Newsies
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2017
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
You might find this hard to believe, but Newsies wasn't a particularly impactful movie for Chris or Carlos as kids. But for Donna, it was EVERYTHING - and its rabid cult following suggests she wasn't alone. Whether you're a dyed-in-the-wool supporter or a layman curious to understand its appeal, we've got you covered. This week, the HDYR gang's bringing you the news for a penny a pape.
Topics include: Christian Bale's performance and his attitude towards the film now, the numerous missed opportunities for interesting conflicts, how many facts the film gets right, the one glaring inaccuracy they knowingly embraced, differences between this and the stage version, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember newsies? |
| 0:06.5 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do you, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're revisiting Newsie. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Newsie. In 1899, newspaper titans, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were trying to squeeze a little extra profit out of their already extremely lucrative businesses by increasing the price of papers to the distribution apparatus, the newsies. |
| 1:09.9 | Children in New York, often homeless and orphan, took to the streets to sell |
| 1:13.6 | the news for a penny of paype. They lived on approximately 15 cents a day. While technically the increase |
| 1:19.8 | is not what caused the strike, it was a failure to lower prices back to their original price |
| 1:25.1 | after the end of the Spanish-American War when papers were extremely |
| 1:28.5 | easy to sell. Newsboys were suffering, so they decided to organize, to join together, to fight the |
| 1:35.0 | powers that be. And they won. In 1992, director Kenny Ortega brought Bob Zedekers and Nomi |
| 1:43.1 | White's script to life in this Disney cult classic. |
| 1:47.0 | Of course, the True Tale was tweaked, dance numbers were reworked, and songs were added. |
| 1:52.7 | They filled their back lot with as many young men as anyone could ever dream. |
| 1:57.9 | Though, they did. |
| 2:01.4 | I'm going to need you to fill my back lot with as many young men. |
| 2:05.6 | Is that what they call me? |
| 2:06.6 | It was the delight. |
| 2:11.5 | I think they did, though, right? |
| 2:14.7 | You were saying, I'm sorry. |
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