Patreon Bonus #9 - Steven E. De Souza

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

There have been storytellers as special guests on '80s All Over before, but there are storytellers and then there's writer/director Steven E. De Souza, who hits the ground running in this conversation with Drew and Scott, and literally never stops, starting from day -1 of his career and continuing through some jaw-dropping anecdotes starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon, Walter Hill, John McTiernan, and more. Pull up a seat and be regaled by true tales from a key architect of some of the '80s most influential action classics.

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0:00.0	Tonight, an 80s all over, Patreon exclusive interview with the writer of 48 hours,
0:14.1	Commando and Die Hard, Stephen E. D'Soussa.
0:20.2	And now, your hosts, Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg.
0:28.3	Yeah, all right, you know what?
0:29.1	Let's do this.
0:29.8	Let's do this.
0:31.2	Give me the scoop on, like, what was the inciting factor?
0:35.5	What made you decide to just eschew a more safe profession and decide to risk it as a screenwriter, filmmaker?
0:43.6	If you ask, when I was a kid, if you asked you what I wanted to do when I grew up,
0:46.8	I was, I was one of these kids, five, six years old, I was making my own comic books
0:50.5	and stapling together.
0:51.9	And I remember distinctly saying, you know, as soon as I must have seen one of the first
0:56.4	episodes of the Disneyland TV show where they explained how they made animated cartoons,
1:02.0	I said that's what I wanted to do when I made me old flip books and stuff.
1:06.0	So, and then I was one of the first kids, I guess, not one of the first, but making home movies with, like, you know, 8-millimeter movie camera.
1:15.1	I made a film when I was, I guess, in, I'm trying to think maybe 10th grade or something called Coldfinger.
1:23.6	You can guess the premise of parody of James Bond.
1:26.9	And I entered in a national contest and won a prize.
1:29.5	So I had that bug really early.
1:32.0	And in fact, I was always a very creative
1:35.2	kid, and
1:36.6	I think if you follow
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