Episode 117: Up in the Air

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses the film's strong theme, how the character web is designed to challenge the belief systems of the three central characters, and what makes Up in the Air feel like a lost 1990's movie.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a
0:10.4	conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.5	Today we are talking about Up in the Air, the 2009 film directed by Jason Reitman, screenplay
0:19.3	by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner based on the novel by Walter Kern.
0:24.5	I am joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha O'Rand.
0:28.3	Hello, everyone.
0:29.1	Brian Bittner.
0:30.1	Hello, hello.
0:31.1	And Alex Cayitos.
0:32.4	Hi.
0:33.7	So I'm really excited to talk about up in the air because I like it a lot.
0:40.1	And it was, so before Lessons from the Screenplay was a thing, I had committed to, I'm going to read a bunch of screenplays and learn as much as I can.
0:49.7	And as I started to read them, I was like, well, I'm going to write blog posts about each one I read,
0:54.4	and that'll help me internalize lessons and then be able to share them with people.
0:59.1	And basically, as I started to write the first, like, blog post or two, I was like, I think
1:03.8	this could be a video essay.
1:06.2	Strangely, one of the very first blog posts I wrote was about up in the air because it was one of my
1:12.5	favorite movies. I knew the script was great and then I was reading it for this purpose and
1:17.9	extracting all these cool lessons and I was like, I'm going to write a blog post about it. And so it was
1:22.6	almost a ready to go video, but for some reason, it never became a video.
1:28.3	But I found the script for it.
1:30.7	And tons of the things that I identify in the up-in-the-air script we went on later to make
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