A New Take on a Classic – Fatman and Santa Claus
December 23, 2021 - 42 min
Title: A New Take on a Classic – Fatman and Santa ClausDescription: Today Chris and I talk about the 2020 twist on the classic Santa Claus and Christmas movie – Fatman. In this movie, Mel Gibson stars and a very different version of Santa Claus. The movie still takes on the important themes and conversations of any Christmas movie. Chris and I will see if it measure up!You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.beyondthebigscreen.comClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Image Credits:By Saban Films - IMP Awards theatrical poster, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65528780Begin Transcript:FatmanSteve: [00:00:00] Thank you for your listening to beyond the big screen podcast, we are a member of the Parthenon podcast network, including Scott writes history, unplug James Earley's key battles of American history and Richard limbs. This American president, of course a big thanks goes out to Chris for joining me today.Thanks Chris. I think we're good. We have a really good one on tap for today. A great way to support beyond the big screen is to leave a rating and review on apple podcasts. These reviews really help me know what you think about the show and help other people learn about being on the big screen. More about the Parthenon podcast network can be found@parthenonpodcast.com.You can learn more about beyond the big screen, great movies and stories. So great. They should be movies on Facebook and Twitter by searching for a to Z history page. You can also, you can contact me there or just send me an email to my email address. Speed. At a to Z history page.com links to all of this and more can be [00:01:00] found@beyondthebigscreen.com.So I am thank you for joining us today on behind the big screen. Now to day, we have a Christmas present for you. We are going to talk about a very different version of a Christmas movie, though. We're talking about the 2020. New Christmas, classic. I dare say Batman, this movie stars, Mel Gibson as Kris Kringle, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Ruth Kringle and make the great character actor, Walton, Goggins as skinny man.This movie is a serious departure from the CRA the classic Christmas story, but it makes some interesting points on the genre and the idea of Christmas and Santa Claus in general. As usual, we'll be giving you some spoilers in this episode, but this episode can be the gift that keeps on giving. Watch the movie and listen to this episode, watch the movie and listen to the episode again, it'll be your new Christmas classic.Also join the [00:02:00] conversation with your thoughts, comments, and questions, and feedback. We'd love to hear from. Now this movie plays with genres. It's a dark comedy it's action drama. It's a Christmas movie. It is a true Christmas movie with Santa Claus, the naughty list and the nice list Mrs. Claus elves, but with a twist.So Chris, why don't you start off by just telling us an overview of the title character Batman also referred to as Chris who's actually Santa's. Chris: Yeah. So, yeah. Uh, Chris or Sante is, uh, played by Mel Gibson who. I believe it was, yeah, he was perfectly cast for this role, in my opinion. And he plays a, uh, a different kind of Sante. So he's not the Santa that you see in the Tim Allen movie or your typical Christmas movie, the first shot you see, he's shooting a gun at doing target practice and the middle of Alaska.Um, you find out later.
