Hello everybody today on this movie mindset bonus we continue our hot streak of interviewing filmmakers who have

made movies that we absolutely loved and are thrilled to evangelize. Today we have the

privilege of talking to Mike Cheslic, the director of hundreds of Beavers, a film that absolutely

delivers on the promise of its title.

Mike, thanks for being here.

Thanks so much for having me.

Thanks for pretending this is a real movie

and that I'm a real filmmaker.

Well, for our listeners, for those of you

who maybe haven't seen this film,

as best I can describe it, it is a black and white silent film set against the backdrop of a frozen American wilderness and the 19th century fur trade.

It is a movie that depicts a brute struggle for survival in which desire and pain coalesced to form a rich existential canvas.

But more than anything, this film is about the unbridled joy that one can experience seeing people in mascot

costumes get absolutely annihilated.

So Mike, thank you for being here and thank you for your film.

And another little bonus for movie mindset

listeners.

Hess and I are joined by Chris today.

Hello.

Who is going to lead us off for this movie because Chris

was the first one of us to see this movie in theaters,

in LA a couple months ago, and he has been a champion of this movie. So Chris please lead us off.

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