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Much is made about the creative decisions in ads for the Big Game, but how does all that money, those requisite celebrity cameos, and everything else that goes into these multi-million dollar investments translate into Return on investment? Today we’re going to talk about what the numbers tell us from all those high-profile ads and who the winners and losers of the Advertising Bowl are in 2025. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Nataly Kelly, CMO at Zappi, who unveiled their annual Super Bowl Ad Success report on Monday. We’re here to talk about the approach, the results, and what those results mean for brands that invested a lot of money - and time - into their campaigns. About Nataly Kelly I help companies unlock global growth For more than two decades, I have helped scale businesses across borders, as an executive at B2B SaaS and MarTech companies. I’m Chief Marketing Officer at Zappi, a consumer research platform. I spent nearly 8 years as a Vice President at HubSpot, a multi-billion-dollar public tech company, driving growth on the international side of the business. Having served as an executive at various tech companies, I’ve led teams spanning many functions, including Marketing, Sales, Product, and International Ops. I’m an award-winning marketing leader, a former Fulbright scholar, and an ongoing contributor to Harvard Business Review. I love working with interesting people and removing barriers to access. RESOURCES Zappi website: https://www.zappi.io/web/ Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Listen to The Agile Brand without the ads. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3ymf7hd Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…
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In a world where mimicking the gestures of a historical figure is awards bait, Biopic: A Podcast Story examines the good, the bad, the unspeakable, and the hilarious about this category of film that frequently dominates the Oscars but just as often offends our sensibilities. Biopic: A Podcast Story looks at the casting, the acting, the quality of the script, and the endless tropes that dominate these movies. Hosted by Rena and Sara. We have watched a lot of biopics. Biopic: A Podcast Story sits at the meeting point between movie, comedy, and history podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
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In a world where mimicking the gestures of a historical figure is awards bait, Biopic: A Podcast Story examines the good, the bad, the unspeakable, and the hilarious about this category of film that frequently dominates the Oscars but just as often offends our sensibilities. Biopic: A Podcast Story looks at the casting, the acting, the quality of the script, and the endless tropes that dominate these movies. Hosted by Rena and Sara. We have watched a lot of biopics. Biopic: A Podcast Story sits at the meeting point between movie, comedy, and history podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Responsible for this podcast’s existence and our term “Eazy-E Crying,” Straight Outta Compton is a straight-up delight — a biopic about the seminal rap group NWA whose excellence defies “and-then-i-ness,” that gets inside the joy of the creative process and manages to do non-cloying fan service. While the film is not without flaws (glossing over some pretty intense misogyny and some pretty serious abuse allegations), it’s pretty great. Between unpacking a set of star-making performances and outstanding direction, we discuss whether an under-the-influence-of-Ambien Tipper Gore is writing all of the film’s negative reviews on IMDB, why you should never start a rap beef with Ice Cube, how neither of us know anything about the strength of street knowledge, whether Paul Giamatti is playing history’s greatest monster, and Sara’s fear of pool parties. Straight Outta Compton is directed by F. Gary Gray and stars O’Shea Jackson as Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella, Aldis Hodge as MC Ren, Marlon Yates as D.O.C., R. Marcus Taylor as Suge Knight, and Paul Giamatti as Jerry Heller. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Threads: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Description: Black History Month continues, and numerical kismet isn’t the only thing we love this week: We LOVE 42, the 2013 biopic about Jackie Robinson’s first year as the first Black Major League Baseball player. The late, great Chadwick Boseman is, of course, brilliant, but so is Harrison Ford as sportsball manager Branch Rickey, a man committed to desegregating MLB. Which, spoiler alert, is what happens as Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers and changes the game forever. There are roadblocks, mainly a number of white men whose use of the n-word is, shall we say, Quentin Tarantino film-level liberal in this movie. We also discover Chris Meloni is too sexy for the managerial work of pro baseball, Alan Tudyk sure can let the evil fly when he feels like it, and Hamish Linklater is a dreamboat as the legendary ballplayer and product-of-prolific-parents Ralph Branca. And sad warning: We know nothing about baseball. ALSO ALSO: We’ve got promo codes for Academy Award® Nominee for Best Original Screenplay, SEPTEMBER 5 is now on Digital. Based on true events at the 1972 Olympics and the hostage crisis that changed media coverage forever. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch. BUY OR RENT SEPTEMBER 5 on Fandango at Home NOW! Rated PG. From Paramount Pictures. HIT US UP for a promo code (while supplies last) to watch the movie at home for free, at any of our places below. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Threads: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
It’s our first episode in Black History Month, and we’re starting with a bang – the story of one Harriet Tubman. Ms. Tubman is among the historical figures whose life most closely resembles that of a Marvel hero, so her moment was long overdue. But if you have to wait, at least you get the superlative talents, brilliance, and star power of one Cynthia Erivo playing Harriet. While witnessing the unfathomable courage of Harriet Tubman, we consider issues like: how long should you wait to get remarried after your wife is presumed dead? Why are you here, Joe Alwyn? What’s the right color coat to wear when you are rescuing your entire family? Can we build an entire movie around the image of Janelle Monae teaching Cynthia Erivo to aim a pistol? We have a lot of uncomfortable questions with easy answers since we are living through the trash fire of the year of our Lord 2025: Why did it take so long for Harriet Tubman to get the proper big screen treatment? Why isn’t she on our $20 bills yet? Why isn’t anyone in the Clarke Peters business? ALSO ALSO: We’ve got promo codes for Academy Award® Nominee for Best Original Screenplay, SEPTEMBER 5 is now on Digital. Based on true events at the 1972 Olympics and the hostage crisis that changed media coverage forever. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, and Leonie Benesch. BUY OR RENT SEPTEMBER 5 on Fandango at Home NOW! Rated PG. From Paramount Pictures. HIT US UP for a promo code (while supplies last) to watch the movie at home for free, at any of our places below. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Threads: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
How DOES it feel to be a total genius? It’s a burden for our dear friend Bob Dylan. A Complete Unknown is a big hit and is nominated for a billionty-five Academy Awards, so we went to the theaters to experience what might be the most sincere, prestige-y portrait of a ridiculously talented douchebag in the history of filmmaking. Sara and Rena mostly love this, because of America’s high school English teacher Pete Seeger and his sincere embrace of the composting toilet, the brilliant, no-nonsense Joan Baez, the music, and the sensible but elegant direction and writing. However, its Fail/Safe-level “Will he or won’t he go electric at the Newport Folk Festival” tension does elicit some mockery. Also discussed: How many decades, exactly, have we been in this emotionally abusive relationship with the original negging pickup artist Bob Dylan? Who are the baby boomers and why hasn’t the media done a better job documenting their fascinating history? Could there be a more labored and nonsensical metaphor for Pete Seeger than his “buckets and seesaw” speech? Why doesn’t Toshi Seeger have her own movie? Was calling Bob Dylan “Judas” for plugging in his guitar an under-reaction? Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Threads: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
In honor of Sara’s natal day, we attempt to deconstruct her weird obsession with character actors as we enjoy this delightful film about the blacklist and one of its central heroes, Dalton Trumbo. Absent from the film are twin douchenozzles Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn, but present are douchenozzles like real-life blacklisting masturbator Louis CK and a bowdlerized version of nightmare gossip hack Louella Parsons (she was even worse IRL!). Do we wrongly credit Kirk Douglas for breaking the blacklist when it should be Frank and Hymie King (ne Kozinsky) of The King Brothers Productions? Is John Wayne the worst? Is there anything more appealing than seeing a functional addict and workaholic have his Christmas ruined by Otto Preminger? Have fun with this far-too-timely movie about moral relativism and choosing between ideals and functioning in society! Happy January 2025, everyone! Trumbo was directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara and Bruce Cook, and stars Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, Diane Lane as Cleo Trumbo, Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper, Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, David James Elliott as John Wayne, Alan Tudyk as Ian McLellan Hunter, Roger Bart as Buddy Ross, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Virgil Brooks, Elle Fanning as Niki Trumbo, John Goodman as Frank King, and Stephen Root as Hymie King. Sources: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism by Jennifer Frost Trumbo by Bruce Cook Blacklisted: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment by Larry Dane Brimner You Must Remember This podcast, season 6, episodes about the blacklist Behind the Bastards , series on John Wayne Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
How gorgeous is Sofia Coppola’s delicious, vibes-filled Marie Antoinette ? So gorgeous that we brought on a special guest, Belle, the host of Silhouettes: The Fashion History Podcast , to discuss. In addition to Belle’s deep expertise around the era, we discuss Kirsten Dunst’s perfection, the meta-level brilliance of Sofia’s cast (who better to play Louis XV than Rip Torn, a madcap actor with a secret family?), how Marie Antoinette created cottage-core, wigs, and the nightmarish ennui of the mid-aughts. Also, what is the appropriate way to correct the reproductive techniques of a king? Marie Antoinette was written and directed by Sofia Coppola, and stars Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI, Rip Torn as Louis XV, Steve Coogan as Ambassador Mercy, Judy Davis as Comtesse de Noailles, Asia Argento as Comtesse du Barry, Rose Byrne as Duchesse de Polignac, Marianne Faithfull as Empress Maria Theresa, Jamie Dornan as Count Axel Fersen, and a blink-and-you-miss-him baby Tom Hardy, who already exudes star power. Sources: Silhouettes: A Fashion History Podcast: https://linktr.ee/silhouettespodcast?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5495ec93-ea02-430a-b1d1-c54895893449 Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser. Marie-Therese, Child of Terror by Susan Nagel. Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution by Will Bashor. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
How do two astonishing gifted women—director Marjane Sartrapi and actor Rosamund Pike—make a movie together about 2x Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and have it come out this boring? Start by combining masterful visual style with dull, on-the-nose words, and then add weird, apocryphal character quirks (Marie Curie is afraid of hospitals for … reasons) and stick the most interesting elements of the story in the epilogue cards (Marie and Einstein were friends—where’s this movie?). When Rena and Sara are not postulating theories and formulating equations, they are discussing the merits of child performers with hair darker than the actor they grow into, the hotness of various nuclear scientists on film throughout history, how Marie and Pierre were essentially X Men given their constant exposure to radiation like it was NBD, and the struggle of the meet-cute in the modern age. Radiation was directed by Marjane Satrapi, and stars Rosemund Pike as Marie Curie, Sam Riley as Pierre Curie, Simon Russell Beale as Professor Lippman, Drew Jacoby as Loie Fuller, and Aneurin Barnard as Paul Langevin. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
We all are Spartacus this week. Sara and Rena watch this astonishing epic that masterfully Trojan-horses a bunch of crazy messages about communism, righteousness, and self-sacrifice in a movie that pretends to be about toxic masculinity and oiled-up, 1950s-fit men gladiating. Of course we love this movie: So much Peter Ustinov, so much Stanley Kubrick being forced to work within the rubric of the studio system, so much Dalton Trumbo getting to use his name after HUAC, so much Kirk Douglas with an anachronistic buzzcut that we don’t care about, so much Tony Curtis being the world’s most unskilled slave laborer, so much folklore about Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton hating each other's guts. Also: Are crucifixions ineffective? How did Sara ruin her chances to be recruited into the army? How many babies played Spartacus Jr.? How on earth did UK citizen Varinia become a slave in Rome? Spartacus was directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Dalton Trumbo, and stars Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Laurence Olivier as Crassus, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles Laughton as Gracchus, Peter Ustinov as Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Woody Strode as Draba, and Tony Curtis as Antonius. Sources: Sources used in the episode include… The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Brent D. Shaw. Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Bluesky: @biopic-podcast.bsky.social Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
People wanted this, so we did it, and one of us is WAY happier about it than the other. Is Bohemian Rhapsody an efficient, joyful look at the life and genius of Freddie Mercury and his fellow geniuses in Queen, or is it a Wikipedia-skimming, nightmarishly-edited, lie-filled romp through fan-service hell? Things we can agree on: Adam Lambert is unconvincing as a truck driver, Bob Geldof’s fame is mystifying, and Mike Myers should not have been allowed in this movie. Things we can’t agree on: the offensiveness of the false teeth worn by our film’s star, Rami Malek, whether Freddie Mercury’s innate decency and Queen’s glorious gifts as a rock outfit are used as a shield against criticism of this film’s flaws, and whether this movie has any value given the liberties it takes with anything resembling reality. Other questions, resolved and unresolved: Is Freddie Mercury actually Santa Claus, given that his time-bending ability to visit every Jim Hutton in London on the morning of Life Aid and establish a healthy relationship is similar to Santa’s capacity for visiting a billion households in one night? Could you buy a wild animal at Biba? Which member of the cast of Game of Thrones is a more convincingly crappy John Reid? Bohemian Rhapsody was “directed” by Bryan Singer and actually directed by Dexter Fletcher, and stars Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, Lucy Boynton as Mary Austin, Gwilym Lee as Brian May, Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joseph Mazzello as John Deacon, Aidan Gillen as John Reid, Allan Leech as Paul Prenter, and Tom Hollander as Jim Beach. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Sources include: Somebody to Love Matt Richards Is This the Real life?: The Untold Story of Queen Mark Blake Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock Phil Sutcliffe https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/bohemian-rhapsody-fact-fiction-freddie-mercury-movie-accuracy.html https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/what-happened-to-paul-prenter-the-bohemian-rhapsody-villain-had-a-more-complex-relationship-with-the-band-irl-13040678 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/movies/rami-malek-bohemian-rhapsody.html https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/11/freddie-mercury-true-story-relationships-mary-austin-jim-hutton?srsltid=AfmBOooRbDLOBmoF94EEP8M_dwYsmu-ipnFDN_UUrB4J3Nu-admbHKgw https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/bohemian-rhapsody-brian-wanted-different-13730594 https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/bohemian-rhapsody-bad-editing-video-essay-watch-1202051342/ https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/10/bryan-singer-bohemian-rhapsody-behavior-report?srsltid=AfmBOorS9ytUWYPmvYNkl4hi6FCVNJtvTasBfzL9FIIvapan8hT9MSiB Where the Live Aid Money Went: https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/ Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Maria is nominally about a profoundly gifted opera singer, but seems a bit more about how ponderous and remote character studies never fail to trap the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Two hours of visiting Paris (aka Budapest) as it would look if Jesus raptured the city and left behind only Satan and a few journalists, with some diversions to the shared cinematic universe of fellow sad gal Jackie Kennedy, left us exhausted. Additionally, our brilliant guest, award-winning Callas biographer Sophia Lambton, points out that roughly four things in the movie are real: There was a woman named Maria Callas. She had dark hair. She was an opera singer. Toward the end of her life, she resided in Paris, France. Not going to recommend the movie but please do join us for another episode filled with characters’ codependent hijinks, adorable pets, and agonizing lip synching. Sophia Lambton is the author of The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography , available at https://www.amazon.com/Callas-Imprint-Centennial-Biography-ebook/dp/B0BRYPL5WN Her Substack is: https://sophialambton.substack.com/ You can find her on social media at: https://www.instagram.com/thecrepuscularpress/ https://www.tiktok.com/@thecrepuscularpress https://www.facebook.com/thecrepuscularpress Maria is directed by Pablo Larrain and stars Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, Pierfrancesco Favino as Ferrucio, Alba Rohrwacher as Bruna, Haluk Bilginer as Aristotle Onassis, Stephen Ashfield as Jeffrey Tate, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Mandrax, Valeria Golino as Yakinthi Callas, and Caspar Phillipson as JFK. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Why are we watching yet another movie about trashy royals, this one from 1933? Because this one’s pretty seminal: it introduced the world to auteur filmmaking pioneers Charles Laughton and director/producer Alexander Korda, and actresses Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester. If you’ve seen the musical Six you know the story: Henry VIII has an easy time getting married, but finds it challenging to stay married. In this movie, we meet five of his six wives, and hijinks ensue. Was Henry VIII actually attractive? Did Jamie Lee Curtis use Elsa Lanchester’s performance as inspiration for Trading Places ? What is a Plantagenet again? The Private Life of Henry VIII was directed by Alexander Korda, and stars Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, Robert Donat as Thomas Culpepper, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn, Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, Elsa Lanchester as Anne of Cleves, and Binnie Barnes as Katherine Howard. Sources: Sources used in the episode include… Henry VIII, the King and His Court by Alison Weir. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Rena and Sara venture into the much-documented world of Elvis Presley and the people who he trapped in his hunka-hunka-burning-emotional-tractor beam from a heretofore unconsidered POV: his wife, Priscilla Presley. Never has grooming a minor looked so glamorous. While Sofia Coppola has undisputedly crafted another remote, beautiful piece of art and we loved many things, there are, of course, questions: should Elvis have just gone to college to go through his experimental drug-and-religion phase in relative privacy? How on earth did Priscilla manage to wrestle away control of Elvis’s estate from the Colonel? Was the mansion in The Jerk based on Graceland? Come for the discussions of why we’re “meh” on Elvis, stay for the utter joy of an unapologetically female gaze. Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley, Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley, and Dagmara Dominiczyk as Ann Beaulieu, and is written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Sources: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley. Several A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs episodes on Elvis Presley. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Presidential month continues apace as Sara and Rena watch Tennessee Johnson , a garbage movie that would be better titled Battle Cry of FreeDumb . Outrage, the likes of which our microphones and households have never experienced, is on the menu this week as we bear witness to this trashfire hagiography about one of America’s worst presidents, the drunken, corrupt, racist monster Andrew Johnson, who was apparently named after preceding drunken, corrupt racist monster Andrew Jackson. This rightfully-forgotten 1942 motion picture asks the question, “Why do we have to be so mean to the South after the Civil War?” AJ tries valiantly to reunite a shattered country–but that evil and wicked Thaddeus Stevens wants accountability from the defeated Confederacy. We find fault with this film’s perspective that the Civil War was a forgivable misunderstanding, rather than a catastrophe that killed hundreds of thousands of men and was fought over a state’s right to legal slavery, and subsequently set our nation on a course to literally never take responsibility for our bad actions. Some other issues: Van Heflin’s Robert Wuhl-ish open-mouthed “huh” style of acting, the villainous portrayal of Mr. Stevens (itself a war crime), and whether AJ’s wife is actually history’s greatest monster (it is always a woman, after all). Zero Mostel wanted this movie burned; we can’t really argue with that. Content warning: Sara’s thwarted Juilliard audition monologue is included in this episode. Tennessee Johnson stars Van Heflin as Andrew Johnson, Ruth Hussey as Eliza Johnson, Lionel Barrymore as Thaddeus Stevens, and a top hat from a prop closet playing Abraham Lincoln. Sources: Wikipedia: Andrew_Johnson's_drunk_vice-presidential_inaugural_address The 1865 podcast A bunch of stuff from the internet and some sources that we also used on the Lincoln episode but are far too despondent to remunerate at the moment. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Apparently we watched this movie. Amistad is an unusually mediocre (for him, and only for him) and sort of forgettable Steven Spielberg movie about a captive mutiny against slave runners, John Quincy Adams, and the awkward game of hot-potato that was the pre-Civil War era U.S. government. Come for the uprising, stay for the utterly depressing and real depiction of the American legal system. Some of the important questions that come up: What part of Philadelphia is the part where they say “y’all” and scissor-kick like LBJ? Is any actor more capable of creating a discomfiting environment like Arliss Howard? What would have happened if Will Smith got the part of Cinque, instead of Dijmon Hounsou? Amistad stars Djimon Hounsou as Cinque, Matthew McConaughey as Roger Sherman, Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson, returning champion Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren, David Paymer as Secretary John Forsythe, Pete Postlethwaite as Holabird, Stellan Skasgard as Tappan, Anna Paquin as Queen Isabella, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ensign Covey. Sources: Mutiny on the Amistad : The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones. John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People by Randall Woods Podcast: Totalis Rankium episodes on John Quincy Adams. “The Amistad Case in Fact and Film” by Eric Foner https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/74/ https://screenrant.com/amistad-movie-true-story-every-change/ Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
Presidential biopic month continues with the 2016 television movie All the Way , about the blockbuster year of 1964 and Lyndon B. Johnson’s first (and only) year of presidential campaigning and his efforts to try to do nice things for all Americans by spearheading the War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Act. We know how Americans love it when leaders try to do things to make America a better place for everyone, so everything goes great for Lyndon, Martin Luther King and SNCC as they work to destroy institutional inequality. Americans grew emotionally and intellectually over the one-hundred years since the Civil War, so it’s not like anyone would want to vote against decency and their own self-interest. Aside from that, we discuss LBJ’s propensity for being a pathological liar, the positives and negatives of prosthetic ears, when we first saw Eyes on the Prize , and if Anthony Mackie is too hot to play anyone except Anthony Mackie. All the Way stars Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Anthony Mackie as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, Frank Langella as Senator Richard Russell, Stephen Root as J. Edgar Hoover, Ray Wise as Senator Everett Dirkson, Bradley Whitford as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Todd Weeks as Walter Jenkins, Bo Foxworth Robert McNamara, Aisha Hines as Fannie Lou Hamer, and Joe Morton as Roy Wilkins. Sources used in the episode include… Volumes 1, 2, and 4 of Robert Caro’s Lyndon Johnson bio. Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it. Follow us! Instagram: @biopicapodcaststory Website: https://biopicapodcaststory.podbean.com/ Contact us: biopiclistenermailbag@gmail.com…
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