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The Business

Revisiting Bong Joon Ho and ‘Parasite.’ Plus should theaters reopen?

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“Parasite” made history as the first foreign language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars. The movie is now streaming on Hulu, so we’re revisiting our conversation with Director Bong Joon Ho, who also won Oscars for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Plus, an all new banter: Some Southern states want to reopen businesses, but movie theater owners say not so fast.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

0:05.6

Parasite made history as the first foreign language movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

0:10.3

That's quite the achievement.

0:12.0

But director Bong Joon Ho still hasn't forgotten the harsh words his six-year-old son said during a set visit years ago.

0:21.1

You know, he watched me work and then just quietly came to me and whispered into my ear.

0:25.7

Daddy, you look so stupid.

0:29.4

Why? Why, son?

0:32.1

You keep repeating the same thing again, again and again.

0:38.6

You look very stupid. Fortunately, Bong and again. He looked very stupid.

0:44.0

Fortunately, Bong Junho bounced back from that scathing appraisal. In addition to Best Picture,

0:48.1

he also took home Oscars for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

0:53.1

Since Parasite is now streaming on Hulu, we thought it would be the perfect time to revisit our conversation with

0:54.2

director Bong, who tells us about clashing with Harvey Weinstein overcuts to his 2013 film

0:59.7

Snowpiercer and explains why he made Okja for Netflix, even though he prefers watching film in

1:05.7

theaters. But first on the news banter, some states are reopening movie theaters, or are they? Stick

1:11.6

around. It's the business from KCRW.

1:19.2

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, formerly of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.

1:24.2

Hi there. So we have a situation now of complete uncertainty.

1:29.2

That's been going on for a while and apparently will go on for a while.

1:32.1

But certain governors of certain states think that it is time to go back to business.

1:37.6

Georgia is one of them.

1:38.9

They're saying they're going to reopen theaters and, you know, if you need a tattoo, you could go get one right now. It sounds like

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