Episode 78: Paddington 1 & 2 (with Patrick H. Willems)
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The LFTS team once again welcomes back Patrick H. Willems to discuss the movies' meticulous filmmaking, the design of the wonderful antagonists, and what makes Paddington such a heartwarming character.
Show Notes
Patrick's video on Paddington: https://youtu.be/LSq0308_g7c
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today we are talking about two films, the 2014 film Paddington, directed by Paul King, written by Paul King, story by Hamish McColl and Paul King, as well as the 2017 film Paddington 2. |
| 0:24.0 | Also directed by Paul King, written by Paul King and Simon Barnaby, both of these films based on the Paddington Bear Books, created by Michael Bond. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm joined by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Brian Bittner. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, he's literally eating a marmalade sandwich. |
| 0:39.1 | A marmalade sandwich. That's what it is. |
| 0:40.5 | Was this a bad time to take my first bite? |
| 0:43.3 | And Alex Cajanos. |
| 0:45.1 | Hi. |
| 0:45.8 | And we have a guest today, none other than Patrick Willems. |
| 0:49.8 | Patrick, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 0:52.5 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:53.9 | And I've got to say, I am so mad that I did not think of the gag of taking a bite of a marmalade sandwich. |
| 1:01.0 | Ah, that was good. |
| 1:02.0 | That was really good, Brian. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:04.0 | It's even the proper, like, perfect sandwich white bread. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. |
| 1:09.0 | We actually went out and got white bread just because we didn't have any. |
| 1:11.9 | The commitment is next level, as is the commitment of the filmmakers to these films, |
| 1:18.4 | which we're going to talk about to quickly kind of set up these films. |
| 1:22.1 | So Patrick, for anyone that might not know, Patrick, you are a video essayist, a not content creator on YouTube, but it's very kind of you. |
| 1:31.8 | Your videos have a style, like, unique to yourself. There's no one else that makes videos like you. |
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