Episode 155 - Errol Morris

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Director Errol Morris—with his brief history as a private detective and door-to-door salesman—has transformed the world with his boundless curiosity. In this hour, we discuss the hostile reaction to American Dharma, how interviewing mass murderers shaped Errol’s theory of language, the role of self-deception in his films, and the subsequently arcane motives of Steve Bannon and Elizabeth Holmes. Errol reflects on his roots in commercial directing, his hatred of standard documentary filmmaking, the existential sadness in Gates of Heaven, and his mother's ineffable uniqueness. For more about our show, visit: www.talkeasypod.com

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0:00.0	Pushkin. I saw a lot of myself in her 40 years ago and I still do. We're all struggling trying to figure out the world and our place in it.
0:29.6	She's one of my perfect existential characters, a person left alone, feeling deeply betrayed
0:39.0	by one loved one after another,
0:44.0	confronting the very real possibility of imminent death,
0:49.8	I was incredibly moved by her. I loved her. I still do and feel deeply grateful that he was
1:00.0	willing to talk to me. That was Errol Morris. I'm San Francisco and this is Talk Easy.
1:08.8	Welcome to the show. You're going to. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. This is Talk Easy. I'm San Fricoso and today on the
1:44.9	podcast is Errol Morris but before we get into it I want to go back a few years
1:51.4	on the evening of November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump was elected our 45th
1:56.9	president of the United States. One of the key reasons why Trump won in 2016
2:02.4	is because he hired a man named Steve Bannon, a founding member of
2:07.1	Bright Bart who then became Trump's chief strategist, a position that did not exist before the Trump presidency, although many things did not exist before the Trump presidency.
2:19.0	No matter, this is where Errol Morris enters the story.
2:23.0	In the aftermath of Trump's win, Errol wanted to make a film about Bannon.
2:27.0	He wanted to make a film about the alt-right and the rise of Trumpism.
2:32.0	The result is a movie called American Darma. It was made in 2017.
2:37.3	It then played festivals throughout 2018 before finally securing distribution just a couple weeks ago.
2:45.0	It is now currently at a theater near you,
2:48.0	and here is a bit from the trailer.
2:51.0	I was reading about Lucifer in Milton's Paradise Lost and I have to say that
2:56.8	Lucifer for me had certain bananesque qualities.
3:01.8	Ha ha ha. quality.
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