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Speaker 3: Look the Daily jo I am Jordan Clemmer. We got
Speaker 3: so much to talk about tonight. Trump gets morning for
Speaker 3: the performing arts, Russia and Ukraine agreed to couple's therapy,
Speaker 3: and things are finally looking up.
Speaker 4: For the measles. You know. Congrats, guys.
Speaker 3: So let's get into another installment of the Second Coming
Speaker 3: of Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump.
Speaker 5: I'm in a common.
Speaker 3: Let's start with the big news from Donald Trump's cabinet.
Speaker 4: Robert F.
Speaker 3: Kennedy, Junior, Trump's nominee for Health secretary and guy currently
Speaker 3: fighting a vulture for his lunch, has been officially confirmed.
Speaker 4: Now I know, I know.
Speaker 3: They said it couldn't be done. Excuse me, they said
Speaker 3: it shouldn't be done. But now it has happened. So
Speaker 3: you can now add employment to the list of things
Speaker 3: he's tested positive for. But let's move on to a
Speaker 3: big development in the war in Ukraine. Remember during the campaign,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump made some big promises about how quickly and
Speaker 3: easily he was going to end that war if.
Speaker 6: I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day,
Speaker 6: twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: I would tell Putin gotta settle. I would tell Zelenski,
Speaker 4: you gotta settle.
Speaker 6: I would get a settlement in twenty four hours, no
Speaker 6: longer than one day.
Speaker 7: I can get it ended.
Speaker 6: As president elect, I will get it settled before I
Speaker 6: even become president.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Back to the future and end this war before it
Speaker 3: even starts. Go back in time, kiss my mom, maybe
Speaker 3: have sex with her.
Speaker 4: What am I talking about?
Speaker 1: What was I talking about?
Speaker 3: So here we are one month into that first twenty
Speaker 3: four hours, and Donald Trump is finally ready to negotiate.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be tough, which is why he started
Speaker 3: out with a quick warm up negotiation. First, an old
Speaker 3: fashioned prisoner swap with Russia.
Speaker 4: Let's see how it went.
Speaker 8: Russia freed a wrongfully detained American teacher, Mark Vogel, returning
Speaker 8: to the US after more than three years in Russian captivity,
Speaker 8: imprisoned for carrying a small amount of medically prescribed marijuana,
Speaker 8: in exchange, the US releasing Russian cyber crime kingpin Alexander Vinnick.
Speaker 5: What you traded a cybercrime Kingpin for public school teacher
Speaker 5: Mark Fogel. This is like if the Dallas Mavericks traded
Speaker 5: Luka Doncic for public school teacher Mark Fogel. I mean,
Speaker 5: at least the teacher we got back is.
Speaker 3: The cool teacher. He smokes weed and he's been to jail.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you know, he's showing movies in
Speaker 3: fourth period. Also, Americans, stop smoking weed in Russia. If
Speaker 3: you need to relax, try not being in Russia. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: Now that Trump got all warmed up, it's time for
Speaker 3: the main event.
Speaker 8: This morning, President Trump pledging to meet with Russian President
Speaker 8: Putin in person after announcing they've agreed to start negotiations
Speaker 8: immediately to end the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 9: President Trump saying, quote, I just had a lengthy and
Speaker 9: highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Speaker 9: We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the
Speaker 9: power of the dollar, and various other subjects.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to know what those various other sub were.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's tad suspicious.
Speaker 3: It's like a husband coming back from a Vegas bachelor
Speaker 3: party saying, yeah, we ate some great food. We saw
Speaker 3: the sphere did various other things. Anyway, you should get
Speaker 3: a prescription for valtrex. So Trump has now set the
Speaker 3: stage for face to face negotiations with Putin on the
Speaker 3: future of Ukraine. But Trump won't be going into this alone.
Speaker 3: He also has Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a man who
Speaker 3: does not take no for an answer, according to police reports.
Speaker 3: So get ready Putin, because you're about to face the
Speaker 3: toughest negotiations of your life.
Speaker 8: Pete Hegseth, speaking at NATO headquarters during his first trip
Speaker 8: to Europe, was blunt, saying Ukraine's long sought membership in
Speaker 8: NATO isn't realistic. Neither is thinking Ukraine can regain all
Speaker 8: the territory Russia has seized.
Speaker 10: We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre
Speaker 10: twenty fourteen borders is an unrealistic.
Speaker 8: Objective, measures that will likely be welcomed by Putin, prompting
Speaker 8: questions about whether Trump is giving up his leverage to
Speaker 8: negotiate with Russia.
Speaker 11: Speaking in unusually blunt terms, the German Defense minister accusing
Speaker 11: the Trump administration of making concessions to Putin before these
Speaker 11: peace negotiations have even begun.
Speaker 3: Okay, so before negotiations even start, America gave up the
Speaker 3: two things Russia most wants. I mean, I'll do Hageseth
Speaker 3: and Trump not know how to negotiate between the two
Speaker 3: of them. They've been divorced ninety seven times. I mean,
Speaker 3: if your opening move is giving away the house, the car,
Speaker 3: and the kids, best case scenario, you're leaving court with
Speaker 3: half of a golden retriever.
Speaker 4: I mean, no one's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be happy with that, except for maybe RFK Junior.
Speaker 3: But I guess there's still plenty of stuff to negotiate.
Speaker 3: For example, you know which animal will Zelenski be fed
Speaker 3: to once the Russians take over.
Speaker 4: Probably a lion, but could be a shark. You know
Speaker 4: there's room there.
Speaker 3: Whichever animal it is, you'll probably fall out of a window.
Speaker 4: Regardless.
Speaker 3: Trump is not gonna go driving a hard bargain on
Speaker 3: Ukraine's behalf, and that's fine. But as long as Ukraine
Speaker 3: is an equal member of this peace process, they'll get
Speaker 3: some of what they want. Do you hear Ukraine as
Speaker 3: an equal member of this peace process?
Speaker 6: That's an interesting question, yight.
Speaker 3: That's like when my dentist asked if I flaws, It's
Speaker 3: an interesting question.
Speaker 1: I gotta go.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this is not looking good for Ukraine. Imagine
Speaker 3: not even being invited to your own peace negotiations. It's
Speaker 3: like if your wife told you she wanted a threesome
Speaker 3: and then asked what night you'll be away on business?
Speaker 4: Have so much fun. I'm strong enough for this. It's okay.
Speaker 4: I had it coming after Vegas.
Speaker 3: You might think it's unfair to put Ukraine in this
Speaker 3: position after they were the ones invaded, but that's not
Speaker 3: exactly how Trump sees things.
Speaker 4: I think they have to make peace.
Speaker 6: That people are being killed, and I think they have
Speaker 6: to make peace. I said that was not a good
Speaker 6: war to go into.
Speaker 4: Not a good war to go into. They were invaded.
Speaker 3: It wasn't their IDEA little advice for the back of
Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln's head, don't get hit by a bullet.
Speaker 4: Not smart, uck. Sure, clearly this is going to.
Speaker 3: Be a complex negotiation, and it couldn't have come at
Speaker 3: a worse time for Trump because he's also busy with
Speaker 3: his second job. Last week, he declared himself the chairman
Speaker 3: of Washington's Kennedy Center for the Arts, the government's premier
Speaker 3: arts institution. And if you're thinking, wait, Trump is completely
Speaker 3: unqualified to think about art. Don't worry, he brought along
Speaker 3: an equally unqualified board to help him out.
Speaker 12: He was elected by a board that he recently shook up,
Speaker 12: replacing appointees by Democratic presidents with Trump loyalists. As for
Speaker 12: the board, it now includes Attorney General Pambondi, Second Lady
Speaker 12: Usha Van's chief of staffed Susie Wiles, Deputy chief of staff,
Speaker 12: Dan Scamino, Allison Lettnik, who's the e Commerce secretary's wife.
Speaker 4: Okay, first of all, what's up with this vote? Oh?
Speaker 4: You need a headshot of mister Scavino.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, the only picture that exists of him is from
Speaker 3: when he walked in.
Speaker 4: On his parents' bumping uglies.
Speaker 3: But hey, Donald Trump loves arts entertainment, and you can
Speaker 3: hear his genuine passion in a phone call he had
Speaker 3: with the board.
Speaker 6: I think we're going to do something very special. It
Speaker 6: got very wogi and some people were not happy with it,
Speaker 6: and some people reputed to go. And we're not gonna
Speaker 6: have that. We're gonna have something that would be very
Speaker 6: very exciting, and we'll do things both physically and then
Speaker 6: every other way to make the building look even better.
Speaker 6: I think We're gonna make it hot, and we made
Speaker 6: the president of the hot so they could be.
Speaker 4: Hot. Only Trump would look at a building and go yeah.
Speaker 4: Performing art centers have gotten.
Speaker 3: Very woky, like that theater that kicked out Lauren Bobert
Speaker 3: forgiven one little tug job blocking it over the khaki
Speaker 3: jack sashion out In my America, you were Trump, though,
Speaker 3: no more woke theater only plays written by straight men
Speaker 3: like Tennessee Williams. Damn Its so close. Okay, So what.
Speaker 4: Will Trump's new role mean for the Kennedy Center.
Speaker 3: We have The Daily Show just got our hands on
Speaker 3: an exclusive look at what we can expect. The Kennedy Center,
Speaker 3: America's most prestigious home for the highest.
Speaker 4: Arts, is about to get hot.
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Speaker 4: Arthur Miller, we come back. Josh Jackson ruins the most
Speaker 4: important meal of the day.
Speaker 3: Don't go away, Welcome back to the Daily Show. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump's campaigned on lowering egg prices, but he's been president
Speaker 3: for almost fourteen years now, and eggs just hit their
Speaker 3: highest price yet, which raises the question, how are New
Speaker 3: Yorkers handling the expense. Josh Judson hit the streets to
Speaker 3: find out.
Speaker 10: Humpty Dumpty, what used to be a wholesome tale about
Speaker 10: the fragility of the human condition now serves as a
Speaker 10: stark reminder of the rising costs of means. Today, I'm
Speaker 10: talking with a group that consumes most of the eggs
Speaker 10: in the United States. People to see how they are
Speaker 10: dealing with egg flation? Can we afford another take?
Speaker 4: Egg flation? Is it affecting you right now?
Speaker 7: I am being affected by it right now because my
Speaker 7: grandmother up in the Bronx is complaining how eggs is
Speaker 7: too high in this absurd I.
Speaker 4: Might go on to egg strike through their prices.
Speaker 9: I know that right now.
Speaker 4: They're like eight not yeah, yeah, yeah, say I might
Speaker 4: have to turn vegan.
Speaker 13: Man, really now, I'm just kidding, you're kidding, Yes, vegans
Speaker 13: are a child. How many eggs would you say the
Speaker 13: average person goes.
Speaker 4: Through in a week.
Speaker 8: I can't imagine more than a dozen in a week
Speaker 8: for one singular person.
Speaker 1: Eighteen for me?
Speaker 4: Maybe eighteen eighteen eggs.
Speaker 1: That must be nice to afford.
Speaker 4: I can't afford it. Oh, you're just balling like that. Okay,
Speaker 4: abundant mindset. So I feel like.
Speaker 13: With the with the very little resistance you've had to
Speaker 13: the whole like inflation of these eggs.
Speaker 4: Are you like an air to an egg fortune?
Speaker 8: Well, we are from.
Speaker 13: Texas, Okay, that makes Sense're from Texas and they hate
Speaker 13: when you waist eggs, whether they're from chickens or humans. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 13: Is there anything you're backing off of so you can
Speaker 13: still afford the eggs.
Speaker 4: We back it off.
Speaker 1: Okay, except dolio, we take it that.
Speaker 13: What was the last amount that you paid for like
Speaker 13: a dozen.
Speaker 4: Eggs, like fifteen dollars? What price do you think you
Speaker 4: stop eating eggs entirely if it goes to twenty dollars? Okay?
Speaker 4: I would just have to quit eggs entirely.
Speaker 13: Okay, So twenty dollars eggs, that's your stopping point means
Speaker 13: nineteen we're still nineteen.
Speaker 4: We were still in the gate. Damn. People are willing
Speaker 4: to go higher than I thought.
Speaker 1: I smell an opportunity.
Speaker 13: So if like some guy was selling eggs and he
Speaker 13: was selling them for like, you know, maybe even what
Speaker 13: do you mean.
Speaker 4: Some guy like on the side of the roads. You mean,
Speaker 4: if I had an egg right here, right now?
Speaker 1: How much you're paying for this guy?
Speaker 4: But this is not an enticing egg situation. These folks
Speaker 4: clearly didn't understand the value of what.
Speaker 14: I was holding.
Speaker 13: So I went to a professional who would appreciate the
Speaker 13: opportunity in front of them. I'm looking to do some
Speaker 13: business today, and I brought a lot of inventory.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 4: It's eggs? Man? I'm trying to sell them some eggs.
Speaker 4: I can't take eggs. Look, do you want to buy anything?
Speaker 4: Or I do? I do? I do?
Speaker 13: Okay, So I'll take Nintendo Switch, I'll take two Swich,
Speaker 13: one MacBook Pro and give me a bunch of bracelets
Speaker 13: and I'll give you like three dozen.
Speaker 12: All right, thanks for Kevin.
Speaker 4: Look at this.
Speaker 13: Regret regret that guy wouldn't have a good deal of it,
Speaker 13: flashed him in a trench coke.
Speaker 4: Time to take my product to the high rollers? Hi,
Speaker 4: how are you doing? I'm fine? How are you? I'm
Speaker 4: doing well.
Speaker 13: I'm looking to get something appraised, okay, so I'm very
Speaker 13: excited about it.
Speaker 14: So usually we're working more with diamonds, jemstones, precious metals.
Speaker 13: I'll tell you right now on the street, these are
Speaker 13: going the eggs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think an egg. This is at least like
Speaker 1: four care.
Speaker 4: I am going to just kindly ask you to please leave.
Speaker 13: Okay, I'm gonna go because it feels like you pressed
Speaker 13: a button or something and like somebody's coming but missing out.
Speaker 13: Good luck crushes metals, prescious eggs. No buyers yet, but
Speaker 13: once work it's around the streets, I'm sure I'll become
Speaker 13: pretty popular and the Yolk will be on the.
Speaker 4: Thank you Josh.
Speaker 3: When we come back, Brady Korbey will rejoining me on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 4: They'll go, well, welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is a writer and director who's filmed
Speaker 3: The Brutalist is currently up for ten Oscar nominations. Please
Speaker 3: welcome Brady Corbey.
Speaker 4: Welcome Brandy. I loved it. I loved The Brutalist. I
Speaker 4: really did.
Speaker 3: I thought it's what a beautiful piece of art.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'm very grateful for that.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing that also I love I When I
Speaker 3: start talking to people about The Brutalist, more of it
Speaker 3: than not. People come up to me like, did you
Speaker 3: know laslow tav The main character is not a real.
Speaker 4: Person, Like there seems to be a confusion.
Speaker 3: A lot of people think that it's based on a
Speaker 3: real Brutalist architect, and I can't tell whether that's a
Speaker 3: compliment for the world building that you do or just
Speaker 3: a commentary on American ignorance.
Speaker 4: It's probably a little bit of both.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I mean the character is an amalgamation of
Speaker 15: a lot of, you know, real historical figures like Marcel
Speaker 15: Broyer Mes, vanderroh Lochholynidge, and many others.
Speaker 14: I'm so, should you know, evoke a real person. I
Speaker 14: think that's a positive thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you started creating this, this story, what was
Speaker 3: the no, what was the thing that got you interested?
Speaker 1: You know, in all seriousness?
Speaker 14: During Trump's first term, before we had a brief intermetso.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about a billion years ago.
Speaker 14: There, he had a mandate that was that was called
Speaker 14: you know, uh, make federalists buildings beautiful again.
Speaker 1: It's creative.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 14: And you know it's interesting that seventy five years you know,
Speaker 14: on you know, since the term brutalism was coined, it's
Speaker 14: still so divisive and it's it's interesting because for me,
Speaker 14: I really feel that post war psychology and post wars
Speaker 14: you know, architecture are intrinsically linked, and you know this
Speaker 14: film is that's what it's mostly concerned with.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you connected also to the story, like
Speaker 3: the immigrant experience, right. I mean one of the most
Speaker 3: evocative moments is that first shot, which is sort of
Speaker 3: someone coming forth upon Als Island and the Statue of Liberty. Right,
Speaker 3: how do you tie for somebody who doesn't I mean
Speaker 3: i'm as experts in brutalist architecture, how.
Speaker 4: Would you tie for the lay person? How like how
Speaker 4: a brutalist.
Speaker 3: Architecture is connected to sort of the immigrant experience and
Speaker 3: what that says about sort of an American experience.
Speaker 14: Well, you know, listen, the Baohause was shut down by
Speaker 14: the Nazis in the mid nineteen thirties. It was predominantly
Speaker 14: Central and Eastern European Jewish architects and designers that were
Speaker 14: studying there, and so you know, the mid century design,
Speaker 14: you know, it mostly came from immigrant architect and and
Speaker 14: of course there was a response to a lot of
Speaker 14: those buildings and those monuments, which was.
Speaker 1: Hyper critical.
Speaker 14: And because the style of architecture was so unfamiliar, you know,
Speaker 14: communities wanted it torn down and they wanted their new
Speaker 14: neighbors thrown out.
Speaker 3: Now there's it's it's interesting this film. There's so many
Speaker 3: wonderful performances in it. There's a scene that really stuck
Speaker 3: with me. There's a scene when Adrian Brody gets off
Speaker 3: the train and he sees his cousin for the first time,
Speaker 3: and his cousin lets him know that.
Speaker 4: His wife is still alive, and they they embrace.
Speaker 3: And the whole scene is shot so so so close,
Speaker 3: and there's so much physicality between the two of them.
Speaker 3: They're touching each other's face the whole time. It's it's
Speaker 3: so intimate and real and emotional, and frankly, I'd never
Speaker 3: seen such a physical, intimate scene contextualize something like that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, curious, how do you direct something like was
Speaker 3: the physicality and the closiness intentional in.
Speaker 4: Your direction there? How are you working with actors and
Speaker 4: something like that?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean listen, I mean it's two brilliant performers
Speaker 14: in that scene, Alessandro Davola and Adrian Brody. And the
Speaker 14: screenplays are very, you know, precise, mostly because they have
Speaker 14: to be. The film was shot in thirty three days,
Speaker 14: and because the film was one hundred and seventy pages long,
Speaker 14: it wasn't you know, that much time. And so you know,
Speaker 14: we don't storyboard, mostly because I don't want to adhere
Speaker 14: too closely to a cartoon, but I.
Speaker 1: Want to show up to a space, respond to it.
Speaker 14: See what you know, the light is doing, what the
Speaker 14: performers you're doing, And you know, I just told them
Speaker 14: I think it would be extremely moving if the two
Speaker 14: of you are very, very, very physical and very intimate together.
Speaker 14: Because you know, when you see your uncle or your father,
Speaker 14: you know, the patriot, when they when they cry, it's
Speaker 14: like devas.
Speaker 1: You just feel shattered by it because you see it
Speaker 1: so infrequently.
Speaker 14: So I just thought to see these two, you know,
Speaker 14: men approaching middle age sort of being that, you know,
Speaker 14: letting their guard down, especially in the late nineteen forties
Speaker 14: because they just can't help themselves because they've missed each
Speaker 14: other so much.
Speaker 1: I thought it was quite quite beautiful.
Speaker 3: Is treated an audition the actors for most of the
Speaker 3: actors for their roles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 14: You know, I grew up as a performer for years,
Speaker 14: and I'm sure you've been in this position at some point,
Speaker 14: you know in your career, where you're preparing thirteen pages
Speaker 14: of dialogue.
Speaker 4: They usually give me the one or two lights.
Speaker 3: I could just sip this pepsi and say this one,
Speaker 3: we'll see if you're right for the role.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, you know, well, but I always think about
Speaker 14: you know, you know, dozens and dozens of people's lives
Speaker 14: that are affected by preparing this material. And usually in
Speaker 14: the first fifteen or twenty seconds they walk in the room,
Speaker 14: you know whether or not they're right for the role.
Speaker 14: So I never I want to be respectful of everyone's time,
Speaker 14: and I only ask people to read more material than
Speaker 14: that if it's really on the fly, like we're doing
Speaker 14: a cold reading together, if it's especially with kids, you
Speaker 14: know who like you know, kids don't have a prior
Speaker 14: body of work for you to reference, so you know,
Speaker 14: that process is a bit more significant.
Speaker 1: But but you usually know.
Speaker 14: After a page or two of dialogue, you know, at
Speaker 14: a maximum, and in general I just avoid it altogether.
Speaker 1: We just you know, make offers to actors we like,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Or maybe people you've met for the first time and
Speaker 4: have sort of rapport.
Speaker 1: With, Oh yeah, path.
Speaker 4: So absolutely it happens. You made this movie.
Speaker 3: I mean, this movie is up for ten Academy Award nominations,
Speaker 3: including Best Picture.
Speaker 4: Best Director, Best Screenplay, and rightfully, so it just.
Speaker 3: It feels like a film. It's it's beautiful. You made
Speaker 3: it for ten million dollars, yeah, Like I most my
Speaker 3: understanding is to make a film that people go and see,
Speaker 3: you have to spend eighty million dollars to make something
Speaker 3: like that. But this is a massive hunk and film
Speaker 3: for ten million dollars, like, what are these other films
Speaker 3: doing wrong?
Speaker 4: Oh? I mean, listen.
Speaker 1: On the one hand, I'd like to just say it
Speaker 1: would have been nice to have more money.
Speaker 14: I don't want anyone to get any ideas like, oh,
Speaker 14: well they did that for ten million dollars, so let's
Speaker 14: try for nine on the next one.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that it's.
Speaker 1: Really just due to our collaborators.
Speaker 14: I mean, my production designer, Judy Becker is an iconic
Speaker 14: designer behind Broke Back Mountain, Carol, I'm not there. My
Speaker 14: cinematographer Little Crawley and I have worked together for over
Speaker 14: a decade. We have a shorthand and most scenes are
Speaker 14: shot and you know, one or two shots. I mean,
Speaker 14: it's shot like a nineteen fifties melodrama, so it's mostly
Speaker 14: mediums and masters, And where you lose time is setting
Speaker 14: up a shot. It's not shooting a shot. Shooting a
Speaker 14: shot takes as long as the scene takes five minutes. So,
Speaker 14: you know, I prefer to schedule things in a way
Speaker 14: where we're doing one thing very well over and over again,
Speaker 14: as opposed to thirteen things poorly.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that that we had really
Speaker 1: great partners on this producorially as well. That just really.
Speaker 14: Understood, you know, what the pillars of the film were
Speaker 14: and where we could compromise, and really understood where we couldn't.
Speaker 14: The film was shot on a large format that was
Speaker 14: engineered in the nineteen fifties called VistaVision, which is it's
Speaker 14: essentially what it does is instead of the film being
Speaker 14: pulled through the gate vertically, it's turned horizontally, so you
Speaker 14: get more nag area out of a regular thirty five
Speaker 14: milimeter stock.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's not like I knew what you
Speaker 4: were talking about, but I.
Speaker 3: Realized that was I'm sure that'll probably be cut out.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's yeah, Oh yeah, totally totally classic nineteen fiftiest division.
Speaker 4: I was surprised when I got here and I was
Speaker 4: the only guest.
Speaker 1: I was like assumed I was the second or third guest.
Speaker 4: And this is why you want to get more about
Speaker 4: this division. Tell me NUSS Architecture.
Speaker 15: Your poor audience was like expecting Oriana Grande.
Speaker 4: We could never book carrylis that. You know what, It's
Speaker 4: funny you joke about this and it is true. Is
Speaker 4: this movie.
Speaker 3: I will say I say this, I truly, I truly
Speaker 3: love this film. I hope you have nothing but success
Speaker 3: at the Academy Awards. On paper, nobody sees this film. Right, Sure,
Speaker 3: it's three hours and it's three and a half.
Speaker 1: Yes, three hours and thirty five.
Speaker 4: There's an intermission in it.
Speaker 3: It's about brutalist architecture made for under ten million dollars.
Speaker 4: Right, It's a great pitch. It's a great pitch shot
Speaker 4: on this.
Speaker 3: Division inspired by nineteen fifties melodramatic cinema. This up against
Speaker 3: the latest Marvel movie is a tough pitch. But I
Speaker 3: would say what is fascinating is like the experience. It
Speaker 3: feels like such an experience to go to it. We
Speaker 3: had Francis Ford couple on this show and he talked
Speaker 3: about his most recent film, and he really wanted to
Speaker 3: inventize film. It's like so many people are watching this
Speaker 3: at home now and going to see it in the theater,
Speaker 3: experience an intermission with people at the theater, hearing people
Speaker 3: talk about it as they're getting popcorn, using the rest
Speaker 3: root like it's changing. It feels different than watching at home.
Speaker 3: It feels different than watching just a regular hour and
Speaker 3: a half Marvel film. Do you do you think there's
Speaker 3: there might be some trend towards things that are a
Speaker 3: little bit longer that that intermissions might be something that I.
Speaker 1: Mean, listen, and it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 14: You know, in the nineteen seventies, movies like Midnight Cowboy
Speaker 14: were commercially viable, and I really hope that we get
Speaker 14: back to that. Our industry changed for a lot of reasons,
Speaker 14: partially because of streaming, partially because of COVID, partially because
Speaker 14: of the strikes, you know, and I understand why companies
Speaker 14: are more risk averse than ever. However, if you look
Speaker 14: at the crop of nominees this year, you know, they're
Speaker 14: really radical, strange films. They're strange propositions, which I think
Speaker 14: should signal for everyone that audiences do want daring, original,
Speaker 14: provocative films.
Speaker 4: And I, you know, I think I think it's very.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you agree. I you know, I I I
Speaker 1: really uh, you know.
Speaker 14: I I respect audiences and I believe that audiences, you know,
Speaker 14: are are really really clever, and they're more clever than
Speaker 14: ever because there's so much information out there about how
Speaker 14: movies are made, and there's an awareness of.
Speaker 1: The post production process and visual effects, et cetera.
Speaker 14: So you know, They're really savvy, and I think it's
Speaker 14: important that we treat them with respect.
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