Richard Linklater on Boyhood and the Facebook generation

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Richard Linklater explains why it took 12 years to make his new film. Plus, Dan Weissmann from Marketplace on why killing comic characters is good business. Then Lauren Chooljian takes a road trip to meet Detroit's McClure brothers with her pickle nerd boyfriend. And your nerd confessions.

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0:13.6	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita
0:18.5	and from W be easy in Chicago this is nerd at.
0:21.6	This week on the show Richard Link later on his new film, Boyhood.
0:25.0	If film is painting, time is the paint itself.
0:30.0	So I've always felt there was a lot of open territory there.
0:32.8	I wanted to cover all of childhood.
0:35.9	My ideas were dispersed over the big canvas.
0:38.5	So this idea I had of filming a little bit
0:42.2	was the only way to tell this particular story but it ends up this big time sculpture and a story of love and pickles.
0:49.0	Did you fall in love with me because of pickles?
0:52.0	No Matt. Did you fall know with me because it pickles?
0:52.6	No, Matt.
0:53.6	But first, our pal Dan Weisman from Marketplace
0:59.8	got to do a story recently about the death of Archie and why it's smart business to kill characters.
1:04.1	I'm no Superman.
1:08.1	It's super good for business.
1:09.3	Yeah, they're selling a lot.
1:10.4	Archie's not the first or the last to have done this. There's some pretty famous examples.
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