September 5, 2025 • 39 mins
Whether it is journalism, novels, songs, or even emails, there are a plethora of films that celebrate writers. With this movie draft, we aim to do the same thing! In this draft, we take our favorite “writers in movies”, using that category with creative freedom. This draft was originally done to go with a discussion of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, but this release is in accordance with a discussion of Steven Spielberg’s The Post.
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It wasn't closely What's the secret thing?
Just got to find something you love to do and then do it for
the rest of your life. I don't want to be a product of
my environment, I want my environment to be a product.
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Of me. Hello.
And welcome to the Establishing Shot, the podcast where we do
deep dives and two directors andtheir filmographies, I and your
host, Eli. Price and we are here.
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On episode 110 of the podcast and.
Yeah, we are. We had.
Great conversation last. Week with.
Roslyn Hernandez coming on for the.
Post had a great time doing. That with her and I.
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Thought it would be a good idea.To do an old movie draft, run it
back. We did, along with the French
Dispatch inside of that episode.We did a Writers in Movies draft
and so. I thought that would pair well
with this. My guest for that episode was
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Kara Smith. We had a great a great.
Time doing this draft and yeah, now this has its own episode, so
it's been fun to go back since I've reformatted the show to
where movie drafts are their ownepisodes and kind of pull the
movie. Drafts out of those.
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And and bring them back. So.
So yeah, go. Back and listen to.
That that conversation with. About the post with.
Roslyn This week we're going to dive into a movie draft about
writers and movies. We were kind of.
Flexible with that as. I think I'll explain in this
episode of. What?
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Who can be considered a writer in a movie?
And we had a little bit of fun with that.
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Back to the show. Let's go ahead and jump into our
movie draft section. So yeah, kind of along with the
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the French Dispatch theme, we'regoing to be drafting movies
about writers and film. And so, you know, this is your
first time tuning in. Basically the movie draft is
just we take turns choosing fromthe pool of whatever genre or,
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you know, whatever you want to call it that I've come up with
for this week. So, you know, we're going to be
taking turns care. We'll take the first pick and
we're kind of will accumulate our own team of movies from that
theme. And so and then, yeah, we'll put
it out there and see who people think have the best list.
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Yeah. I when I was thinking about
this, I was thinking, well, I don't want to just, you know, I
don't think Wes would want to just limit it to writers of like
books or magazines like. So let's expand it.
I said be creative with how you think of writers, whether it's
music or however you want to apply it.
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Let's let's be creative. And yeah, so that's what we're
going to do. We're going to draft writers in
film movies with about writers. Yeah.
And so, yeah, let's, let's just jump right in.
Carrie, you're a first time guest, so you get the first
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pick. So where are you going with the
very first pick of the writers in film draft?
Yes, so though I am, I am going to be taking a liberal stance on
the term writer later. For my first pick, I'm going for
a straight up writer and I am choosing The Help, which is a
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wonderful classic movie, amazingacting and about A1, who wants
to show the world the perspectives of the women who
help in her town and who work for, you know, families like
hers. And it shows her a little, her
writing process. It shows her trying to get the
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book made. It shows the book coming to
fruition and, you know, supporting these people,
changing their lives. And so a true writer, a
wonderful movie and a great one to go back and watch if you
haven't watched it in a while. I hadn't seen it in so long.
And I saw it the other day because it just happened to, you
know, pop up as like, a suggestion.
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And I was like, this is such a good movie.
So funny, so sweet, so heartbreaking.
It's all the things. Yeah, yeah, it is a really good
movie. I I enjoy that one the and it
does have like, you know, it is there.
It has some very funny moments and also like some very like
emotionally affecting moments. Yeah, that's, that's a really
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good one. And I don't even know, I don't
think I had it on my list, but Idon't know why it feels like it
should have come up when I was looking, but but yeah, and not
on my list, unfortunately, because it should have been.
OK, So how I was hoping that I would be able to get this.
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And it's one that I mentioned just a minute ago and it's one
that like from the moment, like I saw it in theaters, like I
absolutely loved. And that's Greg Gerwig's Little
Women. I love, I love her.
I like the old one too, you know, not the older, older ones
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because there are several adaptations, but the one from
the 90s, I believe it's got 1 owner Ryder in it.
And yeah, that one's, that one'sgood too.
But this one I love, she adds. I love she.
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Added so much to this, to this telling of this little women's
story. Yeah, and the way she structured
it was great. And Sorcerer Ronan is just like
just so perfect in that role. And so yeah, that's that's my
first pick. Probably not where you thought I
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would go, but I knew that I needed to snag it early.
And it's one that I really, really do love.
So. Yeah, I definitely.
Yeah. Where are you going to go next?
I. Thought I would be able to grab
that at some point because I thought you would start off with
something else or, you know, I don't know what you would start
with, but I was thinking like, oh, maybe me with Little Women,
but I should have known that with Greta Gerwig, it would be
on the top of the top of the brain.
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I'm going with a different take on writer.
This movie is based off of writing of two characters
writing to one another all throughout the film.
You get to the end without the knowledge, without 1 character
having the knowledge that the other was the writer all along.
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It's how they meet. It's how they fall in love.
I am stealing. You've got mail.
And technically, she is a writer.
She does have book. Book writer, Yes, she does.
And just like, you know, Little Women, it had previous
iterations with like shop aroundthe corner from back in the day.
And again, they were letter writers.
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Which is great, yeah. So they wrote letters, these
guys write emails, but it's all the same.
And some of the writing in it isso, you know, nice and poetic
and it's just such a good movie.Also, I thought based off of the
people we have in common, I feelas though that's going to help
me get some votes in the long run.
If your family's feeding, that might help me out a lot because
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I know we all love that movie. Yeah, I mean, I love You've Got
Mail too. It's one of my favorite ROM coms
I would say just like thinking about that genre.
Also directed by a woman, Nora Ephraim.
There you go. What?
Who's the help directed by? I don't know off the top of my
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head, I don't know that it's directed by the woman.
By a woman, I think. I mean it's written by a woman.
I believe Tate Taylor is the director.
OK, well, two out of the three so far, directed by women, so
they were. Little did we know we were going
to be on theme there too, but probably won't stay on theme as
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far as that goes. Yeah, I have a really long list
here, which I'm realizing is kind of working against me
because it's so hard to choose what to pick next.
But I think I'm going to go with, oh, it's so hard.
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I think I'm gonna go with another movie that I think is
really, really good. It's one that's like a 10 out of
10 for me about one of my favorite directors.
And it is a little bit. It's not this character is not a
writer in the sense you would normally think, but he keeps a
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journal and that serves as like a narrative, like a narration
structure through the movie. And that's a taxi driver.
All right. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, And it really is like
that. That's the the his journal
entries are kind of the framing device for the movie.
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And so in that sense, he is a writer and it it's plays an
important role in how the movie plays out and really like not
just what not in not even I guess so much in what happens in
the movie, but the giving you his perspective and and he does
it. His writing actually is like not
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bad from that, from what it for what it is too, I would say.
And so I, that's just one that II think is like just a
masterpiece or close to it for amovie.
So that's that's where I'm goingwith my second pick.
Where? Are you going next?
My third pick, it's going to be a very classic movie, a big kind
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of jumping off point for severalactors.
I kind of put it on there with like Dazed and Confused as like,
there's so many people in there once you go back and watch it.
But it is following a young, fresh writer as he writes for
Rolling Stones. So I'm going with Almost Famous.
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Very good pick. Yeah, I finally picked up on
where you were going there towards the end.
Yeah. It's a really fun movie, Yeah.
And so many people like, for sure, Jimmy Fallon, Kate Hudson,
Zooey Deschanel, all these people as just babies, really.
Mm hmm. Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, that's a really good one. Yeah.
I'm trying to think of where I want to go next.
Yeah. So like I have pics that like I
feel like are more like crowd pleasing pics.
I might do do me better for the pole, but I also have that have
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pics that like probably less people have seen, but that I
really like. And so that's the that's the
dilemma I'm in. And so like, do I want to please
the crowd and win the pole or doI want to put these movies,
yeah, be true to myself, but also put these movies out there
so maybe someone might watch one.
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So if I'm going to do that, I guess I'll start with the one
that is more accessible, meaningthat, you know, probably pretty
much anyone could watch it and enjoy it without having to think
too hard. And that is a really sweet
little as not a little, but a sweet movie called Sing St.
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It's about have you seen it? Yeah, I have.
That's great. Yeah.
So it's written by John Carney, who is probably more famous for
the movie once. Yes, that has Yeah, that has
Glenn Hansard and Marqueta Erglova.
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Who? Oh man, the I'm trying to think
of their they came out together as like a kind of music duo and
I'm blanking on the name of the group.
But but anyway, Sing street is like this boy in Dublin growing
up and he has a he has a band. And so like the writing portion
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is they write music and it's like these very like 80s like
pop rock songs that him and his friends are writing.
And he like falls in love with agirl that was old that's like
older. He's kind of like, maybe like
preteen to like maybe 13 or 14. And, you know, she's kind of
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like, feels like more like 17 years old and so like he's
trying to, like, impress this girl and it.
I don't know. I just love it.
The songs are fun. The like, he's very sweet as a
character. Yeah.
It just makes me smile. It's a it's a really good movie.
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Yeah. I had to watch it.
It was Irish so. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, you liked it too. Yeah, I did like it.
I think it's cute and it's just.Yeah, it's very 80s.
It's very Irish. It's funny.
Yeah, and it's just one. It's one of those movies that I
just like, smiled through the whole thing, which is kind of
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rare. And so like, I just love it.
So I hope me mentioning that will make some people watch
Sings Treat. I thought it was good.
Yeah. All right, where's your, what's
your 4th pick going to be? OK so since you changed it up
and went lesser known, mine is not lesser known I would say but
I am going to throw it old and classic movie.
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This was one of the movies that was referenced in Gilmore Girls
and was 1. I think I originally saw it
because I rented it from blockbusters back in the day but
I love it starring Cary Grant and Roslyn Russell.
I'm going with His Girl Friday, which is a classic movie about
two writers for a paper and falling in love and bickering
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and falling out and back in lovethrough their process of being
in The Newsroom together and getting the story and writing
and just, it's such a bouncy oldclassic movie.
I love it. Yeah, I haven't seen that one,
but I but I would love to see it.
Yeah, that one is. It's definitely one that's been
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on my radar. Yeah, that's a great one.
And just like a common reference, you know, when there
are two characters in any movie or TV show or book where they
like bounce off each other, havea love hate relationship, It's
the his go Friday kind of, you know, vibe.
And you definitely you get understand why that's the
reference when you watch it. Yeah, for sure.
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OK, Yeah, So I'm going to go. It's my 4th pick now.
I'm going to go with yeah, OK. I think I know where I'm going
to go with this one. I'm going to go with Adaptation.
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Adaptation is it's starring, youknow, Nick Cage famously and his
dual role as twin brothers. It's directed by Spike Jones,
but but really like famously written by Charlie Kaufman,
who's who's kind of more people probably are familiar with Being
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John Malkovich, which was written by Kaufman, directed by
Spike Jones, but this one is actually like more.
It has Meryl Streep in it and Charlie Kaufman as a writer.
He's it's really interesting as a writer to begin with.
But this is this movie is basically like the character is
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named Charlie Kaufman, Nick Cage's character, who's the main
character. And so Charlie Kaufman loved
this book written by Susan Orlean called like the Orchid,
something, I can't even rememberwhat it's called.
Oh, the orchid thief about flowers.
And it's, it's he wanted to adapt it.
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It's not a it's not a work of fiction.
It's a work of nonfiction, but he wanted to adapt it into a
movie, but he couldn't figure out how to adapt it into a
movie. And so he just like, wrote
himself into it. And it's about the, the writing
endeavor of trying to adapt something that's not adaptable.
And just like how it's this to me is Nick Cage's best
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performance as this kind of these dual character, these twin
brothers. It's it's a really, there's a
lot of interesting stuff going on here.
Meryl Streep probably plays the author of the book he's trying
to adapt. And yeah, it's a really wild,
anything about Charlie Kaufman is really wild and out there.
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But yeah, I think most people could watch this and and
appreciate it. But yeah, I love it.
It's a great movie. So yeah, that's where I'm going
with my first big adaptation. OK, I am going to go with one
that film Bros would hate me for, but it was the very first
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thing that I thought of when I thought of writing.
So I'm going to go with Letters to Juliet, which is a classic
2010 ROM com starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave.
And again, we've got letter writing which counts, including
the women who are the secretaries of Juliet who
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respond to all of the broken hearted.
And then Amanda Seyfried ends upbecoming a writer at the
newspaper that she was just previously fact checker after
this story and this journey she takes with this grandmother and
grandson. So I mean, it's cheesy and
adorable and just an Italian summer dream.
You got to love it. Great.
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I haven't seen it, so I can't I can't film bro and like critique
you for it because I haven't seen it.
So there. You go yeah, but yeah, So, you
know, great pick back pick. I don't know the people.
The people will decide I. Think the people will?
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Decide with me. Yeah.
So there's my next pick is probably going to be another one
that not many people have seen, but it's by a director that I
really love, Jim Jarmusch. This is, I guess this would
probably be one of his more popular movies, the other one
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being Only Lovers Left Alive that stars Tilta Swinton and Tom
Hiddleston as vampires. But this movie that I'm picking
is Patterson. It stars Adam Driver as the
titular character, Patterson andliving in the town of Paterson,
NJ And he is this bus driver that is an aspiring poet.
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And and so like on his best route, whenever he's making
stops, he pulls out his notebookand is writing poetry.
And you kind of get some like annotated, you know, words
across the screen, like of him writing his and like kind of
dictating his poetry narrative narration style, I guess.
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And it's, it's funny because like he's, he lives this mundane
life. He has, he has a wife that they
have a little bit of a rocky relationship.
And it's very, yeah, he's a bus driver.
It's a very mundane life he lives.
It's very like structured his, his life.
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You kind of see through the movie, his, the structure of his
life. And yeah, it's.
But what's what's really interesting is like he's writing
this poetry that is actually like really beautiful.
Like you're hearing it and you're like, man, this is
actually like really beautiful poetry and really like poignant.
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But if you get the feeling that no one will ever know.
Yeah. Because how can this guy who's a
bus driver in Paterson, NJ, get his work out there?
And so it's kind of, you know, and then at on top of that, a
lot of create, you know, people that are creative in that way.
Like you always feel like your work isn't that great.
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Yeah. You're never satisfied.
And so like he, you know, his wife kind of pushes him to keep
riding. And.
But yeah, it's a really good movie.
Just kind of like, I guess aboutthat, that I that endeavor of
like keeping on doing like what you are actually like, you know,
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gifted to do. And I think on top of that, like
Paterson, NJ is like the home ofactually like a, a decent amount
of famous, like artists and poets.
And so like, he has that like weighing over him of like, I'll
never be this. But yeah, it's a it's a really
good movie. And Adam Driver is in it.
So that's kind of like my pool of like, if you haven't seen it,
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Adam Driver is in it is he's themain character.
So go see it. Yeah, it, it really is.
I I loved it. I think it's my favorite Jim
Jarmus movie and I've seen a decent amount of his.
So. Yeah.
Patterson. OK.
Your this is your 6th pick. Yes, my 6th.
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Pick. I am going with a very
emotional, very beautiful story,kind of about the like writing,
what writing can do and how it can free you and how it can lead
to kind of, I don't know, the betterment of yourself and
understand yourself. I'm going to go with Freedom
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Writers, The seven, Hilary Swankclassic.
But really, you know, definitelythe first time I saw it.
I feel like I didn't even see the full movie The first time.
I think it was just on TV. But obviously just having these
like kids who are just really inkind of the worst situation
growing up in kind of a hopeless, like, no, I'm just
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going to be, you know, on on thestreets, like my family.
I'm going to end up in a horrible situation, but then
giving them the encouragement todo something for themselves and
giving them these journals and, and you know, leading them to
write like having those outlets and like we were talking earlier
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about like the oppression of of where you stand, but then giving
someone an outlet to create and to work process through that.
Even if you know they don't become a famous artist, the you
know, the idea of hoping for thefuture because you have an
outlet to process your situationis you know it's beautiful.
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Yeah, yeah, I actually haven't seen Freedom Riders, but it's
one of those movies that like you hear about and you feel like
you've seen it. Yeah, because you feel inspired.
You feel inspired just hearing about, like the premise or the,
like, story behind it that inspired it.
And so, yeah, it's definitely one of those like just inspiring
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movies that like, man, I haven'tseen that, but I'm, I'm, I'm
inspired just about by hearing about that story.
Yeah. I feel like that's probably a
movie that inspired a lot of people to become teachers or,
and or if you're are a teacher, they, you know, tell you to go
watch that and, you know, do good and be good for the world.
For sure. OK, I have several.
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I always have several that I want to do, but only like 2
picks left. So I think what I'm going to do
is, man, it's so hard. I'm going to have to definitely
give some honorable mentions because I have a really long
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list, but I'm going to go with, oh, geez.
I'm trying to see. I'm trying to look at how many
films I have that are like actually writing and how many
like I'm stretching. But really I'm not stretching.
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Taxi Driver was maybe the biggest stretch.
The other ones are like largely about writing.
So I feel like I can stretch a little bit, but man.
So I'm going to go with a very recent movie that came out last
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year that was really, really good.
I'm going to go with Tar starring Clay Cate Blanchett.
She's, she's a composer writing well, she's a composer and
largely a conductor. So I would say it's, you know,
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it's a bit of a stretch because largely what she does is, is
conduct. But there's a sense in which she
is like taking a piece of music and like, writing the way it
sounds by the way she conducts. Yeah.
So it's a bit of a stretch. But I think she also does
compose stuff. Technically, that character has
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composed her own stuff in the past, too.
So I guess maybe it's not that much of A stretch.
Yeah. But but yeah, it's, I think
obviously like Cate Blanchett isjust the powerhouse of an
actress and everything she does is, is fantastic.
And but this role is just like, felt like it was like made for
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her is just like she was incredible in it.
And it really is about there's adegree to which it's about the
just the systems around like that world of creating and, you
know, in this sense, like writing or conducting and like
the, the power structures in place in those worlds too.
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And how like as you gain power, what do you do with it?
So as a especially like, as a creative that has so much
influence on the culture. And so yeah, it very, very, very
good movie. And yeah, that's why I'm going
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to go with all. Right.
So is this my last one? All right, I am just, you know,
I'm sure that other people will be able to tell based off my
list that I I do watch a lot of popular movies and I do watch a
lot of ROM coms. And I'm just going to stay true
to that because I do think it'llget me the popular vote.
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I don't know what your voting demographic looks like, but.
I don't either, I think. For the masses, I I might win
just off of popularity or like name recognition, but yeah, I'm
going to stick to true to me. So I'm going another ROM com
2003. Something's got to give starring
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Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves and Frances
Mcdormand's in there. So you're pulling it back with a
Wes Anderson like tried and true.
And it was also directed by a woman, Nancy Meyers.
So, you know, we're just really trying it all together.
But she you know, have you seen something got to give?
I haven't, but I would like to. Yeah, this one is a famous, you
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know, ROM com Nancy Meyers movie.
Diane Keaton plays a playwright who throughout the process of
meeting Jack Nicholson and, you know, dealing with a lot of
things, whether that's her daughter or these other men in
her life. She is a playwright.
And she also in the movie writesa play with some of the scenes
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that you have witnessed as well and that, you know, becomes, you
know, funny, very entertaining for for the crowd and really
hurtful to Jack Nicholson. But, you know, of course, the
ROM coms. So it's it bounces back and
forth. It's a good one.
It's a classic 1, you know, So that's my going to be my last
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pick. Great.
Yeah. I mean, you can't go wrong with
Jack Nicholson. No, But yeah, you know, he's one
of those guys that, like, you think about like there's,
there's, there's not many peoplethat probably couldn't work in a
Wes Anderson movie. But now that I'm thinking about,
I'm like, man, would Jack Nicholson work in a Wes Anderson
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movie? I don't know.
Maybe not. You might.
Be a little too much like, I don't know, the energy might not
be quite right. Right, Yeah, it's very
interesting to think about. I think I saw saw someone asking
on Twitter recently like, what actor would not work in a Wes
Anderson movie? Yeah, but I I did not think
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about. I didn't think about him.
But yeah, Jack Nicholson, I don't know if he would work.
I don't know. But he's not he's not acting
right now. So we will never.
We'll never know. All right, my last pick.
I have some other ones that I would really love to get on get
on this list. But since we're since we seem to
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be circling back around and staying on theme with things
we've been talking about, I'm going to go with a documentary
called I Am Not Your Negro. It's it's about James Baldwin.
So it's directed by Raoul Peck, who is a Haitian filmmaker.
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He, he does a decent amount of documentary work, but this is,
he's basically like working fromthe some text of James Baldwin's
like unfinished work. He, James Baldwin had a novel
that he never finished before hedied.
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And he, yeah. So he's, he's working off of
that unfinished novel. And it's kind of like a
reflection of what it is to be black in in America.
And so it's based on Baldwin's work.
It's it's actually narrated by Samuel L Jackson.
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And then it has a lot of like, has a lot of like archive
footage of, of just like James Baldwin, of course, and, you
know, a lot of interviews with him, but, you know, obviously
with big names like King Junior and Malcolm X and Harry
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Belafonte, there's some archive footage of him, Sidney Poitier,
Ray Charles. And so yeah, it's, it's just
this documentary and it's a verylike, it's, it's not like a
straightforward documentary likeyou would think of.
It very much sticks to the the kind of like poetic eloquence
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that Baldwin had. And so like, it's kind of like a
collage of these, you know, thisfootage of these black Americans
that were influential. And like, when you put
everything together, you really have a a sense of just the the,
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I don't know, the injustice of, of it all.
And so, yeah, that's that's one that I feel like just sticking
on. It's very much about a writer
working off of James Baldwin's work.
And yeah, circles back to the influence of the the character
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that Jeffrey Wright played in The French Dispatch and Roebuck
Wright. And so, yeah, I feel like that's
a good, yeah. Coming full circle moment with
the final pick of the draft. Yeah.
So that's that's our movie draft.
Let's I'm going to read back ourpick and yeah.
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So Kara ended up with the help you've got mail almost famous
his girl Friday letters to Juliet Freedom Riders and
something's got to give. I ended with Little Women Taxi
Driver, Sing St. Adaptation, Patterson Tar and
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I'm not Your Negro. And yeah, it's, these are some
good lists. Yeah, we'll, we'll put it out
there and see, see what the people think.
You definitely have some, some crowd pleasers.
Yeah. And then, you know, I, I think I
have some for the, the, you know, cinephile if you want to
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say that. For sure.
So we'll just see who the votersare, basically.
Yeah, yeah. You know, you know, we'll see if
more people that you share with vote for you and your popular
picks. But.
But I mean, I've got little women.
I know I'm mad you stole little women.
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That for sure was going. To be in there.
Yeah, yeah. And a lot of people know, know
and like Taxi Driver too. Yeah, for sure.
And Tom has had like, obviously it's very fresh on the brain,
critically explained. Yeah, so I don't know, I I just
felt like I wanted to get some movies out there that I wanted
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people to see What this one, I was less worried about winning
the poll. So, well, hey, if you win.
People to see all. The things that I.
Just posted. They're all great.
There's, yeah, there's some thatI wanted to see that I haven't
seen yet, that maybe now I will.So great.
Yeah, that's that was our movie draft.
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There. And and yeah, I I found my
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Time doing this draft and yeah, now this has its own episode, so
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movie draft section. So yeah, kind of along with the
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the French Dispatch theme, we'regoing to be drafting movies
about writers and film. And so, you know, this is your
first time tuning in. Basically the movie draft is
just we take turns choosing fromthe pool of whatever genre or,
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you know, whatever you want to call it that I've come up with
for this week. So, you know, we're going to be
taking turns care. We'll take the first pick and
we're kind of will accumulate our own team of movies from that
theme. And so and then, yeah, we'll put
it out there and see who people think have the best list.
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Yeah. I when I was thinking about
this, I was thinking, well, I don't want to just, you know, I
don't think Wes would want to just limit it to writers of like
books or magazines like. So let's expand it.
I said be creative with how you think of writers, whether it's
music or however you want to apply it.
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Let's let's be creative. And yeah, so that's what we're
going to do. We're going to draft writers in
film movies with about writers. Yeah.
And so, yeah, let's, let's just jump right in.
Carrie, you're a first time guest, so you get the first
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pick. So where are you going with the
very first pick of the writers in film draft?
Yes, so though I am, I am going to be taking a liberal stance on
the term writer later. For my first pick, I'm going for
a straight up writer and I am choosing The Help, which is a
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wonderful classic movie, amazingacting and about A1, who wants
to show the world the perspectives of the women who
help in her town and who work for, you know, families like
hers. And it shows her a little, her
writing process. It shows her trying to get the
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book made. It shows the book coming to
fruition and, you know, supporting these people,
changing their lives. And so a true writer, a
wonderful movie and a great one to go back and watch if you
haven't watched it in a while. I hadn't seen it in so long.
And I saw it the other day because it just happened to, you
know, pop up as like, a suggestion.
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And I was like, this is such a good movie.
So funny, so sweet, so heartbreaking.
It's all the things. Yeah, yeah, it is a really good
movie. I I enjoy that one the and it
does have like, you know, it is there.
It has some very funny moments and also like some very like
emotionally affecting moments. Yeah, that's, that's a really
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good one. And I don't even know, I don't
think I had it on my list, but Idon't know why it feels like it
should have come up when I was looking, but but yeah, and not
on my list, unfortunately, because it should have been.
OK, So how I was hoping that I would be able to get this.
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And it's one that I mentioned just a minute ago and it's one
that like from the moment, like I saw it in theaters, like I
absolutely loved. And that's Greg Gerwig's Little
Women. I love, I love her.
I like the old one too, you know, not the older, older ones
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because there are several adaptations, but the one from
the 90s, I believe it's got 1 owner Ryder in it.
And yeah, that one's, that one'sgood too.
But this one I love, she adds. I love she.
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Added so much to this, to this telling of this little women's
story. Yeah, and the way she structured
it was great. And Sorcerer Ronan is just like
just so perfect in that role. And so yeah, that's that's my
first pick. Probably not where you thought I
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would go, but I knew that I needed to snag it early.
And it's one that I really, really do love.
So. Yeah, I definitely.
Yeah. Where are you going to go next?
I. Thought I would be able to grab
that at some point because I thought you would start off with
something else or, you know, I don't know what you would start
with, but I was thinking like, oh, maybe me with Little Women,
but I should have known that with Greta Gerwig, it would be
on the top of the top of the brain.
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I'm going with a different take on writer.
This movie is based off of writing of two characters
writing to one another all throughout the film.
You get to the end without the knowledge, without 1 character
having the knowledge that the other was the writer all along.
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It's how they meet. It's how they fall in love.
I am stealing. You've got mail.
And technically, she is a writer.
She does have book. Book writer, Yes, she does.
And just like, you know, Little Women, it had previous
iterations with like shop aroundthe corner from back in the day.
And again, they were letter writers.
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Which is great, yeah. So they wrote letters, these
guys write emails, but it's all the same.
And some of the writing in it isso, you know, nice and poetic
and it's just such a good movie.Also, I thought based off of the
people we have in common, I feelas though that's going to help
me get some votes in the long run.
If your family's feeding, that might help me out a lot because
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I know we all love that movie. Yeah, I mean, I love You've Got
Mail too. It's one of my favorite ROM coms
I would say just like thinking about that genre.
Also directed by a woman, Nora Ephraim.
There you go. What?
Who's the help directed by? I don't know off the top of my
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head, I don't know that it's directed by the woman.
By a woman, I think. I mean it's written by a woman.
I believe Tate Taylor is the director.
OK, well, two out of the three so far, directed by women, so
they were. Little did we know we were going
to be on theme there too, but probably won't stay on theme as
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far as that goes. Yeah, I have a really long list
here, which I'm realizing is kind of working against me
because it's so hard to choose what to pick next.
But I think I'm going to go with, oh, it's so hard.
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I think I'm gonna go with another movie that I think is
really, really good. It's one that's like a 10 out of
10 for me about one of my favorite directors.
And it is a little bit. It's not this character is not a
writer in the sense you would normally think, but he keeps a
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journal and that serves as like a narrative, like a narration
structure through the movie. And that's a taxi driver.
All right. Yeah.
Yeah. You know, And it really is like
that. That's the the his journal
entries are kind of the framing device for the movie.
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And so in that sense, he is a writer and it it's plays an
important role in how the movie plays out and really like not
just what not in not even I guess so much in what happens in
the movie, but the giving you his perspective and and he does
it. His writing actually is like not
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bad from that, from what it for what it is too, I would say.
And so I, that's just one that II think is like just a
masterpiece or close to it for amovie.
So that's that's where I'm goingwith my second pick.
Where? Are you going next?
My third pick, it's going to be a very classic movie, a big kind
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of jumping off point for severalactors.
I kind of put it on there with like Dazed and Confused as like,
there's so many people in there once you go back and watch it.
But it is following a young, fresh writer as he writes for
Rolling Stones. So I'm going with Almost Famous.
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Very good pick. Yeah, I finally picked up on
where you were going there towards the end.
Yeah. It's a really fun movie, Yeah.
And so many people like, for sure, Jimmy Fallon, Kate Hudson,
Zooey Deschanel, all these people as just babies, really.
Mm hmm. Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, that's a really good one. Yeah.
I'm trying to think of where I want to go next.
Yeah. So like I have pics that like I
feel like are more like crowd pleasing pics.
I might do do me better for the pole, but I also have that have
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pics that like probably less people have seen, but that I
really like. And so that's the that's the
dilemma I'm in. And so like, do I want to please
the crowd and win the pole or doI want to put these movies,
yeah, be true to myself, but also put these movies out there
so maybe someone might watch one.
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So if I'm going to do that, I guess I'll start with the one
that is more accessible, meaningthat, you know, probably pretty
much anyone could watch it and enjoy it without having to think
too hard. And that is a really sweet
little as not a little, but a sweet movie called Sing St.
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It's about have you seen it? Yeah, I have.
That's great. Yeah.
So it's written by John Carney, who is probably more famous for
the movie once. Yes, that has Yeah, that has
Glenn Hansard and Marqueta Erglova.
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Who? Oh man, the I'm trying to think
of their they came out together as like a kind of music duo and
I'm blanking on the name of the group.
But but anyway, Sing street is like this boy in Dublin growing
up and he has a he has a band. And so like the writing portion
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is they write music and it's like these very like 80s like
pop rock songs that him and his friends are writing.
And he like falls in love with agirl that was old that's like
older. He's kind of like, maybe like
preteen to like maybe 13 or 14. And, you know, she's kind of
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like, feels like more like 17 years old and so like he's
trying to, like, impress this girl and it.
I don't know. I just love it.
The songs are fun. The like, he's very sweet as a
character. Yeah.
It just makes me smile. It's a it's a really good movie.
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Yeah. I had to watch it.
It was Irish so. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, you liked it too. Yeah, I did like it.
I think it's cute and it's just.Yeah, it's very 80s.
It's very Irish. It's funny.
Yeah, and it's just one. It's one of those movies that I
just like, smiled through the whole thing, which is kind of
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rare. And so like, I just love it.
So I hope me mentioning that will make some people watch
Sings Treat. I thought it was good.
Yeah. All right, where's your, what's
your 4th pick going to be? OK so since you changed it up
and went lesser known, mine is not lesser known I would say but
I am going to throw it old and classic movie.
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This was one of the movies that was referenced in Gilmore Girls
and was 1. I think I originally saw it
because I rented it from blockbusters back in the day but
I love it starring Cary Grant and Roslyn Russell.
I'm going with His Girl Friday, which is a classic movie about
two writers for a paper and falling in love and bickering
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and falling out and back in lovethrough their process of being
in The Newsroom together and getting the story and writing
and just, it's such a bouncy oldclassic movie.
I love it. Yeah, I haven't seen that one,
but I but I would love to see it.
Yeah, that one is. It's definitely one that's been
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on my radar. Yeah, that's a great one.
And just like a common reference, you know, when there
are two characters in any movie or TV show or book where they
like bounce off each other, havea love hate relationship, It's
the his go Friday kind of, you know, vibe.
And you definitely you get understand why that's the
reference when you watch it. Yeah, for sure.
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OK, Yeah, So I'm going to go. It's my 4th pick now.
I'm going to go with yeah, OK. I think I know where I'm going
to go with this one. I'm going to go with Adaptation.
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Adaptation is it's starring, youknow, Nick Cage famously and his
dual role as twin brothers. It's directed by Spike Jones,
but but really like famously written by Charlie Kaufman,
who's who's kind of more people probably are familiar with Being
(17:50):
John Malkovich, which was written by Kaufman, directed by
Spike Jones, but this one is actually like more.
It has Meryl Streep in it and Charlie Kaufman as a writer.
He's it's really interesting as a writer to begin with.
But this is this movie is basically like the character is
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named Charlie Kaufman, Nick Cage's character, who's the main
character. And so Charlie Kaufman loved
this book written by Susan Orlean called like the Orchid,
something, I can't even rememberwhat it's called.
Oh, the orchid thief about flowers.
And it's, it's he wanted to adapt it.
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It's not a it's not a work of fiction.
It's a work of nonfiction, but he wanted to adapt it into a
movie, but he couldn't figure out how to adapt it into a
movie. And so he just like, wrote
himself into it. And it's about the, the writing
endeavor of trying to adapt something that's not adaptable.
And just like how it's this to me is Nick Cage's best
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performance as this kind of these dual character, these twin
brothers. It's it's a really, there's a
lot of interesting stuff going on here.
Meryl Streep probably plays the author of the book he's trying
to adapt. And yeah, it's a really wild,
anything about Charlie Kaufman is really wild and out there.
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But yeah, I think most people could watch this and and
appreciate it. But yeah, I love it.
It's a great movie. So yeah, that's where I'm going
with my first big adaptation. OK, I am going to go with one
that film Bros would hate me for, but it was the very first
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thing that I thought of when I thought of writing.
So I'm going to go with Letters to Juliet, which is a classic
2010 ROM com starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave.
And again, we've got letter writing which counts, including
the women who are the secretaries of Juliet who
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respond to all of the broken hearted.
And then Amanda Seyfried ends upbecoming a writer at the
newspaper that she was just previously fact checker after
this story and this journey she takes with this grandmother and
grandson. So I mean, it's cheesy and
adorable and just an Italian summer dream.
You got to love it. Great.
(20:30):
I haven't seen it, so I can't I can't film bro and like critique
you for it because I haven't seen it.
So there. You go yeah, but yeah, So, you
know, great pick back pick. I don't know the people.
The people will decide I. Think the people will?
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Decide with me. Yeah.
So there's my next pick is probably going to be another one
that not many people have seen, but it's by a director that I
really love, Jim Jarmusch. This is, I guess this would
probably be one of his more popular movies, the other one
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being Only Lovers Left Alive that stars Tilta Swinton and Tom
Hiddleston as vampires. But this movie that I'm picking
is Patterson. It stars Adam Driver as the
titular character, Patterson andliving in the town of Paterson,
NJ And he is this bus driver that is an aspiring poet.
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And and so like on his best route, whenever he's making
stops, he pulls out his notebookand is writing poetry.
And you kind of get some like annotated, you know, words
across the screen, like of him writing his and like kind of
dictating his poetry narrative narration style, I guess.
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And it's, it's funny because like he's, he lives this mundane
life. He has, he has a wife that they
have a little bit of a rocky relationship.
And it's very, yeah, he's a bus driver.
It's a very mundane life he lives.
It's very like structured his, his life.
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You kind of see through the movie, his, the structure of his
life. And yeah, it's.
But what's what's really interesting is like he's writing
this poetry that is actually like really beautiful.
Like you're hearing it and you're like, man, this is
actually like really beautiful poetry and really like poignant.
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But if you get the feeling that no one will ever know.
Yeah. Because how can this guy who's a
bus driver in Paterson, NJ, get his work out there?
And so it's kind of, you know, and then at on top of that, a
lot of create, you know, people that are creative in that way.
Like you always feel like your work isn't that great.
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Yeah. You're never satisfied.
And so like he, you know, his wife kind of pushes him to keep
riding. And.
But yeah, it's a really good movie.
Just kind of like, I guess aboutthat, that I that endeavor of
like keeping on doing like what you are actually like, you know,
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gifted to do. And I think on top of that, like
Paterson, NJ is like the home ofactually like a, a decent amount
of famous, like artists and poets.
And so like, he has that like weighing over him of like, I'll
never be this. But yeah, it's a it's a really
good movie. And Adam Driver is in it.
So that's kind of like my pool of like, if you haven't seen it,
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Adam Driver is in it is he's themain character.
So go see it. Yeah, it, it really is.
I I loved it. I think it's my favorite Jim
Jarmus movie and I've seen a decent amount of his.
So. Yeah.
Patterson. OK.
Your this is your 6th pick. Yes, my 6th.
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Pick. I am going with a very
emotional, very beautiful story,kind of about the like writing,
what writing can do and how it can free you and how it can lead
to kind of, I don't know, the betterment of yourself and
understand yourself. I'm going to go with Freedom
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Writers, The seven, Hilary Swankclassic.
But really, you know, definitelythe first time I saw it.
I feel like I didn't even see the full movie The first time.
I think it was just on TV. But obviously just having these
like kids who are just really inkind of the worst situation
growing up in kind of a hopeless, like, no, I'm just
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going to be, you know, on on thestreets, like my family.
I'm going to end up in a horrible situation, but then
giving them the encouragement todo something for themselves and
giving them these journals and, and you know, leading them to
write like having those outlets and like we were talking earlier
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about like the oppression of of where you stand, but then giving
someone an outlet to create and to work process through that.
Even if you know they don't become a famous artist, the you
know, the idea of hoping for thefuture because you have an
outlet to process your situationis you know it's beautiful.
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Yeah, yeah, I actually haven't seen Freedom Riders, but it's
one of those movies that like you hear about and you feel like
you've seen it. Yeah, because you feel inspired.
You feel inspired just hearing about, like the premise or the,
like, story behind it that inspired it.
And so, yeah, it's definitely one of those like just inspiring
(26:04):
movies that like, man, I haven'tseen that, but I'm, I'm, I'm
inspired just about by hearing about that story.
Yeah. I feel like that's probably a
movie that inspired a lot of people to become teachers or,
and or if you're are a teacher, they, you know, tell you to go
watch that and, you know, do good and be good for the world.
For sure. OK, I have several.
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I always have several that I want to do, but only like 2
picks left. So I think what I'm going to do
is, man, it's so hard. I'm going to have to definitely
give some honorable mentions because I have a really long
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list, but I'm going to go with, oh, geez.
I'm trying to see. I'm trying to look at how many
films I have that are like actually writing and how many
like I'm stretching. But really I'm not stretching.
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Taxi Driver was maybe the biggest stretch.
The other ones are like largely about writing.
So I feel like I can stretch a little bit, but man.
So I'm going to go with a very recent movie that came out last
(27:35):
year that was really, really good.
I'm going to go with Tar starring Clay Cate Blanchett.
She's, she's a composer writing well, she's a composer and
largely a conductor. So I would say it's, you know,
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it's a bit of a stretch because largely what she does is, is
conduct. But there's a sense in which she
is like taking a piece of music and like, writing the way it
sounds by the way she conducts. Yeah.
So it's a bit of a stretch. But I think she also does
compose stuff. Technically, that character has
(28:23):
composed her own stuff in the past, too.
So I guess maybe it's not that much of A stretch.
Yeah. But but yeah, it's, I think
obviously like Cate Blanchett isjust the powerhouse of an
actress and everything she does is, is fantastic.
And but this role is just like, felt like it was like made for
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her is just like she was incredible in it.
And it really is about there's adegree to which it's about the
just the systems around like that world of creating and, you
know, in this sense, like writing or conducting and like
the, the power structures in place in those worlds too.
(29:10):
And how like as you gain power, what do you do with it?
So as a especially like, as a creative that has so much
influence on the culture. And so yeah, it very, very, very
good movie. And yeah, that's why I'm going
(29:30):
to go with all. Right.
So is this my last one? All right, I am just, you know,
I'm sure that other people will be able to tell based off my
list that I I do watch a lot of popular movies and I do watch a
lot of ROM coms. And I'm just going to stay true
to that because I do think it'llget me the popular vote.
(29:51):
I don't know what your voting demographic looks like, but.
I don't either, I think. For the masses, I I might win
just off of popularity or like name recognition, but yeah, I'm
going to stick to true to me. So I'm going another ROM com
2003. Something's got to give starring
(30:12):
Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves and Frances
Mcdormand's in there. So you're pulling it back with a
Wes Anderson like tried and true.
And it was also directed by a woman, Nancy Meyers.
So, you know, we're just really trying it all together.
But she you know, have you seen something got to give?
I haven't, but I would like to. Yeah, this one is a famous, you
(30:36):
know, ROM com Nancy Meyers movie.
Diane Keaton plays a playwright who throughout the process of
meeting Jack Nicholson and, you know, dealing with a lot of
things, whether that's her daughter or these other men in
her life. She is a playwright.
And she also in the movie writesa play with some of the scenes
(30:58):
that you have witnessed as well and that, you know, becomes, you
know, funny, very entertaining for for the crowd and really
hurtful to Jack Nicholson. But, you know, of course, the
ROM coms. So it's it bounces back and
forth. It's a good one.
It's a classic 1, you know, So that's my going to be my last
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pick. Great.
Yeah. I mean, you can't go wrong with
Jack Nicholson. No, But yeah, you know, he's one
of those guys that, like, you think about like there's,
there's, there's not many peoplethat probably couldn't work in a
Wes Anderson movie. But now that I'm thinking about,
I'm like, man, would Jack Nicholson work in a Wes Anderson
(31:41):
movie? I don't know.
Maybe not. You might.
Be a little too much like, I don't know, the energy might not
be quite right. Right, Yeah, it's very
interesting to think about. I think I saw saw someone asking
on Twitter recently like, what actor would not work in a Wes
Anderson movie? Yeah, but I I did not think
(32:03):
about. I didn't think about him.
But yeah, Jack Nicholson, I don't know if he would work.
I don't know. But he's not he's not acting
right now. So we will never.
We'll never know. All right, my last pick.
I have some other ones that I would really love to get on get
on this list. But since we're since we seem to
(32:27):
be circling back around and staying on theme with things
we've been talking about, I'm going to go with a documentary
called I Am Not Your Negro. It's it's about James Baldwin.
So it's directed by Raoul Peck, who is a Haitian filmmaker.
(32:48):
He, he does a decent amount of documentary work, but this is,
he's basically like working fromthe some text of James Baldwin's
like unfinished work. He, James Baldwin had a novel
that he never finished before hedied.
(33:08):
And he, yeah. So he's, he's working off of
that unfinished novel. And it's kind of like a
reflection of what it is to be black in in America.
And so it's based on Baldwin's work.
It's it's actually narrated by Samuel L Jackson.
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And then it has a lot of like, has a lot of like archive
footage of, of just like James Baldwin, of course, and, you
know, a lot of interviews with him, but, you know, obviously
with big names like King Junior and Malcolm X and Harry
(33:52):
Belafonte, there's some archive footage of him, Sidney Poitier,
Ray Charles. And so yeah, it's, it's just
this documentary and it's a verylike, it's, it's not like a
straightforward documentary likeyou would think of.
It very much sticks to the the kind of like poetic eloquence
(34:15):
that Baldwin had. And so like, it's kind of like a
collage of these, you know, thisfootage of these black Americans
that were influential. And like, when you put
everything together, you really have a a sense of just the the,
(34:37):
I don't know, the injustice of, of it all.
And so, yeah, that's that's one that I feel like just sticking
on. It's very much about a writer
working off of James Baldwin's work.
And yeah, circles back to the influence of the the character
(34:59):
that Jeffrey Wright played in The French Dispatch and Roebuck
Wright. And so, yeah, I feel like that's
a good, yeah. Coming full circle moment with
the final pick of the draft. Yeah.
So that's that's our movie draft.
Let's I'm going to read back ourpick and yeah.
(35:24):
So Kara ended up with the help you've got mail almost famous
his girl Friday letters to Juliet Freedom Riders and
something's got to give. I ended with Little Women Taxi
Driver, Sing St. Adaptation, Patterson Tar and
(35:45):
I'm not Your Negro. And yeah, it's, these are some
good lists. Yeah, we'll, we'll put it out
there and see, see what the people think.
You definitely have some, some crowd pleasers.
Yeah. And then, you know, I, I think I
have some for the, the, you know, cinephile if you want to
(36:06):
say that. For sure.
So we'll just see who the votersare, basically.
Yeah, yeah. You know, you know, we'll see if
more people that you share with vote for you and your popular
picks. But.
But I mean, I've got little women.
I know I'm mad you stole little women.
(36:27):
That for sure was going. To be in there.
Yeah, yeah. And a lot of people know, know
and like Taxi Driver too. Yeah, for sure.
And Tom has had like, obviously it's very fresh on the brain,
critically explained. Yeah, so I don't know, I I just
felt like I wanted to get some movies out there that I wanted
(36:47):
people to see What this one, I was less worried about winning
the poll. So, well, hey, if you win.
People to see all. The things that I.
Just posted. They're all great.
There's, yeah, there's some thatI wanted to see that I haven't
seen yet, that maybe now I will.So great.
Yeah, that's that was our movie draft.
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Now back to the show. Well that was a fun movie draft.
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Interesting list. We ended up with.
There. And and yeah, I I found my
memory. Serves me right, Kara.
Destroyed me she had like this Facebook army of ROM com lovers
come out and just like my. Biggest defeat?
Ever in the history of the show on a pole for a movie draft.
(38:14):
So yeah, Congrats, very belated Congrats to Kara on that for for
destroying me. But yeah, that, that was a fun
movie draft. We'll be picking up back up next
week with our Spielberg. Series.
With Ready Player 1. We had already recorded it.
(38:35):
Great. Conversation about that movie.
Long conversation. It's one of our longer episodes,
so buckle up for next week. It's going to be a fun one.
It's going to be quite the ride.But yeah, that is it for this
week. I've been Eli Price and you've
been listening to the establishing shot.
We will see you. Next time.
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We were happy here. For a little while.
But look, I figured this way better to be king for a night
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