Episode 40: Inside Llewyn Davis
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team discusses Inside Llewyn Davis’s cyclical structure, the metaphorical meaning of the cat, and why the film’s music makes the themes and characters so compelling.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. |
| 0:08.9 | Today we are talking about Inside Lewin Davis, the 2013 film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm here with the Lessons from Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.8 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:21.8 | Shout. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, sorry. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi. |
| 0:24.0 | And Alex Cayetos. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello. |
| 0:27.0 | Before we jump in, quick message to Beyond the Screenplay patrons, |
| 0:31.0 | voting is open for our May patron exclusive episode. |
| 0:34.8 | The choices are Pirates of the Caribbean, The Incredibles, Psycho, Bing |
| 0:39.4 | John Malkovich, and the Royal Tannenbaum. All of the above. Head to the Beyond the Screenplay, |
| 0:45.0 | Patreon to cast your vote for what movie you want to hear us talk about. But for now, inside |
| 0:49.9 | Lewin Davis. So this is another one of these experiment things that we're doing where someone from |
| 0:55.0 | the team chooses a movie to have everybody else watch and then discuss. Alex, you suggested |
| 1:02.3 | Inside Lewin Davis. Why did you want us to talk about Inside Lewin Davis? So when we were |
| 1:07.5 | trying this out where we were all going to choose a film to make the other people watch, I went through my Blu-ray collection. |
| 1:13.8 | And I was looking at films that I really love because I don't usually buy Blu-rays unless I want to watch them multiple times or it's a film I want to revisit as a filmmaker. |
| 1:23.1 | And I actually only own two Coen Brothers movies. |
| 1:25.9 | One of them is O Brother Where Art Thou. |
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