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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Brutalist And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The new movie The Brutalist is earning a lot of Oscar buzz. Adrien Brody plays a fictional Hungarian architect who settles in America after his family is torn apart during World War II. It's a three-and-a-half-hour epic with much to say about assimilation, wealth, and the creative process.

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:28.1

The new movie The Brutelist is earning a lot of Oscar buzz. It stars Adrian Brody as a fictional

0:35.4

Hungarian architect who settles in America after his family is torn apart during World War II.

0:41.2

It's a three and a half hour epic with much to say about assimilation, wealth, and the creative process.

0:47.5

I'm Linda Holmes.

0:48.5

And I'm Stephen Thompson.

0:49.6

Today we are talking about the Brutalist on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:57.6

Joining us today is our co-host, Aisha Harris. Hey, Aisha.

0:58.8

Hello, Stephen.

1:03.5

It is a pleasure to have y'all here. So The Brutalist is about a Jewish architect named Laslo Toth. He's played by Adrian Brody. Early in the film, he flees Europe for Pennsylvania.

1:09.7

The film is split into two parts separated by an intermission.

1:13.7

In the first, Laslo works his way up from nothing as a day laborer,

1:17.3

but gets a big break when he encounters a wealthy and temperamental industrialist

1:21.4

named Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. He's played by Guy Pearce.

1:25.5

Soon Harrison learns of Laslo's past work as an architect and enlists him to design a lavish community center.

1:31.8

Talk about the details at home, which you'll be well compensated, and also you'll be given a place here on the property to live and work.

1:39.7

I think that residing here will allow you the time and the space to conceive of it properly.

1:46.8

The project grows increasingly ambitious and complex. And speaking of ambitious and complex,

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