Jourdain Searles

1 sketch, 16 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) (guest)

A film critic and Bad Romance host who calls herself an In the Cut scholar and a longtime Jane Campion fan. Loves erotic thrillers, sexual frankness, and movies that like women's bodies; sees the film's backlash as puritanism and a refusal to let Meg Ryan be a woman with wants. Cannot stand Dennis Quaid or Russell Crowe, and is a sucker for the Matrix sequels.

Stances

  • In the Cut is well made and 'badly made' is factually untrue
  • The backlash was about America's puritanism and about not wanting Meg Ryan to be a sexual adult
  • Erotic thrillers by women, and chemistry casting, should come back
  • The loudest voices reclaiming it are women because they find it hot

Humor: Dry and unbothered, with blunt asides about being a professionally horny ex-Baptist.

In their words

  • “I love Jane Campion since I was a kid.” (0:09:01)
  • “as a as a professionally horny ex-Baptist person.” (0:49:48)
  • “I hate both Dennis Quaid and Russell Crowe.” (0:21:00)
  • “I am one of those people where it's just like, can we please bring sex back to movies?” (2:04:16)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–16 of 16 claims.

  1. contrast (contrast): In the Cut → Unfaithful. Unfaithful, from the year before, is a classic male-gazy erotic thriller; In the Cut is a woman's-perspective one.
    “Classic erotic thriller, very male gazy.”
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  2. contrast (contrast): Nicole Kidman → In the Cut. Kidman is a harder-edged performer; Ryan's naturalism suits the stylized movie better.
    “Nicole Kidman is like a harder edged performer.”
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  3. theme (theme): Destroyer → In the Cut. Kidman's rejected turn in Destroyer is compared to Ryan's rejected turn: an actress doing what nobody expected or wanted.
    “I feel like the Destroyer situation is similar to the Meg Ryan situation with this”
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  4. career (career): Nicole Kidman → Eyes Wide Shut. Kidman had already done Eyes Wide Shut, which was quite enough of that kind of film.
    “I also think that Nicole did eyes wide shut and that was quite enough.”
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  5. what-if (what-if): Holly Hunter → In the Cut. Holly Hunter could have played the lead, though it would have been an art house release.
    “I would honestly say that like, Holly Hunter could have done it.”
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  6. career (career): Mark Ruffalo → Dark Waters. Ruffalo does non-Marvel work like Dark Waters alongside the Marvel films.
    “I can still watch like Dark Waters and I can be like, yeah, that's my man right there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:41:28 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Meg Ryan → Isabelle Huppert. A European actress like Huppert could do this role in her sleep with no outcry; Ryan was punished.
    “Isabel Hupere could do this in her fucking sleep, man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:55:05 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Holly Hunter → The Piano. Hunter and Kidman did their provocative roles (The Piano, Dead Calm) early, so audiences accepted them.
    “Holly Hunter did the piano early on.”
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  9. career (career): Nicole Kidman → Dead Calm. Kidman did Dead Calm early, so she could keep doing this later.
    “Kidman did dead calm early on.”
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  10. contrast (contrast): Basic Instinct → In the Cut. Every sex scene in Basic Instinct carries the threat of murder; In the Cut's are intimate and real.
    “But the undertone of every sex scene or basic instinct is, is she about to murder him?”
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  11. craft (craft): In the Cut → Basic Instinct. In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's.
    “The sex is very intimate and real.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): Jane Campion → In the Cut. Female filmmakers like Campion try to give actresses something different, and the reaction is weird.
    “these female filmmakers who are like, you know, really trying to go for something different, really trying to give actresses something else to do”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:18:23 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. verdict (verdict): Christina Newland → In the Cut. Newland's book has an In the Cut essay, one of the few published defenses before the reclamation.
    “There's a pro in the cut essay in that.”
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  14. verdict (verdict): In the Cut → The Matrix Reloaded. On Jourdain's 2003 ranking In the Cut sits next to the Matrix sequels.
    “Master and Commander, Matrix reloaded Matrix revolutions in the cut.”
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  15. theme (theme): In the Cut → Jane Campion. Campion was one of the few women to get to make an erotic thriller then.
    “because she really is one of the few that got a chance to make a movie like that.”
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  16. theme (theme): Basic Instinct 2 → In the Cut. Backlash to Basic Instinct 2 was far stronger than to an action sequel, showing the punishment of bad sexy movies.
    “the backlash to that was so much stronger than like a backlash to an action movie sequel”
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Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  1. fun, about Mark Ruffalo: Jourdain heard his kids call him Papa and finds it very hot.
    “I heard that his kids call him Papa, which I also find very hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:40:41 · Jourdain Searles (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Matrix Reloaded: Jourdain recently saw it for the first time after years of hearing it was bad, and calls it incredible.
    “I had spent all these years being like, oh, the Matrix loaded is bad. and I was just like, you mean by bad?”
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