Episode 95: Black Swan (with Maggie Mae Fish)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team welcomes YouTube creator Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Black Swan cleverly borrows horror movie elements, the way the filmmaking balances technical precision and an organic messiness, and manages to make a psychological thriller very accessible through a simple plot construction.

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Show Notes

Maggie Mae Fish's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MaggieMaeFish/

Maggie Mae Fish on Twitter: @MaggieMaeFish

SoundWorks Collection, the Sound of Black Swan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x0I5_OFz0

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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
0:11.2	conversational deep dive analysis into a film. Today we are talking about Black Swan,
0:16.4	the 2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andre Heinz, and John McLaughlin.
0:23.2	I'm joined today by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Brian Bittner.
0:26.7	Hello, hello.
0:27.8	And Alex Cayeros.
0:29.1	Hello.
0:30.4	And joining us once again is fellow YouTube video essayist, writer, actor, Maggie Mayfish.
0:35.9	Thank you for joining us.
0:37.1	Hello. Thank you for joining us. Hello.
0:41.9	Thank you for having me for this gruesome tale.
0:43.3	Yes.
0:48.0	Yes, we were just joking off mic about how apparently we only bring you in to talk about movies that have to do with like dissents into madness.
0:51.4	Mm-hmm.
0:51.8	Among other things.
0:52.8	What are you trying to say?
0:53.1	What do you say? What do you saying about yourself as a fellow YouTuber?
0:58.4	These are the real questions.
1:00.9	We're talking about Blackswan.
1:02.7	Last week we talked about Whiplash because there's a lesson from a screenplay video
1:06.8	that is comparing these two films.
1:09.0	And it was one of the early videos that I made on the
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