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🗓️ 30 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of being. PLUS: thoughts on the dark 'n' gritty new Buzz Lightyear origin movie, AND we finally answer whether politics is upstream or downstream from culture.
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0:00.0 | I seem you're aware of this well that there's a new Buzz Lightyear movie coming out. |
0:17.4 | This is probably old news for you at this point. |
0:19.3 | Yeah, I mean, for the past, I want to say 30 years, I've often been wondering, like, |
0:23.6 | how did Buzz Lightyear come to be? |
0:26.0 | So I think it'll be really interesting to find out what's his story. |
0:29.4 | Actually, what I love about this new Buzz Lightyear movie is Chris Evans, the star, replacing |
0:34.4 | my man, Tim Allen, had to take to Twitter to clarify that it's not the backstory of the |
0:40.0 | doll that we see in the previous Toy Story movies. |
0:42.7 | It's not the fictional universe within the Toy Story universe of Buzz Lightyear and what |
0:49.2 | is its star command. |
0:50.5 | It's the story of the actual astronaut who in the world of Toy Story inspired the fictional |
0:57.6 | character Buzz Lightyear within the fictional world of Toy Story. |
1:00.8 | Is it the, do I have it, right? |
1:02.0 | That's right. |
1:03.0 | And this is so funny because when the first Toy Story came out, these were clearly meant |
1:06.5 | to be archetypal characters, you know, Woody is a cowboy, Buzz is a spaceman, and that's |
1:12.6 | all you need to know. |
1:13.7 | They just represent two kinds of entertainment, one of which sort of in the popular consciousness |
1:20.3 | eclipsed the other. |
1:21.7 | Yeah, two genres, right, like the Andy's more interested in Buzz Lightyear because he |
1:26.1 | represents like the new, the future. |
1:28.4 | Yeah, space and shit, and yeah, Woody is like an old world kind of toy. |
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