Slate Money: Movies: Michael Clayton

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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 Peter Kafka, a senior correspondent at Recode and host of the Recode Media podcast, to talk about the 2007 Oscar-winning film Michael Clayton. They break down some of the plot issues, get into what makes it a good New York film, and Anna will explain why she really hates this movie. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Michael Clayton episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.
0:18.7	I have to say I remembered not liking Michael Clayton when I first saw it, but I'm getting
0:25.4	ahead of myself.
0:26.4	I'm Felix Amman of Axios.
0:28.2	I'm here with Anna Shimanski.
0:30.2	Hello.
0:31.2	And we are here with one of the world's biggest Michael Clayton stands, Mr. Peter
0:36.6	Kafka of Fox Media.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.0	I will accept that title.
0:40.4	Peter, do you remember the first time you saw Michael Clayton?
0:44.5	Was it in the theaters when it came out?
0:45.8	Yep.
0:46.8	It was in the Cobble Hill Theatre off of Court Street and I was by myself and feeling
0:51.2	a lot of anguish about the world and that movie just tapped right into it.
0:55.2	Then you came out feeling even more anguish about the world.
0:58.4	More anguish and also remarking on what a very good New York movie as we can get into
1:02.9	that later.
1:03.9	Oh, yeah.
1:04.9	Got me right away.
1:05.9	I love the idea of this as a New York movie.
1:08.7	So yeah, we're going to talk about Michael Clayton, the George Clooney vehicle from when
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