Jojo Rabbit
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Forrest Wickman, Sam Adams and Dan Kois discuss Jojo Rabbit. Taika Waitit’s Nazi spoof takes a comedic look at how people, even children, get caught up in movements fueled by hateful ideology. But does the comedic lens allow for sympathization? As a young member of Hitler Youth nearing the end of WWII, Jojo Betzler, invents an imaginary friend... Hitler. What happens when Jojo discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his family home? And how does Jojo navigate those challenging his ideology and the imminent fall of Nazi Germany?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.5 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:16.7 | Oh, Rushberg. |
| 0:23.6 | What's in the box? What's in the box? You made it! You blew it up! Damn you all the hell! |
| 0:30.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Spoiler Special for JoJo Rabbit, the new comedy starring writer-director |
| 0:37.8 | Tycho Waititi as Adolf Hitler. I am joined in New York by two Slate editors and critics, Dan |
| 0:44.0 | and Sam Adams. Hello. Hey, Sam. And you are Forrest Wickman, an editor at Slate. And I am |
| 0:52.6 | Forrest Wickman, an editor at Slate. Thank I am Forrest Wickman, an editor at Slate. |
| 0:54.8 | Thank you, Dan. |
| 0:55.5 | Also, yeah. Also, yes. |
| 0:58.1 | All three of us are being played by Taika Waititi. |
| 1:00.1 | None of us are dressed as Hitler. |
| 1:01.8 | We restrained ourselves from making any Heil jokes thus far in this podcast. |
| 1:06.6 | But I do want to start with a thumbs up, thumbs down assessment from each of us, especially |
| 1:12.3 | because this has been a pretty controversial movie. Sam, I have a little bit of a sense of what |
| 1:17.0 | you think, but I think you also have the best sense for what the discourse around this movie |
| 1:20.9 | has been thus far. So maybe you can summarize the discourse and then place yourself within it. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm sure. I'll briefly summarize the discourse. I mean, the critical reaction to this has been very split since it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September. I mean, it won the audience award at TIF, which is probably the closest thing. We have to a best picture bellwether at this point. Green Book won it last year, right? Yeah, Green Book won. Yeah, I mean, through Bull Wars, one the year before that, which |
| 1:47.9 | should not end up winning, but got a ton of nominations. |
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