Culture Gabfest - Parasite Without a Host
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Culture Gabfest, Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner break down the Oscars and Bong Joon-ho’s historic win. Next, the discuss Star Trek: Picard with Slate associate editor and Trekkie Marissa Martinelli. Finally, they dive into a recent New York Times Magazine article on the way television imagines New York City.
On the Slate Plus segment this week, the fashion of the Oscars.
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Rachael Allen.
Outro Music: Eminem Performs 'Lose Yourself' at Oscars 2020
Endorsements
Dana: Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar acceptance speeches, as Dana wrote about in her recent Slate piece “Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar Night Had All the Genre-Bending Twists of His Movies.”
Julia: “Chasing Colombia’s ‘cocaine hippos’” by Peter Rowe in the Los Angeles Times.
Steve: “The Seriousness of George Steiner” by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.
“An Evening With George Steiner (1929-2020)” by Kinton Ford in n+1.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, Parasite Without a Host edition. |
| 0:16.4 | It's Wednesday, February 12th, 2020. On today's show, the Oscars went head over heels. Wow. For South |
| 0:22.3 | Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho. We discussed Parasides huge night along with other wins, losses, |
| 0:28.2 | snubs, flubs, and of course all that speechifying. And then the glorious return of Patrick's |
| 0:32.9 | door to the part of Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek Picard and Next Generation. It's a next generation reboot. |
| 0:39.0 | We will be joined by Marissa Martinelli, a Slatster and a Trekkie completist, which I think will help us a |
| 0:45.0 | little bit. And finally, the great imaginary city known as New York. Joining me today is the deputy |
| 0:51.0 | managing editor of the LA Times, Julia Turner. Hey, Julia. |
| 1:01.3 | Hello, hello. So like a giant collective hangover in L.A. is like people moving slow, driving slow in a fog. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, none of us have had a February ever because the Oscars are usually at the end of February. So we've all looked up and are just like, whoa, a whole month. What do we do? And of course, Dana Stevens, who's just every month this February for Dana. Hey, Dana. I have no idea what that means. I identify. Gloomy and gray. I love a gray sky. Hey, Steve. Hey, you are the film critic for Slate.com, I should say. |
| 1:28.0 | Nobody listening |
| 1:28.8 | probably doesn't know that. All right, well, Sunday night, obviously, were the 92nd Academy Awards. It was, there was sort of one Dana dominant storyline, which is that the movie Parasite from South Korea, it became the first non-English language movie to win the best picture. It was essentially a landslide in favor of that film. |
| 1:48.5 | I loved your beautiful roundup of that night of victory for the director, Bong Joon Ho, |
| 1:54.7 | and what I think absolutely going in was the movie of the year. |
| 1:58.2 | The Academy kind of got it right this year. |
| 2:00.3 | Do we feel good about it? |
| 2:01.6 | Hell yeah. I enjoyed that telecast more than any Oscars in a long, long time. And it really was |
| 2:06.6 | because of, you know, what I ended up writing about for Slate, which was this kind of story that emerged |
| 2:10.9 | over the course of, you know, a typically long, heterogeneous, shaggy, sometimes fun, sometimes weird. |
| 2:17.3 | Oscar telecast had this kind of |
| 2:19.6 | emerging story within it, you know, of this really industry-changing win by Bong Joon's |
| 2:25.8 | parasite. Industry-changing because it's the first time a foreign film has won Best Picture. |
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