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Happy Sad Confused

Chris Weitz

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Don't even try to pin down Chris Weitz's career, it's a fruitless endeavor. From "American Pie" to "About a Boy" to writing a Star Wars movie, to helming a fact based thriller like "Operation Finale", the only consistency is quality. Chris joins Josh on this episode to reflect on his unusual childhood (and fascinating parents), the lessons learned from directing "The Golden Compass", how he sold Disney on [SPOILER ALERT] killing off every major character in a Star Wars movie, to directing Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley in his latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on Happy Sei Confused, filmmaker Chris Whites on the journey from American Pie all the way up to his new film Operation finale.

0:17.0

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harwood, so welcome to another edition of Happy Second Fused Today's guest, a filmmaker I greatly admire,

0:25.9

an eclectic resume to say the least on Chris White's.

0:29.0

You know him from such diverse works as About a Boy, the Golden Compass, American Pie.

0:38.0

He was one of the writers of Rogue One and has a new film out called Operation Finale.

0:44.0

It actually opens August 29th, so this is a little bit early,

0:46.4

but go seek it out when it is in theaters.

0:49.3

It is a thriller that tells the true story

0:51.9

of the hunt for the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

0:56.2

And it's in some ways a great two-hander anchored by two weighty performances.

1:02.9

Oscar Isaac plays the agent who is part of a team

1:07.2

charged with hunting down Adolf Eichmann in Argentina

1:11.6

and no less than Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley plays the notorious

1:17.4

Adolf Eichmann. Solid thriller all-around great performances, great direction from

1:21.8

Chris Whites, and I always want to talk to a director that I go way

1:25.2

back with Chris White's. He's kind of popped up in my life in weird different ways over the years.

1:30.6

We talk about the fact that he was part of a book I did 14 years ago called

1:38.3

The Mind of the Modern Movie Maker. I did a collection of interviews with young filmmakers turning their own paths and figuring

1:44.2

out what kind of careers they wanted to lead.

1:47.1

And Chris and Paul White's brothers were profiled in the book along with 20 odd other filmmakers.

1:53.2

Fascinating in retrospect, frankly, to look at the filmmakers that were in my little old book back then.

1:59.3

It's folks that were kind of hot at the time, whether it's Kevin Smith or Michelle Gondry, but it's also people that kind of went up and down throughout the years.

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