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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:00.0 | So 1975 is basically known for one thing in our culture. |
0:04.5 | And Berto's birth. |
0:06.5 | Yeah, and Jaws was released in theaters across the nation. |
0:10.3 | It broke many records. |
0:11.6 | It jump-started the career of Stephen Spielberg. It was his first big hit. |
0:16.7 | He was 27 years old when he directed this movie by the way, which is absolutely incredible. |
0:21.6 | That is crazy. |
0:23.0 | He would go on to be quite possibly the most accomplished movie director of all time. |
0:27.5 | I was four years old and I desperately wanted to see this movie but I wasn't allowed. |
0:32.1 | I think I saw the poster and thought it was a |
0:35.4 | porno because the poster was sort of porny. How would you know what a porno was? I don't know when I eventually saw it. It might have been when it was aired on TV in 1979, which kind of makes sense. And I remember it being kind of interesting, but I don't remember being affected by it very much. |
0:54.7 | Maybe it was because we had a tiny 12 inch TV or something and rewatching it recently. |
1:00.8 | I realize there's a lot of talking. There's just a lot of hanging out. There there's a lot of talking there's just a lot of hanging out |
1:03.8 | there's not a lot of action action and also I grew up as a as a kid who loved |
1:11.1 | playing in the water loved going to the ocean, loved going to the lakes, and so I don't, it just didn't resonate with me. |
1:17.0 | And I didn't really appreciate it until about 10 years ago, I heard lots of talk about its significance. People I respect |
1:26.8 | saying it was their favorite movie of all time and I remember thinking, well geez that's |
1:31.6 | kind of weird. I mean jaws so let me ask you |
1:36.0 | Burdo how did you discover this movie I didn't grow up by the ocean I grew up |
1:41.5 | in a big-ass, Bogota, full of buildings and like that's it, you know, it's this |
1:48.1 | flat mesa full of concrete. So I didn't really like no. I have no like sense of like the the beach and you know I'd been to a beach and stuff but it wasn't like I lived nearby. |
2:02.4 | And so it all felt like this foreign thing, like almost |
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