Andrew Klavan Talks Violence In Storytelling/Becoming Christian/Movies Ruining Movies
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Babylon Bee Podcast, Kyle and Ethan talk to Andrew Klavan an author, screenwriter, essayist, and host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. They discuss whether good storytelling requires sex & violence, movies that ruined entire movie genres, and going from secular Jew to Christian at age 49. Kyle and Ethan pitch their best movie remake ideas and they talk shop with a fellow satirist.
Topics Discussed
- Edgar Awards are ugly
- Writing scripts for Hollywood
- Going full skinhead and entering conservative media
- Ruining a perfectly good headline [SATIRE]
- A secular Jew becoming a Christian at age 49
- Kyle and Ethan pitch movie ideas to Klavan that are in dire need of a remake
- Movies that ruined movies
- On the necessity of putting sex, cursing & violence in stories
- Stephen King’s twitter feed
- Behind-the-scenes Ben Shapiro stories
- Church shopping during lockdown
- Andrew judges some our subscriber satirical headline pitches
- The Ten Questions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Real People Real Interviews |
| 0:04.0 | I just have to say that I object |
| 0:07.0 | Strain you as late to your use of the word Galarius. |
| 0:10.0 | Hard-hitting questions. |
| 0:12.0 | What do you think about feminism? |
| 0:14.0 | Do you like it? |
| 0:15.0 | Taking you to the cutting edge of truth. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well last Jedi is one of the worst movies ever made |
| 0:21.0 | and it was very clear that Ryan Johnson doesn't like Star Wars. |
| 0:25.0 | Kyle pulls no punches. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to ask how you're able to sleep at night. |
| 0:30.0 | Ethan brings bone-shattering common sense from the top rope. |
| 0:35.0 | If I may, how double dare you? |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, everybody. Welcome to the Babylon B Interview Show. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Kyle Mann with my host. |
| 0:49.0 | Ethan, I'm your host. Ethan Nicole. |
| 0:51.0 | With my co-host. Oh, all right. Ethan Nicole. |
| 0:54.0 | You always managed to do real things. |
| 0:56.0 | Instantly. |
| 0:58.0 | Come on, Kyle. I'm not your host. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm your host and what? You're the host of Andrew Klaven? |
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