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Unspooled

Black Swan

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul reconcile their duality with 2010's Darren Aronofsky ballet thriller Black Swan! They dissect Natalie Portman's full-bodied transformative performance, praise the subtly stunning visual effects, and float three theories for what really happens at the film's end. Plus: What does a swan really sound like? Next week, tune in as we cover the original Avatar! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0

The year is 2010 and sweet girl, you do not have what it takes to be the black swan.

0:06.6

Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled. Welcome to unspooled orionspool famous films to see if they are truly classics.

0:36.3

Or just remembered that way that voice you have just heard is Paul Sheer, actor, comedian, recontour.

0:42.7

And that voice you just heard is Amy Nicholson who writes for the New York Times but also has a lot of other great things about her to the other week you are making a great potato and you know we don't talk about your potato brazing and baking.

0:55.4

No, I make about the best baked potato to be honest. It's all about high high high heat higher than you think gotta get it.

1:02.1

All right, I like that. You know Amy it's the holiday season and we wouldn't be a show if we didn't have some holiday merch.

1:08.8

We have an amazing set of playing cards that are adorned with some of the beautiful art that Kim Troxel has done for us over the last few years.

1:19.2

It is truly a wonderful gift and I think that this will be a welcome addition to any unspooled fan or really any movie fan because you know who would want famous movie posters with your face and mouth.

1:32.0

And my face on them some say it's to facing we say it's art.

1:36.4

I just hope the people do some hardcore gambling with our faces. I really like somebody to slap down our faces and have it win them five bucks.

1:43.6

Well, head on over to pod swag. Check out the unspooled store to get your new limited edition of unspooled playing cards.

1:51.7

A perfect stocking stuff for all your unspooled or pollining me fans.

1:56.2

Oh, you know what I hope I really hope somebody buys a deck of our cards and they're a magician and they use it to be like pick a card any card and then when they give it back they wind up like having like their name signed on the card that they picked you know how that all goes.

2:07.4

Yeah, yeah, I want to be a magic card. Please make a magic card. Somebody out there make me magic.

2:12.8

Oh, wait, well, they're going to be coming in the submissions are going to be flying in from magicians all over the world.

2:18.2

Amy, I'm so excited to talk about Black Swan because I think a lot of the talk about this movie is about the themes and the hidden messages.

2:25.2

But what people often seem to miss is the full body transformation that Natalie Portman did for this film. I mean voice, body, everything.

2:34.8

It just doesn't get talked about enough and we will today.

2:38.0

I'm all about it, but I also want to spend some time talking about the visual effects on top of that because honestly I am so mad that this didn't win the Oscar.

2:46.7

I'm not even had to share a nomination space with like candy vomit films like the Alice in Wonderland.

2:52.0

No contest. But more importantly, we are going to break down some of the internet theories, some of the little subtle things that you didn't even see.

3:00.0

And hopefully get to the bottom of the ending. What really happened? I think at the end of this will give you three good options.

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