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🗓️ 18 March 2020
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0:00.0 | If people are not familiar with Louis Theroux, he is a British documentarian and filmmaker, |
0:07.0 | although I think his parents are American or one of his parents is American and he spent most of his adult life |
0:16.0 | working either in America or doing documentaries about American subcultures. |
0:20.0 | He actually got his start working on TV Nation, which brings in the Michael Moore connection. |
0:25.2 | All roads lead back to Michael Moore. |
0:27.9 | And his style of documentary is basically that he will go into some kind of subculture |
0:36.9 | or go and meet either some sort of slightly eccentric celebrity |
0:41.6 | or go into some group. It might be a religious group or he might be meeting people who have |
0:47.8 | some particular strange job or hobby. And he kind of poses himself as a, he's a sort of slightly awkward manored guy especially |
0:58.8 | considering he's English and he's often speaking to Americans he comes off he kind of looks like |
1:03.2 | like Harry Potter and you know he's got glasses and he's sort of a bit gangly and awkward looking |
1:09.2 | and he poses himself as this slightly |
1:12.1 | clueless man who's just going around sort of bumbling and asking people vaguely sort of naive |
1:18.3 | questions, but this is very much a persona that he has kind of deliberately put on and has spoken |
1:23.3 | about as something that kind of takes people off their guard a little bit and he hopes that |
1:29.1 | therefore he can kind of shed light on these people and their lives. He did a movie about |
1:35.3 | Scientology called My Scientology movie and he's done things about various religious groups. He's |
1:41.2 | done prisons. He's kind of done everything. Had you guys been familiar |
1:45.6 | with Louis Theroux and had you seen kind of many of his documentaries before? I actually think |
1:50.0 | I've seen almost almost all of them, including the sort of the weird weekends. There's also the |
1:55.4 | When Louie Met mini series, which is six or seven episodes. And I haven't seen all of them because I honestly haven't heard of some of the people. |
2:04.7 | Like, they're very British. |
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