Steven Spielberg: An Epilogue

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It wasn't closely.
What's the secret thing?

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Just got to find something you
love to do and then do it for

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the rest of your life.
I don't want to be a product of

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my environment.
I want my environment to be a

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product of me.
Hello and welcome to the

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Establishing Shot, a podcast
where we do deep dives and two

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directors and their
filmographies.

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I am your host, Eli Price, and
we are here on episode 118 of

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the podcast.
And it is time to wrap up the

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Spielberg series, finally.
Today is our Steven Spielberg

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epilogue episode.
And so, yeah, I'm excited.

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It's kind of sad, actually, but
excited, happy, excited.

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It feels good to be wrapping up
a long, long series.

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I did not look at how long I've
been in this series, but it's

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been a long time.
And it's yeah, this has been a

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long time coming.
Now, I did change up the format

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of the podcast starting with
this series.

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I used to do, I used to do like
for my Wes Anderson and

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Christopher Nolan series, I
would do in one episode would be

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me covering the movie.
And then also we would do like a

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movie news segment and we would
do a movie draft all in the one

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same episode.
And so I did switch the format

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up, starting with this series
where we do we cover the films

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of the directors and then every
other episode and then the

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episodes in between are like the
movie drafts or the interviews

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or the top fives or, you know,
whatever else.

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We end up doing bonus reviews.
And so, yeah, so with that

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switch, it's made this series
last even longer than it would

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have been the old format.
But yeah, I started this series

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looking back on February 16th,
2024.

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And so we've been in this for, I
guess a few months shy of two

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years.
But yeah, that was the overview

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episode, you know?
And yeah, it's been, it's been a

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long time coming.
We've we've done it, we've

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wrapped up Spielberg.
We've watched all of his movies.

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We've recorded podcasts of all
of his on all of his movies,

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some short, some very long, as
I'm sure you know, if you've

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been following along.
But yeah, it, this is exciting.

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I, I am ready to do this now
since this, since there's so

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many Spielberg films and this
has been a long series, I did

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some intermission episodes.
So I kind of broke it up where

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instead of just doing an
overview and an epilogue, I did

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some intermissions.
And those were episodes where I

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would recap a couple of decades
of films from Spielberg and look

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forward to the next one and kind
of set up the next deck couple

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of decades.
And so I did a couple of those

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where I recapped the 70s and 80s
one, and then again one where I

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recapped the 90s and 2000s.
And so in this epilogue, I'm

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going to do a little bit of
both.

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I'm going to kind of recap the
20 tens and the 20s of

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Spielberg's career like I have
done with those past

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intermission episodes.
And then I'm going to, so those

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will be that'll they'll be a
little bit more detail to that.

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And then I'm going to kind of
just do an overall recap of

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Spielberg's career and and where
we are.

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And so, yeah, so let's dive in
the 20 tens and the twenty 20s

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of Spielberg's career.
You know, this is these are I

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guess these past 15 years now
2010 to now to 2025.

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You know, it's it's kind of the
point of Spielberg's career

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where he's not really worrying
about making money anymore per

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SE.
I mean, he is, but but he

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doesn't have to make money with
his films.

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So he kind of is free to kind of
make what he wants and pursue

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what projects he wants at this
point.

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And you see that come to great
advantage.

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And some some not so much over
this time, this time period,

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this decade and a half.
And so ironically, I think like

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his only really big financial
hit was Ready Player 1, which is

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a movie that I think was like,
it seems like critically and

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just like in my opinion was
probably the worst of the last

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15 years, but it made the most
money, which maybe that's a,

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maybe that's a bad sign for
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industry.
But yeah, we're we won't we

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won't dwell on that too much.
He he kind of carried over as

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well his kind of balance of
doing serious films and doing

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more fun films.
So a lot more serious ones over

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this of these last 15 years of
his career with some still fun

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ones thrown in in between some
some of those kind of classic

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Spielberg blockbuster.
I really like the end up being

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very like some more child
focused ones again, which he

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hasn't done in a while.
And so I would say even on the

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start, the, the just to start
the 20 tens with the adventures

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of 10/10, which is an explicitly
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directed for children.
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the BFG too.
And I, I think that's something

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maybe new that he did in, in
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You know, ET, I guess you could
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completely and totally.
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there's, there's not really, I
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like, not like kids film, you
know, even though dinosaurs are

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appealing to kids.
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really thought about that until
this moment.

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But yeah, Adventures of 10/10
and the BFG have been making,

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like, explicit, explicit
children's movies.

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Even with stuff like Cook,
that's the Peter Pan story.

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It's still a very, like, adult
movie, you know, in a lot of

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ways, even though kids still
love and enjoy a movie like

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Cook.
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So this, I think really like the
20 Tens might be considered his

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weakest decade.
And I think I reflected in that

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last intermission episode on why
that might be.

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I think part of it, I think one
of the big reasons is maybe like

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his movies just didn't make a
lot of money that there wasn't

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any like big splashes like there
was in the last decades.

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But I don't know.
I think it was a very strong

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decade.
Like it was very, very steady

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and consistent.
And so, yeah, I'm kind of, I'm

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kind of looking through and I'm
like, man, I, I really like,

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there's a couple of films that I
don't care for a whole lot, but

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most of them are just really
solid, a really solid run.

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And so a few duds maybe in the
middle.

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But I, I think all of us that
we, we can kind of talk about

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that when we overview the whole
career, but every decade of

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Spielberg kind of has one of
those one or two of them.

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So yeah.
And then like in as he he, he

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kind of like it, it seems like
to the decade, maybe starting

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with Munich, which was the end
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I think that was 2008 that that
came out starting with Munich.

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So coming into the, he really
like is leaning into as well.

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The, the more like I have
something to say politically.

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I have something to say like
morally and ethically and

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politically.
And here's the movie for it.

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Now it's Spielberg.
So those movies are not like in

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your face about that.
They're not distasteful, they're

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not preachy in that way.
So when I say that like, you

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know, I'm not saying like in a
bad way, but he you can tell

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like he has.
And I think it's something to do

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with where he is in his stage of
life.

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He has older kids now that he
wants to influence and and kind

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of like teach of how to view the
world, how to engage with the

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world, how to make a difference
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do think that in this decade, he
really is like leaning into

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those political statement
movies, maybe for that reason,

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because of where he is in his
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And, you know, he's getting
older, You know, he's, he's

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running out of time to say what
he wants to say, meant to make

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the points that he wants to make
with his art.

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And so, yeah, I, I, I appreciate
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I think that because he has the
financial stability and he's

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not, you know, relying on he
doesn't have to worry about like

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this studio's going to drop me
and then I won't be have anyone

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to make a movie.
No, he's Steven Spielberg.

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He can do, he can make whatever
he wants, whenever he wants.

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And so so he can make those
projects and and get them out

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there And even and then coming
off of that in the twenty 20s

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with West Side Story and the
Fableman's, I think now he's

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just kind of like he's he's
gotten all of his like political

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statements out of his system in
a in a way.

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West Side Story has some of
that.

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But and it's just passion
projects.

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It's it's films that like are
are like something deep for him.

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West Side Story, the musical
he's always wanted to make, the

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Fableman's, which is basically
just his personal story.

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And so, yeah, I really think
that the these past 15 years are

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kind of underrated for
Spielberg.

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And that's that's kind of
disappointing because there's

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some really great stuff in here.
So yeah, I'm going to do now.

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I'm going to.
OK, yeah, yeah.

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Now, now I'm going to go through
some of my favorites of these

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past 15 years of his career.
So let's talk about favorite

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performances.
I'm just going to kind of run

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through these.
I'm not going to spend a lot of

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time on these performances
because I talked about them in

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the episode, but it's fun to
kind of list out things and

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reflect.
So that's what we're going to

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do.
In The Adventures of Tintin.

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I didn't really have like, I
mean, so Andy Serkis plays

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Captain Haddock and I think he's
really good, but there wasn't

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anything that was like, oh, I
love that performance, even

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though I did think Circus was
good just because he always is.

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So yeah, Adventure the Tintin is
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I think it's a fine movie.
War Horse I was, I actually

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liked more than I thought I was
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Like, I didn't think it was
phenomenal, but I really enjoyed

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it.
I thought it was a good movie.

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My standout performance in that
was Neil's Airstrip as the

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grandfather really packs an
emotional punch in the the short

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time he has on screen.
And so I really enjoyed that.

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I mean, I'm the horse.
The horse is great, right?

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And then Lincoln is kind of
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Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham
Lincoln is incredible.

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One of the greatest living
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greatest living film makers.
And yeah, I mean, it's hard to

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mess that up.
But also Tommy Lee Jones as

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Thaddeus Stevens in that movie
is really, really great.

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He's really like getting his
grumpy on and doing his Tommy

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Lee Jones things with his with
his powdered wig.

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And yeah, really enjoyed him in
that movie as well.

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I mean, a lot of these are kind
of obvious a bridge of spies.

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I mean, it's Tom Hanks as James
B Donovan, and it's Mark Rylance

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as Rudolph Abel.
They're both great in their,

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their their own different ways.
You know, Tom Hanks is kind of

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in his, it's funny.
He's kind of in his like, is it

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John Fox?
What is his first name?

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And you've got mail?
I can't think of it.

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I know his last name is Fox.
Yeah, he's he's in his you've

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got male mode really.
Like he's got that like that Tom

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Hanks Ness in the in the best
way as James B Donovan kind of

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that.
I don't know if Fox isn't

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necessarily like an everyman,
but he he kind of is.

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He kind of has that feel still,
even though he's the big, big,

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big bookstore owner.
But enough on that.

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Tom Hanks is great in this
movie.

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Mark Rylance is just he's so
he's so good, just the way he

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carries himself that the way
they kind of like feed off of

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each other in the movie and hat
and bring like totally different

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energies, but don't like give in
to each other's energy is is so,

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so good.
And then of course, in the BFG,

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it's Mark Rylance as the BFG.
Even through the mocap

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performance, he he pulls it off
the post.

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Like I said, these are obvious.
It's Meryl Streep as K Graham.

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You know, I talked about when we
went, when we went through that

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episode of just how how well she
envelops this character and, and

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kind of like in subtle ways
undermines the, I guess like the

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patriarchal system she's trying
to breakthrough in.

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And.
Yeah, and it kind of kind of

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kind of encapsulates like a like
feminine strength that's really

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incredible.
So love Meryl Streep in the post

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Ready Player 1, not a lot going
well for me and Ready Player One

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unfortunately.
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don't love what they do with the
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just captivating as Halladay in
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So you know, it's Mark Rylance.
He's gotten mentioned for all of

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his Spielberg roles here.
And then of course we have his

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last two latest 2 West Side
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Ariana Dubose as Anita
powerhouse incredible.

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Mike Feist as Riff is like, I
don't know, he's just really,

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really great.
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powerhouse performances, my
like, I've seen this movie

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before.
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good, but like just I was blown
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It's like her first.
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shoulders in this movie.
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So shout out to Rachel Zegler
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And then the the Fable men's.
You know, it's it's kind of the

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two main people.
These are so obvious, but it's

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kind of what else am I going to
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Great.
I talk a lot a lot about like

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what she does in that movie in
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Those are my favorite
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Back to the show, let's move on
to favorite shots in moments.

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So I like to kind of reflect
back on some of my favorite

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shots from these movies, some of
my favorite moments from these

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movies, whatever it may be.
In War Horse, it's it's the

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meeting of the two soldiers in
No man's land to free the horse

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from the barbed wire.
Incredible sequence.

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I talked about how that's it's
kind of like a short film in and

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of itself that encapsulates like
the theme and the the point of

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the movie all in one, like
little sequence.

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It's beautiful.
It's shot with that like classic

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Janusz Kaminsky, Steven
Spielberg, Blues fog, you know,

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reflections in water HUD.
It's great.

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It's a great sequence.
And Lincoln, there's this moment

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where like Lincoln is sitting at
the end of the table in a

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cabinet meeting and he's he
starts in on one of his stories

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and everyone like is locked in
and the camera pushes slowly in

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down the table past everybody
into a close up of Lincoln as

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he's monologuing.
And it's kind of the camera is

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leaning into him just like
everyone in that room is leaning

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into him and you're leaning into
him because he's captivating.

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And so that was a a kind of
standout shot to me.

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Of course you got the now, now,
now.

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This is how I just impressed
myself.

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I feel like that was a decent
impersonation of they sis

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Lincoln.
But I love that.

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And then anytime Thaddeus
Stevens is like insulting

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someone on the House floor.
Those are the best moments.

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He's saying, I can't remember
which guy it was, but he's more

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lizard than man as my favorite
line of that movie.

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Yeah, lots of great moments in
Lincoln.

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A great looking film.
Bridge of Spies, Honestly, like

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I think my favorite sequence
might be the that opening

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sequence where you're, you're
kind of, it's kind of like this

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chase sequence.
Everything is being communicated

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visually as you as you go
through these New York streets

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and subways and you got glances
between and I guess FBI, I'm

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assuming agents.
And yeah, really, really great

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sequence.
The bridge at the end is a great

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looking sequence as well.
In the post, it's probably the

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build up to Kay's big decision.
You know, you've got that

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swirling camera.
I don't know how Spielberg does

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it, but he makes a phone
conversation really like intense

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and captivating and interesting.
That's a really great moment.

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And then, you know, Meryl Streep
as as Kay really like underplays

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that moment.
You're expecting this big

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climactic thing.
And the way she, like, delivers

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the the, you know, the decision
to print the paper is very,

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like, subtle and, like,
unassuming and like, yeah, I

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guess.
Yeah.

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Let's do it, you know, And it,
it's really great.

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Ready Player One mostly just, I
guess anything with Mark

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Rylance.
I don't know.

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I don't really have a lot to
say.

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I said enough in that episode
about Ready Player One.

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West Side Story is, I would say,
the standout favorite moments

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and shots are everything.
There's tons of purely cinematic

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shots.
You know, you've got Tony and

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Maria catching eyes across the
dance floor for the first time,

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with people dancing in between
them and meeting behind the

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bleachers.
So good.

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You've got, you know, Tony
reflecting in the water as he's

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singing Maria.
You've got that low, there's

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this low angle shot to like
finish off the song America,

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where the skyscrapers are like
it's shot straight down the

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street.
Skyscrapers are like fit framing

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the performers.
So good.

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You've got the shadows crossing
before the big rumble in the

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warehouse.
That's just incredible shot.

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And yeah.
And then just great musical

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numbers.
I think my favorite musical

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number and song is maybe still
tonight.

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But I was I was really liked
some of the what they did was

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somewhere in that movie.
And then the the kind of just

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raw energy and emotion of the a
boy like that slash.

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I have a love is just really
great.

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It's kind of what sold this
movie for me, what made me

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believe that Maria loves Tony in
a way that like no other

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Shakespearean story has.
I mean, like Shakespearean Romeo

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and Juliet story has ever made
me buy so love that and the and

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the fable winds.
I mean, one of the things that

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doesn't I think get like brought
up a lot.

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That was a standout to me, was
his first, like moment directing

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an actor, you know, with the kid
that that, you know, in the war

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that he's like directing to like
have this big emotional reaction

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to, you know, all of us, all of
his, you know, these people he's

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leading into battle, being dead.
And yeah, that was very moving

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to me, that sequence, the shot
of his that I talked about this

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shot of when they move into
their new Kelly home.

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There's this shot where his mom
looks directly into the camera

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that is being shot by Spielberg,
but it's in the movie.

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It's being shot by Sammy on his
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And she looks what this like
longing, sad, depressed look

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into the camera killed me.
That moment.

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Him seeing himself filming his
parents as they're they're

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announcing their divorce is
probably the big one everyone

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says.
And it's there's a reason for

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that.
The the ending with the the John

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Ford Horizon stuff is gold.
Love that.

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But yeah, those are there's some
of my favorite shots and moments

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and what not through throughout
the last 15 years of his career.

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So having my notes or rankings
for the 2000s and 20s, but I'm

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actually going to save that
because we're going to do a

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ranking of the entire Spielberg
filmography.

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But not yet.
I'll save that for last.

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OK, let's let's kind of recrap.
Wow, did I say recrap?

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That's awful.
Let's recap Spielberg's entire

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career, which has been the exact
opposite of crap.

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So I think the first thing I
want to talk about is just some

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Spielberg distinctives.
It's something that I kind of

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like to talk about and every
episode and every film that we

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covered Spielberg, What are some
things that you can expect

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Spielberg to do with the camera?
One of them is he loves to push

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in onto a character.
There's different the ways he

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likes to do close-ups, he likes
to do the push in, he likes low

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angle close-ups.
And by that I mean if you're

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watching online, it would be if
I had the camera tilted and I'm

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in close up with it looking up
at me.

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He loves to do that for some
reason.

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And then he he loves to do this
thing.

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It was especially like in the
first half of his career, but

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you still see it sometimes later
in his career where the way that

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the camera is framed, the the
character may or may not already

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be in frame, but they somehow
end U in a close U they like.

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The camera doesn't move, the
character moves into the close U

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and I've always just like every
time I see it, I'm like, yes,

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Bilberry.
I don't know why I love that.

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What are some other Spielberg
distinctives?

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The dude loves reflections.
Sometimes it's very meaningful.

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It's a it's a reflection or a
shadow and you've got the

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iconic, The Color Purple shadow
in the rocking chair.

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And sometimes they're, they're
like full of thematic meaning

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and and purpose And sometimes
they're just fun shots, to be

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honest, which is fine with me
because it's Spielberg and he

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can make some really great shots
and it's fun to see it a play

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out and to work.
But yeah, other other Spielberg

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distinctives.
The dude knows how to build

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tension like with the best of
them.

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I don't know how he does it.
One of the one of the moments

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from early in his career that
like kind of set the table for

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how good he is at building
tension.

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Obviously Jaws, but I'm thinking
of close Encounters where you

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see, oh, what's the, the
mountain called?

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Like Devil's Peak or Devil's,
whatever it's called, you see it

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on the TV and you have, you have
Dreyfus in the background

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building the, the model of it in
his basement or living room or

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whatever.
And you're just like, look at

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the TV, look at the TV and he's
on the phone and like, it's just

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this tension building, tension
building.

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And finally, he sees it on the
TV.

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Yeah, that's all through
Spielberg's career, that sort of

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tension building, not just in
like legit intense moments like

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you get in like Munich per SE,
per SE, but even in like moments

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like that that are kind of like
mundane.

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There's a there's a lot at
stake, I guess, in the context

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of the movie, but the reality
and in, like reality, there's

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not a whole lot at stake.
And so, yeah, I love that about

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Spielberg.
The dude loves to imply horror

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off screen.
He loves blood trickling down

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the stream in Jurassic Park.
He loves to cut to, you know,

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the blood mixing with milk and
Munich as someone's gotten shot

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and dropped their groceries.
Yeah, he he loves to like, have

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violence happen off screen,
unless it's Saving Private Ryan,

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where he just flips the script
on us and puts everything on

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screen.
So he can do both.

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He he proved that for sure.
But but I love the implied

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horror plied implied violence
off screen that he does.

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The dude.
The dude knows how to set up the

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geography of an action sequence
where you know, where everyone

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is, what all is happening, where
it's happening, how it might

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possibly, you know, intersect at
some point.

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The different things going on.
Indiana Jones with Raiders of

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the Lost Ark with the, the truck
chase sequence, the sense of

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geography and that is
incredible.

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The sense of geography and like
the plane fight sequence as

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well.
I think about Munich, I think is

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like I remember in that episode
talking about I think that might

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be the peak of action set piece,
like the geography, knowing

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where there's the the phone
call, like the foam bomb

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sequence.
That's just like incredible

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movie making, incredible
attention building, incredible

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actions, geography, set piece
sequence with characters in

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multiple locations, you know,
where everybody is.

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It's incredible.
Yeah, those are some Spielberg

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distinctives, but let's let's
dig a little deeper.

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What makes a movie a Spielberg
movie?

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I think there's I think there's
a bit of an inexplicable quality

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to a Spielberg movie, a Wes
Anderson movie.

445
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,200
You can kind of explain what it
is that makes a Wes Anderson

446
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,400
movie, a Wes Anderson movie, a
Christopher Nolan movie.

447
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,400
I'm saying these because these
are the past directors I've

448
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,840
covered, right?
A Christopher Nolan Nolan movie.

449
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,560
You can kind of like put your
thumb on it.

450
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,200
You kind of know, like, OK,
these are, these are what, this

451
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,600
is what Nolan does.
He does time he does, you know,

452
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:07,080
it's, you know, out of sequence.
It's you kind of know how to

453
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,520
describe like what makes a Nolan
movie a Nolan movie or a Wes

454
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,760
Anderson movie, a Wes Anderson
movie, a Spielberg movie.

455
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,760
It's a little bit harder to nail
down because of the kind of wide

456
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,560
range of genres and
sensibilities that he has been

457
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,040
able to capture from like,
straight up kids movies to

458
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,800
action adventure movies to
political dramas and thrillers

459
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:43,080
to to very like, intense
historical dramas with like,

460
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,320
Schindler's List.
Yeah, I think the only thing

461
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,320
maybe Spielberg doesn't have on
his checklist is straight

462
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,800
comedy, because 1941 was
terrible.

463
00:28:54,800 --> 00:29:01,280
But yeah, I mean, he's really
done a wide range of genres and

464
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,080
intersecting genres and stuff
like that.

465
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,720
So there's not one like genre
you can put him in.

466
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,760
And there's not really one kind
of feel.

467
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,200
It's it's like the only way I
can describe it is that there's

468
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,840
some sort of like magic wizardry
in the way that he shoots things

469
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,280
that just captures you.
And when you see it, you can

470
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,960
just feel the Spielberg of it.
And like other film makers can

471
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,520
tap into that.
Even sometimes that that

472
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,480
Spielberg feel like it makes me
think of like Jordan pills.

473
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:39,880
Nope movie is so Spielberg the
way it's shot and I I even told

474
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,360
people after I saw it let's its
jaws in the sky and it it is

475
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,720
it's like it feels so Spielberg
the way he builds tension in

476
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,040
that movie, the way he just
frames things and composes

477
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,880
things.
Jordan Peele, it's very

478
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,640
Spielberg and now not not Jordan
Peele's other movies don't have

479
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,600
that feel necessarily, but I
think that one he's specifically

480
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,480
was tapping into that.
But but yeah, there's just this

481
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:09,360
kind of magic about the way he
is able to put things on screen

482
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,400
that draw you in and capture
you.

483
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,320
He is, I think Spielberg is one
of the best ever at just

484
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,440
composing A-frame and just
knowing that for so much of his

485
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,440
career, even with, even when he
was like heavily storyboarding

486
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,360
things for so much of his
career.

487
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:32,360
He, he's very improvisational on
as far as like what he does with

488
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,800
the camera.
He, he fills out a space and he

489
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:41,280
just, he has an intuition about
where to put the camera, where

490
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,400
to put the people in the, in
the, in the space to fill the

491
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,600
frame.
And yeah, just a strong

492
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,720
intuition, a genius at composing
A-frame.

493
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,280
And I think too, like he can
direct the crap out of some

494
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,200
actors.
He there's there's so many like

495
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,640
young actors and actresses that
kind of you see before they've

496
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,000
really breaking out there, you
go back and they're like, they

497
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,120
were in a Spielberg movie, Like
he saw something in them and was

498
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,160
able to tap into that early on
in their careers.

499
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,960
And I, you know, I love that
about Spielberg.

500
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,200
And, you know, and even like
just working with even stars

501
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,200
like Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep,
he can, he can really like

502
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,560
direct actors very well.
I think another thing like

503
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:37,400
obviously like he pushes
technological bounds, maybe not

504
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,920
so much as people like James
Cameron, but but like, I, I

505
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,080
think along with that, like one
of the things I think that makes

506
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,360
a Spielberg A Spielberg movie is
that even in the most, even in

507
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,360
his most serious movies.
So I think Schindler's List, you

508
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,760
can tell that he is still having
fun the way he shoots, the way

509
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,080
he, I don't know, just the feel
like there's, there's some

510
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,680
lightness even to Schindler's
List.

511
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,120
That's that's kind of
refreshing.

512
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,280
You know, you kind of need that.
But it's something that

513
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,840
Spielberg brings to even his
most serious movies have this

514
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,280
lightness to them because you
know that Spielberg is having so

515
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,040
much fun on set and having so
much fun, like putting his

516
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,960
vision to to the screen.
And, and I think part of that is

517
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,960
that he actually, he's, he is a
director.

518
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,120
This is another thing I think
specific to Spielberg, that's

519
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,000
not the case for everybody.
He is a director that really

520
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,440
genuinely cares about his
audience and what his audience

521
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,920
thinks.
Like he, he will pivot if

522
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,400
something's not working and the
audience is not going to

523
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,080
respond.
Like, and I think he really

524
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,240
genuinely has the the audience
in mind.

525
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,640
He has the the crowd that like,
but it's not, but it doesn't

526
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,720
sacrifice his artistry.
I think that's something that

527
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,160
early on in his career, he got a
bad rap for that.

528
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,200
He was all like action and crowd
pleasing, but not really a real

529
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,880
artist.
And, and I think that's so

530
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,680
wrong.
I think that he was just able to

531
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:22,640
find that fine line between the
two and to ride it where he is

532
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,400
crowd like he is making crowd
pleasing movies.

533
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,520
But all all the while he never
sacrifices his artistry and his

534
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,480
vision.
And that's something that like I

535
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,720
have a great respect for
Spielberg for because so many

536
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,560
times I feel like you can
directors fall either way.

537
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,680
They're, they're, you know, and,
and that's fine.

538
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,880
You know, you can make a crowd
pleasing film that's not very

539
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,080
artistic and still be good.
And obviously like you can make

540
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,160
very artistic films that aren't
like this is a crowd pleasing

541
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,720
film.
And obviously there's some

542
00:33:54,720 --> 00:34:01,760
masterpieces out there and, and
that way, but but Spielberg, he

543
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,680
he has his vision and he's going
to execute his vision, His his

544
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,600
his piece of art that he is
making.

545
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,960
But he also really wants the
audience to love it and to be

546
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,199
enthralled with it and to be in
wonder of it.

547
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,120
And and yeah, that that comes
across.

548
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,920
I mean, I, I think that's
something that is very unique to

549
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,960
Spielberg and a reason why he's
one of the most successful

550
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,400
directors.
I say one of the most he is the

551
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,280
most successful director of all
time.

552
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,280
I think.
So, Yeah, yeah.

553
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,800
Let's let's go, let's kind of
like take a a journey through

554
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,560
his career.
You have this young savant who's

555
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,800
directing TV shows like nobody
like, and you know, to the

556
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,760
degree to where people are like,
man, this kid is good.

557
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,800
And then, you know, he somehow
ends up with Jaws and becomes

558
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,440
the father of the modern
blockbuster.

559
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,520
Incredible.
You know, he kind of in a lot of

560
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:03,000
ways with with Jaws and then
later Star Wars, they really

561
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,160
like jump started the modern
blockbuster kind of like

562
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:14,000
industry for better or worse,
you know, But yeah.

563
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,840
And then just kind of learning
like out of that process of like

564
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,520
having huge success with things
like Jaws and close Encounters

565
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,800
to like figure out like I need
to have the right people around

566
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,640
me.
I think is this part of his

567
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,000
career?
You know, he makes he comes off

568
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,120
of close Encounters in 1941
really like it does OK

569
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,040
financially, but like it was
bad.

570
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:43,400
It was not a good movie.
And you know, it has it's like

571
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,320
Defenders.
But like, I think in general,

572
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,280
like people just everyone knows
that 1941 is not a good movie.

573
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,920
And then to come off of that
with Raiders of the Lost Ark and

574
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,680
with the ET partnering with like
strong, like film makers and

575
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,800
strong writers, George Lucas
coming alongside of him,

576
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:09,160
Melissa, Melissa Mathison with
ET and really like being able to

577
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,560
execute, take Spielberg's vision
and like translate it, whether

578
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:18,320
it's like with a great script
and ET or whether it's with like

579
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,440
bouncing off ideas and kind of
like honing down things with

580
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,440
George Lucas on what you want to
do.

581
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,080
And like he, he, you know, he
has this era of childhood

582
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,400
wonder.
That's kind of becomes his

583
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,480
thing.
And I think it's a reason why he

584
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,840
he was accused of not being
artistic enough of a director

585
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,480
think I think that was wrong,
but it was a thing back then.

586
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,400
And I think out of that, he has
this period of his career where

587
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,160
with things like The Color
Purple and Empire of the Sun,

588
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:50,160
where he really maybe even
always, he's really like

589
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,080
grasping at wanting to be taken
seriously.

590
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,200
He wants the recognition of his
peers.

591
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,280
He wants the Academy to to see
him as a serious director, a

592
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,280
serious contender.
And, you know, I think I think

593
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,000
The Color Purple was a miss.
I think Empire of the Sun was a

594
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,960
hit, but not with, you know, it
wasn't actually it.

595
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,800
It just in my opinion, it was a
great movie.

596
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:22,040
But yeah, it it's, yeah, this
desire to really be taken

597
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:26,800
seriously and then, you know,
kind of doing some flop passion

598
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,960
projects with always in the hook
in that transition into the 90s.

599
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,840
And yeah, it it's funny.
Like he comes out of that and

600
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:42,320
then he has his pinnacle year.
Like his it's it is the year,

601
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,440
the Spielberg year 1993.
He it's it's the first time I

602
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,720
think.
I think he had had trouble

603
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:55,360
separating his fun blockbuster
side from his serious drama side

604
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,560
with things like The Color
Purple and Empire of the Sun and

605
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:03,480
always and hook even.
And he really in this year, I

606
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,360
think the thing that made the
difference was, OK, I'm going to

607
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,680
make my fun blockbuster movie
and that's what it's going to

608
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,160
be.
I'm going to make my serious

609
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,760
drama and that's what it's going
to be.

610
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:16,640
And yeah, two of his best films
in the same year, Jurassic Park,

611
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,640
Schindler's List.
Incredible.

612
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,520
Yeah.
I don't know that anyone's ever

613
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:25,800
had a better movie year than
having the the highest grossing

614
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,840
film of its at that time in
Jurassic Park and a best picture

615
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,600
winner in Schindler's List.
And deservedly so.

616
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,960
Phenomenal masterpiece movie.
I don't know that I don't think

617
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,880
it's ever happened for and ever
will again.

618
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,920
It might not ever happen again
for someone to have a year like

619
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Spielberg had in 1993 and and
then he the 90s are kind of an

620
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,760
enigma because in my opinion, he
has three big flops and three

621
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,760
masterpieces.
I I don't know that I would say

622
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,440
Saving Private Ryan is a
masterpiece.

623
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,360
Some people do, but you know, I
understand the argument for it.

624
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,840
It's a great, great, great
movie.

625
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:12,280
So he has three phenomenal
movies and three kind of flops.

626
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,800
And in my opinion, not everyone
thinks Hook is a flop, but he

627
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,040
had The Lost World, Jurassic
Park, Never again is he going to

628
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,480
make sequels other than Indiana
Jones, of course, but that's a

629
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,040
little different.
Amistad is Amistad is the movie

630
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,880
that he shouldn't have directed.
I went on a rant about that in

631
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,480
that episode that you can go
listen to.

632
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,080
And then yes, Saving Private
Ryan really kicks things back

633
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:45,520
off and and the the 2000s was a
great a great decade for him.

634
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,320
AI, artificial intelligence,
Minority Report, catch me if you

635
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:54,240
can, War of the Worlds, Munich,
even in my opinion, Indiana

636
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:56,760
Jones and the Kingdom of the
Chrysalis school, all great

637
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,840
movies.
I don't the terminal has its

638
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,080
defenders.
I and it has a a decent rating

639
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,880
on like letterbox.
I don't think the tear the

640
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:11,560
terminal is very good at all.
But but if you do think it's

641
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,840
good, I mean that's a whole
decade of like hits in my

642
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,320
opinion.
It's not like war of the worlds

643
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,040
isn't great or anything and King
of the social school isn't like

644
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,240
phenomenal or by Indiana Jones
standards, but they're still

645
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,840
good movies, I think.
And yeah, really, really strong

646
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,640
decade there.
And I think with Munich, like I

647
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,080
was talking about, you know,
it's it's a sci-fi decade.

648
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,280
I would say with AI, minority
Report, War of the worlds, even

649
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,920
king of the Christmas school has
its sci-fi elements.

650
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,880
And so that's that's fun.
But then with Munich, I think,

651
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,920
like I said earlier, really
kicks off his political drama

652
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:51,120
decade.
Munich.

653
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:55,040
I would argue War Horse is in
here as kind of like the

654
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,040
children's version of the
political drama, but the Horse

655
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,600
and Bridge of Spies, Lincoln,
The Post, and if I'm thinking

656
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:09,000
correctly, you've got that from
OK, Munich is 2005 to 2017 with

657
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,640
the Post, so a little over a
decade, but and you've got 1010

658
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,400
and BFG thrown in there and King
of the Crystal Skull as well.

659
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:21,160
But yeah, a lot political
dramas, he's making his

660
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,080
political points in the 2010's
where from and starting with

661
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,160
Munich even takes his big swings
with mocap.

662
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,560
Not his best choices.
I don't think that, you know,

663
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:38,600
between 10:10 BFG and Ready
Player 1, you know, a lot of

664
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,120
people really enjoy 1010.
A lot of people really enjoy

665
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,600
BFGI.
Thought both.

666
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,800
I think both of those movies are
fine.

667
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,640
I don't think they're bad, I
think they're fine in movies.

668
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,600
Ray Player 1 I think is a swing
and a miss unfortunately.

669
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:00,440
But man, to come off of that and
in my opinion, to have your old

670
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:05,240
man passion projects and make 2
masterpieces I think is

671
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,320
incredible.
I think West Side Story and the

672
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,920
Fablemans are both masterpieces.
They're incredible, they're

673
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,080
great.
They're we'll get to might be

674
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,640
two of the best of his career,
but I love that.

675
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,120
I love that he and I just I
can't wait to see what he does

676
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,560
with this UFO movie.
It is currently the working

677
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:30,400
title I think is the dish, which
is an interesting title.

678
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,520
The four actors that I noted
were Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor,

679
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,000
who I love, Colin Firth and
Coleman Domingo.

680
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,840
So those.
Great names attached to the

681
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,040
movie.
It's a UFO movie.

682
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,760
It's supposed to come out next
year in 2026.

683
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,880
Comic Sign.
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684
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,480
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692
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693
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that rating and review now?
Back to the show, I think over

694
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:35,040
the court just thinking about
before we get I do my rankings,

695
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:40,600
just thinking about watching
through these some three of

696
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,440
these movies that I'm going to
label as my biggest surprises

697
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,760
were blind spots.
I knocked out all of my

698
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,520
Spielberg blonde spots with the
blind spots with this, so that's

699
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,280
fine.
One of them I already really,

700
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,640
really liked a whole lot, but
just watching it again, I think

701
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,160
it's a masterpiece and is the
one of the biggest surprises.

702
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,000
Now I'm not going to say it's
the biggest surprise because I

703
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,520
had seen it before and loved it
already ready, but I just think

704
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,640
it's a a modern masterpiece is
West Side Story.

705
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:15,240
I I just think it's incredible.
I think visually and like the

706
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:20,080
way he like it's like he was
born to make a musical Spielberg

707
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,120
and love West Side Story.
A couple other like movies that

708
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,000
are really liked, AI, artificial
intelligence.

709
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,920
I wasn't sure what I was going
to think going in.

710
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,840
I think that's a great, great
movie.

711
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,400
Same thing with Empire of the
Sun didn't know what to think

712
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,480
going in but was blown away.
Loved it.

713
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:45,520
And then I would say my biggest
surprise of the the whole series

714
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,200
just cause like for one, I
didn't really have any

715
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,360
expectations going in.
Haven't ever heard much about

716
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:56,520
this movie, but Munich is such
an incredible movie that

717
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,080
captures so much of what
Spielberg does, from the the

718
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:04,680
political thriller with a
political statement movie to the

719
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,800
action set pieces, to the
tension, to the character

720
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,480
building, to the story, to the
visual language that's so

721
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,160
distinctly Spielberg.
Munich is such a good movie and

722
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:22,280
it's still from 2005 to today.
It's still very, very relevant

723
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:26,040
politically.
So really love those big

724
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,320
surprises.
But now it is the moment you've

725
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,560
all been waiting for.
I am going to go through and

726
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,960
give my rankings for Spielberg.
I will start at the bottom and

727
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,240
work my way up.
I'm not going to include like I

728
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:42,920
have some of his like shorts and
TV movies and stuff included in

729
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,640
here that I'm not going to
include.

730
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,360
I'm just going to do the feature
films and I'm not going to

731
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,880
include, I'll tell you this.
Twilight Zone is second to last

732
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,240
if you if I'm going by like his
sequence in the Twilight Zone

733
00:45:57,240 --> 00:45:59,440
movie.
I did not like his sequence in

734
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,040
the Twilight Zone movie, but I'm
not going to rank it here.

735
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,920
But if I did, you just already
know it's it would be second to

736
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:12,200
last.
So in last place, I have 1941.

737
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:18,840
Just not good, not funny to me
at least not just added.

738
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,240
I don't know, not good.
So that is OK.

739
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,200
Let me think.
Let me remove.

740
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,800
Yeah.
All of the like, shorts and

741
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,440
stuff.
And I think it's, I think he's

742
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:35,680
at 34 feature films, if you
don't include the Twilight Zone,

743
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:43,120
Twilight Zone, the movie.
So 30 at #34 is 1941 and #33 I

744
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,040
have the terminal.
Yeah.

745
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:53,920
You can go back to that episode
#32 I have always not not great,

746
00:46:54,680 --> 00:47:01,200
really weird movie looks great,
but really weird at, let's see,

747
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:11,440
343332 at 31.
I have Ready Player 1 and yeah,

748
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:17,120
talked about it already.
At #30 I have Hook.

749
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,920
Wasn't a big fan of Hook,
rewatching it with this.

750
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:26,200
Number 29, The Lost World,
Jurassic Park, kind of a misfire

751
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,120
sequel.
I think at #28 have Amistad, the

752
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,280
movie he should not have
directed but you know, has its

753
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:38,040
moments.
That's #20 BFG, it's fine.

754
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,000
At #26 The adventures of 10/10
it's fine.

755
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:47,720
And then 25 I have The Color
Purple, another movie I think he

756
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:50,400
would have been better not to
direct, but I understand why I

757
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,880
did.
Much more so than amistad #24 I

758
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:01,120
have War of the Worlds and #23 I
have his debut feature film, The

759
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,720
Sugar Land Express.
Well, unless you count Dual,

760
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,440
which we are going to count in
this because it did did have

761
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:13,040
some theater run in Europe.
Yeah #23 The Sugar Land Express.

762
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:20,800
At #22 I have Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom, and right

763
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,920
above it, Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

764
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,800
At #21 So let's get into the top
20.

765
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,040
I have War Horse.
At #20 I liked War Horse a lot

766
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,520
more than I thought it would.
At #19 I have Duel.

767
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:41,800
Great movie and let me go ahead
and preface this from this point

768
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:47,560
forward, all of these movies, I
have four stars and up even, you

769
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:53,000
know, so, so like 8 out of 10
Saving Private Ryan is I have at

770
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:59,160
#18 and #17 catch me if you can
#16 I have the post.

771
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,400
This is his 20 tense political
thrillers part right here. 16

772
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,360
The Post 15 Lincoln and 14
Bridge of Spies.

773
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:16,120
Love all those at #13 I have
Empire of the Sun and #12 don't

774
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,440
hate me.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and #12

775
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:24,040
I know, I know, I know the
objectively it's it's top five,

776
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:29,760
but just for me, it's #12
because I love me some sci-fi

777
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,800
and at #11 I have Minority
Report, at #10 I have AI,

778
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,480
artificial intelligence, at #9 I
have close Encounters of the

779
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,680
Third kind, my little sci-fi run
there.

780
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:46,240
Love all those movies.
At #8 is my favorite Indiana

781
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,120
Jones movie, Indiana Jones and
the Last Crusade.

782
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,040
So I have some good
representation up higher for

783
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,040
Indiana Jones, but I'm just not
like I love the Indiana Jones

784
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,840
franchise, but I'm just not like
the Super fan that has it has a

785
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,200
great greatest of all time sort
of thing.

786
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,320
So that was #8 #7 I have the
Fablemens.

787
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:15,800
Fablemens is phenomenal at
number six, I have Munich.

788
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:22,080
So my biggest surprise I have up
at #6 here we are getting into

789
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:27,560
the top five.
These, these are just, these are

790
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:32,200
my top five Spielberg movies.
So here we go at #5 I have

791
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:36,280
Jurassic Park childhood, It's
the love.

792
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:41,240
Jurassic Park at #4 This is the
another huge surprise of how

793
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:44,840
much I loved it.
I have West Side Story at #4 I

794
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:51,000
think it is phenomenal.
And yeah, it's at #4 for me #3 I

795
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,560
have, and honestly, I I could
move West Side Story up to #3 or

796
00:50:55,560 --> 00:51:00,200
#2 I thought it was that good #3
I have ET the Extraterrestrial,

797
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,240
loved it.
It's so good.

798
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:06,280
And top 2.
These are both five star

799
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,280
masterpieces.
I think Schindler's List at #2

800
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,360
found it incredibly
entertaining, incredibly moving,

801
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,680
an incredibly important movie.
So maybe a bit cliche, but I

802
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:22,240
have it at #2 And that means
that my number one film for now

803
00:51:22,240 --> 00:51:24,840
and for always for Spielberg is
Jaws.

804
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:29,000
Great movie, masterpiece. 5
stars, 10 out of 10.

805
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:33,160
Jaws Big Shark is taking the
cake.

806
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,960
I mean, could I have really
given it to anybody else?

807
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,080
I mean, because what would that
shark do to me if I didn't?

808
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:43,680
So that is my ranking of
Spielberg's filmography.

809
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,320
It's it's been fun.
We're done with Spielberg until

810
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,480
he releases the dish next year,
if it's still called that by

811
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,440
then.
But I'll look forward to that.

812
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:57,960
And yeah, kind of sad to see
Spielberg go, but this is it.

813
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:03,160
Yeah.
I mean, I've so now I've covered

814
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,160
Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan
and now Steven Spielberg.

815
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:11,040
I would say honestly, I probably
like those directors in that

816
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,560
order.
Just like a personal preference,

817
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:17,680
what you know, the movies that I
love from the directors, I would

818
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,920
say Wes Anderson favorite
Christopher Long, next.

819
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,800
Steven Spielberg next, but
obviously, like Spielberg is the

820
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,960
GOAT, you can't really take that
away from him.

821
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,360
So really glad I did this
series.

822
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,880
I've greatly enjoyed it.
Met some great people that I

823
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,760
brought on as guests through
this series that, you know,

824
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,240
hopefully I'll be able to bring
on again in the future.

825
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,040
But yeah, really, really enjoyed
the series.

826
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:48,680
I am hoping to diversify my
port, My Portfolio of directors

827
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:53,080
I've covered with the next one,
maybe not a white male director

828
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,080
with the next one.
So we'll see.

829
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,320
Maybe not a big name director
either.

830
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,400
We'll see.
I've been trying to, you know,

831
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,880
cover some directors that maybe
we'll, we'll pull in more people

832
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,400
that are interested.
But hey, maybe it's time for an

833
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,720
ND director.
I don't know, we'll see.

834
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,840
But Speaking of ND directors,
next week I had the privilege of

835
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:23,320
interviewing indie director
Daniel Daniel Moschiari, who has

836
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,120
his debut feature coming out
next.

837
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,920
And so, yeah, it's called
Stationed at Home.

838
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,480
And yeah, it's it's very good.
Daniel and I had a great

839
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,120
conversation about it.
I I was able to interview him

840
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,240
about the film, start the
episode with a quick review of

841
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:40,400
it.
Yeah, yeah.

842
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,200
It was exciting to be able to do
that.

843
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,640
And I hope to be able to do more
interviews with directors in the

844
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:51,000
future about their films.
And so that is coming out next

845
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,320
week.
And so be looking forward to

846
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,800
that.
But Spielberg, it was it was

847
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,320
good.
It is time for for us though,

848
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,960
like our favorite pal ET to now
go home.

849
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,480
And you know, we'll be right
there with you always,

850
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,640
Spielberg.
So we'll see you when you

851
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:14,000
release your next film, I guess.
And so, yeah, that's it.

852
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,760
We're done with Spielberg.
Goodbye.

853
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,160
So long.
That's all we have for this

854
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,720
week.
I have been Eli Price.

855
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,400
And you've been listening to the
establishing shot.

856
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:32,040
We'll see you next time.
We were happy here for a little

857
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,880
while.
But look, I think it was this

858
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,920
way.
Better to be king for a night

859
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,000
than smoke for a lifetime.