Episode 73: The Favourite 🐇

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses The Favourite’s three iconic central performances, the dialogue’s bawdy sense of humor, and how the wide-angle cinematography enhances the film’s absurd tone and themes.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.8	The podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.3	Today we are talking about The Favorite, the 2018 film directed by Yorgo's Lantamose, written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.
0:20.9	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:23.5	Hello, everybody.
0:24.6	Brian Bittner.
0:25.4	Hello, hello.
0:26.0	And Alex Cayetos.
0:27.3	Hi.
0:28.0	So the favorite, I think, is one of our favorite movies.
0:31.8	I think this is one of the movies where the Venn diagram of the four of us overlaps and it includes like Eternal Sunshine
0:38.8	and the favorite and end of lists potentially the Matrix or Jurassic Park or whatever.
0:44.0	So we have a lot of things that we want to talk about before we jump in as usual.
0:48.0	Our Spotify question for people listening on the Spotify app is, who's your favorite queen
0:52.9	in a movie?
0:53.8	Or TV? Do we have a movie? Or TV?
0:55.0	Do we have TV queens?
0:56.2	Or TV, sure.
0:57.6	Queens in any kind of audiovisual media.
1:02.0	Let us know.
1:04.2	Also, quick Patreon update.
1:06.2	Our March patron exclusive episode is Catch Me If You Can.
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