contents of the safety deposit box?
• Would Winston Wolfe have done a better job than Madeline? Sean: 'Unquestionably'.
• Can you name any countries that border Albania?

• The Gold Digger ringtone from the cell phone scene.
• Jodie Foster's power suit.
• Denzel's tan tuxedo he wears to City Hall.

Spike Lee – unanimous; 'Spike won the movie' – the film is a showcase for his direction and what he brought that wouldn't have been there with Ron Howard.