Episode 90: Moonlight

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Moonlight's evocative screenwriting and cinematography, the film's triptych structure, and how Barry Jenkins externalizes Chiron's inner journey.

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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.
0:13.9	Today we are talking about Moonlight, the 2016 film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Terrell Alvin McCraney's play in
0:21.7	Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.
0:23.8	I'm joined today by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:26.9	Hello, everyone.
0:28.2	Brian Bittner.
0:29.1	Hello, hello.
0:30.1	And Alex Cayanos.
0:31.5	Hi.
0:32.2	So first quick announcement, we have passed our milestone of 750 patrons on Patreon.
0:38.6	Yay!
0:39.3	Thank you, everyone who signed up and is supporting us.
0:42.3	You have unlocked our three-episode series on the Indiana Jones trilogy,
0:47.5	plus a patron exclusive on that other thing.
0:50.8	That'll be fun to talk about.
0:52.7	Running for your life from Shia Lubbuff oh i forgot he was in the oh man
0:58.3	we've all tried to that's going to be an episode but yes thank you everyone for supporting we will have
1:06.2	new goals coming down the road pretty soon as we make our way to a thousand. We have some
1:11.7	fun things planned. So keep an eye out for those. We'll let we'll let you know when they're in
1:16.3	place. Keep telling your friends to join. There's more stuff. We want to do more stuff. There's lots of
1:22.3	stuff. Yeah. But yes, so that was very exciting. So thank you everybody. Okay, so Moonlight is a film that we have not talked about for ever yet, which is like surprising
1:35.5	because I was thinking back to when it was out and how it had this moment.
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