#081: (Pt. 2) Wonder Woman / Paths of Glory

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We return to the battlefields of WWI to talk over Patty Jenkins’ new WONDER WOMAN, both on its own and as it relates to Stanley Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY. After discussing what worked and didn’t work in WONDER WOMAN, we bring in the Kubrick film to discuss how these two stories approach themes of leadership and the military, as well as their views of the Great War specifically and all war in general. 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 PATHS OF GLORY, WONDER WOMAN, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Tasha: Karl Freund's THE MUMMY (1932) • Keith: Amber Tamblyn's PAINT IT BLACK and Bill Morrison's DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME • Scott: kogonada.com and the work of Kogonada • Genevieve: The One Perfect Shot video-essay database (video.filmschoolrejects.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:20.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:26.9	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:33.9	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:40.4	I'm Scott Tobias, here again with...
0:42.0	Tosha Robinson. Keith Phillips.
0:43.7	And Genevieve Kasky.
0:44.8	On the first half of this episode, we looked at Stanley Kubrick's anti-war film Pazzov Glory,
0:49.5	about three French soldiers court-martialed for cowardice of the face of the enemy during World War I.
0:59.7	On this half, we turn again to the Great War with Wonder Woman, the new DC blockbuster about Diana Prince, aka Princess Diana, a demigodotess who travels from the secluded island of Themisquira
1:04.9	to London in the battlefields of World War I.
1:08.0	With the war drawing to a close, a German general and his scientists
1:11.0	are putting the finishing touches on a particularly nasty form of mustard gas that could turn
1:15.6	the tide in the Germans' favor. It's up to Wonder Woman, played by Gal Godot, and her American
1:20.2	escort, pilot Steve Trevor, played by Chris Pine, to end the war once and for all. What in the
1:26.0	world could a $150 million superhero movie
1:29.0	and Stanley Kubrick's 60-year-old war movie have in common?
1:32.6	We'll talk it out after the break.
1:34.1	What is your mission?
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