Continuing 'Western's Versatility,' Depth Perception discusses 1995's Dead Man, directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, and an underrated supporting cast.

On the agenda for this episode: reactions, our individual perceptions of theme, scene perceptions, use of music, plot structure, and civilization vs savagery.

Other movies referenced or discussed include: The 6th Sense, The Seventh Seal, Beetlejuice, Ghost, Jacob's Ladder, Coco, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Fault in Our Stars.

The guys discuss Tarantino's 8th movie, including themes, symbols, western tropes, storytelling and premise. We also work in the movie's connections to other westerns and non westerns like The Thing, and Clue.

The gang tries to see just how expansive the Western movie can get- from multiple genres, to the tropes being used in other movies, to the Neo-Western.

We talk about several examples throughout our discussion including Tombstone (and can't help but quoting the entire episode), Unforgiven, Brimstone, Hell or High Water, 310 to Yuma, Book of Eli, Mad Max Fury Road, The Magnificent Seven, and many others.

Agenda includes identifying Western tropes, examples from every genre, guessing a nontraditional western based on a synopsis, our favorite qualities, and our favorite movies.

Mr Vozly changed the course and watched 2025's Sinners instead of Avatar. Sinners? In a chapter about Indigenous Representation?

Flying solo this episode, he analyzes the movie and relates major aspects of it to previous discussion points in Indigenous Representation episodes.

Up next in our chapter on Indigenous Representation is the Academy Award nominated documentary Sugarcane. We talk about the tragedies that Sugarcane sheds light on, and how impactful they are even to today in native communities. We discuss other hardships depicted in the movie that aren't as exclusive as one may have thought. In an episode full of harsh topics, we also make sure we highlight what made as proud to see from Sugarcane.

PLEASE note, the subject matter is real and may be difficult to hear i.e. sexual abuse, murder, mental health.

The first movie in the Indigenous Representation chapter is 1992's Thunderheart (RIP Val Kilmer). This movie finds its way into the hosts' top favorite movies about indigenous people, but how universal are its topics?

We discuss our history of viewing, whether it was a stereotypical portrayal of natives or not, whether this is a fair representation of indigenous people, what we were proud to see in this movie, conflicts in relation to real life, and whether these conflicts are accessible to a non-native audience.

The three native guys continue their conversation about natives in movies. They left off at depictions in the modern age and just finished discussing Smoke Singals...

The rest of the agenda includes: depictions in the modern age, relation to our own communities and others, things in movies that makes us proud as indigenous folk, and our own personal favorite movies with indigenous representation.

Movies mentioned in this episode include: Wind River, Dune, Crocodile Dundee, Parasite, Hell or High Water, Windtalkers, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Pocahontas, Skins, Next Goal Wins, as well as mention of works by a local native filmmaker.

The three native guys finally talk about natives in movies. There was so much to say, this chapter had to be released in 2 parts.

The agenda includes: Our own brief indigenous background, historical vs stereotypical portrayals, depictions in the modern age, relation to our own communities and others, things in movies that makes us proud as indigenous folk, and our own personal favorite movies with indigenous representation.

In this first part of the chapter, we cover Our own brief indigenous background, historical vs stereotypical portrayals, and begin depictions in the modern age. Movies discussed in this episode include: Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai, Last of the Mohicans, Shanghai Noon, Prey, Peter Pan, Bone Tomahawk, Lone Ranger, Crooked Arrows, and Smoke Signals.