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The Treatment

Todd Phillips

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2009

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Director Todd Phillips (Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, All The King's Men) has a gift for finding guys who have to show the worst side of themselves. He’s revealed them both in documentaries and fiction films, like his newest The Hangover.

 

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

0:13.7

Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you

0:17.8

ever wonder what the guys from Frat House would be like 10 years later,

0:21.1

if you saw my guest Todd Phillips award-winning documentary from Sundance, they'd probably be the stars of The Hangover.

0:26.9

His news film. First of all, Todd, thanks so much for being here.

0:29.3

Oh, thank you for having me. And, you know, it's the first thing I thought when I saw the film,

0:32.5

is that this is what these guys would be doing 10 years later. It's funny that you bring that up because I was literally just talking about Frat House the other day,

0:39.2

talking about revisiting those guys in the movie and doing sort of like a Michael App did sort of, you know, 10 years later.

0:46.5

Although it's a little more than 10 years.

0:48.0

But because I do have a genuine curiosity about what those guys from Frat House are up to.

0:52.1

This feels like a companion piece to it, but a lot of the films, I mean, road trip kind of felt like a companion piece to it.

0:56.8

Old school felt like a companion piece to it.

0:58.4

You have a gift for like taking guys with their most exhibitionist,

1:01.5

self-destructive behavior and making comedy out of it.

1:04.1

It's true.

1:04.7

I feel like there's, you know, I grew up without a dad. I'm going to get to, but I grew up in a very female household and all my movies

1:11.3

deal with guys and sort of their relationships and how the awkwardness of a heterosexual male

1:17.4

relationship and how guys just are awkward around each other. And I've just always thought that

1:21.9

was a great avenue for comedy and I've always been kind of fascinated with men and their need

1:26.8

to belong to a group

1:28.1

because I just wasn't raised like that. So a lot of people always think, oh, he makes movies

1:31.7

like Frat House and Old School and Road Trip and Hangover and they think, oh, it's supposed

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