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#417 - Gross: Point Blank (Patreon)

Published:
2023-04-04 04:13:58
Imported:
2024-06

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The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was hired to direct a documentary about the populist Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross as he makes an Afghanistan War epic. The result was BRING ME THE HEAD OF TIM HORTON (2015) - one serious artist's piss-take about a decidedly less serious artist, which also manages to make some serious points. PLUS: Jeremy Corbyn's expulsion from Labour, reconnecting with Bernie Sanders, and the hosts hash over one of their biggest disagreements yet.

Watch Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton online: https://vimeo.com/357482846

BOMB Interview with Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/guy-maddin-evan-johnson/

"Keir Starmer’s Case for Excluding Jeremy Corbyn Gives Damp Squibs a Bad Name" by Daniel Finn - https://jacobin.com/2023/03/keir-starmers-case-for-excluding-jeremy-corbyn-gives-damp-squibs-a-bad-name

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Joe P

It was one of the original Star Wars podcasts that pulled me into the "Michael & Us Podcast". I would love to hear the Michael & Us take on the prequels, particularly in comparison to the original trilogy, as the original trilogy was pre-"end of history" and the prequels came post end of history. As a gen X-er on the younger side whose first intro to Star Wars was seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater, I hate all the subsequent films, but am self-aware enough to realize that the older gen X-ers make fun of Jedi & the Ewoks (which I will defend to the end of my days, but am fully aware that I was the target audience back then.) I owned a video box set which had this making of Return of the Jedi VHS tape which is on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7c7fHn4zZI In it Lucas almost foreshadows the mistakes he would make in the prequels. At 8:50 - "Besides conceiving and writing the film, George Lucas served as director, on such a complex project that is at least one job too many according to George." - Yet he serves as writer, director, and producer of the 3 prequels At 30:53 - George Lucas says "One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings you know creating the environment that they spend film time on it, and you don't have to spend too much film time to create an environment. What they're doing is showing off the amount of work that they generated and it slows the pace of the film. Then the story is not the settings, the story is not the settings, the story is the plot." Bonus - I doubt this type of thing happened in the prequels At 23:14 - puppeteer explains that the smoke from his cigar is for when Jabba smokes his pipe & how he blows it into a tube so it comes out the corner of his mouth. Then says, if he had a port, it would be the perfect job.

Joe P

Would love to hear your thoughts on the prequels in comparison to the original trilogy, particularly with the timeline that the original trilogy was pre "End of History" and the prequels were "post end of History".