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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 44 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.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an author and a journalist for New York Times Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the indecent proposal episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm here with Anna Schumansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello? |
| 0:26.3 | This is going to be, I'm sorry to everyone else on this series, but this is going to be the |
| 0:31.4 | best episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies because we have Taffy Bro brought us at Agnes. Taffy, welcome. |
| 0:39.0 | It is so good to be here. We are going to overthink indecent proposal, the 1993 was it? |
| 0:48.4 | Oh, yes. Movie by Adrian Lenn. Is he English? I mean, sure. His name's Adrian. |
| 0:55.1 | His name's Adrian. |
| 0:56.0 | He's got to be English, right? |
| 0:57.5 | Anyway, some guy called Adrian made a movie. |
| 1:00.2 | It has to me Moore and Robert Redford and Woody Harrelson and people having sex on cash and people |
| 1:07.1 | having sex for cash and lots of kind of weird fucked up attitudes towards money and women. |
| 1:16.3 | 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. |
| 1:21.7 | So enjoy. |
| 1:22.9 | It's all coming up on Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 1:28.8 | I'll bet you say that to all the girls. |
| 1:40.1 | Okay, Taffy, tell me how old were you and where were you when you first saw 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, which is the best name for a movie ever. It's the best name. |
| 1:44.3 | And I have to tell you how indecent proposal has followed me into my journalism career. |
| 1:50.1 | It comes up more than you would think. |
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