Water Cooler: Napoleon, Thanksgiving, All of Us Strangers, and More
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On the November 22, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Opening Banter: Happy early Thanksgiving! No episodes Thursday and Friday this week.
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Ben read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam.
- Jacob read Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath, The Late Shift and The War For Late Night by Bill Carter, and Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts.
Take a break
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben watched Rustin, All of Us Strangers, Bye Bye Barry, and Priscilla.
- Jacob watched Napoleon, Thanksgiving, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
- What we’ve been Eating:
- What we’ve been Playing:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. |
| 0:02.0 | Today is Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023. |
| 0:04.7 | On today's episode of the show, |
| 0:05.9 | we are going to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to. |
| 0:09.8 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm an editor at slash film. |
| 0:11.8 | And I am joined on today's episode by slash film editor, |
| 0:14.8 | Jacob Paul. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:16.7 | Happy early Thanksgiving, everyone. |
| 0:18.6 | We are not going to have episodes tomorrow and Friday |
| 0:21.9 | this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday so just consider this our tiny |
| 0:26.2 | Thanksgiving present to you. Okay Jacob let's dive into it. Let's get into what we've been reading. |
| 0:31.8 | I read a book called Leave the World Behind by |
| 0:35.0 | Ruman Alam. This book came out in 2020. There is a movie adaptation of it coming to |
| 0:40.6 | Netflix later this year I believe directed by Sam Smail the guy who did Mr |
| 0:46.0 | robot and this is a book have you read this book by any chance no but I remember when we covered the making this movie in the most recent trailer, so it |
| 0:56.4 | has my interest. There's a pretty big names attached to the film adaptation. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, yeah, a bunch of the cast looks great. I think the movie trailer looks pretty good, so I was curious to read this book. And I am sad to say that I didn't like it. And it's not because the story wasn't good, it was because I didn't like the writing style which is kind of a rare thing for me mostly I'm pretty open when it comes to writing styles but this was the best way I can describe it is that the author just kind of hammered home the same points |
| 1:26.4 | over and over again about what kind of people his characters are and you kind of get it after you know just a few of those |
| 1:34.9 | descriptions and it's like the entire book is basically spent like telling you |
| 1:41.3 | over and over and over again, |
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