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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 51 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.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, journalist and author of the novel turned soon-to-be television show, Fleishman Is in Troublejoins Felix and Emily to talk about the 1990 dark comedy The Bonfire of the Vanities. They get into why Emily hated this movie, the differences between the movie and the book, and all the racism. Plus, there’s some behind-the-scenes industry talk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the bonfire of the Vanity's episode of Sleep Money goes to the movies. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Felix Amon of Axios. I am a Robbie Inc. stained wretch hack. I am here with Emily Peck of Axios, |
| 0:25.6 | who is also just a normal journalist. Not stained. And we are joined by a true industry |
| 0:34.2 | professional here. Tavvy wrote us an act now you used to be a journalist like us and now you are |
| 0:41.2 | a Hollywood person and so now you have seen both sides and so we have to talk about the bonfire |
| 0:46.5 | of the Vanity's because it is the classic example of a movie that at least when it came out was |
| 0:53.2 | completely hated because a bunch of people read the book and didn't think the movie was as good as |
| 0:57.6 | the book. Well that's true and I was very confused about it. I actually rewatched it when I was doing |
| 1:05.0 | a Tom Hanks story in 2019. I found no real complaint with it was mostly because like here there's |
| 1:16.8 | a very I have a very complex theory of I mean not a complaint with it not like a socialist. I may |
| 1:22.8 | have a socialist complaint with it but I didn't have a movie going complaint about it because it just |
| 1:28.5 | seemed like an okay and I watched it again and my husband and I were like I said what's going to |
| 1:35.7 | happen when I say when I look these people in the eye and I say I don't think this movie is that bad. |
| 1:42.8 | I agree by the way Taffy Emily Emily have a jaw on the floor here but I am with you. |
| 1:48.4 | I don't even think I'm at least I stopped breathing. I pulled out my remaining shreds of journalist |
| 1:54.0 | industry cred. I texted A.O. Scott the co-chief critic at the paper where I still work the New York |
| 2:02.4 | Times though I am on leave and I said I said and it was and I got an answer that made my jaw drop. I |
| 2:12.0 | said what's wrong with me. I don't think this movie is so bad. He said that's because it isn't. |
| 2:18.4 | It's better than the book right. He said he's a better filmmaker than Tom Wolf is a writer. |
| 2:29.5 | Thank you. I was coming on here to sort of sheepishly try to say that and now I have actual people |
| 2:38.8 | with credible opinions backing me up on this and Emily this is going to be the best episode |
| 2:44.1 | because Emily literally has her head in her hands right now. Emily is so upset right now. I am so |
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