‘The Searchers’ and ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Two highlights from our American Icons special series. First, producer Arun Venugopal revisits “The Searchers,” the John Ford film starring John Wayne that is widely regarded as a masterpiece, but which many see as racially problematic in the way that Wayne’s character pursues revenge against the Comanche who killed his family in a raid. Then, producer June Thomas on the unlikely history of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the movie that flopped in theaters when it was released in 1975, only to become an interactive movie experience where audiences shouted back at the screen, brandished water pistols and delighted in the film’s risqué raucousness.

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0:23.5	Thanks.
0:24.3	Today on Studio 316.
0:26.0	Let's go home, Debbie.
0:27.8	The Searchers is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made.
0:34.1	But...
0:34.7	I took my wife to see this movie, and all she could say was, this is the most racist movie I've ever seen.
0:40.2	I don't know how you can watch this film.
0:42.0	And I told her, you're absolutely right.
0:43.9	The Searchers, John Ford's problematic masterpiece.
0:48.9	Plus...
0:49.8	Let's kill the time of again.
0:54.1	Forty-four years later, moviegoers are still throwing rice and doing the pelvic thrust.
1:02.0	Rocky Horror is about the sexual revolution in America and how insane the country went.
1:08.0	Why the Rocky Horror Picture Show lives on.
1:11.0	Two American icons are ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:16.9	It's so dreamy.
1:19.3	Oh, fantasy free me.
1:22.3	So you can.
1:26.2	This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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