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The Next Picture Show

#020: MASH / Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Pt. 2)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our MASH - WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT discussion digs deeper into the two films' many contrasts, finding unexpected connections in the films' depictions of the military, women, and downtime. We also get into the two films' very different strains of black humor. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about MASH, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

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0:26.9

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:33.1

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:36.9

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:39.0

I'm Keith Phipps here again with...

0:40.9

Tosha Robinson.

0:41.8

Genevieve Kosky.

0:42.7

And Scott Tobias.

0:44.3

This week we're talking about Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a new fact-based sort of comedy starring

0:48.9

Tina Faye, written by Faye Surdy Rock and Unbreakable Kimi Kimmy Schmidt, partner Robert Carlock, adapted from a memoir by

0:54.4

journalist Kim Barker, and directed by Glenn Fikara and John Requa, the team behind Focus,

0:59.4

Crazy Stupid Love, and other films. The films are strikingly different in many ways.

1:03.7

Fikara and Requa bring a studied approach to the direction that owes little to Altman.

1:08.1

MASH is very much a movie driven by guys, while Faye's gender factors

1:11.5

into the story in ways both large and small, from the ways her colleagues treat her to the steps

1:15.6

she has to take to avoid offending Afghans.

1:17.6

I'd also argue that despite its shambolic structure, MASH has a much clearer sense of purpose

1:22.6

than Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, but we can get into that in a bit.

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