Crash

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy swerve into 2004's Oscar-winning race-in-LA melodrama Crash! They take a close look at how the film's attitudes on race and racism have aged, learn about the incident that happened to director Paul Haggis that inspired the film, and revisit the short-lived Crash TV series. Plus: Should Brokeback Mountain have won Best Picture instead? Next week, tune in as we cover Magic Mike! 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 unspooledpod@gmail.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's 2005 and if everyone is racist, is anyone racist?
0:06.0	The movie Crash.
0:08.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Unspooled.
0:30.0	Welcome to Unspooled where we unspool the greatest films to see if they are classics.
0:34.0	Or just remembered that way.
0:36.0	I am joined by Amy Nicholson, a Bond-Vavant, a film critic who writes for The New York Times,
0:42.0	and a person who belongs to a breakfast club here in Los Angeles, welcome Amy.
0:47.0	Thank you.
0:48.0	You can join my breakfast club too if you feel like waking up and getting locked inside a building at seven in the morning.
0:52.0	It is magical and Paul, Paul Stewart.
0:55.0	That would be the name that I would put on that engraved invitation.
0:58.0	Paul Stewart, writer, director, comedian, and winner of a 10 times in a row.
1:04.0	Clippers versus Lakers, Battle of Los Angeles.
1:07.0	Oh yes.
1:08.0	The last three years, well Amy, you know what?
1:10.0	It's been a hard fought battle between these two teams.
1:12.0	Can't be mad at that, but the Battle of LA will continue.
1:15.0	It will never end.
1:17.0	It will rage on even in this movie, Battles of LA, City Against City,
1:22.0	neighbor against neighbor, Clipper fan against Laker fan.
1:25.0	I want to see that version.
1:26.0	Now that's what we need to get into.
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