Episode 201: The Fountain
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
The BTS team discusses the film's aesthetic triumphs, why it works as an allegory, and how budgetary constraints may have made for a more focused final product.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:08.2 | The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 0:13.2 | Today we are talking about The Fountain, the 2006 film written and directed by Darren |
| 0:18.1 | Aronovsky. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:22.3 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:23.9 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:26.0 | And Alex Cayetos. |
| 0:27.5 | Hi. |
| 0:28.5 | So we are here at the end of our big swing summer. |
| 0:32.3 | We have gone on quite a big swing journey. |
| 0:35.6 | We started, believe it or not, it feels like forever ago. |
| 0:38.8 | Talk about Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning. |
| 0:40.8 | That was the thing. |
| 0:41.8 | What? |
| 0:42.8 | Talked about that. |
| 0:43.8 | That was this year. |
| 0:47.8 | Went through interstellar, la la la land, |
| 0:49.8 | artificial intelligence, Cloud Atlas, |
| 0:51.6 | which I think will be referencing a lot in this episode, |
| 0:55.1 | potentially over on Patreon. We talked about Cloud Atlas, Romeo and Juliet, Pulp Fiction, |
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