A Face In The Crowd

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Did this movie predict Trump back in 1957? We discuss the film debut of Andy Griffith in a role so dark, anyone who knows the Andy Griffith show might experience some uncomfortable dissonance.

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What did you think of the film, on a scale of 1–10 grains of inert matter? Let us know!

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0:00.0	Hey, you're listening to the West Wing Weekly Political Film Fest.
0:10.2	I am Joshua Molina.
0:11.8	And I am Rishi K. Sherway.
0:13.6	And today we're talking about the 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd.
0:17.7	It's a Josh pick.
0:18.8	It is a Josh pick. Yeah. And Josh, why did you pick it?
0:21.5	I picked it because I saw it many years ago the first time. I've now watched it thrice.
0:28.4	It stuck with me because I thought it was very good. I really liked it a lot. And then in the back of
0:33.3	my mind, with the rise of Trumpism, I have had the thought. I feel like probably somewhere in my
0:38.0	notes app. I even wrote down, remake of a face in the crowd? Because my memory of the material
0:44.5	and the impact of it was that it would have resonance today. And then, I think before I realized
0:50.9	I was coming to London to do a play, I read about the fact that the young Vic Theatre was doing a musical
0:57.3	based on a face in the crowd.
0:59.5	No kidding.
0:59.9	With book by Sarah Ruhl and songs by Elvis Costello.
1:03.7	And so I actually recently saw it.
1:06.5	How was it? What's it like?
1:07.9	I liked it very much.
1:09.0	It is now open to mixed, not great reviews, I'm sorry to say. The audience loved it. What's it like? I liked it very much. It is now open to mixed, not great reviews,
1:12.3	I'm sorry to say. The audience loved it. I liked it very much. Here's what actually happened.
1:17.4	I watched the movie, then I went to the musical, and my feeling was the musical was more
1:22.3	than I expected, very reliable retelling of the movie. In fact, it didn't feel just like a piece of art set in the 50s.
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