Ep. 469 - Solo: A Star Wars Story (GUEST: Patrick Willems)
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4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 129 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast, the official podcast of Slashfilm.com. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm David Chenin with me R, Ivan Drahernerware, Jeff Canada, and joining us today is |
| 0:29.9 | a very popular YouTuber who has created short films like What if Wes Anderson directed |
| 0:37.0 | X-Men and video essays like Why Do Marvel Films Look Kind of Ugly? Patrick Willems, welcome |
| 0:43.2 | to the Slash Filmcast, Patrick, are you doing today? |
| 0:45.2 | I'm doing great, I'm really excited to be here. |
| 0:47.8 | We're really excited to have you today Patrick and I just want to say right up the top that |
| 0:53.5 | today what we're going to be doing is discussing solo. |
| 0:55.6 | It's going to be one of those episodes that's just focused on one movie that there's a lot |
| 0:59.7 | to dig into here. |
| 1:01.5 | You can find more episodes of this podcast at Slashfilmcast.com. |
| 1:04.0 | You can also email us at Slashfilmcast.gmail.com. |
| 1:06.9 | Before we get into that though, Patrick, you are a prolific YouTube creator. |
| 1:12.0 | You have a Patreon page as well to support your YouTube being. |
| 1:16.5 | So I just want to first of all say like anyone who's interested in thoughtful commentary on |
| 1:21.0 | film should check out Patrick's YouTube page. |
| 1:24.5 | So Patrick, relevant to our conversation today, you recently made a video essay about what |
| 1:30.5 | people look for when they watch Star Wars, right? |
| 1:32.6 | Because you're thinking through the extremely polarized reaction to the last Jedi. |
| 1:36.6 | Now, I was hoping in a few sentences if you could summarize kind of the main thrust of your |
| 1:41.1 | recent video essay about Star Wars. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, so this is a topic that I really, I've been thinking about for a while, I think, |
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