I'm Sean Fennacy.

And this is 25 for 25, a big picture special conversation show about Parasite. Respect!

Okay, Parasite. Yeah. So it was obviously going to be on this list. Sure. This is, is it the most recent film on this list? Let's see. Well, we don't know yet. We don't know. We haven't decided. We haven't had that great conversation yet. We don't know yet. Yeah. It is, for now, the most recent film that we have discussed on this list, this movie was released

in October of 2019.

This show existed.

There are multiple episodes of this show in which we discussed Parasite.

Yes.

There is a famous clip of your voice cracking while announcing that Parasite won best picture

at the 2020 Oscars in February 2020.

Yes.

Just weeks before the pandemic and everything changed.

This movie, of course, is directed by Bong Joon Ho.

It's written by Bong Joon and Hanjin-Wan.

It is quite clearly one of the signature films of the century for a variety of reasons that we will talk about here.

It stars Song Kang-ho, Li Song Kian, Cho Yang, Cho-Ju-Sik, you know, a standout movie from South Korea that found its way around the world in a way that is very unusual.

And it did so in a variety of ways, not just from a box office perspective, but you mentioned

the Academy Awards.

This is a Best Picture winner.

It's a Best Director winner.

It's a screenplay winner.

It's the movie that was voted at number one in the New York Times poll earlier this year by both the hallowed and esteemed people who were selected to vote and also the readers of the New York Times. They both voted this movie number one, which I still find shocking. And we can talk about maybe why that has become the case,

how this became an instant classic.

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