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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Higher Learning with Micah Peters

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

We’re going back to school with John Singleton, Omar Epps, and...Zangief?! Micah Peters (The Ringer) joins the Two Friends as they discuss “Higher Learning” - an ambitious movie that wrestles with the Big Issues of the American experience: race, gender, sexuality, and the career of Tyra Banks.

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0:00.0

Clang Jack with Britain and David Clang Jack with Britain and David

0:09.3

Don't know what to say or to explain All you need to know is that the aim of the show is

0:17.0

Clang Jack

0:21.0

Question

0:24.0

The podcast

0:26.0

Okay, so you're doing the tagline from the film

0:29.0

Question the knowledge I made it question knowledge the podcast

0:33.0

So the poster for this movie I am just trying to imagine seeing it in a in a multiplex

0:42.0

Like yeah, like the stand-eat for this this movie in 1995

0:47.0

The brisk January

0:50.0

Right a bunch of yeah, have you Michael you please talk have you seen the poster I assume seen the poster for higher learning the like theatrical poster

0:58.0

Honestly, no, I'd like I have you're gonna have to describe it to me. All right. I'm gonna describe it. I love describing posters. All right. Okay great great great

1:07.0

This is it I like a camera. Yes, this is isn't it so much more fun this way? Is it so much better than I don't know what it looks like?

1:14.0

Absolutely, and I would argue this is a poster designed to be described more than it is to be looked at I don't think it works as well visually as it does all really

1:23.0

So we got we got a red background. So it's all in a red background. We got a question the knowledge that's the tagline the film is called higher learning color of fire blood power

1:33.0

Exactly right. Yeah. All right. So so the title the tagline that's on the right side of the poster on the left side we got this kind of like series of abstract symbols that are stacked on top of each other like a sort of

1:47.0

a jenga pile of symbols. Is that would yeah, yeah, you know, okay, so at the bottom we've got the symbol the male symbol a circle with an arrow coming out of it and Lawrence fishburn's faces inside that which already I'm having seen the film

2:05.0

I'm not sure where that's coming from but okay. God damn. All right next up we've got a I'm sorry you just I'm sorry David just to stop you you describe that symbol weirdly

2:16.0

I think just the cleaner way to circle arrow coming out of it well no it's the it's the Austin powers necklace I mean let's just say

2:25.0

let's just save our listeners time and mental energy so you start at the bottom of the classic Austin powers pendant right exactly

2:34.0

we've got it Austin powers symbol and then on top of that so sort of balance on top of that we have it's actually two female symbols so circles with plus is coming out of the when Christie swan

2:48.0

sense space is in those now balanced on top of that we have a fist a raised fist wait that wait it's just wait wait hold on hold on with the female signs

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