An American Tail w. Dana Schwartz
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Never say never! In which we discuss Feivel, family, antisemitism and An American Tail with Dana Schwartz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you and welcome to you are good a feelings podcast about movies today we are talking about |
| 0:15.2 | an American tale and we are talking about it with our great friend Dana Schwarz. I am one of |
| 0:20.0 | your hosts Alex Steve and I will soon be joined by my wonderful by my marvelous by my phenomenal |
| 0:26.4 | co-host Sarah Marshall. An American tale is a 1986 American animated musical adventure directed by |
| 0:34.5 | Don Bluth and written by Judy Freudeberg and Tony Geist from a story by David Kirschner. It is |
| 0:40.7 | the story of Fible Mascowicz and his family as they emigrate from Russia to the United States for |
| 0:47.6 | freedom however Fible gets lost and he must find a way to reunite with them. Dana Schwarz is a great |
| 0:55.9 | friend of our show we love Dana she's been on this show a bunch of times she's been on your wrong |
| 1:00.4 | about a handful of times she is a author she is a historian she's journalist and this is an |
| 1:07.1 | interesting episode because typically the way that we cover movies almost 100% of the time is we |
| 1:11.8 | invite someone on who we want to talk about we say what movie do you want to cover once in a great |
| 1:16.2 | while Sarah and I will be talking about a movie we'll be like oh we should cover that movie |
| 1:21.2 | who would make sense to cover that with an American tale is one of those movies that came up in |
| 1:25.2 | conversation and talking about Don Bluth we're like we want to cover it who should we cover it with |
| 1:29.0 | Dana was the obvious choice the last time we had around we talked about Anastasia so we talked |
| 1:33.8 | about a Don Bluth movie this is a Don Bluth movie we're like this makes sense maybe we should talk |
| 1:38.9 | with Dana about this Dana is a historian yes we should talk with Dana about this because we're |
| 1:43.2 | talking about moments in history Dana is Jewish and that is important in the context of the movie |
| 1:49.6 | this again is an interesting episode because typically we're like let's talk about a movie that gives |
| 1:53.6 | you all these special feelings and let's talk about those feelings and let's unpack those and |
| 1:57.6 | we do that in this episode but I think we're a little more critical of the movie than we typically are |
| 2:03.6 | because we're trying to understand some of the things that it does intentionally and it doesn't |
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