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 the Iron Giant, the

1999 film directed by Brad Bird, screenplay by Tim McCannley's and Brad Bird. I'm joined

today by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Hello, everybody. Brian Bittner.

Hello, hello. And Alex Coyeros. Hi. So before we jump in, our Spotify question for everyone is,

what's your favorite animated film? Somehow choose and let us know in the Spotify app really big question

yeah it's been really fun seeing all the answers to the the bill Murray questions also from the

the Lawson translation there's there's a lot of groundhog day which is understandable but yeah so let us

know Spotify listeners what's your favorite animated film? Now, the Iron Giant.

So I had never seen the Iron Giant. I feel like I'd seen lots of clips from it. I'm trying to

figure out where even I would have seen those clips, but I think in various behind the scenes,

interviews with like Brad Bird, they'd show like a clip here or a clip there or something.

So I feel like I'd seen a lot of it, but hadn't seen it start to finish. Obviously, I'd

seen Ready Player 1, which, you know, was a very important part of the Iron Giants. The sequel, right.

Right. So yeah, so it was cool to finally see it. But I want to hear from you guys, especially Trisha and Alex, who saw it way back when.

What was your initial, like, you know, viewing of this movie like?

What was your relationship to it?

I don't remember the conditions, like, super clearly, but I'm pretty sure I saw it in theaters in 1999 when it came out.

And I think I was in middle school at that time.

Watching it again reminded me how much this movie stuck with me.

I didn't realize it was one of those animated films from my childhood that was so deeply

seared in my memory.

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