I'm Sean Fennacy.

And this is the Big Picture A Conversation show about Paul Thomas Anderson in one battle after another.

We're back at it.

We're having a mailbag to talk about the biggest movie of the year for us. Later in this episode, we'll be joined by two friends of the show. First, Adam Neiman, our mean pod guy, beloved Ringer contributor, author of Paul Thomas Anderson MasterWorks, a book I highly recommend us, does Amanda. He'll pop in to talk about one battle. He wrote a piece about the film for the ringer.com. He's got a lot of great insights. And then our pal Andy Greenwald from The Watch will join us. He'll talk about that fateful night when you saw the master with him. And you guys went all Lancaster Dodd together. And he'll share his one battle thoughts too. Yeah. It's a convention of girl dads. Yes. All my beautiful boys for coming together over this film and my beautiful girl. Thank you so much. Okay, but first, let's talk about the one battle box office. So much speculated about a lot of hand-wringing. Yeah. What will we do? A lot of people with shareholder disease. Yes. Which I thought was a really, I can't remember who coined it on the internet. But good job because you guys got to let go, you know?

Here's what I'll say.

One of the reasons why I want us to talk about the box office on a regular basis is that the box office does matter.

I'm not saying it doesn't matter.

Yes.

It does matter.

The box office is a barometer and also indicates what gets

made and what doesn't going forward. That all matters. But all the people being like, Warner Brothers

is not going to get its $150 million back or all this sort of stuff. Like, it's not your money.

Right. So chill out.

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