Hi, it's Susan from the future. This particular episode was recorded in

2011. It was a long, long time ago in a place far, far away. Well, the places that were far away were where Beckett and I were that evening when we recorded this.

We were not in the same place. Therefore the audio quality is not very good.

But we loved our conversations, so we let it stay. When we knew better, we did better.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. It's our very first vintage movie discussion. We called it back then.

Eventually, these kind of discussions would morph into our other show, The Recapory. Now on with the show.

Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

A tale of love and love, duty versus desire, saying this is that big New York.

The end. Welcome to The Minicast.

Now, you might hear a little audio difference on this minicast than usual.

Just a little bit, because Beckett and I actually do not live near each other at all.

We're in the same city, but not in the same corners of it.

We're at least 45 minutes away, so we're trying an experiment.

For this minicast, we thought we would cover a movie based on a novel by Edith Wharton.

It's set in the yellow age in the very, very era when Mrs. Aster was at her heyday.

Now Mrs. Aster doesn't appear in this, exactly, but there are shape as Mrs. Aster, I believe.

I did see many shapes as Mrs. Aster. That's true.

So this film, The Age of Innocence, was filmed in 1993 and directed by Martin Scorsese.

And I can tell you categorically, this is the only Martin Scorsese film I will ever review.

His usual work like Goodfellas, etc. is not my cup of tea.

There is a lot of chatter about this being receiving greatest masterpiece.

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