Slate Money: Movies: There Will Be Blood
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 40 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 Niala Boodhoo of Axios to discuss the Paul Thomas Anderson oil epic There Will Be Blood. They’ll delve into the religious symbolism in the film, analyze Daniel Plainview’s family values and get into some of the history behind the story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the There Will Be Blood episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm here with Anna Shemanski. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello. |
| 0:24.7 | And I'm also here with my multi-talented colleague, Naila Boodoo. |
| 0:30.2 | Naila, welcome. |
| 0:31.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:33.3 | Tell us about yourself. |
| 0:35.1 | So I have a morning news podcast called Axios Today, which everyone who pays any attention to Axios knows we are all about smart brevity. |
| 0:43.4 | So it's a 10-minute morning news show that comes out every weekday morning. |
| 0:48.2 | And my background is, as you know Felix. |
| 0:50.6 | I am also a alum of Reuters and started in the business world and spent years as a |
| 0:55.8 | business reporter before I moved into audio and public broadcasting and now podcasting. |
| 1:01.0 | Wow. All three of us have worked for Reuters. All three of us have a background in business journalism. |
| 1:07.0 | All three of us have watched There Will Be Blood the 2007 ball thomas anison movie which we |
| 1:12.7 | are about to talk about spoiler alert we didn't love it but it is an interesting movie all the same |
| 1:18.5 | stay tuned for that and especially for anna shamansky teaching us all about christian iconography |
| 1:25.1 | who knew the depths that she had all of of that coming up, on Slate Money |
| 1:30.6 | goes to the movies. Okay, so Naila, most of our guests on this mini-season of Slate Money |
| 1:38.9 | have picked a film that was dear to their hearts and that they saw in their childhood and that has lived |
| 1:46.0 | in their soul for decades, this is not the case with you. |
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