Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Muppet Movie (1979)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Two individual filmmakers take centre stage in this episode of Film Stories, starting with Quentin Tarantino. For a decade, he was talking in interviews about making a World War II movie called Inglorious Bastards, but he swerved making it for a long time, in favour of the Kill Bill movies and Death Proof. He argued he didn't have writer's block: he just couldn't stop writing it. He changed the title to Inglourious Basterds, set himself a firm deadline, and started shooting just eight months before the film was due to debut at the Cannes Film Festival... In the case of Jim Henson, he had dreams of taking The Muppets to the big screen, and as they were proving to be a sensation on television in the 1970s, he got a handsome budget to do so. The challenge? Production on The Muppet Show was ongoing, and the three month shoot would take The Muppets out of a controlled studio environment for the story for the first time. Stories of both films are told in this episode... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	tis and sees apply hello this is simon brew i'm the editor of film stories magazine and a very
0:35.7	warm welcome to the latest episode of the film stories podcast
0:39.6	why do we always come here i guess we'll never know it's like a kind of torture to have to watch the show
0:48.6	come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. And movies.
0:55.3	Movies that had stories.
0:57.0	That the story just sucks a man.
0:59.4	This is just the beginning.
1:02.0	We would be honored if you would join us.
1:08.8	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's all you need to know about me.
1:15.9	The aim of the podcast though is given away by the title. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients really that go towards making the films that we know
1:27.8	and sometimes love, just that, the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to
1:32.8	cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else. They're films I'm interested
1:37.0	in or invested in to some degree. Try not to do snark. I'm trying not to punch down. This podcast
1:41.7	is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation of just how hard it is
1:45.8	to get a movie made.
1:47.5	Let's then get pretty much straight down to it
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