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Writers Room: The Best Movie Moments of 2020 (Part 1)

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

On the January 5, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film managing editor Jacob Hall is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to count down the best movie moments of 2020 (part one). Opening Banter: Jacob explains the rules   If you’d like to avoid all discussion of Nomadland, skip from 26:23-29:49 and 02:21:07-:02:21:10. If you’d like to avoid all discussion of Minari, skip from 02:12:52-02:14:21 and 02:21:54-02:21:56.   By the end of the episode, here are the moments we have locked in:   LOCKED IN   The Restaurant Scene in The Invisible Man Rudy Giuliani Puts His Hand Down His Pants in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Nyles Gets One More Sentence in Palm Springs Fern Gluing Her Broken Plates Back Together in Nomadland Joe After the Show/A New Perspective in Soul The Opening Murder in Possessor “Silly Games” in Lovers Rock The Freeport Heist(s) in Tenet Capone Murders People with a Golden Tommy Gun in Capone Satisfied from Hamilton The Hair Tie Toss in Birds of Prey The Town Fights Back in Bacurau The First Kiss in Sylvie’s Love Diana Takes Flight in Wonder Woman 1984 Robert’s Speech and then Steven’s Speech in Boys State A Surprising Death in Critical Thinking Delroy Lindo’s Monologue in Da 5 Bloods  The Karaoke Scene in Tesla The Ending of Another Round “The Elves Went Too Far!” in Eurovision Song Contest Selling Oily Cakes in First Cow The Heart-to-Heart and Almost Kiss in Freaky The Farm Fire in Minari The Doctor Scene in Never Rarely Sometimes Always   Stay tuned for Part 2 later this week!   All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of Slash Film Daily.

0:03.5

Today we're going to be counting on the best movie moments of 2020 in a special

0:06.7

Writers Room Edition. I'm Jacob Hall, the managing editor of Slash Film.com

0:10.7

and joining me our Slash Film Weekend editor Brad Omen. Hey that's me.

0:14.0

Senior writer Ben Pearson. Hey what's going on? And writers Hoyt Trambuie?

0:18.0

Hey everyone. And Chris Evangelista. Oh hello.

0:22.0

Hi everyone as you can hear this is the one time of the year where I am leading the podcast,

0:27.0

because this is our 50 best moments of the year of 2020.

0:31.0

And if you listen to past editions, you know what this means.

0:33.0

We have a massive list of movie moments in 2020.

0:35.0

And we're going to cut them down and fight over which 50 make the final written list for

0:40.4

slash film.com.

0:42.0

So this means, oh goodness, looking at this guy, we have a

0:44.5

hundred and ninety one nominated moments, which means he'll be cutting 141

0:49.0

moments from this list over the course of this podcast. Real quickly around the table.

0:54.0

Nervous, excited, dreading, give me a word.

0:57.0

Ooh, excited. I look forward to this every year, so I'm pumped.

1:01.0

I'm a little nervous because there are still some movies on this list I haven't seen yet and they will definitely be spoiled for me but that's just the price I pay for being a lazy piece of shit.

1:10.0

More confused that we have three moments from bad boys for life here.

1:18.4

Chris, how do you feel about this daily arduous trick?

1:25.0

Like most things, I am a hollow husk with some wind blowing through it.

1:30.0

I don't really have much else to say.

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