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Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 96: Ex Machina (with Sage Hyden of Just Write)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team once again welcomes back Sage Hyden (Just Write) to discuss how Ex Machina controls the information it reveals to the audience, the clever design of Ava’s character, and how the film invites varied readings of its deeper meaning.


Show Notes

Sage's YouTube channel, Just Write: https://www.youtube.com/user/mythicalsage

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Brian Bitner: https://twitter.com/BrianBitner

Alex Calleros: https://twitter.com/Alex_Calleros


Produced by Vince Major: https://twitter.com/VinceMajor

Edited by Eric Schneider: https://twitter.com/ImEricSchneider


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Transcript

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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.

0:14.1

Today we are talking about ex machina, the 2014 film written and directed by Alex Garland.

0:19.4

I'm joined by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Brian Bittner.

0:22.8

Hello, hello.

0:23.7

And Alex Cayetos.

0:25.1

Hello.

0:25.9

And we are joined once again by the wonderful creator of the wonderful YouTube channel.

0:30.7

Just Right.

0:31.3

Writer and critic, Sage Hayden, Sage.

0:33.5

Welcome back to the show.

0:34.7

Thank you.

0:35.4

Thanks for having me.

0:36.3

Again.

0:36.8

Again.

0:39.4

This is your fifth appearance, I think.

0:43.8

So you are, once again, strongly in the lead of clearly our favorite guest.

0:45.9

I want to maintain that lead, you know.

0:48.8

That's really the why I'm coming on here.

0:52.5

There's a prize at the end of every year that we give whoever had the most appearances.

0:54.1

So you're the frontrunner.

0:54.6

Vince remind me to figure out what that prize is later. No to our producer. So X Machina is one of my

1:01.2

favorite films. We've talked about this a little bit because we did a episode on our top 10

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