Special Report: Patrick Read Johnson on 5-25-77 (2022)

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

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Eighteen years in the making, Patrick Read Johnson's 5-25-77 is a partially autobiographical film about a young man (John Francis Daley) in the Midwest who sees an early screening of Star Wars and how it changes his life.

Mike talks to Johnson about the journey of the film along with the story behind the end theme to Spaced Invaders.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Come on. just tell me. What's playing here?
0:42.4	Star Wars, right? Star Wars?
0:45.4	Star Wars?
0:47.9	Yes!
0:52.5	When I was a kid, they used to show these short films before the feature called serials,
0:57.9	and they weren't very good.
0:58.8	In fact, they were actually kind of terrible in a wonderful sort of way,
1:02.2	because you could almost imagine the actors suddenly turning to look out at you and saying,
1:06.2	look, we know you can tell we made these sets out of cardboard,
1:09.8	and we know you can see the wires
1:11.3	holding up our spaceships.
1:15.0	But look how much fun we're having.
1:19.7	And those stupid little films meant more to me than any big budget Hollywood extravaganza because they gave me hope.
1:28.8	Cut!
1:29.8	That with a little allowance...
1:31.3	You okay?
	...

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