Writers in Movies Draft (w/ Kara Smith)

Eli Price (21:25.821)
 But yeah, let's go ahead and jump into our movie draft section. So, yeah, kind of along with the the.

Kara Smith (21:28.798)
Absolutely.

Kara Smith (21:39.178)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (21:50.395)
Alrighty.

Eli Price (21:54.721)
French dispatch theme. We're gonna 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 from the pool of whatever genre or, you know, whatever you wanna call it that I've come up with for this week. So, you know, we're gonna be.

taking turns, Kara will 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. 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.

Kara Smith (22:39.263)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (22:47.084)
I'm gonna go.

Eli Price (22:52.141)
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. 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. And so yeah let's just jump right in.

You're a first time guest, so you get the first pick. So where are you going with the very first pick of the writers and film draft?

Kara Smith (23:21.324)
Thank you.

Kara Smith (23:28.772)
Okay, yes. So though 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 wonderful classic movie, amazing acting, and about a woman who wants to show the world the perspectives of the women who help in her town.

Eli Price (23:46.546)
Okay.

Kara Smith (23:58.8)
and who work for families like hers. And it shows her writing process. It shows her trying to get the book made. It shows the book coming to fruition and 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 pop up as a suggestion.

And I was like, this is such a good movie. So funny, so sweet, so heartbreaking. It's all of the things.

Eli Price (24:27.724)
Hmm.

Eli Price (24:33.225)
Yeah, it is a really good movie. 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 it. That's a really good one And I don't even know I don't think I had it on my list, but I don't know why it feels like it should have come up When I was looking but um, but yeah

Kara Smith (24:46.206)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (25:02.221)
not on my list, unfortunately, because it should have been. Okay, so I was hoping that I would be able to get this, 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 Greta Gerwig's Little Women. I love...

Kara Smith (25:25.748)
Dang it, that's what I'm doing.

Eli Price (25:30.685)
I love her. I like the old one too. Not the older ones because there are several adaptations but the one from the 90s I believe. It's got one owner writer in it and yeah. That one's good too but this one I love. I love.

Kara Smith (25:33.844)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (25:43.369)
Okay, yeah.

Kara Smith (25:49.032)
Yes, yes, yes.

Kara Smith (25:54.976)
Yeah, she adds, she added so much to this, to this telling of this little woman's story.

Eli Price (26:03.629)
Yeah, and the way she structured it was great. And Sorcer Ronan is just like. Just so perfect in that role. And so, yeah, that's my first pick. Probably not where you thought I would go, but I knew that I needed to snag it early and it's one that I really, really do love. So, yeah, where are you going to go next?

Kara Smith (26:06.188)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (26:12.628)
Yes.

Kara Smith (26:25.284)
Yeah, I definitely, 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 didn'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'd be on the top of the brain. 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.

Eli Price (26:29.785)
Hahaha.

Kara Smith (26:54.184)
You get to the end without the knowledge, without one character having the knowledge that the other was the writer all along. It's how they meet, it's how they fall in love. I am stealing You've Got Mail.

Eli Price (27:07.405)
Hmm. And technically she is a writer. She does have a book at the end. Yep. Yeah.

Kara Smith (27:10.012)
And yes, she becomes a children's book writer. Yes, she does. And just like, you know, Little Women, it had previous iterations with like Shop Around the Corner from back in the day. And again, they were letter writers. Yeah, so they wrote letters, these guys write emails, but it's all the same. And some of the writing in it is so, 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,

Eli Price (27:21.438)
Mm-hmm, which is great.

Eli Price (27:33.799)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (27:37.264)
I feel as though that's gonna help me get some votes in the long run. If your family's voting, that might help me out a lot because I know we all love that movie.

Eli Price (27:42.98)
Yeah, yeah.

Eli Price (27:48.229)
Yeah, I mean I love you've got Mel to it it's one of my favorite rom-coms I would say Just like thinking about that genre Yeah There you go What who is the help directed by?

Kara Smith (27:53.722)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (27:57.512)
Also directed by a woman, Nora Ephron.

Kara Smith (28:07.756)
I don't know that it's directed by a woman. I think, I mean, it's written by a woman, I believe. Tate Taylor is the director.

Eli Price (28:08.458)
Yeah.

Eli Price (28:16.689)
Okay, well, two out of the three so far directed by women. So they were, little did we know we were gonna be on theme there too. But probably won't stay on theme as 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.

Kara Smith (28:20.429)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (28:40.448)
Yeah.

Eli Price (28:46.401)
But I think I'm going to go with... Oh, it's so hard.

Eli Price (28:59.117)
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 journal. And that serves as like a narrative.

Kara Smith (29:21.504)
Okay.

Eli Price (29:25.097)
like a narration structure through the movie, and that's a taxi driver. Yeah, yeah, you know, and it really is like that. That's the his journal entries are kind of the framing device for the movie. And so in that sense, he is a writer and it plays an important role in how the movie plays out and really like not just what not.

Kara Smith (29:29.553)
Ah, all right.

Eli Price (29:52.657)
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 bad from that, from what for what it is to, I would say. And so I that's just one that I think is like just a. Masterpiece or close to it for a movie, so that's where I'm going with my second pick.

Kara Smith (29:57.79)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (30:06.781)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (30:21.832)
Okay. My third pick, it's going to be a very classic movie, a big kind of jumping off point for several actors. 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.

Eli Price (30:22.43)
Where you going next?

Eli Price (30:49.113)
Hmm, very good pick. Yeah, I finally picked up on where you were going there towards the end. Yeah, it's a really fun movie. For sure.

Kara Smith (30:54.746)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (31:00.508)
Yeah, and so many people like Jimmy Phan, Kate Hudson, Zoe Deschanel, all these people as just babies, really.

Eli Price (31:09.173)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's a really good one Yeah, I'm trying to think of where I want to go next so like I have pics that like I Feel like are more like crowd-pleasing pics that might do me better for the poll but I also have That have 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

Kara Smith (31:18.621)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (31:25.706)
Of course.

Uh huh.

Kara Smith (31:35.692)
Thank you. Bye.

Eli Price (31:39.961)
And so like do I want to please the crowd and win the poll or do I want to put these movies? Yeah, be true to myself, but also put these movies out there. So maybe someone might watch one So if I'm gonna do that I guess I'll start with one that is more accessible Meaning that you know, probably pretty much anyone could watch it and enjoy it

Kara Smith (31:44.416)
Be true to yourself.

Kara Smith (31:49.78)
Yeah, there you go.

Eli Price (32:08.133)
without having to think too hard and that is a really sweet little, not a little, but a sweet movie called Sing Street. It's about, have you seen it?

Kara Smith (32:18.208)
Oh, yeah.

Eli Price (32:27.105)
That's great. Yeah. So it's written by John Carney, who is probably more famous for the movie once that has, yeah, that has Glenn Hansard and Marketa Erglova who, oh man, 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 anyway, Sing Street is like this boy in Dublin

Kara Smith (32:33.084)
Yes, seen that as well.

Kara Smith (32:39.186)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (32:55.546)
Yeah.

Eli Price (32:56.917)
And he has a band, and so the writing portion is, they write music. And it's like these very like 80s pop rock songs that him and his friends are writing. And he falls in love with a girl that's older. He's kind of like maybe preteen to maybe 13 or 14, and she's kind of like, feels more like 17.

Kara Smith (33:02.092)
True.

Kara Smith (33:20.038)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (33:23.529)
Yeah.

Eli Price (33:25.033)
Years old and so like he's trying to like impress this girl and I don't know. I just love it. The songs are fun um the like He's very sweet as a character Um, yeah, it just makes me smile. Um, it's a it's a really good movie um and so

Kara Smith (33:37.214)
Uh-huh.

Kara Smith (33:43.036)
Yeah, I had to watch it, it was Irish, so.

Eli Price (33:47.249)
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you liked it too? Yeah.

Kara Smith (33:49.968)
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.

Eli Price (33:57.657)
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 rare. And so like I just love it So I hope me mentioning that will make some people watch scene street Yeah, all right, where's your what's your fourth pick gonna be

Kara Smith (34:10.632)
Yeah, I thought it was good.

Kara Smith (34:17.756)
Okay, so since you changed it up and went lesser known, mine is not lesser known, I would say, but I am gonna throw it old and classic movie. This was one of the movies that was referenced in Go More Girls and was one, I think I originally saw it because I rented it from Blockbusters back in the day, but I love it. Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, I'm going with His Girl Friday, which is a classic movie about two writers

Eli Price (34:42.914)
Okay.

Kara Smith (34:47.104)
for a paper and falling in love and bickering and falling out and back in love through their process of being in the newsroom together and getting the story and writing and just, it's such a bouncy old classic movie. I love it.

Eli Price (35:05.189)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I haven't seen that one, but I but I would love to see it. It's definitely one that's been on my radar

Kara Smith (35:08.905)
Yeah, that one is

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, have a love-hate relationship. It's the His Girl Friday kind of, you know, vibe and you definitely, you get, understand why that's the reference when you watch it.

Eli Price (35:17.035)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (35:33.673)
Yeah, for sure. OK, yeah, so I'm going to go. It's my fourth pick now. I'm going to go with.

Kara Smith (35:39.681)
Okay.

Eli Price (35:48.905)
Yeah, OK. I think I know where I'm going to go with this one. I'm going to go with adaptation. Adaptation is. It's starring, you know, Nick Cage, famously in his dual role as twin brothers. It's directed by Spike Jonze, but really like famously written by Charlie Kaufman, who's.

who's kind of, more people probably are familiar with Being John Malkovich, which was written by Kaufman, directed by Spike Jonze. But this one I actually like more. It has Meryl Streep in it, and Charlie Kaufman as a writer, it's really interesting as a writer to begin with. But this movie is basically like, the character is named Charlie Kaufman.

Kara Smith (36:47.101)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (36:48.805)
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 remember what it's called. Oh, the Orchid Thief about flowers. And it's, he wanted to adapt it. 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.

Kara Smith (37:09.78)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (37:17.193)
And so he just like wrote himself into it. And it's about 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 performance as this kind of these dual character, these twin brothers. 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.

Kara Smith (37:36.096)
See ya.

Eli Price (37:48.045)
And yeah, it's a really wild Anything by Charlie Kaufman is really wild and out there But yeah, I think most people could watch this and appreciate it But yeah, I love it. It's a great movie. So yeah, that's where I'm going with my fourth big adaptation

Kara Smith (37:53.633)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (38:08.18)
Okay. I am gonna go with one that film bros would hate me for, but it was the very first thing that I thought of when I thought of writing. So I'm gonna 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 respond to all of the brokenhearted. And then Amanda Seyfried ends up becoming 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 gotta love it.

Eli Price (39:00.369)
Great. 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. Yeah. So, you know, great pick back pick. I don't know. The people the people decide. Yeah. So. There's

Kara Smith (39:02.762)
Aw, come on.

Kara Smith (39:08.925)
So there you go.

Kara Smith (39:17.882)
That's a great pick. I think the people will side with me.

Eli Price (39:30.097)
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 probably I guess this would probably be one of his more popular movies the other one being only lovers left alive that stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as vampires But this movie that I'm picking is Patterson it stars

Adam Driver as the titular character Patterson, and living in the town of Patterson, New Jersey. And he is this bus driver that is an aspiring poet. And so like on his bus route, whenever he's making stops, he pulls out his notebook and his writing poetry, and you kind of get some like annotated, you know, words across the screen, like of him writing his.

Kara Smith (40:06.709)
Okay.

Kara Smith (40:28.234)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (40:28.817)
and kind of dictating his poetry, narrative, narration style, I guess. And it's funny because he lives this mundane life. 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 structured, his life you kind of see through the movie.

Kara Smith (40:45.642)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (40:52.244)
Yeah.

Eli Price (40:58.909)
his the structure of his life and Yeah, it's but 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 But if you get the feeling that no one will ever know

Kara Smith (41:24.117)
Yeah.

Eli Price (41:24.913)
Because how can this guy who's a bus driver in Patterson, New Jersey 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 creatives in that way like you always feel like your work isn't that great you're never satisfied and so like He you know his wife kind of pushes them to keep writing and But yeah, it's a really good movie just kind of like

Kara Smith (41:29.211)
Yeah

Kara Smith (41:41.78)
Yeah.

Eli Price (41:55.233)
I guess about that endeavor of keeping on doing what you are actually gifted to do. And I think on top of that, Patterson, New Jersey is the home of actually a decent amount of famous artists and poets. And so he has that weighing over him of, I'll never be this.

Kara Smith (42:06.889)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (42:14.958)
Oh, okay. Yeah.

Kara Smith (42:20.358)
Yeah.

Eli Price (42:20.769)
But yeah, 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, Adam Driver's in it. He's the main character, so go see it. Yeah, it really is. I loved it. I think it's my favorite Jim Jarmusch movie and I've seen a decent amount of his, so yeah. Patterson, this is your sixth pick? Okay.

Kara Smith (42:28.4)
Yeah, I mean it sounds good, yeah.

Kara Smith (42:41.578)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (42:47.217)
Okay, yes, my sixth 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 understanding yourself. I'm gonna go with Freedom Writers, the 2007 Hilary Swank.

Eli Price (43:13.418)
Okay.

Kara Smith (43:14.924)
classic, but really, you know, definitely the 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 in kind of the worst situation, growing up in kind of a hopeless, like no, I'm just going to be, you know, on the streets like my family, I'm going to end up in a horrible situation, but then giving them the...

encouragement to do something for themselves and giving them these journals and you know leading them to write like having those outlets and like we were talking earlier about like the oppression 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 the future because you have an outlet to process your situation is you know it's beautiful.

Eli Price (44:14.153)
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 Because you feel inspired you feel inspired just hearing about like the premise or the like story behind it Um that inspired it and so yeah it's definitely one of those like Just inspiring movies that like man. I haven't seen that but i'm inspired just about by hearing about that story, you know

Kara Smith (44:21.909)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (44:27.25)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (44:41.54)
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.

Eli Price (44:52.489)
Yeah. For sure. Okay, I have several. I always have several that I want to do, but only like two 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.

Kara Smith (45:05.012)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (45:20.104)
Yeah.

Eli Price (45:22.329)
because I have a really long list. But I'm gonna 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. 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.

Kara Smith (45:42.737)
Yeah.

Eli Price (46:02.057)
I'm going to go with a very recent movie that came out last year that was really, really good. I'm going to go with Tar starring Kate Blanchett. She's a composer writing. Well, she's a composer and largely a conductor.

Kara Smith (46:12.077)
Oh, okay. Yeah.

Eli Price (46:32.613)
It's you know, it's a bit of a stretch because largely what she does 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 so it's a bit of a stretch But I think she also does compose stuff technically That character has composed her own stuff in the past too. So I guess maybe it's not that much of a stretch but um, but yeah, it's

Kara Smith (46:36.757)
Thanks.

Kara Smith (46:48.266)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (46:54.294)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (47:00.17)
Yeah.

Eli Price (47:02.153)
I think obviously like Cate Blanchett is just the powerhouse of an actress and everything she does is fantastic. But this role is just like felt like it was like made for her. It is just like she was incredible in it. And it really is about there's a degree to which it's about the just the systems around like.

Kara Smith (47:07.045)
Yeah, she's extraordinary.

Eli Price (47:30.365)
that world of creating and, you know, in this sense, like writing or conducting and like the power structures in place in those worlds too 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, very, very good movie and

Kara Smith (47:32.288)
Okay.

Eli Price (48:00.353)
Yeah, that's what I'm going to go with.

Kara Smith (48:03.932)
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 do watch a lot of popular movies and I do watch a lot of rom-coms and I'm just gonna stay true to that because I do think it'll get me the popular vote. I don't know what your voting demographic looks like, but I think for the masses.

Eli Price (48:07.009)
Nice pick.

Eli Price (48:19.117)
great.

Eli Price (48:26.913)
I don't either.

Kara Smith (48:30.924)
I might win just off of popularity or like name recognition. But yeah, I'm gonna stick to true to me. So I'm going another rom-com, 2003, Something's Gotta Give starring 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 tying it all together.

Eli Price (48:49.613)
Hey.

Eli Price (48:57.133)
There you go.

Kara Smith (48:58.708)
But she, you know, have you seen Something's Gotta Give?

Eli Price (49:03.077)
I haven't, but I would like to. You know.

Kara Smith (49:04.408)
Okay, yeah, this one is a famous, you 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, writes a play with some of the scenes that you have witnessed as well. And that, you know, becomes

Eli Price (49:30.271)
Mm.

Kara Smith (49:34.688)
funny, very entertaining for the crowd and really hurtful to Jack Nicholson but you know of course the rom-com so it's it bounces back and forth it's a good one it's a classic one you know so that's my going to be my last pick

Eli Price (49:46.623)
Yeah.

Eli Price (49:52.085)
Great. Yeah. I mean, you can't go wrong with Jack Nicholson. But yeah, you know, he's one of those guys that like you think about like there, there's not many people that probably couldn't work in a Wes Anderson movie, but now I'm thinking about I'm like, man, would Jack Nicholson work in a Wes Anderson movie? I don't know. Maybe not.

Kara Smith (49:55.946)
No.

Kara Smith (50:11.434)
I'm gonna go.

Kara Smith (50:15.32)
He might be a little too much. Like, I don't know, the energy might not be quite right.

Eli Price (50:18.273)
Yeah. Right. Yeah, it's very interesting to think about. I think I saw someone asking on Twitter recently, like, what actor would not work in a Wes Anderson movie? But I did not think about him. But yeah, Jack Nicholson. I don't know if he would work. But he's not acting right now, so we'll never know. All right.

Kara Smith (50:32.287)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (50:40.332)
I don't know.

Kara Smith (50:43.724)
We'll never know.

Eli Price (50:47.489)
My last pick. I have some other ones that I would really love to get on this list. But since we seem to 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 about James Baldwin.

Kara Smith (51:14.034)
No, all right.

Eli Price (51:14.993)
So it's directed by Raoul Peck, who is a Haitian filmmaker. He does a decent amount of documentary work. But this is, he's basically like working from some text of James Baldwin's like unfinished work. James Baldwin had a novel that he never finished before he died. And he...

Kara Smith (51:23.264)
Mm-hmm.

Kara Smith (51:34.386)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (51:42.577)
Yeah, so he's working off of that unfinished novel. And it's kind of like a reflection of what it is to be black in America. And so it's based on Baldwin's work. It's actually narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. And then it has a lot of like, has a lot of like archive footage of just like of James Baldwin, of course.

Kara Smith (51:54.996)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (52:01.875)
Oh, that's cool.

Kara Smith (52:11.69)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (52:12.437)
and you know a lot of interviews with him, but you know obviously with big names like King Jr. And Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte There's some archive footage of him Sydney Poitier Ray Charles and so yeah, it's just this documentary and it's a very like it's not like a straightforward documentary like you would think of

Kara Smith (52:41.085)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (52:41.693)
it very much sticks to the kind of poetic eloquence that Baldwin had. And so it's kind of like a collage of these, this footage of these black Americans that were influential. And when you put everything together, you really have a sense of just the, I don't know, the injustice of

Kara Smith (52:47.935)
Yeah.

Eli Price (53:11.497)
of it all. And so yeah, 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, it circles back to the influence of the character that Jeffrey Wright played in the French Dispatch and Roebuck Wright. And so yeah, I feel like that's a good...

Kara Smith (53:12.061)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (53:19.753)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (53:23.293)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (53:37.552)
Yeah, lucky there.

Eli Price (53:39.757)
full circle moment with the final pick of the draft. Yeah, so that's our movie draft. Let's I'm gonna read back our pick and Yeah, so Kara ended up with the help you've got mail almost famous his girl Friday Letters to Juliet freedom writers and something's got to give

Kara Smith (53:51.04)
Okay.

Kara Smith (54:06.682)
Mm-hmm.

Eli Price (54:07.961)
I ended with Little Women, Taxi Driver, Sing Street, Adaptation, Patterson, Tar, and I Am Not Your Negro. And yeah, it's, these are some good lists. We'll put it out there and see what the people think. You definitely have some crowd pleasers. And then, you know, I think I have some for the...

Kara Smith (54:22.13)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (54:28.905)
Yeah.

Eli Price (54:36.141)
You know, send a file if you want to say that. Uh, we'll, we'll see. Yeah. You know, you know, we'll see if more people that you share it with vote for you, um, in your popular picks. But um, but I mean, I got little women, very popular. Very popular. Yeah.

Kara Smith (54:37.248)
Yeah, for sure. So we'll just see who the voters are basically.

Kara Smith (54:52.265)
Yeah.

Kara Smith (54:56.548)
I'm mad you stole little women. That for sure was gonna be in there.

Eli Price (55:02.793)
And a lot of people know and like Taxi Driver too, so.

Kara Smith (55:05.424)
Yeah, for sure. And Tar has had, like, obviously it's very fresh on the brain, critically acclaimed.

Eli Price (55:10.797)
Yep. Yeah. So I don't know. I just felt like I wanted to get some movies out there that I wanted people to see with this one. I was less worried about winning the poll. So if you win, if you win, great. Hey, there's the other some that I wanted to see that I haven't seen yet that maybe now I will. So great. Yeah, that's that was our movie draft.

Kara Smith (55:14.316)
I'm going to go to bed.

Kara Smith (55:22.664)
Well, hey, I want people to see all the movies that I just posted. They're all great.