Movie Night #4 – The Iron Giant
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
On this episode of Movie Night at Geekshow, hosts Scott Carelli and John Pavlich discuss listener Polygon Wizard’s pick of “The Iron Giant” from director Brad Bird.
SPOILERS for the film begin at 39:10
Join us next week for Scott’s pick of “Timer”.
You can email your comments and film suggestions to movienight@geekshow.us
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Nice, I’ve never seen The Iron Giant and have been looking for an excuse. :)
Thanks for picking my movie! :D
I’m partway through the podcast now, and I wanted to mention something that you both missed. Early in the movie, there is a picture of Hogarth’s dad that is on his night stand. There is a shot of it when Hogarth is dressing up in his military outfit. The dad appears to be in a military uniform. So, the movie subtly suggests that the reason Hogarth’s dad isn’t around is because he died in a war (probably WW2). In fact, the possibility exists that Hogarth’s helmet could have been his dad’s