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The Treatment

Robert Zemeckis and Tom Rothman: The Walk

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Robert Zemeckis and Tom Rothman discuss difficulties in large studio filmmaking and the balance of making an "anti-authoritarian" film that the entire family can enjoy.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.

0:02.9

Every week join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and Me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories,

0:08.7

from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.

0:13.7

You can find Left, Right, and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:17.9

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:30.1

Welcome to the treatment.

0:33.6

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:34.6

I'm in New York sitting across from a filmmaker whose work I've

0:38.0

loved since I want to hold your hand. A man who's made films about outsiders who figure out a way

0:44.0

to game the system and his newest film, The Walk is a return to that. Bob's a mechanic. It's

0:48.6

first of all, Bob, thanks once you're being here. Pleasure to be here. And the film's producer and

0:52.3

the best dressed CEO in the movie business.

0:56.0

Tom Rothman's also.

0:57.2

Tom, good to have you back.

0:58.3

It's been a while, not since Master and Commander.

1:00.2

I remember.

1:01.0

Nice to see again.

1:01.9

Good to see you.

1:03.2

The reason I brought up, I want to hold your hand because the movie, the walk reminds me of that and use cars a little bit, that sort of sense of a bunch of people get together with kind of a plan.

1:12.6

And they also want to subvert things a little bit. And that's what I think, when I think of your films, Bob, that's what I think about, really.

1:19.6

That's sort of, for me, that beautiful period of just sort of like turning things on their ear. And I just wonder when you saw a man on wire, which this film is sort of based on, did you think you want to make it feel like those

1:31.5

films you got started doing? Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. I, um, yeah, I mean,

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