Episode 195: Anora
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
The BTS team discusses the film's pacing and structure, the humanizing design of the main and supporting characters, and the themes of agency, control, and transactional relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Mark Ronson. |
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| 1:04.4 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 1:07.8 | The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a |
| 1:12.0 | film. Today we are talking about Onora, the 2024 film written and directed by Sean Baker. I'm joined |
| 1:19.2 | by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Rand. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex |
| 1:25.5 | Cayeros. Hi. So we made it. |
| 1:27.9 | We are here at the end of our wicked winter season. |
| 1:30.7 | We began with the Wizard of Oz. |
| 1:32.0 | We talked about wicked Sicario Challenger's Network, the Brutalist, Chicago. |
| 1:36.4 | And now we are ending with Anora. |
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