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Slate Money: Movies: Indecent Proposal

Slate Money

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Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.  This week, Felix and Anna are joined by Taffy Brodesser-Akner to discuss the 1993 film Indecent Proposal starring Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford. They get into topics like whether there can possibly be a feminist read of this film, the moral value of money and why Taffy quotes this movie all the time in her professional life.  Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an author and a journalist for New York Times Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the indecent proposal episode of Slate Money goes to the movies.

0:19.7

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Anna Sch Shimanski of Breaking Views.

0:25.0

Hello?

0:26.0

This is going to be, I'm sorry to everyone else on this series, but this is going to be the best episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies because we have

0:36.0

Taffy Rodas Aagna, Taffy welcome. It is so good to be here. We are going to

0:48.5

Overthink Indecent. here. We are going to overthink indecent proposal, the 1993 was it? movie by Adrian Len. Is he English? I mean, sure, his name's Adrian. His name's Adrian, he's got to be

0:56.4

England. Anyway, some guy called Adrian made a movie. It has to mean Moore and Robert Redford and

1:02.3

Woody Harrison and people having sex on cash and people having sex for cash and lots of kind of weird fact-up attitudes towards money and women.

1:16.0

We are going to talk all about it.

1:18.0

This is, I promise you, the best episode of Slate Money of the Year, so enjoy.

1:22.8

It's all coming up on Slate Money

1:25.7

goes to the movies.

1:27.5

I bet you say that to all the girls.

1:29.9

Okay, Taffy, tell me, how old were you and where were you when you first saw

1:39.4

indecent proposal, which is the best name for a movie ever.

1:43.0

It's the best name and I have to tell you how indecent proposal has followed me into my journalism career.

1:50.0

It comes up more than you would think, but first I'll answer your question. I will tell you that it was 1993

1:57.0

I had just graduated from high school. I saw it at the Sheapshead Bay United Artists movie.

2:04.6

And as you know, I was raised in a very religious home.

2:09.0

And so movies were really important to me because they were there to show me how I was going to live eventually.

2:17.0

And when I saw a indecent proposal,

2:21.0

it was like one of the things that could possibly happen to me in my life.

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