Popeye Village In Malta Is A FEVER DREAM - A Stormy Day At The 1980 Filming Locations & Guided Tour
Popeye Village In Malta
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Today's adventure begins
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as the recording of this Thursday,
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December 4th, 2025. I am in Malta and I
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have been traversing almost two miles
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through the hillsides of this beautiful
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country. My hotel is considerably up the
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hill from the cathedral way up there.
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Very hilly terrain. And I am going to a
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spot that I've wanted to go to my entire
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life. Well, at least since the early 80s
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when I first saw the classic film
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Popeye.
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I'm going
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to the set from the 1980s film. Shelley
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Dval, Robin Williams, directed by Robert
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Alman, music by Harry Nielsen. Oh yeah,
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I am so excited. This is the road m and
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I'm almost there. And thankfully they
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left the sets up and it is a tourist
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attraction of sorts. In fact,
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there is the ticket booth right there.
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I'm going to be walking in the real
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spots where the entire movie, all of the
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movie, production, editing, music was
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recorded, all the sets, walk you through
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all of it. The real life Sweet Haven.
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The real deal. I first saw this movie
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probably in 1985 when my family used to
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start renting VCRs.
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It was around the same era. I first saw
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Back to Future, Goonies, Peeb's Big
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Adventure. Even this move, even though
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this movie came out 5 years earlier,
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that's when I first started getting into
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the whole VHS
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thing and seeing movies
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really pretty much for the first time in
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my life when I was 11 years old. And
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this was a monumental
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pivotal core movie in my youth. So, I am
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really happy to be here. €15 was the
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admission price. There's some signatures
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here. And you know what? These kind of
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look I think they're reproductions, but
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they look pretty close to being the real
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deal. Obviously reproductions, though,
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because
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the weather would get to those. So, I
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got a voucher here
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for a couple different things. I'm
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entering Popeye Village at my own risk.
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And here is Popeye's agenda.
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This is what it looks looked like back
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in the day. Walt Disney Productions were
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the ones who distributed overseas. The
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US it was Paramount. So it was like a
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merger of Paramount and Walt Disney.
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A lot of the Disney execs at that time
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were from Paramount.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh yeah. I can already feel like I'm
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going into Sweet Haven. This is so
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awesome.
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Is this a screeny's boat? I think they
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sunk most of the boats. And this is
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certainly one of those movies that
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people are divided on whether it is a
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great film, an average film, or if it is
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a horrible film. Some people consider it
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to be not a good movie. I personally
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have the alternate opinion and really
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enjoy it. If you ever watch it, I
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encourage you to watch it with the
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subtitles on because most of the
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characters, including Robin Williams,
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which is the first movie I ever remember
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Robin Williams being in, I never watched
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Morgan Mindy growing up. So, the first
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movie for me that I saw Robin Williams
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in was Popeye, but he kind of mumbles a
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lot of it. So, if you have the subtitles
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on, you can really hear some of the
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adlibs, some of the good things he's
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saying, and a lot of the other
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characters are kind of hard to
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understand as well. So, if I have one
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tip for watching Popeye 1980, turn the
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subtitles on and it's a much more
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entertaining film.
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Look at this. Here is the cast and crew
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1980
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right down there. There's Poop Deck
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Papy, spoiler alert, who played Popeye's
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father,
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Ray Wson from Fast Times at Ridgemont
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High.
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I feel like it's, you know, it's been 45
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years, so there might be some spoilers
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in this.
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Unbelievable. Unbelievable that I'm
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here. Just like Popeye was walking in.
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He was rowing in on his little dingy.
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Oh my lord. It still looks the same.
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This is such a bucket list.
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This is so cool. Oh my gosh. There's the
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oils house over there.
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Mr. and Ms. with their son Caster,
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daughter Olive.
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Unbelievable.
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And I have signed the guest book right
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down here.
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Fourth day of the 12th month of 2025.
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Happy to be here. How did I hear about
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this? Lifetime fan. So so happy to be
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here in Sweet Haven.
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I can almost hear
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the anthem and the theme song of Sweet
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Haven right now.
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I love that soundtrack. There's a couple
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duds in it, but for the most part, a
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genius soundtrack. I know I probably am
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one of the few people who actually
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believe that, but I love it. Welcome
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everyone. Adam the Woo here. I'm
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inviting you to join me. Let me go into
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town and see if they have a room for
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rank. See if they have a room for rink.
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A room for rent. A room for rink. Join
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me into Sweet Haven,
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shall you? Oh, I'm so freaking excited
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to be here.
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rock formations. Everything looks the
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same. Of course, they have added some
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colorful paint. In the movie, it was
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very dingy, uncolorful.
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See guy here. Hello.
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>> Hello.
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Characters out.
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How you doing?
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>> Very good, gentlemen. You today
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>> I'm acquiring about a room for rink.
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>> Ah, to be honest, there were only one in
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the town and it's occupied by the Popeye
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right now.
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>> Oh, Popey has the room. All right.
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>> Sadly, but you are right on time because
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in about 2 minutes, we're going to start
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a show.
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>> So, feel free to grab a seat somewhere
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and enjoy.
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>> Have a good day. Have a lovely day.
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>> Yes.
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When the one
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blow him down a strange made his way
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back to his home
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>> with the sailor out of his way
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back to the original be incoming an iron
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and search through B's body.
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>> The spinach is kicking in. There it
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[music] goes.
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>> Oh my hero.
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>> In fact, the whole design of this place
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was meant to be completely uneven. They
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didn't use any kind of levels. They
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didn't keep any straight angles.
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Everything is kind of wonky and wacky
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and weird and everything. And here's the
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tax man. You can stick your head. You
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can be the tax man, man. It's like being
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in the film.
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>> Hello. Hello, mate.
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>> Where are you from?
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>> From Florida.
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>> Florida.
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>> Yes. Celebration, Florida.
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>> You You watched the movie.
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>> I've seen it 50 times.
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>> I know it very well.
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>> So, is it the first time you came?
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>> First time ever. Yeah. It's a bucket
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list.
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>> Invite you. Yes.
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>> 11:10.
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>> I will be over there on the wood and I
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will do a guided tour here.
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>> Oh, you will?
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>> Yes. But is I I try to don't make it
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exhausting.
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>> 11 exhausting.
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>> But I try to at least like extra
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knowledge about this place. All right.
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>> Since you watched the movie and you're
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you seem happy to be here, I invite you.
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>> All right. What's your name?
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>> My name is Harry Hotash.
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>> Harry Hotash.
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>> Yes. I'm the financial expert on the
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village.
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>> Okay.
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>> It means I have no money. I bet on
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horses. Always on the wrong one.
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>> Okay. I'll see you in a bit. Harry Hot
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Cash.
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>> I'll be there. Got to be honest. You
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know, since this has been on my radar
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for a good portion of my life,
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especially since I've been doing videos
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and traveling a lot, I've always wanted
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to stop off here. It took me till now to
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finally get here. The water is just as
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blue and beautiful as it is in the film.
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It's like being in Sweet Haven.
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I wonder if that's Popeye's little
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dingy.
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the gambling facility was out there on
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the water. Also, the big barge when it
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pulled in when the the fight happened.
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And as you can see, as I was saying, not
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only exterior spots, but practical
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locations inside as well when you kind
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of go through here. And did you know, I
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don't know if you realize this or not,
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but if you watch the movie, Dennis
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Frrawns is right there. He's kind of
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like one of the bully guys. And another
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thing I got is a sinsk of humiligration.
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There's a cinema right here. I'm not
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sure what's going on in the cinema, but
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yeah, look at this old building here.
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This this is definitely screen used.
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Take a look at this right here. In
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memory of Robin Williams Popey. Got the
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Robin Williams face there. Even says
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right here, in memory of Robin. And they
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have popcorn in here. One of the two
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vouchers is for a postcard that I got to
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go find in the first house. And the
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second one is for some popcorn. Little
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Popeye popcorn. I am what I am. And
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here's a couple of the movie posters
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here. There's Robin right over there.
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Right over in the corner there. There is
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Olive Oil played by Shelley Deval.
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Blueo. I am what I am. Here's another
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Walt Disney and Paramount Pictures
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present. Popeye 1980. Popeye Museum.
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Comic. Popeye. Comic Museum. There's
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Sweet Pea there, too. But all of these
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buildings were built exclusively
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for the film itself.
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All misconstrued, uneven.
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Piano. What if that's from the movie?
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They did use a piano in the movie.
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Oh, I got to find where the
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where the eating establishment was.
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I hear someone yelling outside.
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>> Yeah. I got to find the Rough House
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restaurant.
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Wonder if they serve hamburgers here. I
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hope they serve hamburgers.
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Oh, there he is. Right down there. He's
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got the hamburger right there.
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He would gladly pay you Tuesday for a
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hamburger today.
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He's buying. Who's paying?
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One thing's for sure.
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>> Theming is on point. It's time for our
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engagement party
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in the olive house. Follow Mr.
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House for the engagement party.
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>> Engagement party.
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>> They certainly are. They have consistent
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entertainment.
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>> Yeah, not a bad perspective up here from
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all of Sweet Haven. right here. You just
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climb up these stairs past the horses
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and you get a bird's eyee perspective on
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the top of where they were doing the
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show.
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I think I got a kernel of popcorn wedged
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into my wedged in my throat there for a
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minute. I was starting to cough just a
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little bit. But take a take a look at
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this like perspective here. You kind of
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pan around. You got Anchor Bay. You got
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General Store down there. Very nice
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perspective.
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>> Are you okay?
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>> I will GIVE YOU YOU WILL PAY FOR my
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roll. He doing the roll. That's awesome.
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>> Oh no.
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>> Oh, come on. That's good.
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>> Get the Spanish Popeye.
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All right, I'll hop on another overlook
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now. They're getting ready to do another
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event right down here. Everyone's kind
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of geared up over here.
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excited about this guided tour. Here's
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the Rough House snack bar. This I think
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this was built after the fact. This is
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not from 1980.
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>> This is one of the only
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live movie sets alive still
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>> still in
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>> in Europe. I think is the only one. This
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movie was uh started to be dreamed in
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1979 in September.
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>> The director of all this movie
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production or Robert Evans, he was he
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was from actually it was from
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California.
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>> Oh yes.
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>> The guys who were there in America, they
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were searching for a place to record
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Popeye the movie
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which in the beginning was not supposed
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to be Popeye the movie. They were doing
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a Paramount production. They weren't
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trying to do Henny
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>> Annie,
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>> you know this line. So they were trying
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to do this one, but the rights for that
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movie were so expensive. And Paramount
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just reminded that they already have the
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rights for the
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>> Popeye the Sailor Man.
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>> So instead of going pursuing for any
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they tried to do the Popeye one. So
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Robert Evans was searching in old
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America. He wanted to find a place to
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make justice for all the anchor bay on
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the cartoons and in America he never he
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never find the place that he he said
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like okay I'm going to record the movie
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here and people will not know where this
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is so he went to Malt travel in Europe
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he find this place in Malta and in 1979
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he starts to make all this village come
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to life the village took 4 months to be
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all built
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>> yes Why? Because all these 19 houses you
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have around here the village, just two
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of them were built from the outside to
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the inside. We're going to finish our
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tour in one of them, Olive Oil's house.
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>> Yeah,
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>> this is what if you watch the movie,
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this is where a lot of the main scenes,
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Pope's room, fight between Papey and
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Pluto. And you have another the rough
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house, the restaurant,
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>> the restaurant rough house
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>> where they where they filmed the scene
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of the fight food.
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>> Everything is food.
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>> These two were built inside. All the
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other houses in the time the movie was
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recorded were just built from the
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outside.
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>> So as you see here, it was just rocks
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and wood.
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>> Malta is not very productive in terms of
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wood. So all the wood was uh imported
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from Austria from Orland and they built
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also quickly because
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just two of the houses were inside built
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while the others was just a facade.
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>> Okay. It was just from the outside when
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they were recording. They could see the
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village was happening and they used all
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these houses to make what? Production,
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the makeups, the dressing rooms where
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the actors could rest, where the actors
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would bring the families to be part of
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the village. That was very good.
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>> This is one of the good views.
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>> Very good view.
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>> This one in there where Pluto and Papey
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are on the roof. That's a very good one.
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every day.
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>> Amazing.
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>> But we will pass them.
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>> This was just me take usually we take
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people here to give this photo kind of
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selfie time.
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He was already in TV. He was doing a
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series. But then he did an interview and
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Robert Evans saw the interview which
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Papey impersonate.
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No, which Robbie Williams impersonates
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Popey.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And he did very good. So, Robbie Robert
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Evans invited him, but Robbie Williams
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was a bit tough to accept because
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imagine as an actor that didn't start
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cinema yet.
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>> You're invited to do a character very
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well known as Popeye
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>> and it's tough for an actor to accept to
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make like a iconic comic character. So,
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he was afraid, but then he accepted and
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then it all went well.
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>> The rest is history.
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>> Yes. And the rest is history.
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here. If you take this back out in the
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day that they were recording, this is
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where the things happened like they had
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the set of actors, but the producer
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Robert Evans, all the families from the
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main actors were invited to come to also
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be part of the movie because back in the
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day, they didn't have the green screens
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room. So to make all this set come to
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life, he needed people. And instead of
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just hiring well-known actors, he
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invited the families,
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>> the family.
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>> They were invited to be here and to make
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all the village come to life. Besides
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actors, he also invited street
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performers, jugglers, acrobats, and he
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kindly like squeeze a lemon to make
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lemonade. He wanted to use everybody's
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skills to make this be like related to
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the comics. Not. This is one of the
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houses I told you is one of the most
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important because since the beginning of
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the production, this was built inside as
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well.
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>> The interiors and exteriors.
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>> Yes. Something's changed because this
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house had an explosion. The if you watch
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the movie, you have
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>> you have a fight scene here with Pluto.
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>> But the Americas wanted to bring
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dynamite from from the America to Malta,
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but they couldn't. So, they use black
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powder. Ah,
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>> black powder is a very very like you can
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find it I don't know where exactly but
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is a a malt thing. So they use powder to
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make the explosion. So the first time
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they did the scene the director this was
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not in the green screen area. He wanted
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to make an explosion. So all the house
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was exploded from the inside. So and
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before Popeye's movie was upwards like
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in the second floor. Yes. Now with with
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rebuilds and all the manufacturers to
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make this village still be alive. They
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put Popeye's room over here just
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>> originally it was up there right?
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>> Yes. Pope's room was there but now they
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put it over here the recreation
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>> just for you guys to have a look and to
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understand how it looked Popeye's room.
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>> Okay. But it was here and then just to
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for you to know the main reason why we
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are here in Popeye's village is because
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like I told you they when they finished
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the productions they did the edits and
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they released the trailer 26 minutes. So
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the all the money they invested the
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budget they had they passed the budget
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and they were really expecting to have
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the the comeback and to win some money
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with it. But in the end it was a flop
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because when people watch a trailer from
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30 minutes they assume that they
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>> they know the movie
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>> they while watching the movie it's like
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one more hour and I watch the main scene
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so this is enough.
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>> So it was a flop
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>> and America Americans when they finished
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they went back there
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>> and since they did a flop they didn't
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come back here to destroy this because
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if they actually made the money that
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they were expecting to make they would
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come here and they would destroy the
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set. So this was where they filmed the
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rough house scene?
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>> Oh, so this wasn't built recently. This
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was here in 1979, 1980.
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>> Of course, the interior a little change,
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you know, commercialize it a bit.
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>> Ah, okay. So this is where the fight and
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everything happened in here.
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>> Really?
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>> Okay. [laughter]
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>> Now they the movie that they were doing
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outside, they are doing inside because
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it starts
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>> so interiors and exteriors were in in
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here. Rapha was here like this take this
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recent chairs take everything.
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>> So when Papey does the fastpac punching
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to the guy's face and the bullies are
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here. I bet your papy is as ugly as you
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are. All that was in here.
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>> Ruffles is Revos is exactly like inside.
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This is exactly
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>> Oh, here we go. Yeah.
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>> Well, that's the gambling scene. That's
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the gambling boat scene there.
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>> So up here is like where Blue was
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eating. Remember he was like elevated up
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and he was eating like the chicken leg.
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Yes.
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>> Like elevated up. So he had probably
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been up here.
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>> Like I told you now recently they made a
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restaurant outside. Now they made this
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an inside restaurant. I wanted you to
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see the anchors by
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>> because it's a funny thing as well that
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anchors bay. They also did stuff to make
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this a calm water because you can see
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this is connected to the ocean.
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>> Yes. Is that what those are?
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>> Yes. So they put it a boat, a big boat
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under to stop all this wave movements
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because in the movie they wanted this to
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be a very calm and relaxing medium of
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water.
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>> Yes. In the summer here
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we actually make this like a beach and
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the water is so clean.
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>> You have it from here and you have
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a part of the bike
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over here in this part. But if you have
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time, I seriously advise you to go watch
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it.
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>> So, this kind of looks like where, you
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know, they go down below where Sweet Pea
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they switch the bag out. Kind of looks
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like down here or over here cuz it was
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it was lower down when uh you know, the
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the bag gets switched out. But
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>> but now you're interested me because uh
23:14
even like I told you, most of the people
23:16
we do the tour, they don't watch the
23:17
movie. They're not that interested. They
23:19
want to know more stuff. So, it's
23:22
challenging because usually we don't
23:24
need to answer all the specific
23:26
questions,
23:26
>> but it's a good question.
23:27
>> I think it's all been redone, but I
23:29
think it was down here on this lower
23:30
level.
23:30
>> Like I told you, like in the movie, like
23:32
if you watch the movie now after you
23:34
came here,
23:35
>> you're going to see that some things are
23:36
the same, but you're going to see where
23:38
they changed stuff.
23:39
>> Absolutely. They're making an
23:40
announcement now to get out of the
23:42
elements.
23:42
>> This is a safety announcement.
23:44
>> Safety announcement.
23:55
I'm going to head to the olives or the
23:55
oils, not the olives. Casters and Olives
23:59
house.
24:09
>> Oh, I love this. It's Mrs. Oil.
24:09
>> Mr. Eye, Mr. Pope Eye.
24:12
>> Household items.
24:15
And as he said, they recreated Popeye's
24:17
room
24:19
>> down here. Even though it was filmed
24:21
upstairs.
24:22
>> Oh, there it is.
24:24
>> Me, Papa.
24:25
>> Oh, just be alive. That's all I'm asking
24:28
you.
24:40
>> And this is where they did all the
24:40
interiors. Dining room.
24:43
Popeye's room upstairs that they've
24:45
recreated downstairs.
24:49
>> You owe me an apology. Casting is great
24:51
in this film.
24:53
>> And Shelley did it the same year as The
24:56
Shining. Both films were released in
24:58
1980. She filmed in the The Shining, I
25:00
think she filmed in 79 where the filming
25:03
of Popeye took place in January to June
25:07
of 1980. So she was just getting off of
25:09
Kubri's The Shining.
25:12
And then hopped right into the roll of
25:14
olive oil.
25:16
Dinner party scene. She loves me. She
25:20
loves me not. She'll marry me.
25:23
She won't marry me.
25:26
I'm looking at some screen grabs from
25:28
the film just because I am stuck inside
25:29
during this pretty dramatic storm that's
25:32
passing by. But if you look at when Mrs.
25:34
oil here is welcoming Popeye in for the
25:36
room for rink. Look across and there's a
25:39
window and there's that other building
25:41
right across the door entrance. So you
25:43
look at that that that right there that
25:45
window and that kind of similar shaped
25:48
window and arch arch roof is still over
25:51
there. So take a look right there.
25:54
That's where Robin Williams walks right
25:55
in. And that's that same exact window
25:59
and roof line just repainted.
26:02
Hey, it's just cool to walk around the
26:04
sweet the real sweet the real sweet
26:05
haven. And even though the inside of
26:07
this has been extremely redone because
26:09
it was destroyed obviously
26:12
when the circus performers that they
26:13
hired to do all the kind of fun crazy
26:16
stunts. There's one of them that's kind
26:17
of like just taking his back and like
26:20
hopping across the floor with his back.
26:22
I'm noticing the floor looks to be the
26:24
same exact floor
26:27
right here.
26:29
So that's kind of neat that I think the
26:31
floor is original floor from 1980. And I
26:34
also believe this is the door when Pluto
26:35
gets angry and is seeing red when
26:38
they're standing at the doorway. I think
26:40
it's the same doorway right there too.
26:42
It is in fact cuz you can see you can
26:45
see the building in the distance in that
26:47
same window that I showed.
26:50
That's right there.
26:53
And obviously because the whole inside
26:55
was gutted
26:57
right over here was a staircase when
27:01
they walked in. So Blutoo was here given
27:03
the mean eye given the seeing red eyes.
27:06
But the staircase that went upstairs
27:07
used to be right here. Again, as he was
27:09
saying, the interiors have changed a
27:11
little bit, but there's a couple things
27:12
you can imagine. The building's across.
27:14
Pluto comes in. He's coming up to the
27:17
engagement party. Flowers. I forgot the
27:20
flowers. and he goes and picks them
27:22
right over there. All this coral here is
27:25
the coral rock I was start talking
27:27
about. You can see numerous times where
27:30
the characters walk past all this these
27:33
rocks here. So where blueo says he
27:36
forgot the flowers. He was walking right
27:38
up the ramp as well. They've changed a
27:40
little bit over here. They've now built
27:42
a little deck onto like a little quick
27:44
service restaurant which is not open
27:45
currently today. You can see the oil's
27:48
house right there as he's walking up.
27:51
That's the exact angle. And where he got
27:54
the flowers was a little section. Oh,
27:56
there goes something else. Was a little
27:58
section right here. Channeling my inner
28:01
blue. Oh, channeling my inner blue. I'm
28:05
so mean. I had a dream of beating myself
28:08
up. Here comes an elf running through.
28:10
Hello. There's a storm on the horizon.
28:15
Oh,
28:17
is this the spot where they where he
28:18
slides the tax band down? Right here. It
28:22
looks like it slides them down and wins
28:24
the town folk over. Look at that.
28:28
Oo, look at this thing. That could be
28:30
it. It looks similar to it.
28:34
Sorry for the wind. It is lightning,
28:37
windy, stormy, and perfect. Just taking
28:40
in a thunder
28:54
oil house there.
28:54
And when the house is destroyed and
28:55
they're all having dinner, they realize
28:58
or they're eating. They realize the
29:00
sweet pea has like psychic abilities
29:04
to predict the future. You can see the
29:07
background behind and they're looking
29:09
out the window. You see these rock
29:10
formations very obviously over in the
29:13
distance. I was just re-watching the
29:15
clip. Oh goodness.
29:22
And the whole building or the whole
29:22
house, the oil house was destroyed. In
29:26
fact, there's a scene
29:28
here
29:36
when they're stressing over what
29:36
happened to
29:38
Sweet Pea, which would have been right
29:40
there. Olive Oil says, "Oh, I don't see
29:42
him anywhere."
29:45
Right there. Yeah, they had to
29:47
completely rebuild the house. You can
29:48
see all the town folk are very happy
29:50
that the tax man has been gotten rid of
29:52
and slid down there. And you can see how
29:54
the kind of more rustic unpainted
29:57
building, the Alchemist building there.
29:59
And then the mayor's office next to it
30:01
looked at that point in 1980 and what
30:04
that exact corner looks like now. Right
30:08
there.
30:09
Those are the same two exact two
30:12
buildings
30:13
when everyone was cheering and happy
30:16
about the getting rid of the tax man.
30:19
There was also more of a wooden dock
30:21
right here where the he needs me olive
30:24
oil song would have been. And it's kind
30:26
of like right along where that wooden
30:28
post is with the fake pelican there with
30:30
those two buildings behind where Shelly
30:34
sings that song. You can kind of see
30:36
here. Got to give a give a perspective.
30:39
Kind of kind of hard to tell, but that's
30:42
the spot right there. And you see the
30:43
two windows at the alchemist building
30:47
and the mayor's office behind her.
30:55
So right right about there.
30:55
Yeah. Great soundtrack. I ordered some
30:57
food. I ordered a burger with spinach on
31:00
it. The Commodore's Delight over here
31:02
that they have over here at the
31:04
Seafarers.
31:05
The restaurant open daily. Double down
31:07
on the waters.
31:13
Comes with fries, some mayonnaise,
31:13
tomato, ketchup.
31:20
There's the spinach and some ham and
31:20
cheese. Look at this.
31:23
A Popeye burger. There it is.
31:31
That'll be strong to the finish cuz I
31:31
eat some spinach.
31:43
They're doing a parade. I decided to go
31:43
inside Ruff House and eat my burger
31:45
inside Rough House Cafe.
31:49
Poop Paky right there.
31:51
>> Hello, Poop.
31:52
>> I come this way.
31:54
>> Thank you.
31:56
>> Be very.
31:57
>> I've already finished my burger, so you
31:58
can't steal it.
31:59
>> Oh, it was a green burger.
32:01
>> It was good. It was the green with the
32:02
spinach.
32:03
>> Green. The burgers don't used to be
32:04
green. They used to be like this. Look.
32:06
>> Mhm.
32:08
>> Like this. Oh,
32:09
>> don't green. Green is weird. It's
32:11
something is wrong with that burgers.
32:13
>> Oh, you have the true burger.
32:15
>> I have the real one.
32:16
>> The real one. Okay, enjoy.
32:18
>> Thank you, Ralph. I'll give it to me.
32:20
>> Have a good day.
32:21
>> Thank you. I just realized I have not
32:23
been in this building, which on the map
32:25
appears to be, according to the map
32:27
anyway, is the movie museum. I went in
32:30
the comic Popeye Museum and not the
32:33
movie version. So,
32:36
walk in here and see if this was
32:38
Hopefully, it's open. Oh, look at this.
32:40
I think the shoe right here.
32:43
I think that shoe
32:45
Well, it's tough to tell, but that shoe
32:47
might be that shoe.
33:24
>> That's a great photo there of Robin
33:24
>> and Shelly overlooking the ramp there
33:26
where the tax man went down.
33:29
I love this. Love this scene, too.
33:44
>> Okay. Yeah. So, look here. Look how tall
33:44
this building is. So, this would be the
33:47
rough house. See how it's like a
33:48
double-decker building.
33:50
>> Very curious what which interior they
33:53
use for that.
33:56
>> I don't know. That's That's a
33:57
>> toughy.
34:15
A little more info here.
34:16
After recording the basic music track of
34:17
the vocals in the studios, a playback
34:18
tape will be made in stereo with the
34:20
music on one track of the board of set
34:21
during transmit the song to an earwig
34:24
which small wireless earphone and
34:26
visibly located in the actor's ear. The
34:28
scene begins. The song plays the actor
34:30
sings live into his or her microphone.
34:32
This then comes back through the eight
34:34
track onto a tape live vocals and mix
34:37
the previous recorded musical track
34:38
minus the previously recorded temporary
34:40
vocals.
34:43
and Harry Nielsen became involved with
34:45
the movie in the summer of 79. Took a
34:46
break in the middle of production of the
34:47
album Flash Harry to create the music
34:50
for this movie.
34:52
>> He always had the thought that Popey
34:53
should be like quote walking music that
34:55
is melodies to accompany the different
34:56
movements and physicalizations.
35:00
>> Still chowing downh
35:02
>> still chowing down on the burgers.
35:04
>> Yeah, of course. Always.
35:05
>> How many a day do you eat?
35:06
>> Oh, six.
35:07
>> Six a day.
35:08
>> Yeah, it depend of how many the rappers
35:10
want to give me. Usually they are not
35:12
more than six, but I will try more.
35:14
>> Okay, try.
35:16
>> Thank you. I found a scene from a movie
35:18
when the town folk are walking into the
35:19
Rough House Burger restaurant. It in
35:22
fact was right there, but the building
35:23
has been redone or at least the roof has
35:25
been redone. It was more of an angled
35:27
shaped roof almost like you see at the
35:29
general store and over at the seafair.
35:32
In fact, the angle for the movie is like
35:33
right there. And there used to be a
35:35
wooden platform that they all walk
35:38
across this when like person delivering
35:40
the milk, the milk guy, the lady kind of
35:42
tries to jump over him and then hits his
35:44
chest and he falls. They're going into
35:46
rough house. So I think this is the
35:48
location where it was. But I think that
35:50
building has been rebuilt. That's why it
35:52
doesn't look the same. But this is the
35:53
angle. All right. So take a look. So
35:56
there's the general store. There's the
35:58
other place I showed. See the roof was
36:01
definitely a lot taller. It was big. It
36:03
was a taller building of the food place
36:06
than it was has been rebuilt. That's the
36:08
angle when I was standing up at the top
36:10
of the hill from 1980 versus now. And in
36:13
a lot of those scenes in the rough
36:14
house, you see a lot of these rocks and
36:17
boulders back behind here.
36:19
The doors open, the guy jumps out of the
36:21
window, see the backdrop of these rocks.
36:24
There's one point where the tax man
36:25
leaves door opens and you see the guy
36:28
with the beard who just appears in like
36:30
every scene. There's a guy with a beard
36:32
in the background. that does nothing
36:34
except just stand there.
36:37
Keep an eye out for him if you rewatch
36:39
the film. The guy with the beard
36:41
is in every scene, never says anything,
36:43
has no dialogue, but he's in probably
36:45
like 25 scenes throughout the movie. The
36:47
bearded guy
37:01
from this point. The gambling ship would
37:01
have been right over there.
37:03
There was a kind of a half sunken blue
37:05
ship that was in this exact spot. In
37:08
fact,
37:10
pay attention to these rocks right
37:12
there. The
37:14
the style of these rocks like you got
37:17
this here,
37:19
this rock formation, that rock
37:21
formation, and there's those rocks I was
37:24
just talking about right there. Very
37:27
distinct, unmissable.
37:30
And there's that half sunken blue boat I
37:32
was talking about. As best as I can
37:34
tell,
37:36
they walk down this. They She has her
37:38
bags. Olive oil has her bag, which later
37:42
gets switched out by a unknown person
37:44
that switches it out for Sweet Pea. And
37:47
they walk past these doors. She's like,
37:49
"What are you doing here? I'm looking
37:51
for my pap."
37:53
Well, if that's true, then where is he?
37:55
That all took place right in here. You
37:57
can see a lot of this looks very very
37:58
familiar as it did. And I'm also curious
38:01
a little bit later when Sweet Peak is
38:04
kidnapped
38:06
after Popeye throws the tax guy down
38:10
this right here and then is celebrated
38:13
by the town. They're hoisting up on
38:15
their shoulders. They're all celebrating
38:18
the fact that there's going to be no
38:19
more tax man. And you see, oh, and you
38:24
see
38:27
Sweepy come down with Wimpy right here.
38:29
And I think that's the same freaking
38:30
stairs. I think those are the stairs.
38:34
Just happened to be walking by here.
38:38
Rough house. The original spot of Rough
38:39
House over there. But I think that right
38:42
here is where Wimpy runs down goes down
38:46
with Sweepy down those concrete stairs.
38:49
It says do not enter down there. But I'm
38:51
pretty sure that's it. Let me look. So,
38:53
here's the moment I'm talking about. You
38:55
can see there's like this little corner
38:56
staircase that he walks down with Sweet
38:59
Pea right there in between the metal
39:03
door door and all that. And I think
39:05
that's the staircase. You can faintly
39:07
see a staircase there. I think that's
39:09
the one right here tucked away back
39:10
there. It's just a one one moment scene
39:13
like two or three seconds,
39:16
but I think that's it.
39:20
If I was a betting man, I would say that
39:21
that is it. Walks right down there from
39:24
the upper level, which would correspond
39:27
accurately
39:30
when the baby's getting handed off with
39:32
all the different town folk right up
39:34
there. It would make sense to just walk
39:36
down. I wonder where that staircase
39:37
leads. See if I can find the top portion
39:40
of that staircase.
39:42
[laughter] That's cool. That is cool.
39:45
Yeah, it almost looks like this entire
39:47
dock has been rebuilt. Those stairs
39:49
might not even go to anything anymore to
39:52
be completely honest. All right, I stand
39:53
corrected. The stairs entrance is still
39:55
here. You just cannot go in there. So,
39:57
that would make sense. Baby's getting
39:59
tossed around. He grabs the baby, goes
40:01
down these very stairs right here and
40:04
out towards the bottom that I showed
40:07
earlier. So, if you kind of go that way,
40:10
that's where the staircase lead right
40:11
there. I can't line up precisely where
40:15
this iconic moment was
40:19
the three of them having their special
40:21
moment after they found or got Sweepy,
40:25
but more or less there's the upside down
40:27
boat here. Not the same stream used one.
40:30
And there's a little spot there where
40:33
the tax man slides down. I'm using that
40:35
as perspective. But if you look here,
40:38
that's kind of the angle where they're
40:41
sitting right along here. You can see
40:43
some coral rocks and stuff where they're
40:44
sitting. Some rocks down there. There's
40:46
now been an air conditioner unit put
40:48
here. This might not be the exact spot,
40:50
but it's within a few feet of them
40:52
looking them looking over that direction
40:56
right there.
40:59
Honestly, now that the weather's gotten
41:00
a little bit better, I am just loving
41:03
walking around the town. I think I'm
41:04
going to go back up to the oil's house
41:06
cuz I want to pinpoint a couple other
41:08
scenes, monumental scenes that happen in
41:10
there. You know the part where she goes,
41:12
I said fooy and I mean fooy
41:16
fooy. That very cute moment with both
41:19
the main stars.
41:21
So this would have been removed. This is
41:23
after destroyed the house. But after
41:28
kind of re-watching some stuff just a
41:29
moment ago.
41:31
Right in here is where the that's that
41:33
fooy scene took place. Right here in
41:35
this exact spot.
41:36
>> Maybe one of the cutest scenes between
41:38
the two of them. See, I said fooy, and I
41:40
mean fooy
41:42
happened right here in this exact spot
41:45
on what I'm guessing is probably the
41:46
original wood.
42:00
Trying to soak all this in. It's
42:00
probably a focusing a little
42:04
>> or a lot on areas that I probably
42:06
already shown, but pretty good.
42:10
>> You don't not every day you get to go to
42:11
Popeye Village.
42:35
I said fooy and I mean fooy. All right,
42:35
I just sat in this little theater and
42:37
watched a 15-minute behind the scenes
42:39
presentation just ended. And in that
42:41
behind thescenes 15 minutes documentary,
42:44
it's not the same one that's on the
42:45
Blu-ray or the DVD special edition that
42:47
came out a while back and there's some
42:49
stuff on online that you could see
42:51
behind the scenes. This was something I
42:52
had never seen before. And they were
42:53
saying that there was a fire here in the
42:55
original Rough House Cafe burned down.
42:58
So that is the reason why it was
43:01
rebuilt.
43:03
That explains it.
43:11
It's amazing. So the soundtrack, I have
43:11
the vinyl soundtrack and it differs a
43:13
little bit from the soundtrack in the
43:15
movie because some of the tracks that
43:17
were recorded for the soundtrack differ
43:20
slightly. little nuances and cadence and
43:23
things than what was filmed on the
43:25
streets of the movie set because a good
43:29
portion of what ends up in the film
43:31
actually was recorded on the streets
43:33
live in the movie. I had a really great
43:36
day. I'm going to exit the property now.
43:38
Go across Anchor Bay and get a view from
43:41
the overlook
43:43
looking directly into.
43:46
So that's interesting. There was a fire
43:48
and thankfully it only burned a couple
43:50
buildings. One of them being here and
43:52
another building, possibly the church
43:55
that used to sit right up there that can
43:58
be seen quite a few times.
44:05
Yeah. I'm going to go across Anchor Bay
44:05
and over to that overlook right up
44:06
there. I had the best day today. I just
44:10
really love this movie.
44:26
This guy's great, too. He does so many
44:26
practical gags and Pratt falls and
44:28
things. He's the one where Pluto pushes
44:31
him down like an accordion.
44:43
>> [clears throat]
44:43
>> There's the brawl inside the Rough House
44:45
Cafe.
44:54
Love it. Sweet peee. Ah, yes. There's
44:54
the original Rough House Cafe, original
44:58
church up there. So, I'm just going to
44:59
assume that this were the editing where
45:00
they did the dailies. It is said on some
45:03
of the special features on the DVD
45:05
Blu-ray set that they would do the
45:07
dailies and then they would go up here
45:09
and the cast and crew would watch the
45:11
dailies in these buildings. This is
45:13
probably the recording studio up on the
45:15
top of the hill which is probably now
45:18
where this is built. Wait, you know what
45:20
is that the same? No, it's not the same.
45:23
Not the same building. This is built on
45:24
the same same spot, however. But there's
45:27
the original Rough House Cafe. There's
45:29
that long bridge. This is now the gift
45:32
shop. Oh no, that's the fire station.
45:34
Now the gift shop is here where you got
45:36
the free postcard. And then right along
45:39
here is where Sweet Pea was found.
45:41
That's where the tax man slides off. You
45:43
continue that way farther. That's the
45:45
oil's house.
45:47
Awesome. I have now exited out of the
45:50
technical property of the film set. And
45:53
now I'm going to walk around the
45:54
perimeter of the little al cove of
45:57
water, anchor bay, if you will. Go
46:00
around this way and try to get an across
46:03
the water view of Sweet Haven. Pretty
46:06
good from here, too. Take a look at
46:07
this. You can even see it from right
46:10
here. Not bad.
46:41
As I'm walking along, I can hear even
46:41
down there on the property, they're
46:44
playing the he needs me song right now.
46:46
I can hear the I can hear the melody.
46:49
I can even hear it from here across the
46:51
water crashing into the rocks from Sweet
46:54
Head. Right in the middle of the screen
46:55
is where we picked up the flowers. I
46:56
forgot the flowers.
46:59
And then the twostory greenish aqua
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green
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is the movie museum.
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And then you got the two buildings right
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in the center of the screen there. The
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one to the right
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here,
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the Bayer's house
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next to it. Both of those can be seen in
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so many different scenes when the town
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folk get so excited about the tax man
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being thrown down by Popeye right there
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where Popey moved out of the oil's house
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that was in that building there.
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And then of course you got the firehouse
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right there in the middle. I see Papey
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actually walking out the front of it. Do
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another show, I guess. Constant shows.
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And then over here is where the original
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Rough House Cafe burned.
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There you go.
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Amazing.
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Wow. Wow.
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So, I was standing over there on the
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other side.
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Someone said, "Walk down the ravine and
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all the way around. Go all the way down.
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Cross over. walk back up and get to view
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without the fence. So, I listened to
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their advice and they were right. It's a
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good view.
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I did it.
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I did it. Another spot that I wanted to
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go to for a long time and I knocked it
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off my list.
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So good. So good.
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So awesome. Oh, here comes the rain.
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Woo! I got to hurry. I got to run. I got
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to get undercover. Rain's coming. It's
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coming hard. Just like in the film.
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Storm's coming in.
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So, I was reading about the production
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actually went a few weeks too long due
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to torrential downpours and rain. I can
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see why.
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It's hilarious. Getting a lot of rain
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today.