'The Big Picture' — Danny Strong and the Recipe for a Classic Biopic (Ep. 352)
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The Ringer
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🗓️ 15 September 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey it's Bill Simmons wanted to make sure you subscribe to The Watch with Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan. |
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| 0:56.8 | I'm Sean Fennacy editor and chief of the ringer and here's the big picture. |
| 0:59.9 | What goes into putting a person's life on screen? That is a very difficult task. |
| 1:04.0 | Today I'm here to answer that hopefully with the writer and now director Danny Strong who's got a new movie called Rebel in the Rye. |
| 1:10.3 | But first I'm here with the pod father. Is that what I am now? |
| 1:14.4 | No that's Bill Simmons but you're the pod father junior but you are the block father Chris Ryan. |
| 1:18.4 | Executive editor of the ringer co-host of The Watch. Chris what's up? What's up man how you doing? |
| 1:22.1 | I'm good Chris how do you put someone's life on screen? It's so hard. |
| 1:25.2 | This is one of my multiple big picture appearances. This is the one that's vexed me the most because I |
| 1:32.9 | was literally kept up awake at night thinking about this. What is the difference between Malcolm X |
| 1:38.7 | and Citizen Kane? One is a fictionalized version of a possibly you know a historical character. |
| 1:44.0 | One is a very stylized version of a historical character. How do we define these things? |
| 1:50.2 | I think that you and I both have a kind of unsaid understanding of what these movies are. |
| 1:56.0 | You know what these these biographical films are and I think that in our minds like we think of |
| 2:00.1 | them this things like Ray which is just like the name of the guy is in the title and it starts in his |
| 2:04.0 | childhood with a forming event and we follow his rise and fall in rise. That's right capturing 80 years. |
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