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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

My Chat with Tony Ayres, Acclaimed Australian Film Director (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_562)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

thesaadtruthwithdrsaad

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the directorial process including the casting of actors, the rebirth of television as an important medium for telling stories, similarities between the Quebec/Canada and Australian film industries, the narcissism of actors, how cultural products (including films) are fossils of the human mind (as covered in my works), and product placements in movies among other topics. Apologies for some of the audio quality issues. Blame it on the relevant Australian Internet provider! Tony's 2014 movie Cut Snake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2574576/ _______________________________________ This clip was posted originally on June 3, 2016 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_186: https://youtu.be/V3ZuPi4JXN8 _______________________________________ My forthcoming book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hey guys today I've got a first for you. I've had scientists and philosophers and

0:05.8

lawyers and all sorts of folks but today is the debut of a film director on my show

0:11.6

Tony Ayers Australian acclaimed film director.

0:15.0

How are you, sir?

0:17.0

Hi, guys, how are you?

0:19.0

Great, thank you.

0:19.7

I wanted to sort of give a context to the beauty of the internet and how people can get to meet

0:25.6

where otherwise they could have never met. I wanted to give the background of how I reached out to you.

0:30.3

So about two weeks ago I was sitting after a long hard day at working. My wife had

0:36.8

fallen asleep. I started looking around for something to watch. Here's this

0:40.8

Australian movie, never heard of it, Cut Snake.

0:44.0

I start watching it maybe five minutes in, I'm utterly hooked, I'm transfixed by it,

0:50.0

then this unbelievable song comes up from my childhood as a young boy in the disco era for the love of your man.

0:57.7

I said, oh my goodness, this is an unbelievable movie.

1:00.1

So then I watched the movie and after I watched it, I said, you know, I've got to find out, you know, the background of this movie, who made this movie and so on.

1:07.0

So I went on YouTube, saw an interview with you discussing how you cast the various characters and I said I've got to reach

1:14.5

out to this guy this guy's got some emotional depth we need to chat so that's the

1:19.0

background to how we met and thank you so much from taking an invitation from an otherwise random stranger from the other side of the world.

1:25.0

Thank you. It's very exciting. I mean I really appreciate the fact that you actually found my film on the other side of the world and it is a strange world now where you know like the film was a quite a small film and it came and it went and but every now and then you know I get a message from someone like yourself or I have recently been speaking to a producer in Germany.

1:48.7

He just kind of saw it randomly as well and wanted to work with me on a film.

1:52.8

So, you know, we, you know, the world is both

1:57.4

are very big and a very small place these days.

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