Special Report: Michael Almereyda on Tesla (2020)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mike spoke to writer/director Michael Almereyda about his latest film, Tesla (2020) which stars Ethan Hawke as the titular inventor. Almereyda's Tesla script was one of the first things he wrote and was initially optioned in the early '80s. But, good ideas never die!
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:09.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:21.9	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:24.8	Turn it off.
0:30.1	Turn it on.
0:36.2	And... Is nature a gigantic cat?
0:49.0	And if so, who strokes its back?
0:54.8	May I introduce the brill the brilliant Nikola Tesla?
0:58.8	The greatest inventor of the age.
1:01.6	If you Google Nikola Tesla, you get 34 million results.
1:05.7	It's basically just four pictures.
1:08.9	Beyond that, things get murky and more imaginative.
1:12.4	Thomas Alva Edison.
1:14.8	Got a like?
1:16.4	Oh, Tesla.
1:17.5	Didn't see you there before.
1:18.8	I now have the pleasure
1:20.1	of introducing you
1:21.4	to a novel system of energy.
1:23.9	Alternate currents.
1:26.3	Just will transform
1:27.4	the way the world works. No sparks. It's perfect. Where you've been hiding? No. Alternate currents Just will turn the form
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