Richard Linklater on Boyhood and the Facebook generation
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2014
⏱️ 26 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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| 0:00.0 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:03.6 | And from W. Be Easy in Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:06.9 | This week on the show, Richard Linklater on his new film, Boyhood. |
| 0:10.4 | If film is painting, time is the paint itself. |
| 0:15.1 | So I've always felt there was a lot of open territory there. |
| 0:17.8 | I wanted to cover all of childhood. My ideas were dispersed over the big |
| 0:22.7 | canvas. So this idea I had of filming a little bit was the only way to tell this particular |
| 0:28.8 | story, but it ends up this big time sculpture. And a story of love and pickles. Did you fall in love |
| 0:35.8 | with me because of pickles? No, Matt. But first, our pale |
| 0:43.0 | down Weissman from Marketplace got to do a story recently about the death of Archie and why it's |
| 0:47.9 | smart business to kill characters. I'm no Superman. It's super good for business. Yeah, they're selling a lot. |
| 0:55.4 | Archie's not the first or the last who have done this. There's some pretty famous examples. |
| 0:59.1 | Two of probably the most famous were Superman died in 1992. |
| 1:03.4 | And apparently people just mobbed comic bookstores the next day. |
| 1:07.5 | And the thing sold out instantly people paid like $30 for that comic book that day. |
| 1:12.7 | And if they couldn't find that, they bought something else. So the story is comic book shops made |
| 1:17.2 | like $30 million that day. Wow. In one day. And now you can get them on eBay, right? I assume. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah. I assume. And then so Superman in 92, obviously he's back. He came back pretty fast. He didn't stay |
| 1:29.0 | dead. Nobody stays dead. Captain America died in 2007, did not stay dead for very long. But I mean, |
| 1:34.8 | the other thing about this is that this one doesn't even really count anyway, because this is |
| 1:39.1 | kind of an alternate Archie or a kind of what if Archie, but it's actually two what if Archies |
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