With this year’s more diverse Oscars trying to make up ground lost by the #OscarsSoWhite debacles of previous years, and issues of representation getting more attention than ever (especially in Trump’s America), your friends at SportsAlcohol.com decided to sit down and have a conversation about representation and identification issues in popular culture. Marisa, Sara, Jon, Jesse, and Nathaniel talk about media that’s spoken to us for those reasons (be it gender, race, or geography), try to differentiate between representation and identification, and talk about all manner of movies and TV shows, past and present, including Hidden Figures, Moana, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, and many more. It’s one of our longest and widest-ranging conversations, with tangents on Marvel movies and self-casting and gotcha questions and college-dorm disclaimers, but we think it’s well worth listening to!
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Such a good podcast! I have a lot of thoughts.
The BAFTA’s diversity push is a good thing, but I am bracing myself for studios trying to squeeze films in on technicalities. Real “Johnny Depp says he’s Cherokee or maybe Creek” type bs.
Before I put on the weight, the world was my oyster when it came to choosing actors to play me. Now I’d be lucky for Jonah Hill with weight. Paul Giamatti is more likely.
Steven Wright is too old. Maybe Judah Friedlander?
Speaking of regional identification: my hometown has been used as a stand in for other places with horses in such films as Seabiscuit, The Horse Whisperer, and Billy Bathgate. The I-787 over pass was used to film an action scene for the movie Salt. Scorsese used the Stockade district in Schenectady to film the age of innocence. It wasn’t until The Place Beyond The Pines, which was shot AND set in Schenectady did locals loose their shit. theaters were packed for months as people watched this long difficult film just because the recognized the banks that were robbed.