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Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 62: Soul

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses Soul’s blended soundtrack and score, the story’s powerful imagery, and what the theme of finding one's "spark" means to each of us personally.


Show Notes

Inside Pixar S1E1 — Inspired: Kemp Powers, Writing Something Real: https://www.disneyplus.com/series/inside-pixar/QvnA6QJC9SYi

Soul Stories Podcast: Pete Docter & Dana Murray: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2XHaIJnqN64tJWC9tVNIVC?si=AlNVbPbnRhGQvq4Wn8c3QA 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today, we are talking about soul, the 2020 Pixar film directed by Pete Doctor and co-directed by Kemp Powers, screenplay by Pete Doctor, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers.

0:23.3

I'm joined today by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.

0:26.5

Hello, everybody.

0:27.7

Brian Bittner.

0:28.5

Hello, hello.

0:29.2

And Alex Cayetos.

0:30.5

Hi.

0:31.0

This is our first episode of 2021 or 2021 season.

0:34.7

Happy New Year, everybody.

0:36.1

We've made it.

0:38.2

It's all going to be fine now.

0:42.6

Everything's perfect.

0:44.0

Everything's great.

0:45.1

Really quick, before we jump in to the movie,

0:47.7

there's a lot to talk about.

0:48.7

But I want to remind people that every month on Patreon,

0:51.1

we release a patron exclusive episode.

0:53.1

And our December episode on Tenet is

0:55.6

available now. So if you want to hear our thoughts on Tenet, sign up for Patreon. We had some

1:01.0

thoughts. We had thoughts. It's a fun one. I enjoy listening back to it. And because we hit our

1:07.0

goal of 500 patrons in December, it means that we will be starting our Lord of the Rings trilogy of podcasts.

1:14.0

And we're already deep in the rewatching of these films.

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