Ep 25 - After Hours with Mary Houlihan

The Generation Splice

This week we take a cab ride to NYC’s SoHo neighborhood and get trapped with Mary Houlihan in Martin Scorcese’s 1985 black comedy, AFTER HOURS. Raquel isn’t sure whether to laugh or to be terrified. Mary’s reminded of the cringe-comedy style of MEET THE PARENTS. This is a movie absolutely could not be made today, not because of content, but because of plot. Scorcese really has it in for this poser of a main character too – an anti-poser morality story! Is this is Scorcese’s workaround to make his NYC version of Miller’s Tropic of Cancer? It’s great to see a director known for hyper-macho characters and stories play around with a plot involving strong women and queers, and having the main male character be at their whims! Raquel has some technical problems with her microphone, but hey, life’s not perfect!

The Generation Splice is film podcast where retired psychologist Dr. Raquel Martinez, a Baby Boomer through and through, & her son Raphael Jose Martinez, a cranky millennial punk rocker/former music journalist, & current film writer, discuss various films through the lens of their generation & personal experiences. Every week one host picks a film to dissect & see if they can splice together the generation gap via their love of film.

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The show is produced by The Martinez Family & the show’s theme song was written, performed, & produced by Raphael.