Trump Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center, RFK Confirmed, Eggflation Rampant | Brady Corbet

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Speaker 7 We got so much to talk about tonight. Trump gets horny for the performing arts.
Russia and Ukraine agree to couples therapy. And things are finally looking up for the measles.

Speaker 9 You know, congrats, guys.

Speaker 7 So let's get into another installment of the second coming of Donald J.

Speaker 10 Trump.

Speaker 10 I'm gonna come.

Speaker 11 Let's start with the big news from Donald Trump's cabinet.

Speaker 7 Robert F.

Speaker 11 Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee for health secretary and guy currently fighting a vulture for his lunch,

Speaker 12 has been officially confirmed.

Speaker 13 Now,

Speaker 14 I know, I know. They said it couldn't be done.

Speaker 8 Excuse me, they said it shouldn't be done, but now it has happened.

Speaker 14 So you can now add employment to the list of things he's tested positive for.

Speaker 11 But let's move on to a big development in the war in Ukraine. And remember during the campaign, Donald Trump made some big promises about how quickly and easily he was going to end that war.

Speaker 20 If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. I would tell Putin, you got to settle.
I would tell Zelensky, you got to settle.

Speaker 20 I would get a settlement in 24 hours, no longer than one day. I can get it ended as president-elect.

Speaker 8 I will get it settled before I even become president.

Speaker 8 I'm going to do it back to the future and end this war before it even starts.

Speaker 8 Go back in time, kiss my mom, maybe have sex with her. What am I talking about?

Speaker 6 What was I talking about?

Speaker 12 So here we are, one month into that first 24 hours, and Donald Trump is finally ready to negotiate.

Speaker 7 But it's going to be tough, which is why he started out with a quick warm-up negotiation first, an old-fashioned prisoner swap with Russia.

Speaker 16 Let's see how it went.

Speaker 21 Russia freed a wrongfully detained American teacher, Mark Fogel, returning to the U.S.

Speaker 21 after more than three years in Russian captivity, imprisoned for carrying a small amount of medically prescribed marijuana. In exchange, the U.S.

Speaker 21 releasing Russian cybercrime kingpin Alexander Vinnick.

Speaker 4 What?

Speaker 8 You traded a cybercrime kingpin for public school teacher Mark Fogel?

Speaker 12 This is like if the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncich

Speaker 23 for public school teacher Mark Fogel.

Speaker 8 I mean at least the teacher we got back is the cool teacher. He smokes weed and he's been to jail.
I mean you know, you know he's showing movies in fourth period.

Speaker 8 Also Americans stop smoking weed in Russia.

Speaker 19 If you need to relax, try not being in Russia.

Speaker 9 Okay, okay, now that Trump got all warmed up, it's time for the main event.

Speaker 21 This morning, President Trump pledging to meet with Russian President Putin in person after announcing they've agreed to start negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 1 President Trump saying,

Speaker 1 I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Speaker 1 We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar, and various other subjects.

Speaker 9 I'd like to know what those various other

Speaker 9 subjects were.

Speaker 8 I mean, it's a tad suspicious.

Speaker 18 It's like a husband coming back from a Vegas bachelor party saying, yeah, we ate some great food, we saw the sphere, did various other things.

Speaker 9 Anyway, you should get a prescription for Valtrex.

Speaker 16 So, Trump has now set the stage for face-to-face negotiations with Putin on the future of Ukraine.

Speaker 11 But Trump won't be going into this alone.

Speaker 7 He He also has Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a man who does not take no for an answer, according to police reports.

Speaker 14 So, get ready, Putin, because you're about to face the toughest negotiations of your life.

Speaker 21 Pete Hegseth, speaking at NATO headquarters during his first trip to Europe, was blunt, saying Ukraine's long-sought membership in NATO isn't realistic.

Speaker 21 Neither is thinking Ukraine can regain all the territory Russia has seized.

Speaker 25 We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.

Speaker 21 Measures that will likely be welcomed by Putin, prompting questions about whether Trump is giving up his leverage to negotiate with Russia.

Speaker 26 Speaking in unusually blunt terms, the German defense minister accusing the Trump administration of making concessions to Putin before these peace negotiations have even begun.

Speaker 5 Okay,

Speaker 8 so before negotiations even start, America gave up the two things Russia most wants.

Speaker 11 I mean, how do Hank Seth and Trump not know how to negotiate? Between the two of them, they've been divorced 97 times.

Speaker 8 I mean, if your opening move is giving away the house, the car, and the kids, best case scenario, you're leaving court with half of a golden retriever.

Speaker 18 I mean, no one's going to be happy with that except for maybe RFK Jr.

Speaker 23 But

Speaker 7 I guess there's still plenty of stuff to negotiate.

Speaker 8 For example, you know, which animal will Zelensky be fed to once the Russians take over?

Speaker 23 Probably a lion, but could be a shark, you know?

Speaker 4 There's room there.

Speaker 15 Whichever animal it is, they'll probably fall out of a window.

Speaker 13 Regardless, Trump is not gonna go driving a hard bargain on Ukraine's behalf, and that's fine.

Speaker 7 But as long as Ukraine is an equal member of this peace process, they'll get some of what they want.

Speaker 1 Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?

Speaker 4 Um,

Speaker 20 that's an interesting question.

Speaker 20 Yikes!

Speaker 8 That's like when my dentist asked if I floss.

Speaker 28 It's an interesting question.

Speaker 23 I gotta go!

Speaker 11 Okay, so this is not looking good for Ukraine.

Speaker 24 Imagine not even being invited to your own peace negotiations.

Speaker 7 It's like if your wife told you she wanted a threesome and then asked what night she'll be away on business.

Speaker 8 Have so much fun, sweetie.

Speaker 4 I'm strong enough for this.

Speaker 10 It's okay, I had it coming after Vegas.

Speaker 11 Now, you might think it's unfair to put Ukraine in this position after they were the ones invaded, but that's not exactly how Trump sees things.

Speaker 20 I think they have to make peace. Their people are being killed, and I think they have to make peace.

Speaker 20 I said that was not a good war to go into.

Speaker 20 Not a good war to go into?

Speaker 4 They were invaded.

Speaker 4 It wasn't their idea.

Speaker 9 Little advice for the back of Abraham Lincoln's head. Don't get hit by a bullet.
Not smart.

Speaker 4 Look.

Speaker 6 Here.

Speaker 11 Clearly, this is going to be a complex negotiation, and it couldn't have come at a worse time for Trump because he's also busy with his second job.

Speaker 7 Last week, he declared himself the chairman of Washington's Kennedy Center for the Arts, the government's premier arts institution.

Speaker 17 And if you're thinking, wait, Trump is completely unqualified to think about art, don't worry.

Speaker 9 He brought along an equally unqualified board to help him out.

Speaker 30 He was elected by a board that he recently shook up, replacing appointees by Democratic presidents with Trump loyalists.

Speaker 30 As for the board, it now includes Attorney General Pam Bondi, Second Lady Usha Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scamino, Allison Luttnick, who's the Commerce Secretary's wife.

Speaker 4 Okay, okay.

Speaker 8 First of all, what's up with this photo?

Speaker 8 Oh, you need a headshot of Mr.

Speaker 31 Scavino?

Speaker 8 Unfortunately, the only picture that exists of him is from when he walked in on his parents bumping uglies.

Speaker 8 But hey.

Speaker 8 Donald Trump loves arts entertainment and you could hear his genuine passion in a phone call he had with the board.

Speaker 32 I think we're going to do something very special. It got very wokey, and some people were not happy with it, and some people refused to go.
We're not going to have that.

Speaker 32 We're going to have something that would be very, very exciting. And we'll do things both physically and in every other way to make the building look even better.
I think we're going to make it hot.

Speaker 28 We made the presidency hot, so this should be easy.

Speaker 5 I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 Hot?

Speaker 9 Only Trump would look at a building and go, eh,

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Performing arts centers have gotten very wokey.

Speaker 8 Like that theater that kicked out Lauren Bobert for giving one little tug job.

Speaker 9 Blocking it over the khaki jack sesh.

Speaker 4 Not in my America.

Speaker 8 You heard Trump, though. No more woke theater.
Only plays written by straight men like.

Speaker 28 Tennessee Williams?

Speaker 31 Damn it, so close.

Speaker 8 Okay, so what will Trump's new role mean for the Kennedy Center?

Speaker 7 We at the Daily Show just got our hands on an exclusive look at what we can expect.

Speaker 18 The Kennedy Center, America's most prestigious home for the highest arts, is about to get hot.

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Speaker 31 Screw off Twinkle Toes because all ballet will now be done by Pole Dancers. Talk about a Nutcracker.

Speaker 31 And join us for our cinema series, featuring every movie where a babe climbs out of a pool. Donald Nike.

Speaker 28 And you bet your ass will have culture, better culture, like Hamilton, but with white people. A raisin in the sun, but with white people.

Speaker 33 And Chen Yun, but with white people.

Speaker 28 Plus, we'll award the Mark Twain Prize to Michael Richards, but not for Seinfeld, for his stand-up, and you know why.

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Speaker 28 Not just two, like 20. The Donald Trump Kennedy Center and Casino.
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Speaker 31 Arthur Miller.

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Speaker 11 Donald Trump campaigned on lowering egg prices, but he's been president for almost 14 years now, and eggs just hit their highest price yet.

Speaker 7 Which raises the question, how are New Yorkers handling the expense?

Speaker 11 Josh Johnson hit the streets to find out.

Speaker 34 Humpty Dumpty.

Speaker 36 What used to be a wholesome tale about the fragility of the human condition now serves as a stark reminder of the rising cost of these.

Speaker 35 Today, I'm talking with a group that consumes most of the eggs in the United States, people,

Speaker 37 to see how they are dealing with egg flation.

Speaker 35 flation.

Speaker 7 Can we afford another take?

Speaker 37 Eggflation, is it affecting you right now?

Speaker 38 I am being affected by it right now because my grandmother up in the Bronx is complaining how eggs is too high and it's absurd. I might go on an egg strike due to the prices, man.

Speaker 1 I know that right now they're like eight and up, which is

Speaker 31 the same.

Speaker 38 I might have to turn vegan, man.

Speaker 31 Really?

Speaker 39 No, I'm just kidding.

Speaker 31 Of course you're kidding. Yes.

Speaker 37 Vegans are a joke. How many eggs would you say the average person goes through in a week?

Speaker 1 Can't imagine more than a dozen in a week for one singular person. 18 for me.

Speaker 4 My gosh, maybe 18.

Speaker 31 18 eggs.

Speaker 36 That must be nice to afford.

Speaker 1 I can't afford it.

Speaker 37 Oh, you just balling like that.

Speaker 22 Okay. Abundant mindset.

Speaker 37 So I feel like with the with the very little resistance you've had to the whole like inflation of these eggs, are you like an heir to an egg fortune?

Speaker 1 Uh well we are from Texas.

Speaker 35 Okay, that that makes sense. You're from Texas and they hate when you waste eggs, whether they're from chickens or humans.

Speaker 4 Yes. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 37 Is there anything you're backing off of so you can still afford the eggs?

Speaker 31 We backing off of liquor.

Speaker 4 Oh, okay.

Speaker 31 Except Don Julio, we drink that.

Speaker 37 What was the last amount that you paid for like a dozen eggs?

Speaker 1 Like $15.

Speaker 16 What price do you think you stop eating eggs entirely?

Speaker 38 If it goes to $20,

Speaker 30 I would just have have to quit eggs entirely.

Speaker 37 Okay, so $20 eggs, that's your stopping point, means 19, we're still...

Speaker 38 19, we still are in the game.

Speaker 23 Damn, people are willing to go higher than I thought.

Speaker 4 I smell an opportunity.

Speaker 38 So if like some

Speaker 37 guy was selling eggs and he was selling them for like, you know, maybe even what do you mean some guy, like on the side of the road, do you mean? If I had an egg right here, right now,

Speaker 36 how much you paying paying for this guy?

Speaker 1 But this is not an enticing egg situation.

Speaker 25 These folks clearly didn't understand the value of what I was holding.

Speaker 41 So I went to a professional who would appreciate the opportunity in front of them. I'm looking to do some business today.

Speaker 42 And

Speaker 30 I brought a lot of inventory.

Speaker 23 What is that?

Speaker 31 It's eggs, man.

Speaker 40 Trying to sell you some eggs.

Speaker 18 I can't take eggs.

Speaker 31 Look.

Speaker 24 Do you want to buy anything or?

Speaker 41 I do. I do.
I do. Okay.

Speaker 36 So I'll take Nintendo Switch, I'll take two Switches, one MacBook Pro, and

Speaker 36 give me a bunch of bracelets.

Speaker 18 And I'll give you like three dozen.

Speaker 4 All right, man.

Speaker 27 Thanks for coming.

Speaker 30 Look at this.

Speaker 29 Regret.

Speaker 15 Regret.

Speaker 25 That guy wouldn't know a good deal if it flashed him in a trench coat.

Speaker 30 Time to take my product to the high rollers.

Speaker 4 Hi, how are you doing? I'm fine, how are you?

Speaker 42 Doing well.

Speaker 37 I'm looking to get something appraised.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 42 So I am very excited about it.

Speaker 1 So usually we're working more with diamonds, gemstones, precious metals.

Speaker 42 I'll tell you right now, on the street, these are going.

Speaker 1 The eggs?

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think an egg this is at least like four carrots i am going to just kindly ask you to please leave

Speaker 22 okay i'm gonna go because it feels like you pressed a button or something and like somebody's coming but missing out good luck precious metals precious eggs no buyers yet but once work gets around the streets i'm sure i'll become pretty popular and the yoke will be on them

Speaker 22 thank you josh when we come back ready corbet will be joining me on the show go go well

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Speaker 16 My guest tonight is a writer and director whose film The Brutalist is currently up for 10 Oscar nominations.

Speaker 9 Please welcome Brady Corbett.

Speaker 9 Welcome!

Speaker 15 Brady, I loved it.

Speaker 18 I loved the Brutalist. I really did.

Speaker 9 I thought it was what a beautiful piece of art.

Speaker 39 Thank you so much.

Speaker 39 I'm very grateful for that.

Speaker 15 Thank you.

Speaker 9 Here's the thing that also I love.

Speaker 10 When I start talking to people about the Brutalist, more often than not, people come up to me like, Did you know Laszlo Toth, the main character, is not a real person?

Speaker 19 Like, there seems to be a confusion.

Speaker 10 A lot of people think that it's based on a real brutalist architect, and I can't tell whether that's a compliment for the world building that you do or just a commentary on American ignorance.

Speaker 23 It's probably a little bit of both. Yeah.

Speaker 39 Yeah, I mean, the character is an amalgamation of a lot of, you know, real historical figures like Marcel Breuer, Mis Vandero, Lashla Mahali Noige, and many others. So it should evoke a real person.

Speaker 39 I think that's a positive thing.

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah, when you started creating this story, what was the nugget?

Speaker 10 What was the thing that got you interested?

Speaker 39 You know,

Speaker 39 in all seriousness, during

Speaker 39 Trump's first term,

Speaker 39 before we had a brief intermezzo.

Speaker 23 Yeah, you're talking about a billion years ago, way back then?

Speaker 39 He had a mandate that was called, you know, Make Federalist Buildings Beautiful Again.

Speaker 23 He was creative.

Speaker 39 And, you know,

Speaker 39 it's interesting that 75 years

Speaker 39 on,

Speaker 39 since the term brutalism was coined, it's still so divisive.

Speaker 39 And it's interesting because for me,

Speaker 39 I really feel that post-war psychology and post-war

Speaker 39 architecture are intrinsically linked.

Speaker 39 And

Speaker 39 this film is, that's what it's mostly concerned with.

Speaker 16 Yeah, well, I mean, you connect it also to the story of the immigrant experience, right?

Speaker 27 I mean, one of the most evocative moments is that first shot, which is sort of someone coming forth upon Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, right?

Speaker 19 How do you tie for somebody who doesn't, I mean, I'm as experts in brutalist architecture,

Speaker 14 How would you tie for the lay person how, like, how brutalist architecture is connected to sort of the immigrant experience and what that says about sort of an American experience?

Speaker 39 Well, you know, listen,

Speaker 39 the Bauhaus was shut down by the Nazis in the mid-1930s. It was predominantly Central and Eastern European Jewish architects and designers that were studying there.

Speaker 39 And so, you know,

Speaker 39 the mid-century design, you know, it mostly came from immigrant architects.

Speaker 39 And

Speaker 39 of course, there was a response to a lot of those buildings and those monuments, which was

Speaker 39 hyper-critical. And because the style of architecture was so unfamiliar, you know, communities wanted it torn down

Speaker 39 and they wanted their new neighbors thrown out.

Speaker 29 Now,

Speaker 24 it's interesting, this film, there's so many wonderful performances in it.

Speaker 10 There's a scene that really stuck with me.

Speaker 24 There's a scene when Adrian Brody gets off the train and he sees his cousin for the first time and his cousin lets him know that his wife is still alive and

Speaker 10 they they embrace and the whole scene is shot so so so close and there's so much physicality between the two of them. They're touching each other's face the whole time.

Speaker 10 It's so intimate and real and emotional and frankly I've never seen such a physical intimate scene contextualize something like that.

Speaker 14 I'm like curious, how do you direct something?

Speaker 10 Like, was the physicality and the closeness intentional in your direction there? How are you working with actors on something like that?

Speaker 39 Yeah, I mean, listen, I mean, it's two brilliant performers in that scene, Alessandra Devola and Adrian Brody.

Speaker 39 And the screenplays are very, you know, precise, mostly because they have to be. The film was shot in 33 days, and because the film was 170 pages long, it wasn't that much time.

Speaker 39 And so

Speaker 39 we don't storyboard mostly because I don't want to adhere too closely to a cartoon.

Speaker 39 But I want to show up to a space, respond to it, see what the light is doing, what the performers are doing. And I just told him I think it would be extremely moving

Speaker 39 if the two of you are very, very, very physical and very intimate together. Because

Speaker 39 when you see your uncle or your father,

Speaker 39 the patriarch,

Speaker 39 when they cry, it's like devastated. You just feel shattered by it because you see it so infrequently.
So I just thought to see these two

Speaker 39 men approaching middle age, sort of being that, you know, letting their guard down, especially in the late 1940s, because they just can't help themselves because they've missed each other so much.

Speaker 39 I thought it was quite beautiful.

Speaker 16 Is it true you didn't audition the actors, most of the actors, for their roles?

Speaker 39 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 39 I grew up as a performer for years, and

Speaker 39 I'm sure you've been in this position at some point, you know, in your career where you're preparing 13 pages of dialogue.

Speaker 9 They usually give me the one or two lines.

Speaker 4 And they're like,

Speaker 9 if you could just sip this Pepsi and say this one line, we'll see if you're right for the role.

Speaker 39 Well, you know, the 13, 14 seconds.

Speaker 39 But I always think about, you know,

Speaker 39 dozens and dozens of people's lives that are affected by preparing this material. And usually in the first 15 or 20 seconds they walk in the room you know whether or not they're right for the role.

Speaker 39 So I never, I want to be respectful of everyone's time and I only ask people to read more material than that. If it's really on the fly, like we're doing a cold reading together,

Speaker 39 especially with kids, you know, who like, you know, kids don't have a prior body of work for you to reference, so that process is a bit more significant.

Speaker 39 But you usually know after a page or two of dialogue, you know, at a maximum. And in general, I just avoid it altogether.
We just make offers to actors we like.

Speaker 27 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 And or maybe people you've met for the first time and have sort of rapport with.

Speaker 23 Oh yeah, pal.

Speaker 31 So that

Speaker 23 happens.

Speaker 34 You made this movie.

Speaker 10 I mean this movie's up for 10 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best director, best screenplay.

Speaker 6 And rightfully so, it just, it feels like a film.

Speaker 29 It's it's beautiful. You made it for $10 million?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 23 Like, I I I

Speaker 24 my understanding is to make a film that people go and see, you have to spend $80 million to make something like that.

Speaker 27 But this is a massive, honkin' film for $10 million.

Speaker 11 Like, what are these other films doing wrong?

Speaker 39 Oh, I mean, listen, on the one hand, I'd like to just say it would have been nice to have more money.

Speaker 39 I don't want anyone to get any ideas like, oh, well, they did that for $10 million.

Speaker 39 So let's try for nine on the next one.

Speaker 39 I think that it's really just due to our collaborators. I mean, my production designer, Judy Becker, is an iconic designer behind Brokeback Mountain, Carol.
I'm Not There.

Speaker 39 My cinematographer, Lil Crawley, and I have worked together for over a decade. We have a shorthand.
And most scenes are shot in, you know, one or two shots. I mean, it's shot like a 1950s melodrama.

Speaker 39 So it's mostly mediums and masters. And where you lose time is

Speaker 39 setting up a shot. It's not shooting a shot.
Shooting a shot shot takes as long as the scene takes, five minutes.

Speaker 39 So, you know, I prefer to schedule things in a way where we're doing one thing very well over and over again as opposed to 13 things poorly.

Speaker 39 And

Speaker 39 you know, I think that

Speaker 39 that we had really great partners on this producerially as well that just really understood, you know, what the pillars of the film were and where we could compromise and really understood where we couldn't.

Speaker 39 The film was shot on a large format that was engineered in the 1950s called VistaVision,

Speaker 39 which is,

Speaker 39 it's essentially what it does is instead of the film being pulled through the gate vertically, it's turned horizontally so you get more neg area out of regular 35 millimeter stock.

Speaker 18 And, you know, I nodded like I knew what you were talking about, but I realized that was.

Speaker 23 I'm sure that that'll probably be cut out. Oh, it's like, yeah, I was like, oh, that's, yeah, no, oh, yeah, totally, totally.

Speaker 7 Classic 1950s Vistavision.

Speaker 16 I was surprised when I got here and I was the only guest.

Speaker 8 I was like, assumed I was the second or third guest.

Speaker 34 And this is why.

Speaker 4 Do you want to hear more about Vistavision? Tell me more, Brady, about Vista Vision. It's just the animalist architecture.

Speaker 31 Jesus.

Speaker 7 Your poor audience was like expecting Ariana Grande.

Speaker 6 We could never book Ariana Grande.

Speaker 4 I'll tell you.

Speaker 8 You know what?

Speaker 16 It's funny.

Speaker 7 You joke about this, and it is true.

Speaker 7 This movie, I will say, I say this, I truly love this film.

Speaker 18 I hope you have nothing but success at the Academy Awards.

Speaker 7 On paper, nobody sees this film, right?

Speaker 23 Sure.

Speaker 7 It's three hours and

Speaker 7 a half hours.

Speaker 39 Yeah, it's three hours and 35 minutes.

Speaker 23 There's an intermission in it.

Speaker 18 It's about brutalist architecture, made for under $10 million.

Speaker 23 Right?

Speaker 8 It's a great pitch.

Speaker 4 It's a great pitch.

Speaker 8 Shot on VistaVision, inspired by 1950s melodramatic cinema.

Speaker 7 This up against the latest Marvel movie is a tough pitch.

Speaker 7 But I would say what is fascinating is like the experience, it feels like such an experience to go to it.

Speaker 18 We had Francis Ford Coppola on this show, and he talked about his most recent film, and he really wanted to adventize film.

Speaker 11 He's like, so many people are watching this at home now, and going to see it in the theater, experiencing the intermission with people at the theater, hearing people talk about it as they're getting popcorn, using the restroom.

Speaker 19 Like, it's changing.

Speaker 18 It feels different than watching it at home.

Speaker 10 It feels different than watching just a regular hour and a half Marvel film.

Speaker 7 Do you think there might be some trend towards things that are a little bit longer, that intermissions might be something that I want to do?

Speaker 39 I mean, listen,

Speaker 39 it wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 39 In the 1970s, movies like Midnight Cowboy were commercially viable.

Speaker 39 And I really hope that we get back to that.

Speaker 39 Our industry changed for a lot of reasons, partially because of streaming, partially because of COVID, partially because of the strikes, you know, and I understand why companies are more risk-averse than ever.

Speaker 39 However, if you look at the crop of nominees this year, you know, they're really radical, strange films, they're strange propositions, which I think should signal for everyone that audiences do want daring, original, provocative films.

Speaker 39 And

Speaker 30 I think it's very,

Speaker 6 I'm glad you agree.

Speaker 39 You know,

Speaker 39 I really,

Speaker 39 you know,

Speaker 39 I respect audiences and I believe that audiences, you know,

Speaker 39 are really, really clever and they're more clever than ever because there's so much information out there about how movies are made and there's an awareness of the post-production process and visual effects, et cetera.

Speaker 39 So, you know, they're really savvy and I think it's important that we treat them with respect.

Speaker 24 Awesome. Well, couldn't be better said.

Speaker 15 The Brutalist is in theaters everywhere.

Speaker 6 Trady Corvette. We're going to take a quick break right back after that.
Thank you, guys.

Speaker 6 Thank you you for doing it.

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