281 – Fair Game

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

We return to the work of Naomi Watts this week for a discussion on 2010’s Fair Game. Costarring with Sean Penn for the third time in a decade, Watts starred as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame with the film detailing the leaking of Plame’s identity amidst her husband Joseph C. Wilson’s criticisms of the Bush administration. With Doug Liman taking the director’s chair after a series of action films, the film is a surprisingly sober recounting of the Plame story and one of Hollywood’s better offerings deconstructing that era of American culture. But despite launching the film at Cannes and Watts’ solid performance, the film became yet another disappointment among the many political dramas of the period.

This week, we talk about the career of Liman, including the fraught production of The Bourne Identity. We also discuss Watts’ period between her two Oscar nominations, the general landscape of Bush era politics and how few films successfully unpacked it well, and the relative box office disappointment of Edge of Tomorrow.

Topics also include Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Bush administration names like “Scooter,” and the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression award.

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Hack.
0:17.0	Mill and Hack and print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poopop. The Vice President has received a report concerning the purchase of material to build nuclear weapons.
0:47.0	We need to get in close.
0:48.0	They turned to her husband for answers.
0:51.0	It is my opinion.
0:52.0	A sale that size could not have happened. I have
0:54.9	teams in the field. They're all saying the same thing. But when the truth was
0:59.5	made public, what do you think the White House wants to hear, huh? There was no nuclear program.
1:04.0	You need to change the story.
1:06.0	They made her pay the price.
1:09.0	How are your name, Mr. Paper?
1:11.0	This is your CIA agent. Hello and
1:15.0	this had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that burned down the old mill and would do it again.
1:19.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:30.0	The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy.
1:33.0	I am your host, Chris File, and I'm here as always with the man who leaked my name to the press,
1:38.9	Joe Reed.
1:40.7	Listen, Bob Novak is a close personal friend of mine, anything that I may have casually mentioned
1:47.8	to him over dinner, I have no responsibility for.
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