Episode 34: Parasite

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team (remotely!) discusses Parasite’s shocking midpoint reversal, how the film uses symbols and motifs to concretize abstract themes about class, and why a South Korean satire was able to resonate across the globe.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael.
0:06.9	Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.1	Today we are talking about Parasite, the 2019 film written by Bong Jin Ho and Jin Wan,
0:15.1	directed by Bongjin Ho.
0:17.0	I'm here with the Lesson from Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:20.8	Hello, everyone. Brian B Arand. Hello, everyone.
0:21.7	Brian Bittner.
0:22.6	Hello, hello.
0:23.2	And Alex Cayetos.
0:24.5	Hi.
0:25.2	And when I say I'm here with the team, I mean that figuratively because we are recording remotely today.
0:31.3	And also just want to give a heads up that we're probably going to butcher some names, but we're going to try hard not to,
0:37.7	but you'll have to forgive us when we inevitably do. So, Parasite is a movie that became this
0:44.3	like sensation. I just remember seeing it on Twitter, people saying, oh, this movie Parasite,
0:50.9	it's so good. You should go see it. And then more and more people and then it spiraling out of control and then winning best picture at the Oscars, which was super exciting.
0:59.6	My experience of hearing about it was just that hearing people say, this is so great.
1:05.6	You got to go see it.
1:06.7	Conversations about it.
1:08.0	But I saw no trailers.
1:09.8	I had no idea what it was about.
1:11.6	It seemed like kind of a horror movie-ish.
1:14.4	Yeah.
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