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There’s a piece of late-’80s lore surrounding legendary underground Bay Area venue Gilman that involves a huge fight between punks and Nazis. Thankfully and expectedly, the punks kicked the Nazis’ butts. So much so, in fact, that the latter never showed their faces at Gilman again. Such is the tale now used as inspiration for the new film Freaky Tales, which features the likes of Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, and Tom Hanks in a series of interconnected stories centered on that night. On this episode of In Defense of Ska, listen to directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, as well as others with relation to the real-world event, chat about punchin’ Nazis. Listen above, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The tale has been documented and retold before, notably in the excellent documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk. For Freaky Tales, though, Boden and Fleck fictionalize the series of events to present a new take. The two directors chat about why the story spoke to them, how they ultimately adapted it, and the final product.
Then, the crew chats with Turn It Around director Corbett Redford for yet another perspective, as well as three Gilman punks that were there when it originally went down: Kamala Lyn Parks, George Hated, and MDC singer Dave Dictor.
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