Breakfast All Day Podcast 7/26/19
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It’s a hot August night in July with Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to 1969 Los Angeles, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” Alonso, Matt and I naturally have lots of thoughts on the latest Breakfast All Day — Tarantino never inspires shrugs or middle-of-the road takes — and we suspect you will, too. We also review “Skin,” starring Jamie Bell in the true story of a white supremacist trying to turn his life around, and the documentary “Mike Wallace Is Here,” about the late, legendary TV newsman. And over at our Patreon, Alonso and I recap the season finale of “Big Little Lies” and the latest episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and all three of us discuss the cavalcade of trailers that debuted at Comic-Con, including “Top Gun: Maverick” and the TV series “Westworld” and “Watchmen.” Grab a seat at the Musso and Frank’s bar and join us.
Thank you for your honest thoughts on the new QT film Your reviews gave me a better knowledge on movies thank you
Please try to convince to get Ben back I miss him
have you been watching ‘The Movies’ on CNN over the last month? You can see Ben on there, along with Christy and Alonso. Two new hours every Sunday evening, it’s very good stuff!
christy,
I was listening to some panels and press briefings on the big summer of 2019 original script, original story about sixties America. it really was like a ‘show of force’ by the traditional big screen movie artists, technicians and project leaders. saying we’re still here, we’re not gone yet.
it was kind of like the G10 summit of ‘leaders’ in the shared experience cinema artistic format. a lot of high level politics in the room with this ‘once upon a time’ thing, a lot of gravitas on display.
movie reviewers rely on that word sometimes to explain whatever indescribable asset that artists of big screen bring with then to a character, a performance, a script, a story, an ensemble or a project.
like when Ben weighs in on the debate occasionally, it all goes up a notch.
The ‘g’ word, was explored by academics at London’s school of economics recently.
how successful leaders build gravitas
https://soundcloud.com/lsepodcasts/authentic-leadership-how
the promo tour for ‘Once upon a time in the west’ was a textbook example of how to build leadership message and gravitas.
probably worthy of a whole Quentin Tarantino script in itself. Brian
Christy, there was one other thought on this film, where i’ve listened to the kinds of questions that Brad Pitt and the other actors, director, makers of ‘once upon a time in hollywood’ had been fielding from critic interviewers, or from audiences when they did a panel.
Brad Pitt was talking about the job of telling a story, he talked about Hollywood and about 1969. They all, the actors involved talked about stuff such as polarization amongst people.
I had a podcast on a while ago, i partly listened to. It was one of the college professors in England, around minute 55:00 in the recording underneath he answered some question.
Future of capitalism (London School of Economics Debate)
https://soundcloud.com/lsepodcasts/the-future-of-capitalism
Basically, he was try to tell a story in his own way about this polarization. A bit like the isolation that Taratino describes in his character in Once Upon a Time, of the actor living next door to Sharon. He by chance, happened to become acquainted with a member of the young and upcoming in Hollywood in 1969. The London professor in the podcast, just talked about the kind of bubble of isolation he found himself living in, post the Brexit vote there.
The classic post Brexit conversation he was having at the university being, does anyone know anyone who voted for Brexit, and the answer was always no. Despite there bring 55 million people in the country who did, people lived in their own bubbles he reckoned.
He has a sentence, and maybe it applies to a lot of jobs – who knows, maybe even film critic occupation nowadays. He said, essential to one’s well being in society today, is a sense of one’s purpose in one’s occupation. What he speculated is that it is the removal for jobs of a sense of purpose, is a new form of exploitation.
Getting back to the movie, and again what Brad Pitt, Margot, Leonardo, Quentin were constantly asked about – I’m wondering if there’s a particularly story in the above – and a way of telling it that is possible, in large format communal cinema artistic form. My sense is that this movie about Hollywood is one that came close to that. Or maybe aimed for that, didn’t quite land on it’s target or whatever. But the movie seems to have prompted that kind of conversation. Brian