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Hollywood has a new star — a bear that gets into a lost cocaine1 stash2
Cocaine Bear came in second place and drew $23 million at the box office in its first weekend. The movie is based on a true story.
A MART?NEZ, HOST:
Hollywood has a new star, and it's a bear, a really agitated4 bear. OK. Why am I dancing around this? It's a bear high on cocaine that goes on a killing5 spree.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COCAINE BEAR")
CHRISTIAN6 CONVERY: (As Henry) You're safe. Bears can't climb trees.
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON: (As Peter) Of course they can.
MART?NEZ: It's loosely based on a true story, and it's titled, appropriately enough, "Cocaine Bear." It mauled the competition this weekend, coming in second with $23 million in box office earnings7.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COCAINE BEAR")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Apex8 predator9, high on cocaine, it's out of its mind.
MART?NEZ: So awesome10. Linda Holmes from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast has seen it. Her heart rate has returned to normal. She's here. Linda, to know that there's even a tiny shred11 of fact about a black comedy horror film called "Cocaine Bear" is kind of amazing. Give us a short summary.
LINDA HOLMES, BYLINE12: Well, the only part of this that is real is that in 1985, there was a drug smuggling13 mishap14 that resulted in a bunch of bags of cocaine getting dumped in the forest, and a black bear found it and ate it. And unfortunately, the bear died. This movie presumes instead of the bear dying, the bear goes on a wild mauling, killing spree as various people come through the forest looking for the cocaine or looking for the bear.
MART?NEZ: Now, I'm looking forward to your examination of the many layers of metaphor15 here.
HOLMES: Yeah, there aren't any.
MART?NEZ: (Laughter).
HOLMES: The thing about "Cocaine Bear" that I like so much - and I do mean that - is that they used to call action movies, like, "Towards The Danger" (ph) or, like, "Under Suspicion" (ph). But now they've just decided16 we're just going to call it "Cocaine Bear." And it's the same thing. There was a movie earlier this year about a plane that went down, and they just called it "Plane." And I think there is a sense that, like, let's just say what we're doing.
MART?NEZ: It's like when a store has a store brand kind of item...
HOLMES: Right. Absolutely.
MART?NEZ: ...As opposed to, like, the brand name.
HOLMES: Absolutely. Just say what the thing is, and that way, people feel like they are getting their money's worth because it's hard for me to imagine somebody being like, I want to go see "Cocaine Bear" and not feeling like they got "Cocaine Bear."
MART?NEZ: Elizabeth Banks, she's the director here. She also directed one of the "Pitch Perfect" movies and also one of the "Charlie's Angels" movies. What did she bring to this?
HOLMES: I think she has a genuinely kind of offbeat17 sensibility. She is also an actress who's done lots of comedy. And I think that she brings a certain wacky sensibility, as do the producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller18, who have also worked on movies like "The Lego Movie" and "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" and stuff like that. They also take a lot of movies that seem like bad ideas and make them into good ideas.
MART?NEZ: Now, Linda, let me ask you this because my 30-something-year-old son sees all of the '80s slasher movies with his daughters, my granddaughters. So is this movie, "Cocaine Bear," something I could take a 13- and a 9-year-old to see?
HOLMES: Well, it is an R-rated movie, and it is gory19. I think it is important to think of this as more like a slasher movie than, like, an action movie. You will see a lot of blood and innards and things like that. Everybody feels differently about that. I would not have been allowed to see this when I was 9, but many, many 9-year-olds have seen movies like this.
MART?NEZ: Now, one more thing really quick, Linda. I imagine it's probably more fun to see it with as many people as you can.
HOLMES: Absolutely. I think you have to see this movie with at least five people. If you go to a theater and see it, that's fine. If you're going to see it later, invite some people over because sitting there by yourself watching "Cocaine Bear" might make you feel silly or lonely.
MART?NEZ: Linda Holmes talks about all this stuff in much greater detail at the podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Linda, thanks.
HOLMES: Oh, thank you.
1 cocaine | |
n.可卡因,古柯碱(用作局部麻醉剂) | |
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v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所;n.隐藏处 | |
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3 transcript | |
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5 killing | |
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v.撕成碎片,变成碎片;n.碎布条,细片,些少 | |
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14 mishap | |
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