Say Aloe to My Little Frond

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SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The history of taking plants that grow naturally in one place, and moving them halfway around the world to an entirely different place with a different, often inhospitable, climate-- and then keeping them alive by growing them in potting soil that we bought at Home Depot.

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0:00.0	This is
0:05.0	the other day, the writer and Helen Peterson
0:08.0	was watching Martin Scorsese's 1993 film The Age of Innocence.
0:12.0	First of all, the Age of Innocence.
0:13.0	First of all, The Age of Innocence is low-key my favorite Scorsese, which is blasphemy,
0:18.0	but I just love the movie a lot.
0:21.0	That is a bold choice Ann Helen Peterson Peterson and I am here for it.
0:24.8	Even people are always like oh but all of his films are so violent and
0:28.8	the Age of Innocence is an emotionally violent movie.
0:32.1	So it's just operating in a different register.
0:35.0	It's sublime.
0:36.0	I love it so much.
0:37.0	The Age of Innocence looks really different from any of Scorsese's other films.
0:42.0	It's not set in some gritty criminal
0:44.0	underworld. It doesn't have Robert DeNiro in it. It looks almost like a
0:48.4	Merchant Ivory film, a gilded age costume drama set in New York.
0:53.2	That's producer Emmy Fitzgerald.
0:55.1	It's the kind of film that you watch to get lost in the rose gardens and the frilly dresses
1:00.0	and the wallpaper drawing rooms.
1:02.7	But on this particular rewatch,
1:04.4	Anne noticed something else about the set design
1:07.2	that really stood out.
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