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Channels with Peter Kafka

Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom is the surprise movie hit of the summer

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

A movie made for peanuts and distributed by a studio far outside the Hollywood system has done better box office numbers than both the new Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones movies. Sound of Freedom is about a rogue federal agent who goes to Colombia to break up a child sex trafficking ring. The conservative media love it. Faith-based groups love it. QAnon loves it. But how did this movie get made? And is the guy the movie based on the hero the movie makes him out to be? Recode Media sister podcast Today, Explained recently took on these questions. Listen in. Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.1

Today we are talking about one of the surprise movie hits the summer.

1:14.6

It's not Barbie. It's not Oppenheimer.

1:17.6

And if we're being truthful, it is probably not a movie you have seen.

1:21.1

It's called Sound of Freedom.

1:23.1

As I'm taping this introduction, it has outgrossed both Tom Cruise and Harrison Ford this summer.

1:29.3

What sound of freedom is, why it's popular, just how popular it actually is, are all fascinating questions that are answered by our pals over today explained.

1:38.0

So we're going to let them take it from here.

1:43.4

It's a crime thriller, kind of an old-fashioned crime thriller about a government agent whose job is to deal with criminals who traffic in children.

1:53.0

We're Homeland Security, you know, we can't go off rescuing Honduran kids in Colombia.

1:58.0

And, you know, he feels hemmed in by bureaucracy and the restrictions of government work.

2:04.5

And it's based on the work of a real organization and a real person, Tim Ballard.

2:10.0

And it's the hero, it's played by Jim Cavizal, who many know from the Passion of the Christ.

2:15.7

Jesus.

2:16.3

We know him as Jesus and certain other things in the culture.

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