Matt Harvey on the music and artwork of WE LOST THE SEA’s A SINGLE FLOWER and Movies That Changed Your Life: Mad Max: Fury Road, A Clockwork Orange, Parasite

3 FILMS THAT HAVE IMPACTED EVERYTHING IN YOUR ADULT LIFE: A Britflicks Podcast with screenwriter Stuart Wright

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker Matt Harvey, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Mad Max: Fury Road impact, A Clockwork Orange analysis, and The Memento influence on her personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Matt Harvey also discusses the creation of the powerful artwork and making of the album A SINGLE FLOWER

Movies That Changed Your Life

Find out about how and why screenwriter Matt Harvey turns her screenplays into novels and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright’s movie podcast.

[1:45] Why should you be thinking about turning your screenplays into novels.

[6:50] The music is abstract and cinematic

[8:30] How do you know a song is done?

[14:30] The artwork joins the narrative of music together.

[16:00] Contribution of Godspeed You Black Emperor!’s Sophie Trudeau

[18:00] Pulling the artwork together – influences and inspirations

[16:30] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

Mad Max: Fury Road impact

[17:15] Matt Harvey says Mad Max: Fury Road is the film he judges all other films against. How it encapsulates everything about why you want go to movies.

A Clockwork Orange analysis

[35:30] Matt Harvey shares how A Clockwork Orange was an important film for him as a young film lover in high school, university era, pretending to be a film buff but still has at least 1000 other films before he could claim to be that.

Parasite Influence

[27:43] Matt Harvey talks about how Parasite is a film that stayed in his mind for a long, long time after he left the theatre. Everything is so well crafted. The storytelling is amazing. It gets under your skin. An instant masterpiece.

Key Takeaways:

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

- Learn about how WE LOST THE SEA create their instrumental post-rock music

- Learn about Matt Harvey’s influences and inspirations, and the process for coming up with the artwork for the album.

- Understand cinema’s transformative power through Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Parasite (2019)

- Full show notes and transcript:

About the Guest:

Matt Harvey is a graphic designer and guitarist in the instrumental post-rock band WE LOST THE SEA.

We Lost The Sea’s website https://www.welostthesea.com

Matt Harvey’s website http://www.graphicatharsis.com/about-me

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Credits:

Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (⁠https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/⁠)

Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](⁠https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/⁠)

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