771. Ander’s Sons: Licorice Pizza

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Our deep dive of Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson continues: this time we discuss the 2021 film Licorice Pizza which tells the story of two young people (one of which is very young) falling in love in the 70s. Michael and Abe discuss PT Anderson’s distinctive style, themes, and characters. Features: Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:00.0	You're going to be here. Hey Abe, you know a movie that the very first sequence of this and the aesthetic generally really reminded me of that we never ever will probably get a chance to mention but I think you and I both thought it was underrated. The holdovers.
0:34.7	The holdovers is underrated.
0:37.1	It was very cute.
0:38.1	I like the holdovers.
0:39.8	I loved it.
0:40.4	Is it because the font?
0:42.0	Because that Cooper standard 70s?
0:44.5	Well, I actually found, uh, I don't want to pull the end through the beginning,
0:49.7	but I will burn one of the...
1:00.0	Yeah, so someone in on I M. D. B. pointed out which I it's not really how do you do that so I'll say it here the film premiered in 2021 and I was already thinking this before I read this amid a recent cycle of similar films by other aging directors who seem interested in setting their movies in the time and place where they grew up in like a nostalgic way. Similar films from, you know, the that like three year period include Century Women Lady Bird, Roma, mid 90s, once upon a time in Hollywood, Belfast, the hand of God, Apollo 10 and a half, a space-age
1:28.1	childhood, Armageddon time, and the fablemans, of of course being the other big
1:32.8	touchstone but I'd say also the holdovers which I highly recommend but we
1:37.6	probably won't cover. same idea. I'm just saying what do you think they know that we don't know?
1:44.4	And it's already begun like Kyle Moonie's doing that Y2K
1:47.6	and we're interested in replicating the 90s and early 2000s.
1:52.4	It's what humans do. Eventually, you know, I think if you're an all-powerful
1:57.7	storyteller, eventually you're like, I'm going to do a nice sweet one about my childhood.
2:02.0	It could be the end times though. This could be one sneaky one of the horsemen.
2:07.0	What, that we're doing movies set in the 90s now as a nostalgia play?
2:12.0	Yeah, it's a conceptual joke. Yeah, this is the end but this is the beginning of a new anders
2:18.7	Sonders sons that's right licorous pizza.'s what we're talking about 2021 you said it all yeah but
2:26.2	but I didn't say your name so you I'm Abe Epperson yeah I'm Michael Swaim and we analyze
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