Slate Money: Movies: Indecent Proposal

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 48 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.
0:19.8	I'm Felix Hamon of Axios. I'm here with Anishimansky of Breaking Views.
0:25.2	Hello.
0:26.8	This is going to be, I'm sorry to everyone else on this series, but this is going to be the
0:31.3	best episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies because we have Taffy Rodas Agna, Taffy
0:37.9	Welcome.
0:38.9	It is so good to be here.
0:40.8	We are going to overthink indecent proposal that 1993 was a movie by Adrian Lannes.
0:51.2	Is he English?
0:52.2	I mean, sure. His name's Adrian.
0:55.3	His name's Adrian. It's got to be Adrian, right?
0:57.9	Anyway, some guy called Adrian made a movie. It has to me more and Robert Redford and Woody
1:02.6	Hamilton and people having sex on cash and people having sex for cash and lots of kind
1:11.7	of weird factor attitudes towards money and women. We are going to talk all about it.
1:18.1	This is, I promise you, the best episode of Slate Money of the Year. So enjoy. It's all
1:23.0	coming up. On Slate Money Goes to the Movies.
1:27.1	How about you say that to all the girls?
1:32.1	This is meant to be an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5. How it stands up perfectly
1:37.3	on a desk for business calls and has a larger cover screen for emails. But we've got one
1:42.3	in the studio, so our sound engineer Brian is distracted. He's not even listening.
1:46.6	Look.
1:47.9	Pomegranate, weasel. The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 for business unfold the wonder available
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