MANN AGED: THOR-MAN BATES

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MANN AGED E1: THORMAN BATES   

What does it take to be a man?   We have no clue. One of our hosts, Jack, is young enough he can still figure it out so we ware watching all of Michael Mann's directorial efforts to assist. In our first episode we will watch and dissect Mann's mainstream directorial debut in Police Woman S4 E6, The Buttercup Killer, 1977 and 2015's BLACKHAT, his most recent effort starring THOR-BEFORE-HE-WAS-FUNNY and shot on iPhone 6s! The hosts watched different versions of Blackhat and it turns out there are tons of differences. In both Young Thor plays a hacker recruited to stop a different hacker from manipulating world events to make a buck. Also in both versions: mood for days and Thor with his shirt off (contractual, we believe). Police Woman was a television series that ran for four season between 1974-1978. Mann had worked in the writing ranks for earlier series' such as the gritty anthology Police Story and Starsky and Hutch before he was given the chance to direct The Buttercup Killer episode of Police Woman in S4. While he did not write the episode, it bears some of his later flourishes, despite being a perfunctory TV procedural with little to remember other than his name in the credits. The story concerns a mysterious nun killing Greeks who have dark family secrets. Guess the twist based on the title of our episode! 

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