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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Presents PMP#12: Once Upon a Tarantino Film w/ Wes Alwan

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Wes joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to discuss Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood in the context of Tarantino's other films. We consider T's strange sense of pacing, his comic violence, his historical revisionism, and casting choices. Is this a brilliant film or a fundamentally misguided idea badly in need of an editor?

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This podcast is part of the Partially Examined Life podcast network and is curated by openculture.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is pretty much pop a culture podcast where history is revised according to our taste

0:12.6

daily.

0:13.6

Today we're discussing the films of Quentin Tarotino focusing on his most recent

0:16.4

once upon a time in Hollywood.

0:18.1

This is Mark Linton-Lyer edited down to a duration you can comfortably stand.

0:22.6

This is Erica Spiers and I'm just here to be at the blonde who may or may not talk a lot.

0:27.2

I'm Brian Hurt, better known in reservoir dogs as Mr. Bage and presenting our guests.

0:33.8

And this is Wes Aulman.

0:36.2

Hello Wes.

0:37.4

Hello.

0:38.4

He has the important cameo for this one.

0:40.4

Visiting us from the partially examined life, you're kind of the reason this podcast exists

0:45.1

that you are pushing us to do more culture topics and so we are.

0:50.3

And now you're joining us.

0:51.3

Yeah, the circle is complete.

0:53.5

And this topic in particular, you said this is one of those that you're working on

0:56.8

like a book link to essay about.

0:58.6

Do you want to give us the gist to get us started?

1:01.0

I've written a long essay that I'm still working on revising and hopefully it'll get

1:05.6

published somewhere someday.

1:07.6

I'm not normally a Tarantino fan but this movie I liked a lot and it became a big distraction

1:12.0

for many years.

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