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🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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This week, join Chris and Lizzie as they learn how the two Midwestern mavens of the Matrix (facing diminishing box office returns), an unassuming Aussie assistant director, and mogul of mayhem Joel Silver spin Alan Moore’s decidedly English anarchist manifesto (starring a bomb-happy, building-blasting, Guy Fawkes fanatic) into a post-9/11 American studio spectacle. Plus, Natalie Portman's shaved head, practical dominoes, and James Purefoy's desperate desire for eyes.
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1:10.0 | Hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a politically charged, perhaps risky one to make, I would assume, but I think a very good one. I am one of your |
1:30.7 | hosts, Lizzie Bassett, as always, joined by Chris Winterbauer. Chris, how you doing? What do you |
1:37.4 | got for us today? I'm doing fantastic. We are discussing a favorite of mine, actually, which is 2006's V for Vendetta, |
1:48.1 | as Lizzie mentioned, a very politically charged film, although not charged enough in the eyes |
1:53.0 | of some. And we will get to many of the interesting philosophical debates around the film |
2:00.5 | and its intentions and the intentions of its |
2:03.7 | creators and the original graphic novel behind it. But mostly Lizzie, this film set the |
2:08.7 | world on fire due to Natalie Portman's shaved head. I'm not sure if you remember that, but it was a... |
2:12.8 | I do remember it. It was a very big deal. Got to tell you, she looks great with a shaved head. I wish I looked like |
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