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Top Five Matt Damon Movies and James Mangold on ‘Ford v Ferrari’ | The Big Picture

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.35.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

With the release of the Christian Bale–Matt Damon racing two-hander, we look back on Damon’s best performances, including the iconic ‘Good Will Hunting’ and the lesser-known ‘Dogma’ (0:45). Then, James Mangold joins to discuss ‘Ford v Ferrari’ and the threat that a changing movie industry presents to movies like it (58:30). Host: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Chris Ryan and James Mangold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Sean Fantasy and this is the big picture a conversation show about fast cars and faster

0:10.0

IP.

0:11.0

We're celebrating the Christian Bale, Matt Damon vehicle Ford vs Ferrari today.

0:14.9

Later in the show I have a long and fun conversation with James Mangold.

0:18.0

He's the director of Ford vs Ferrari and Logan and Walk the Line and many other very good

0:21.5

movies.

0:22.5

But first, we are going to talk about a subject near and dear to our hearts.

0:26.9

We're going to talk about Matt Damon and I'm joined by a couple of Matt Damon super fans

0:31.8

Amanda Dobbins and Chris Ryan.

0:33.2

Hi guys.

0:34.2

What's up Sean?

0:35.2

Hello Sean.

0:36.2

How is it going?

0:37.2

You have the best of me on this podcast.

0:38.2

I'm so excited about that.

0:40.0

I, before we began recording, was thinking about what it is that I love about Matt Damon

0:44.5

and what makes him such a wonderful movie star.

0:46.6

And truthfully, I don't really know.

0:48.9

And I was hoping we could start our conversation right there by saying, why is Matt Damon so

0:53.6

good and why is he so frequently in good movies, which seems obvious, but maybe you guys

1:00.2

can help me understand.

1:01.2

I have a cute answer based on what you just said, which is I think the fact that you don't

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