While Writers Strike, Special Effects Artists Try To Unionize

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

‘Across the Spider-Verse’ was an animated feast, but many live-action, CGI-bloated summer blockbusters are visual mush. If you’re tired of lackluster computer-generated special effects, guess what? So are the artists who make them. They’re tired from long shifts and working paycheck to paycheck. VFX workers are some of the few Hollywood creatives who aren’t unionized, and they're scared to speak out against big studios for fear of being blacklisted. Today, Explained guest host Sean Rameswaram talks with New York Magazine’s Chris Lee about a race to the bottom for film quality and working conditions, and what it means to be “pixel f’d.” We also hear from a VFX worker who’s helping push to unionize the industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:40.7	Chris, have you seen the new Spider-Man movie yet?
0:42.7	I have.
0:43.7	There's an elite crew with all the best Spider-People in it.
0:47.4	Who's the new one?
0:48.4	Okay, six.
0:49.4	So can you tell me, does it look really good?
0:51.7	It looks amazing.
0:52.7	I mean, it's visually dazzling.
0:54.9	Okay.
0:55.9	So it wasn't lost upon you that Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse came out this weekend.
1:01.3	It's the biggest movie in the country.
1:03.3	And people love it because it looks really good.
1:06.0	And it makes me wonder, Chris, why can't everything look so good?
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