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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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After years of hearing from censors that violent media images cause harm, David Cronenberg made a movie... in which violent media images cause harm. We discuss VIDEODROME (1983) - its media satire, its sexual/gender politics, and its vision of how technology influences reality. PLUS: the Prime Minister enters the Barbieheimer discourse, and further thoughts on Sound of Freedom.
Toronto listeners: see Will introduce Glen or Glenda at the Fox Theatre tonight (August 15) - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/the-important-cinema-club-masterpiece-classics-glen-or-glenda/
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 | All we hear is radio gun, radio gun, radio gun, radio gun. |
0:09.0 | Well, we got a question recently on our Patreon about what we spend our Patreon money on. |
0:14.0 | Which, how dare you ask that, by the way? |
0:17.0 | No, it's okay to ask it, and I'll tell you, I'll tell you what I spent it on this month. |
0:20.0 | I spent it on groceries. |
0:22.0 | Well, the boys are here, we got two iced americanos. |
0:27.0 | That's true, we are spending it on coffee. |
0:29.0 | That's right. |
0:30.0 | Frivolous purchases like that. |
0:32.0 | And also non-frivolous purchases like, you know, this incredible gift idea, which I've already placed in order for this, which I'm going to give to my co-host. |
0:40.0 | Assume you've seen it already. |
0:42.0 | Oh goodness. |
0:43.0 | Okay, so what Luke is showing me is that the flash and black atom are being released together on a special 4K blue-ray desk. |
0:52.0 | That's right, it's like the Pink Floyd release where they put out Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucer full of secrets as one thing and they called it a nice pair. |
0:59.0 | Here's a nice pair of volume two. |
1:01.0 | Best gift idea there is, your two favorite movies on 4K in one place, the flash and black atom. |
1:07.0 | What I think's funny about the flash and black atom on one set is I actually think Warner Brothers did that on purpose. |
1:12.0 | I think they're in on the joke, because they have a new regime at Warner, they have a new regime at DC. |
1:19.0 | James Gunn, the director of many films, now the head of the DC wing of Warner Brothers. |
1:24.0 | You know, he has a whole new plan. He's wiping the slight clean and the flash and black atom both represent the last desperate gasps of the previous regime. |
1:33.0 | And I think, I think he personally probably said wouldn't it be funny if we put these both on one desk like a tomb, like a tomb. |
1:42.0 | And then at the end of the day, it's like people are just still buying it, so it comes in the same thing. |
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