Episode 28: Children of Men

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses why Children of Men is the perfect marriage of technique and subject matter, the layered iconography of the film, and how the exposition and world building are delivered effortlessly from the very first scene.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Happy New Year. We are today talking about
0:12.3	Children of Men, the 2006 film, directed by Alfonso Coran, written by Alfonso Coron,
0:18.8	Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Ferguson, Hock Atsby,
0:24.2	based on the book, The Children of Men, by P.D. James.
0:27.7	I'm joined by the lesson to screenplay team, writer Trisha Aran.
0:31.4	Hello, everyone.
0:32.3	Writer Brian Bittner.
0:33.2	Hello, Amiga.
0:33.9	And editor Alex Kayas.
0:35.8	Hello.
0:36.4	So I think this will be a pretty short episode.
0:40.0	Children of Men is a perfect movie.
0:43.7	Thanks for listening, everyone.
0:45.0	And we can all go home now.
0:46.1	Hold on.
0:46.3	Can I add that it's great?
0:48.2	No, that's kind of the same thing.
0:49.0	Yeah, okay.
0:49.3	I'm good.
0:49.8	Good great.
0:50.2	All right.
0:51.1	We'll see you next.
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