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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty three to ten, which means it's time to

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Speaker 2: catch up with our film reviewer, Francisca Rudkin Kilda.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, So.

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Speaker 2: Two different films to work through this morning. Let's start off.

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Speaker 2: But the first one, this one is showing in cinemas

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Speaker 2: starring Kate Winslet. Let's have a listen to Lee.

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Speaker 3: Question, what are you going to do? Bemeta send medi Europe.

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Speaker 3: I just want to do my part. I'm with Vogue magazine.

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Speaker 1: No women allowed in the press briefing. You got to

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Speaker 1: be kidding me.

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Speaker 3: We don't assume women to combat. Well that's a problem

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Speaker 3: because I'm here. Why should the man get to the side.

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Speaker 2: So that is Lee's starring Kate Winslet. Tell us about

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Speaker 2: a Francisca Yes look.

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Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago, I spoke about Social Roman's

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Speaker 3: performance in a film called Outrun and mentioned that it's

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Speaker 3: very much an award worthy performance. And this is probably

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Speaker 3: the second award deservingly award performance that I have seen.

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Speaker 3: Heading into next year, Kate Winsord is really fantastic in

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Speaker 3: the film. She produced it as well. She spent about

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Speaker 3: nine years getting this film onto the big screen. It

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Speaker 3: was adapted from a book called The Lives of Lean

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Speaker 3: Miller and it was written by Lee's son, Anthony Penrose,

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Speaker 3: and she really throws herself into this role. Lean Miller

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Speaker 3: was an American model and a fine art photographer. She

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Speaker 3: was amused of Man Ray. She taught photography in the

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Speaker 3: nineteen thirties. She was in Europe. She was in France

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Speaker 3: with a group of friends and like a lot of

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Speaker 3: people talking about Hitler, but not really aware of the

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Speaker 3: horror that lies ahead. And with this story we very

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Speaker 3: much pack up her life during World War Two when

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Speaker 3: she wanted to head to the front line and be

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Speaker 3: a war photographer. She was working for Vogue magazine at

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Speaker 3: the time, but women were not allowed to go to

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Speaker 3: the front, but she managed to find a few loopholes

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Speaker 3: and really pushed back so of against the rules and

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Speaker 3: boundaries that she had done her whole life. And she

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Speaker 3: was one of the first photographers to uncover the reality

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Speaker 3: of the Holocaust. Documentary documenting the horror that she found

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Speaker 3: at concentration camps, which interestingly Vogue, the British Vague refused

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Speaker 3: to print because they thought it would be upsetting, but

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Speaker 3: the American magazine did pick them up. I'm endlessly fascinated

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Speaker 3: by what drives war correspondence, and this film very much

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Speaker 3: looks at that through the eyes of Lee. We see

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Speaker 3: we learn a lot more about her, We see the

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Speaker 3: impact that this experience had on her. We sort of

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Speaker 3: learn about how her own personal life and experience has

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Speaker 3: contributed to the way she saw the world and therefore

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Speaker 3: what she was able to capture through the lens. This

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Speaker 3: is a female team is behind this film, and in

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Speaker 3: a way, it's a female team giving a sort of

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Speaker 3: putting the female game on a female perspective of war.

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Speaker 3: And I think this is one of the reasons which

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Speaker 3: why her photographs had become this era had become so famous.

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Speaker 3: She was often relegated to having to photograph women's experience

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Speaker 3: of war and things like that, and had a beautiful

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Speaker 3: understanding of what it means to take a photo of

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Speaker 3: somebody at a very traumatic time in their life. She

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Speaker 3: was a real, no nonsense, practical woman, a trailblazer. She Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she's a great character and you can just totally probably

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Speaker 3: imagine how Kate Winslet steps into her shoes. The film

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Speaker 3: also takes a look though, at the power of photojournalism

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Speaker 3: and war correspondence and the importance jack of actually being

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Speaker 3: on the ground and witnessing it for yourself, which I

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Speaker 3: think in this day and age we talk a lot

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Speaker 3: about also the power of photography. So the way this

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Speaker 3: story is told is a young a young journalist comes

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Speaker 3: to interview her about her career. She's very reluctant to

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Speaker 3: talk about and it gets to the point where that

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Speaker 3: she slowly opens up more and more and she shows

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Speaker 3: him photos of these concentration camps. And these are actually

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Speaker 3: wordless scenes, like nothing needs to be said in this

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Speaker 3: film at all. It's a little bit like the zone

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Speaker 3: of interest. Just the power of the image says it all,

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Speaker 3: and so you sort of the film very much kind

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Speaker 3: of takes a look at the power of photography and

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Speaker 3: what it can say, and really there are no words.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, great, great performance by Kate Winslet. Lee is

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Speaker 3: going to be definitely a film not to be missed

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Speaker 3: this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds amazing. Okay, I'm really looking forward to

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Speaker 2: seeing that. Sounds incredible. So that is Lee. It is

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Speaker 2: showing in cinemas. Now, your next film is also showing

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Speaker 2: in cinemas. This is Venom the Last Dance.

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Speaker 3: Who sent that there.

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Speaker 1: A freciously?

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Speaker 2: I know that is Venom the Last Dance? Tell us

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Speaker 2: about it, so so Jack, We're going.

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Speaker 3: From this serious to the ridiculous here, but almost intentionally ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: Probably one of the best things about Venom The Last Dances.

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Speaker 3: It's one hundred and nine minutes long.

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Speaker 4: Good on you, Thank you for providing us with a short,

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Speaker 4: sort of precise slice of entertainment that's perfect to eat

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Speaker 4: some popcorn and then head off and get back.

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Speaker 3: To your lives. This is the third and supposedly final

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Speaker 3: film in the Venom trilogy. The Venom films are a

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Speaker 3: little bit of this that they took it the one

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Speaker 3: by surprise. The first one was released in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: and maybe because there weren't a lot of other superhero

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Speaker 3: films released around that period, it did really, really well.

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Speaker 3: It cost about one hundred million to make and it

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Speaker 3: grossed about eight hundred and fifty five minute, so it

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Speaker 3: was like one of the biggest box office surprise hits

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Speaker 3: of the year. It's a since thing. They've gone. It's

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Speaker 3: just about a few more and I kind of in

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Speaker 3: a way. I quite like the way these films are

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Speaker 3: quite bad. They feel very sort of half hearted. They're

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Speaker 3: a little bit ridiculous. The plot's really simple but still

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Speaker 3: didn't make a huge amount of sense. But Tom Hardy

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Speaker 3: just carries this character of this another journalist, a journalist

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Speaker 3: who you know, has a this symbiotic relationship with an alien,

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Speaker 3: and the two of them are just whacking and off

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Speaker 3: they go, and it's sort of a spin off of

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Speaker 3: Spider Man, but Spiderban doesn't really exist in this film.

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Speaker 3: They crack a few gags which do not work with

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Speaker 3: some quite good sort of special effects, and you kind

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Speaker 3: of just sit there going on this ride, going okay,

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Speaker 3: I kind of I almost admire you guys managing to

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Speaker 3: make you know, a success out of this, and good

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Speaker 3: on you. But yeah, it probably is time to wrap

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Speaker 3: it up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, it sounds good. Yeah, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure that one's for me. I'm going to go

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Speaker 2: with Lee. That was your first film, so that is

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Speaker 2: our venom. The last dance. Lee was Francesca's first film.

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Speaker 2: It's the one with Kate Winslet, and both of those

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Speaker 2: films will be up on the news talks. He'd be website.

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Speaker 2: The easiest way to find all the stuff from our

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Speaker 2: it's been on the radio. And if you don't really

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Speaker 2: feel like going along to the cinema this week, you

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Speaker 2: just think for a quiet night at home after the

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Speaker 2: All Blacks, maybe after the keywis Tomorrow Night good News

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Speaker 2: after Pop This Morning got three new shows to recommend

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Speaker 2: you in our screen time segment, including Simone Biles Rising

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Speaker 2: Part two. You might remember before the Olympics they put

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Speaker 2: out like a couple of weeks before the Olympics, Netflix

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Speaker 2: put out a documentary series about Simone Biles about her

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Speaker 2: experience at the last Olympics, the way she was trying

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Speaker 2: to rebuild her gymnastics career and then compete in the

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Speaker 2: Olympics this year. Well, of course there was going to

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Speaker 2: be a part two. So now that she has competed

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Speaker 2: in those Olympics very very successfully, triumphantly, even they've put

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Speaker 2: out the part two. So we'll tell you a bit

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Speaker 2: more about that after ten o'clock.

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