Slate Money: Movies: Sense and Sensibility
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 48 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.
For the final episode of the season, author and Slate Money favorite, Taffy Brodesser-Akner returns to talk about Sense and Sensibility….and, in a major plot twist, the JLo vehicle Maid in Manhattan! They’ll discuss what these two films could possibly have in common, the villainization of gold diggers, and why Emily felt Sense and Sensibility was a horror film.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:10.4 | And welcome to the Sense and Sensibility episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:20.7 | We have me, Felix Simon of Axios. We have |
| 0:23.3 | Emily Peck of Fundrise. But most excitingly, we have Taffy brought us at ACNA of so many |
| 0:29.8 | different places and affiliations. I don't even know how to introduce you anymore. Taffy, |
| 0:35.5 | introduce yourself. I am staff writer at the New York Times |
| 0:39.5 | magazine. I am the writer of Fleischman is in trouble coming soon-ish to a television. I'm a member |
| 0:48.2 | at Congregation Beth L. And, you know, an all-round fabulous, awesome slate money, friend of the pod. |
| 0:58.8 | We do ask people to suggest movies for this show, and you, you did pull a taffy and force us to watch two. |
| 1:07.0 | But then you pulled a Felix and called this the Sense and Sensibility Edition. |
| 1:10.9 | This is the Sense and Sensibility Edition. |
| 1:13.1 | But, yeah, I have to say it got hijacked a little by a terrible movie, which we are about to reveal the other terrible movie that you made us watch in the conjunction with Sense and Sensibility. |
| 1:24.1 | So we're going to compare a good movie with a bad movie coming up on Slate Money Goes to the |
| 1:31.6 | movies. Go ahead. Apologize to Felix. I'm very, very sorry that we had to watch this, |
| 1:39.0 | but I stand by it. It's my point. Okay. So Taffy, just to be clear, you are not apologizing for making me |
| 1:46.3 | watch the Angley masterpiece sense and sensibility. I am not. I am not apologizing for making |
| 1:54.1 | you watch the Angley masterpiece sense and sensibility. I am apologizing for the inevitability of having to watch Made in Manhattan as its companion. |
| 2:06.2 | And, Taffin, why did we have to watch as the companion as the companion to Engleys masterpiece? |
| 2:12.2 | I do not understand how Made in Manhattan, which I believe, I honestly, in my heart of hearts believe, |
| 2:18.7 | is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I do not understand how this is in any way |
| 2:26.6 | connected to Angley's masterpiece, Sense and Sensibility. Wait, you don't? I don't see any then. |
| 2:34.2 | Come on. There's nothing see any then? Come on. |
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