#127: The Witch

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Robert Eggers' 2015 debut film The Witch isn't exactly old, but its subject matter certainly is. Taking place in the early 1630s in New England -- a full 60 years before the Salem Witch Trials -- The Witch tells the story of a banished family of devout Puritans who go into the Massachusetts woods to live alone. And... well... you may be able to guess what happens next. Written entirely in period English and lit only by natural light and candles, The Witch may be one of the most thoroughly colonial movies ever made. It also happens to be a masterpiece of pacing, tension, and acting. So let's delve into this spectacular and spooky period piece, as a tight-knit religious family slowly comes undone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback is brought to you by, well, you.
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0:06.3	Greetings and salutations, welcome to knockback. My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my brother
0:16.9	Dagan. Black Philip Moriarty Dagan. Thank you for joining me today. How are you today?
0:23.0	Baa, Baa.
0:25.0	I'll have the quiet.
0:28.0	Thank you, William.
0:32.0	How's your life doing? How's uh... Thank you. Thank you, William.
0:33.0	How's your life doing?
0:34.0	How's everything in Philadelphia?
0:37.0	Everything's good, you know, it's funny.
0:39.0	I was, something happened to me.
0:40.0	It must have happened just right after we recorded last week. I think it was that night that we
0:47.1	finished recording I got back to work and this thing occurred to me call and I'm just going to spend a minute on it, but I have to talk to you about this phenomenon that I call the phenomenon of things unraveling despite your best efforts.
1:02.0	So I have this thing.
1:04.0	Now, this could speak to a lot, a lot of our endeavors, no matter what they are, but I'm specifically speaking to something with me animating and just animation here.
1:15.8	Like a little bit of a teaching moment.
1:17.7	So I don't talk about this very much, but I have this process, right?
1:21.2	In animation, like anything else that's deadline driven in life you
1:26.4	know you have to kind of cut your cloth according to the time you're given so I
1:31.6	get a block of scenes to animate for example or a bunch of characters to design and I have a you know I have a deadline
1:36.8	So I have to do the best job I can within those time parameters given so I this strategy, especially when I'm animating,
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