128: The Director's Fault
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What happens when an audience doesn't "get it"? That's ultimately the director's fault. Nate argues there are two kinds of directors: the ones who care what the audience thinks, and the ones who put the art of a pedestal and don't. Spielberg's an example of the first, and Nolan's an example of the second. This is true for authors as well, mutatis mutandis. But Brian pushes back a bit, as the SASF pod has been known to tell critics they don't get it and it's THEIR fault. Brian asks Nate how he thinks through people who didn't "get" his nonfiction books -- when its their fault, when it isn't, and when it doesn't matter if they get it (sorry, boomers -- Notes from the Tilt-a-whirl wasn't written for you).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food Podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.3 | You know, I think I saw one of the worst movie trailers I've ever seen. |
| 0:22.9 | We should start right now. |
| 0:24.3 | Let's say, yeah. |
| 0:25.6 | Put someone on blast right now. |
| 0:28.6 | SASP. |
| 0:29.7 | This is SASF, episode 120 something. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, I went and saw Equalizer 3. |
| 0:40.0 | Wait, you want to watch it or watched the trailer? |
| 0:42.6 | I watched Equalizer 3, the film. |
| 0:44.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:46.0 | And very operatic and moody and kind of lost all the playfulness that made the earlier ones fun. |
| 0:55.3 | Oh, I don't know what's wrong with me. |
| 0:56.6 | I don't even think I've seen Equalizer parts. |
| 0:58.9 | Un et du. |
| 1:00.9 | Okay. |
| 1:01.8 | So I was at the theater watching Equalizer 3, thereby proving that I'm not pretentious. |
| 1:11.0 | But I watched two really bad trailers in there. |
| 1:16.8 | And one of them is a, |
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