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Slate Money Goes to the Movies: Jackie Brown

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.

Author and businessman, Ben Horowitz joins Felix and Emily to talk about the quietest Quentin Tarantino movie, Jackie Brown. They get into Ordell Robbie’s bad retirement plan, the romance of Jackie Brown and Max Cherry, and why you need to re-watch it when you’re old. 


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Jackie Brown episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies, where I

0:19.1

feel like salmon of Axios, watch a movie with Emily Peck of Axios, and mostly this is

0:27.0

an excuse for us to invite on absolutely fabulous awesome people. So Ben Horowitz, welcome to

0:34.8

the show. Thank you so much. Excited to be here. It's very exciting. We've been wanting to

0:40.1

have you on the show for a long time. Introduce yourself. Who are you? My name is Ben Horowitz. I am one

0:46.9

of the founding partners at Andreessen Horowitz. Before that, I was an entrepreneur and I love this

0:53.3

movie Jackie Brown. So we are going to talk about the movie and when you first saw it and what

1:00.4

we think of it, the Quentin Tarantino classic Jackie Brown coming up on Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

1:10.8

Did we all see this movie when it came out? I'm pretty sure that Emily and I did. I definitely

1:15.8

did. I definitely did. In fact, I saw it at the Dalamo Mall. Wow. Which is where? Well, it is

1:24.0

in Tarantino. It's the mall where it is. What you thought in the mall in the movie? Yes. Is it the

1:30.6

largest indoor mall in the world or whatever it says in the movie? It's very big. I do know that.

1:37.4

You know, I've been there many times. Is it the kind of place where you can definitely lose a car?

1:43.7

Yeah. Definitely. Somebody like me. I was very sympathetic to that scene because I always lose my car.

1:50.9

Well, I was not because I mean, if you're doing crimes, you should know where you parked your car.

1:55.1

Well, that was Melanie's point. Yeah, she was right. She was definitely right. I saw, yeah,

2:02.4

I don't want to get ahead of things, but I saw, I think it was a, a Cisco and Ebert review where

2:07.2

he referred to her as like a nagging girlfriend and that's why she wound up getting shot and I was

2:13.0

just like, no, from 2020 to standards that was she was a correct, be not nagging and see not his

2:21.6

girlfriend. Yes. So much non-pastor. Yeah. But tell me, tell me the story. Like you, you went to the

2:30.2

mall because it was the mall in the movie or is he just going to go? No, no, I had no idea. So,

2:36.4

you know, I believe Jackie Brown followed pulp fiction. So as soon as it came out, I wanted to see

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