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Hello and welcome back to the studio podcast ringer seat. I'm Mr. Kwanga. I'm Ryan, huh? Ryan, how you doing? I'm right. Thanks, man. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. I was about going to go to Larry David and be like, well, what's the statue of Libertations on the happy New Year?

I'm not, I'm not that, not that hyped for the New Year, only because. Oh, yeah, I mean, it's a pandemic. I'm not ready. I'm doing very much to the New Year, like I do at the beginning of of a new season when someone asks me about Arsenal, you're like, well, let's just see how we go.

I think that's very, very wise. That's very, very wise. How was your Christmas and stuff? Very peaceful. Eight, a lot, watched all eight seasons of homeland. Wow, which is 72 hours of television. Wow. Yeah, so yeah, watch that with the family.

Yeah, I think it might be watched a lot of TV. Homeland was the main thing, but a lot of madmen watched bizarrely attack on Titan, which is, I don't know what people are thinking, but that's a wild series. Just just Google it. It's wild. It's wild. It's wild. Right. It's why I didn't watch anywhere near as much stuff as I wanted to. Well, you have to. Well, I got sick on Christmas days and that sucked. So I spent that at the afternoon of Christmas day in bed.

I mean, if Christmas day in bed, everyone thought I had COVID, but I didn't. I think I did seven COVID tests or eight COVID tests in six days. Oh, my God, I'm a PCRs. And then I had to quarantine. I'm still technically in quarantine, but they've changed the rules now, which mean, well, they're changing the rules for people arriving back to Germany today. And they've lifted the restrictions, I think. So I need to do. I need to call them asking them if I'm allowed out. Yeah, it means I did after quarantine. Yeah, you were just like, oh, I'm hanging out, oh, I'm hanging here to the sixth.

This means in theory, you could fly back from the UK in a couple of days and be straight out and about, even though I got back on the 27th, and I might have to stay until the 11th, why does that feel like a metaphor for this podcast? That is exactly a metaphor for this podcast. Yeah, Moussa is like changing the COVID rules, one Ryan's already committed to it.

Yes, I'll be out here being chaotic in the UK. Exactly. Yeah. But yeah, I watched, I watched June finally. Yeah, it was good. It was good.

You quite like not as much as Blade Runner 2049. I didn't personally think it was as good. No. But I think that's obviously because it's a two part. So we'll see. I don't know. I don't want to start the year rough with some. I don't know. I've rewatched Dunkirk again. Right. For example, oh, my goodness, Dunkirk. That is a film.

And like Zimmer seems to be on a bit of a run at the moment where he's kind of just. He's a little bit too extra on some of the sci-fi stuff. Yeah, I think he went a little bit. He went a little bit extra on Blade Runner 2049. I also think he went a little bit extra on June, because the thing is you've got, but we're stepping on Chris Ryan's toes here and Sean Fennessy's toes here on the on the film front. So they knew this. They knew this was. No, no, let's get into this. What I was going to listen on the on the scorefront.

I think that it's funny because the peak. Zimmer on June is some of the best I've heard him like there's specific scenes, the desert warfare scene where he emerges out of the sand. I mean, it's super stylized, isn't it? I mean, I've not read the book. I'm going to read the book. I don't know. I always see scores as being able to massively enhance the film. They won't make a good film badge, but they will stop a good film from being great. That's interesting. Yeah, yeah.

And I think with something like June where you have so much as the visual is doing the work that the audio would usually do in a non visual in a in a in a movie that is not so visually stylized. Yeah, I think sometimes letting the visual have spaces is really, really integral to a score. And I think Zim has been on a bit of a run of not letting stuff breathe enough. That's interesting.

Whereas with Dunkirk, it was the opposite. It was very much like it was constantly there. This constant sense of increasing tension. But the visual was allowed to breathe in a in a visually not not quite a stylized or spectacular setting, if that makes sense. I can't believe I just said that this fictional world of in June is more spectacular than one of the greatest historical.

No, but no, but you know what you're saying is we're saying it's a full time. Sometimes sci-fi makes people overcompensate. Yeah, there's a there's a there's an essence in sci-fi where you have to kind of like you have to ramp up everything when actually let the visual do the work, you know, um, are you talking about like Ralph Ranglin's tactics to Manchester United. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, Ralph Ranglin is on a bit of a Zimmer run at the moment. He is he is, he is. But like for example, in Dunkirk, it's got one of my favorite movie shots of all time, which is Tom Hardy Spitfire going across the

beach without the propeller on silent, incredible, completely silent. That was a really, really genius idea from a score point of view because it didn't need anything.

And there are, I think there are elements in June, which don't need anything and they have things. And I think it can be quite distracting. And I think that was the thing he fell into. He fell into that trick in Blade Runner, I think. But anyway,

no, no, no, there's a good point to make here because you know what's sometimes I was watching a very uneven series. I've mentioned the newsletter actually study newsletter. Check it out.

Where watching foundation this this Apple TV series or the Azumov thing, very uneven, very uneven, but again, at its peak is incredible. There's a particular moment where the most powerful moment of the final of the first season is in the final episode.

There's a revenge scene, those who often those who've seen it, and I'm talking there's a revenge scene.

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