Election

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy put their hats in the ring for 1999’s acidic high-school satire Election! They praise director Alexander Payne’s brilliant eye for humanist detail, discuss how Matthew Broderick channels his Ferris Bueller image to subversive ends, and posit that America has only become more like high school since the movie’s release. Plus: How Election almost derailed Reese Witherspoon’s career. Next week. Paul and Amy are watching Fight Club! You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Check out this week's spotlight episode from the archives, Mean Girls: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/mean-girls/ 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, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1999, and some people think that this podcast is an overachiever, but I think
0:06.0	they're just jealous.
0:07.6	The movie, election.
0:09.1	Hello, everyone and welcome to Unspooled!
0:35.3	I am Paul Schier, joined as always by my friend Amy Nicholson to talk about great movies,
0:42.2	to see if these great movies that we talk about and that we put up on a pedestal are truly
0:47.8	great or we just remember them that way.
0:52.6	That's right.
0:53.6	You know, we have been doing a lot of thinking about a lot of different stuff.
0:57.1	Our trajectory in the last few weeks has been all over the map, but I think we have been
1:00.7	kind of having conversations with movies that are out and movies that kind of made these
1:06.2	directors or at least have been a jewel in their crown, whether it's Martin Scorsese and
1:11.9	the killers of the flower moon talking about that and Wolf of Wall Street or going here,
1:17.3	which is the new Alexander Payne movie, Whole Doggers, is coming out.
1:21.0	It's about a teacher who may have stayed a little bit too long at the school that they
1:25.3	are at and going back to really the movie that I think truly broke Alexander Payne wide
1:32.0	open, which is election.
1:34.6	I have been so excited to talk about this movie with you ever since I rewatched it, Paul.
1:39.1	I'm like jumping into it.
1:40.6	I'm like at school at six in the morning, setting out cupcakes, being like Paul, let's
1:44.4	talk about election.
1:45.4	Oh, my God.
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