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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In 2015, three American armed forces vets foiled an attack on a train to Paris. Three years later, Clint Eastwood enlisted the boys to re-enact their experience in a major motion picture. The result, THE 15:17 TO PARIS (2018), is a genuinely strange docu-fiction experiment that, yes, has a lot to say about America.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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0:00.0 | So as I understand it, you know, you're in Berlin and you're engaging in some, you know, |
0:16.8 | very German pastimes, one of which was seeing the artist Bob Dylan, the German singer-songwriter, |
0:22.8 | who you've not seen anywhere else. Do I have that right? That's right. I did see Bob Dylan, |
0:27.7 | Bob and I happened to be in Germany at the same time. Did he call? Did he write? Did he text? No, |
0:34.3 | but nevertheless somehow, somehow those Twitter replies, you did saying, yo, yo, you in town as well, |
0:39.9 | somehow, I mean, he just must have missed those, you know, he doesn't check Twitter that often. |
0:43.8 | And yet, he did post about being in Berlin, which just goes to show, it's almost as if he doesn't |
0:49.7 | care if I find out or not. I mean, it's really quite insulting. Can I just say before we continue |
0:56.7 | talking about our mutual friend, Bob Dylan, there's a type of character that Will has introduced |
1:02.2 | me to. And there are many such people who fit this archetype, who are basically reply guys, |
1:07.5 | but like a special kind of high level form of reply guy, where it's to like directors and actors |
1:14.4 | and stuff like that. But it's like a type of person who I don't know might once a year or get to |
1:19.4 | have like a 15 minute thing on a festival circuit or something where they, I don't know, get to ask |
1:24.4 | like Quentin Tarantino question in a group, like one of those group interviews, like a scrum. |
1:29.0 | And then they just think that they're like friends with Quentin Tarantino after. And so they'll do |
1:33.2 | like Twitter. I mean, I don't know if he has Twitter, but you know, that type of person and they'll |
1:36.5 | do Twitter replies where it's like, oh, hey, didn't realize you were in town. You know, |
1:41.0 | could have gotten together for a coffee. And it's like, I don't know, I feel that it's not even |
1:45.2 | fair to the other reply guys to call these guys reply guys, because this is just in that this is |
1:49.9 | a whole other category. Yeah, this is a real Rupert Pupkin type. This is a, this is a category |
1:55.4 | of person. I don't know. Let's just call them Jason Gorber or Jason Gorber like people. |
2:07.7 | They're in media and they interview people, but then they just like reply to the people on Twitter |
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