"The Trial Of The Chicago 7"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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For this week's main review, I am joined by Josh Parham, Nicole Ackman, Ryan C. Showers, Lauren LaMagna & Cody Dericks. Together, we are discussing the latest film from Netflix, and one of the year's biggest Oscar contenders "The Trial Of The Chicago 7" written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance, Jeremy Strong, Frank Langella, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and a bunch more! Released during one of the most political years of our lifetimes, the timing of this movie could not be any more relevant. How does it hold up though? What do we think of the performances? Sorkin's writing and directing? Find out below in our review. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of the trial of the Chicago 7.
0:06.8	We want to underscore again that we're coming to Chicago peacefully, but whether we're giving permits or not, we're coming.
0:13.8	We're going to Chicago to protest the Vietnam War.
0:17.5	There's no place to be right now, but in it.
0:20.1	We watched for a decade while these
0:22.2	rebels without a job tell us how to prosecute a war they're gonna spend their
0:27.0	30s in a federal facility real time people say you know Abby are you concerned
0:32.2	about an overreaction for the cops holy shit shit. You all right?
0:39.6	There was you two, I saw there.
0:44.9	Are the people ready to make opening arguments?
0:46.7	At the defense table.
0:51.6	Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Dave Delinger, Rennie Davis, Lee Winer, John Freunds, Tom Hayden,
0:52.5	and Bobby Seale.
0:56.0	These defendants had a plan, and the plan was to incite a riot. I call this portion of the trial with friends like these.
1:00.0	My trial has begun without my lawyer. The court assumes you are being represented by the Black Panther sitting behind you.
1:08.0	The riots were started by the Chicago Police Department. Sustained.
1:12.6	Nobody objected.
1:13.6	Jurer is 6 and 11. They're with us.
1:15.6	Jury number 6 and juror number 11.
1:17.6	You're dismissed from this jury.
1:19.6	Can you tell us why?
1:20.6	Because this is my courtroom.
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