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143: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

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150: Not lunch with Adam Blythe

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The Frame's preview of The Academy Awards

And those. KPCC podcasts are supported by wanna brothers pictures, presenting a soulful authentic a star is born. Starring Bradley Cooper, lady Gaga and Sam Elliott in their Academy Award nominated performances for consideration in all categories. And by marvel studios. Black Panther now nominated for seven Academy Awards including costume and production. Design score original song all the stars performed by Kendrick Lamar and Ciza and best motion picture. From the broadcast center at KPCC. This is the frame annual preview of the Academy Awards. I'm John horn. What's the best way to describe this year's best picture nominees? These are amazingly fun entertaining complex, depressing tragic. Absurd beams and subjects Atta McKay. The director of vice was actually talking about his own film. But you get the picture on this special hour long show, you'll hear from many of the top Oscar nominees, including actress, Emma stone, one of the three featured women in the favorite whose women are not only complex, but they're also detestable in their own ways lovable in their own ways. They're human also on the show is Spike Lee nominated for directing black klansman win Jordan pill, gave me the pitch of the film. Black men at the trace KKK, the first word came to my mind is is true. Stick around. It's Oscar time on the frame. KPCC podcasts are supported by wonder brothers pictures, presenting the sole fli authentic. A star is born. Starring Bradley Cooper, lady Gaga and Sam Elliot in their Academy Award nominated performances now nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture and best adapted screenplay. Kenneth Durant of the Los Angeles Times calls it passionate, emotional and. Fearless. An af I calls the film stellar achievement in its own universe for consideration in all categories. Now. Waiting for Stewart? Welcome to the frames fifth annual Academy Awards special from KPCC in Los Angeles. I'm John horn, the host of the daily arts and entertainment show, the frame, and I'm Rebecca Keegan's senior film editor at the Hollywood reporter, John. Hey, Rebecca, we're here to set the tone for this show, just as the host of the Oscars does for that ceremony. And speaking of that, ladies and gentlemen, your host Mr. Steve Martin not this year. Mr. Billy, crystal. I can't do it right now. I'm busy gooky goal. Hell, no. I've never been to the Oscars before this is my first time here and the way you people go through host is probably my last time here. So. About quitting. But I realize they're going to have to ask. Anyway in the last thing need to lose another job. Kevin hough. Well, none of those comedians who once hosted the Oscars will be doing it again this year, in fact for the first time since the rob Snow White fiasco from nineteen eighty nine there will be no host at this year's ceremony. Right. There was the the well-covered Kevin Hart dobacco he was asked and then sort of disinvited before that the academy had spoken with Dwayne the rock Johnson multiple times as you said, he had some big ideas for the show and would have loved to have hosted it, but timing didn't allow no in unlike the Academy Awards he doesn't take himself very seriously. So maybe that would have been a good way to loosen up the show, John there is a universe in which a hostess Oscars isn't the worst idea? Partly that's because the academy is under a lot of pressure to deliver the show in three hours this year. That's what ABC wants from them. But ultimately the Oscars come down to celebrating the best films last year. I was thinking about how. Oh, so many of them were really hard to make. If you haven't seen it free solo is the movie about Alex Hahn, who's climbing the face of El capitain, it's three thousand feet he's climbing without a rope. And I think so many narrative films kind of face their own sort of El capitan, they were hard to get made hard to finance hard to bring to the screen. Yeah. I mean, one movie that had a sort of long torture journey to the screen. Ultimately was dismissed by critics, but embraced by audiences was bohemian rhapsody. Is this just fantasy? Scape? This is a movie that was almost a decade in the making the director Bryan singer was fired in the middle of production replaced by Dexter Fletcher reviews were kind of mixed and yet it has grossed more than eight hundred fifty million dollars at the global box office. Yeah. And one thing even critics agreed on was the very strong performance by Rami Malla who plays Freddie, Mercury the larger than life frontman of Queen. Here's a human being who appears to be super human at times struts onstage in a crown and Cape. He's the closest thing we get to one of these marvel characters bohemian rhapsody has five Oscar nominations, including best actor for Rami Malik. He won that award from his peers at the Screen Actors Guild, and when he joined us in studio mal talked about the way he found his way into playing, Freddie. Mercury. You know, I needed the teeth the teeth were something that was a first moment when I thought, oh, I never thought I looked like him. But this is going to help. This is going to help immensely. It was something that, Freddie. Was very insecure about and I wore them from day one. I felt insecure, but I felt a little bit closer to him. But Polly Bennett was the person that allowed me to discover how moved how he walked into a room how articulated himself alone of his movements come from Bob Fosse. So we spent a lot of time watching that. We would also take the lyrics of killer Queen and she would say all right. You know, these lyrics and say. Now, give me this soliloquy of killer Queen performed by Marie Antoinette. I did it over and over and I gave this Shakespearean performance. And I saw my my body doing things that defied me as a human being. And all of a sudden, you see something that very transformative and elegant and Barry regal, which wise Rebecca when I'm thinking about these movies that were really hard to get made bohemian rhapsody, certainly was and then there's the Glenn Close film the wife. This is a movie that was in development for fourteen years. Glenn Close was with it for about five years, and Glenn Close talked about how hard it was to get financing for this film. The thing that used to drive me nuts and still does is though you have a proven record of good choices and a talent that people have in. Vested in. You're it's there. So few people who won't just risk on talent and passion and story, and that's the whole. That's what an independent movie is you have to have this insane feeling that it's important to make. And you're not gonna give up, but I remember going to some office, and they say, well, we don't share your passion is he I don't need your passion. I've enough passion for this whole room full. I just need your money share your money. I've got the passion. This movie is about the wife of a man who wins the Nobel prize for literature. We come to see that she has been very underestimated in her role in his career and his success. Joe, please don't think me in your speech. I don't want to be thought of as the long suffering wife. You understand that don't? Thank you. Everyone thinks that life. If I don't come up like some nor cystic best you are. A you are. Quick Joni one-sentence, it'll be painless. No for her performance in the wife. Glenn Close is up for the lead. Actress Oscar is just hit some sort of place in people's hearts, you know, that that or has great resonance, and you that's nothing. You could really plan we shot it in the fall of twenty sixteen and we premiered at Toronto and twenty seventeen and I remember sitting in that audience. I just thought, you know, I've made another little independent film. And it was a great experience. And I adored the director, and then I sat there and listened to the audience in that packed house respond to every nuance of that film. And I was shocked, and I still can feel my sense of astonishment that this story which seems so specific about this. Very complex relationship had such profound residents with the audience and. You know, it ended up getting sold to every country in the world. I mean, it's just it's incredible. And then between the time it was premiered in the time. It was actually released the metoo movement started. So I think it's it's it's these amazing events that have happened that have been very serendipitous for the film itself. John Glenn close already won the sag award. And not that it matters in terms of the Oscars. But she did also win the Golden Globe. And have to say, I loved her speech at the Globes. I'm thinking of my mom. Who really supplemented herself to my whole life. And in her eighty she said to me, I feel I haven't a conscious accomplished anything, and it was so not right. And there's a lot of pressure on Oscar winners this year to keep their speeches short forty five seconds. I would say this Glenn Close option is a good one. You think people are gonna think they're agents and their publicist just for the first time in the history of man that's going to happen. They're definitely going to do that. But here's another idea, which is to tell a story that is revealing impersonal and get it done quickly as Glenn Close did good point. And I think speaking of a good story the documentary free solo among all movies narrative, nonfiction alike, was one of the most memorable tales about the climb of Alex honolu-. I thought this was one of those movies that took you into world that you've never seen before you're totally Merson at your terrified scarier than any horror movie I've ever seen. I'm curious what you thought of free solo wonderful use of the big screen experience. They're trying to. People to come out and see movies in theaters documentaries, especially your you had the experience of climbing El capitan alongside this remarkable young man, it's a movie that is co directed by real life. Couple Jimmy Chen and CHAI Vassar Ellie for us. We always thought that. I mean, he is a fascinating person. What he does strawberry. And it was material enough to make a great character study at the time he was single. And so he was living in a van, and he was also dating online a bunch, and we thought that'd be kind of humorous unexpected. But it took this dramatic twist essentially when he told us he was considering free soloing Pap in a way this process of Alex preparing to free solo Al CAPP was really a process for the crew and myself to really refine exactly how we wanted to shoot. It know we had a year and a half practice to get ready. And here's what the climber. Alex HANA the star of the movie said about it's making the things I've been dreaming about selling cap for maybe eight years at that point and each season. Now trove Andy seventy in things like this is the year that I'm going to sell all cab. And then I'd drive in look at the wall and co my God this is not the season in sell. And so I'd want into for quite a long time. So it's not as if I just decided all of a sudden, but then they doing film, and I sort of saw the so the film is a good opportunity to finally actually put the effort in and try to sell cap, I'd sort of realized that without putting. All the work and putting in the effort. I would never really know if I was able to solo cap, I I realized that it was never going to happen. I'm obviously thinking a little bit about what's good for the film. But ultimately, I care about myself a lot more in that care about the film. And so you know, I care about my own safety about survival. Infinitely more than I care about getting shot for movie. And so, you know. Yeah. In the back of my mind and thinking about the filming process, but really I'm I'm just doing my own thing. That was Hanell climber. Who's the subject of the Oscar nominated documentary feature free solo the other nominees in this category? Are hill county this morning this evening, minding, the gap of fathers and sons and Rb g. Coming up some of the key people who created the world of what Kanda for Black Panther. We saw the opportunity to create something with marvel that they haven't done, and because it wasn't a place that existed or had really been defined in any other film. We could really play with that. And Spike Lee gets his first nomination as best director the word tone. You had to get the right balance. Some of my they would film makes done nece Stanley Kubrick for Dr Strangelove, what is more serious than now Latian this earth, but that film and a lot of you rent. You're listening to the frame Oscar special from KPCC in Los Angeles. Stick around. We'll be right back. PCC podcasts are supported by. Fox searchlight pictures, presenting the favorite now nominated for ten Academy Awards, including best director your goes length. The most best actress Livia Coleman best supporting actress, Emma stone and Rachel vice best original screenplay best costume design best, film editing. Best production design, best cinematography and best picture of the year for your consideration. Seen the movie San Andreas, right? Beaches. Stick of money. I've got some bad news for you. When the big one hits the rock won't save. You want to know how to get ready for the next major quake? I'm Jacob Margolis science reporter and host of TV CC's new podcast the big one your survival guide prepare yourself. Listen in apple podcasts. Welcome back to the frames Academy Awards special. I'm Rebecca Keegan senior film editor for the Hollywood reporter John horn host to the frame from KPCC in Los Angeles. Today, we're hearing from some of the Oscar nominees about how and why they made the movies that brought them to the Academy Awards and the case of Black Panther. How they made history. Good, son. Give to you pretty. The Black Panther is the first comic book movie to get a best picture nomination. It's made one point three billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and it's cast comb the sag award for best on samba. It broke barriers and some other ways to John I think it's a remarkable film. It is a action movie led by black cast it set an African country. Even though Kanda I'm sorry to tell you is fictional. It has six Oscar nominations total including for production, designer hint be cler, and it's worth noting. She's the first African American to be nominated in that category and be cler work with Ryan Kugler on a couple of his earlier movies fruitvale station in creed. And she said that with this movie, she in Kugler went to a whole other level because it wasn't a place that existed or had really been defined in any other founder about what conduct kinda we could really, you know, play with that. And we wanted to do a lot of practical builds we did. Didn't really wanna use a lot of blue screen, and that's also the money went because when you have done stuff in camera, meaning it's real, and you can hold it as opposed to digital stuff that is so prevalent and all of these movies, and you know, as soon as you see it. It's fake. Your bias is going to be do it real. But you're making these massive sets. And you've got you know, you're building a country. You know, we had a lot of extensions I would build so far and they would extend and digitally. So it was we we tried not to put the effects in front with always something to be in the back, and that the actors had, you know, was it was tactile and tangible and the actor had things to act off of and it's not there's not walking into an empty space. And that was important for me. And it was important to Ryan that that was there. So even some, you know of the exterior stuff, we built, you know, the waterfall all the people all over well this past it to have that water being real being live being there and people waiting in all day every day and fighting in it, and and doing the thing that they're doing and having the extras, and when you see something like that for the first time that you did that you worked on for months. It was just it just took my breath away. The Black Panthers also nominated for outstanding score. The composer is Ludvig goeransson who just want Grammy for his work with rapper childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover. Here's Ludvig deconstructing the track from Black Panther called kill monger. It's the theme for the character. Played by Michael, Jordan, Fula flute is from tribe culture Lonnie, and they have their own type of fluid is like wooden flute. It's a very specific sewn. So took the car, and we picked up this player and his name is among do as soon as we got back through studio started playing and I was shocked by the sound of it. And I was like this this kill monger to me having read the script. Just connected to me with his character. So I pulled the flu player aside and use my translator to tell about kill monger. Eric came older. It given manga is. I told him about the concept of the movie, it's a superhero movie kill longer is the bad guy. But he has good intentions. He wants to make the world better. But in the way that he sees he is very impulsive. But he's super smart. He's from Africa. But he grew up in Oakland grow up in America. But he's coming to Africa to take the throne and he's predictable. Let's start really mysterious and then go up in. Going crazy. And you'll okay, I get it and close the door, and I gave him a note in the strings. And he started playing very mysteriously. I super soft. And I could just see him transform into this character. And then he was ramping up ramping up the energy. Suddenly, boom, just hit a high note and then scream kill longer longer. Got. To swim crazy in the flute. I got goosebumps and kid this. This is something special. Theme was one of the most difficult pieces to right because he's character was really complex. And it took some time before I understood every layer of character. And to me, the music is trying to place character in this piece of music, it's four layers in the first layer is the piano melody. I see. You see him with his back turned against you. He is at a museum in London, and he is talking to the curator about these artifacts. And you don't really have idea who he is. You don't know what's his intentions are. So the piece of music starts very south to start mysterious and harp is doubling the piano. Which to me represents his genius background. You know? Ellen MIT and did some really extensive training in the military, and when piano melody turns into the strings it also kind of translates to his suffering. And then the string in the harp. Kind of goes together in unison. I just love the sound of strings and harp together. It just made it a little bit more sad to me like an old story. That was the goeransson who score for Black Panthers up for an Oscar. That piece was from our friend reshi case here way who does this song exposure podcast. Another nominee in that category. And I think it's the movie that's going to win is nNcholas Patel score for if Beale street could talk Beale street was written and directed by Barry Jenkins whose last movie moonlight famously lost for thirty seconds. And then won the best picture Oscar in two thousand seventeen this year. He's nominated for adapted screenplay for Bill street. The film is based on the James Baldwin Novello of the same name set in Harlem in the nineteen. Seventies tells the story of a young African American couple in love and what happens when the man Fani is sent to prison for a crime. He didn't commit home, which the young lovers, which other was the first thing that grabbed me jumps off the page in a certain way, and especially in this novel because you know, Mr. Baldwin wrote with two very distinct voices he wrote with many voices. There are two that always don't talk to me the most one which just almost enraptured with this idea of sensuality with love with romance with passion. The other one was just as searing about depicting societal injustices, particularly the way that the lives and souls of black folks. Has been treated by the country that we all call call home. And so when I read the book for the first time and saw just how how devoted Titian funny arts one another how they're basically creating this world of two people. I was just I don't know. How can you not be lifted up by this conceptual idea of two young black people as soulmates there's something about it? That was so rich and potent just lush that grabbed me, and then when you bring the families into it as well because I wrote this at the same time that I wrote moonlight and moolah as depiction of certain kind of families the family, I grew up in Bill stretches two very different families of the one I grew up in. But what what I really felt like volume was working out was within one scene in the film. There's a scene where you have eight actress sitting in a room, and these two families, basically, the basic negotiating how do we treat the same problem? Using air quotes the same problem one family as a blessing to the other family. It's a problem, and I just love how you put all these very different depictions of blackness. Of black family of religion, all these different carriages, very different concept at the same thing. And so as trying to solve the same scenario the same problem, they're all doing it with different tools, and I just love as a drama is now speaking purely as somebody who gets to have fun making art because like, oh, this is delicious. And I think when you wash he was in the film. It does read as delicious would a capital D. Barry Jenkins has a great partnership with his composer, necklace. Brutal. They worked together on moonlight and Patel. Also did the score for Beale street. And I spoke with was Patel before an audience here at KABC alive event. And he played bits of the score on the piano for us. Barry had these great first instincts of horns and brass. You know, so first cords, and ideas, I had I was following this idea of brass and thinking of New York and mid twentieth century, let's nineteen early nineteen seventies. But so I was using jazz harmonies in a way. But then I was also kind of writing it very classically at the same time. So the first chords, I wrote are actually it was this melody. There's a piece that that. I did where feeling these sort of core. So feeling those ideas, but with brass? I'm going to ask you about this idea of for shadowing because Beale street is a love story. But it's a love story where somebody has been unjustly accused of crime. And there's kind of a convention of bad scoring where somebody comes on screen. We hear like the villains team. And we know that that's going to be the guy who's going to kill everybody. But as a composer, how do you think about the better smarter version of that where you're suggesting in things that thanks look good. But maybe they're not how do you do that musically different types of films required different like different dialectic films? That are more fantasy like will require more music. Oftentimes, for example, you know, imagined Star Wars the score is big the fantasy is big, you know, different genres required for music with with Beale street. I think and with and with moonlight. It was really a question of discovering. What is that? Dialectic and something that I don't think we knew it. I exactly how that was going to come together in Beale street, what we ended up finding together was we had explored the world of joy in the world of love. There's a piece which we I hear when Titian Fani make love for the first time piece called euros. So in with euros, which is these kind of cords. So those courts form the basis of this year s which is out for cello, actually, all challenges, and what we wound up with was actually taking that piece euros and taking elements of the cello 's that I'd recorded and bending them and distorting them in Barry would actually say he'd say, how do we break it, and what happens to the cello, and the breaking of it in the harming to it is in a sense what the injustice is doing to the love. That's in the film. That was nNcholas retell talking about his score for at Beale street could talk. This is the frames annual Oscar preview show coming to you from KPCC in Los Angeles. I'm John horn here with Rebecca Keegan sticking with music, the best song nominees this year have some pretty massive starpower Kendrick Lamar's nominated for his Black Panther song. All the stars lady. Gaga for her song. Shallow from a star is born. So one of Gaga is key collaborators is the songwriter and producer, Mark Ronson. He co wrote shallow with lady Gaga along with. Anthony, Russell Mondo and Andrew Wyatt. And Ronson told us what it's like to be in the studio working with lady Gaga, she has that thing where everyone puts the headphones on. And it's kind of nice because it's like ritualistic thing that you put to have because she's singing you hear every nuance of her voice. Like that closes almost like it's inside your head is quite inspiring. So he go, and she's got this. Idea for this course. And I think she started off with it. You know, I'm off the deep end. What is that? There was a couple, of course, who's like I think it's around here. You know, she's like hammering at the piano. The. Sometimes with someone like her most of the songs in her head and as a producer. You're just there to like be abounding board kinda like throw a couplet. I think I probably had surface and hurt us like because I was like, okay. I know where she's trying to go like ending. You're just throwing couplets that she might be able to insert into her narrative is really what's going on. Kim. From this. And then getting out the way too much 'cause like her language is different the mine, and I don't wanna like pollute the water too much either. And then I think that it took a little while like we are trying some verse ideas or something, and I think we just hitting a wall, and maybe overdoing it on like this wing drowning analogy and just took a break from it from it. And then Anthony and Andrew this at guitar. And then she Sangley tell me something, I don't know where that came from. What that was that was just like. And then obviously it wasn't intentionally meant for to be duet. It was just a sound for Allie to sing. And then it wasn't until I saw the first cut or rough assemblage the movie that I saw he'd turned it into duet. And I was like oh, man. It's yeah. It was just it was really it was special. I kind of wanted to like run out of like, it was badly coupe was very kind and invited me to his house to watch this rough assemblage and like as soon as that happened. I just wanted to like dart out of the room and call Anthony and Andrew like, you guys aren't going to believe this. Lady Gaga also has a best lead actress nomination her competition for that. Oscar is not only Glenn Close. We heard from earlier, but also alleviate Coleman for her role is Queen Anne in the favourite. When people ask me what the favourite is. I tell them that. It's like a punk rock version of all About Eve set in eighteenth century seventy early eighteenth century, even though it's a period film. It has some great kind of modern touches not only dialogue but also costume design production design camera moves score. I think it's super cool movie movies also unusual netted it has three juicy roles for women and Estonian Rachel vice are also nominated for Oscars in the supporting actress category. Here's Emma stone. These women are are not only, you know complex, but they're also kind of detestable in their own ways lovable in their own ways. They're just. They're they're human. They're women that are completely human and there's three of them interacting with each other. It's just a beautiful that's hard to see three men on screen that are that are that fully formed put much swimming ritual, kind of mirrored what stone was saying about how unusual it is to get a script that has not one not two, but three great roles for women to have so many different colors to that characters that that kind needy cruel sadistic playful, sexual everything I mean, everything you could ridiculous absurd that will things, and you could have really pin the characters down a name them, just one simple way. Which as m so eloquently said makes them human. We all so many different things the favorite has ten all-star nominations this year that ties it with Roma the elephants Koran movie for most nominations, we're going to hear from L phones. Okay. Iran, and the two women who starred as film later in this show Zik around it's the frames Ostra special from KPCC in Los Angeles. KPCC podcasts are supported by marvel studios, presenting Black Panther the LA times raves. Black Panther is the cinematic event of the year Vanity Fair calls it, a political and social triumph USA today. Claims. Black Panther is a rousing cultural movement and now nominated for seven Academy Awards including costume and production. Design score original song all the stars performed by Kendrick Lamar syzza and best motion picture. Welcome back. You're listening to a preview of the Academy Awards. I'm Rebecca Keegan from the Hollywood reporter cure with John horn, host of the frame on KPCC and a minute. We're going to go into the final stretch of this year's Oscar special Moby talking about a whole bunch of true stories on screen, but I want to take down to talk about one movie that I'm very thankful is not based on a true story, and that is a quiet place. This is a movie that is in many ways almost a silent movie. It's about a family living in this apocalyptic. Era where you cannot make any noise or monsters will hear you and reputa- shreds and rip you to shreds some remarkable performances, including Emily blunt almost silently giving birth. The movies made nearly three hundred fifty million dollars worldwide at has only one Oscar nomination, but it's for an ironic category, sound editing. Hear the sound editor 's from a quiet place in its most sort of basic broad description, sound editing is the collection and creation of the sounds and putting that altogether into picture. My name is Eric ADL. My name is Yvonne vendor on, you know, sound editors kind of like composers. We're following this family that has to survive by understanding sound there are these creatures that have hyper acute hearing on. So in a way sound kind of becomes a central character in this story and creates this experience. That's you know, I deal in. This was our goal would put the audience into the shoes of the characters and make them active. Participants in this experience. So basically Emily's character. Evelyn her water has broken so baby is impending which you can imagine in this world is kind of a nightmare and a creature. Has sensed that there's some activity going on. So it comes down into the basement two sniffer out. This is Emily's breathing from set. But also supplemented with some eighty are which recorded in the studio. So everything else is completely reconstructed in post production sound, so Emily has just found this egg timer, which he's going to use his a sonic diversion. And there we hear the creature approaching these creatures are essentially blind. So they use their sound perception to navigate through the world. And so we mmediately thought of creatures that use Eckel Cassian and sonar like bats and dolphins. And in our experimental process of creating the sound started with those more literal animal sounds, but found that they were a little too recognizable. And we wanted something a little more alien, and we stumbled upon a prop that we have here in the shop, which is an electrical stun gun, which makes these clicking sounds that. We can kind of perform like a musical instrument using grapes. So we can kind of manipulate the stun gun against the grape, which is very much like, you know, human skin. It's got a thin skin on it and a fleshy interior that conducts the electric city, and we slowed those stun gun clicks down about seventy five percents. And those are. Clicks that you hear here for the creatures searching. So those those are the stair creek says it's coming down into the basement. Egg timers going. And we're about to hear the egg-timer from the creatures point of view. It's years now open up. So that timer going off Serbs as the sonic distraction for Emily to be able to escape the basement and now head upstairs for the infamous bathtub scene. To give birth that feature was produced for us by Tim, grieving. Okay, john. Let's get into some actual true stories that are in the running for best picture. I was at the annual Oscar nominees lunch and a couple of weeks ago. And I think one of the biggest ovations for any of the nominees was for Spike Lee who had never been nominated for directing before. Lee. Best picture, directing and adapted. Spreen play lack plans men. I do think there is a sense that spikes honor is a longtime coming from the academy many people remember the award season. When do the right thing was out in in theaters and making such a cultural impact and spike was not nominated for director that year. This is the movie that came to spike, thanks to producer, Jordan Peele. It was based on the memoir of former Colorado police officer, Ron stallworth and Spike Lee adapted that book with screenwriters Kevin Willmott, Charlie walk Dell and David Rabinowitz and they're nominated for best adapted screenplay when Jordan pill gave me the pitch at a film. Six word pitch. Black men. Infiltrates KKK the first word Kane. My mind is is true and enjoy send. Yes. And then the next word this is absurd. So the Umer this is not a comedy. The you move from black clans consummate sturdy of the premise so Ganic carrying that weren't writing jokes Lee were getting humor organically from the premise. Now, the word tone was hard is what we did you had to get the right balance. Some of my favorite film makes done nece. Standing Kubrick foot. Doctor Strangelove what is more serious than the now elation of this earth of humankind. I don't get more serious in that. But that film had a lot of it. So it's been done before. I didn't do right thing. We back eighty nine, but it's very hard to get the right balance like tightrope Walker go of bounce to let the right in the ground splattered. You're listening to the frames Oscar special I'm John horn host of the frame, and I'm here with Rebecca Keegan senior film editor at the Hollywood reporter. We're at the point in the show where we're talking about a number of true stories that are in the running for best picture next up is green book green book is based on the life and travels of Don, Shirley, he's an incredibly accomplished pianist. But not very well known. He goes on a tour of the deep south in the Jim crow era, nineteen sixties he's accompanied by a bodyguard played by Vigo Mortenson, and it's about their journey together in about what they learn from each other as they're dealing with racism on the road. Don Shirley's played by Mahershala Ali who won an Oscar for his role in moonlight a couple years ago. He's up for best supporting actor again this year. He could take given that he won the sag award are ready and the BAFTA which is the British equivalent to the Oscar and his co star in green book Vigo Mortenson is nominated for best actor people that said to me, you know, it's it's great it came out. Now a good time because countries divided ID lodge. There's a lot of intention all indirect sometimes very direct race baiting, and you know, homophobia and all kinds of stuff in the air, the adults people should be behaving. Well, our leaders always leading by example lately. But I I say, yeah, it is a good movie to come out at this time because it's entertaining reach a lot of people. And it's not a movie, you wouldn't say, well, let's go see that movie. It's a movie about racism, you'd say, let's go see this movie here. It's funny and as a great road movie, and it's it's true buddy story. And then you go see it, and whether you're from a small town in Texas, or from California doesn't matter where you see it in the country, and what your political leanings of your household might be. You're gonna you're gonna get a history lesson and a civics lesson. You're gonna have some think about but it's not in your face. Ironically, this is a feel good movie. That's had a feel bad storyline. This award season in terms of number of controversies that have surrounded it. There have been objections on the part of Don Shirley's family, as to the way his story is told there have been comments about the way in which the story sort of centers Viggo Mortensen since character in a tale about race relations in the south. Another issue was Nick Villalonga, who's the co screenwriter of the film, and is the son of the character that Vigo Mortenson plays in the film had to apologize for some anti-muslim tweets that he had sent out despite that controversy green book has done really well at the box office gross more than one hundred million dollars worldwide. And I think it has a real outside shot at winning best picture. Okay. So another movie based on real life is Roma. John veracity was so important to L Fonsi, corona for this movie that he pain. Staking Lee recreated the home of his youth in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City one they found myself in these particularly lousy move. And I'm shooting the scene and. I'm so frustrated with that I have to guess to say, okay. Let's take five minutes. I need to take a walk, and I took a walk, and it was the street for I grew up and I'm walking us as well. On your so upset. Yeah. You're shooting your childhood street and his. What's going on? Whereas you soups it, relax. You know? He's like how many people have the chance to recreate their childhood. And there's a recent what you with. I go back to keep on working. And I tell the three have you felt suffocated. As yes. And we start talking about feeling suffocating life. What happened this simple? You'll feel suffocated you breath. And you're not going to have the sense of being able to breath on to get into the car and begin breathing blowing the car starts and you'd drive away. Oh, man. If it's a relief, you're really breathe again. We did the scene. It's great. And is when I realized that I'm directing the character. My father leaving the family. A person that has always judge from outside. And for the first time I have to dig into his motivation. I'm not young to justify your selfish selfish, but he was feeling suffocated. And and he could not stand there in that family anymore. One of the interesting facts about this film were to win the best picture and the best foreign language. Oscar how many movies have done that before? I don't know zero. Never happened before. So now, fun fact the other thing that was very important too often Zocor owned, it's not just making the house, look like his childhood home. But to make sure that the actors reminded him of the people who took care of him and the actresses e found were elites operates yo she had never acted before. And her co-star is marina, data visa and both have Oscar nominations, right? Marina plays Sophia the character of Alfonso Koren's, mother elites place. Cleo, the character based on his childhood nanny, she's really the center of the film. It's her point of view from which it's told it's been fascinating watching the journey of these women from telluride when you and I first met them and learn their names to becoming Oscar nominees at the center of this extraordinary movie. Yeah. When we sat down with them until we were joined by you'll eat says translator and unlike. Yeah. Lead submarine 'as professional actress, but she told us that her audition for Roma was unlike any other the only thing I had to do a sit down and took about my life. Whatever. I wanted to say about my life. How my childhood was who were my parents not really about my job or my life as an actress. But most my life as a person, and then I didn't hear about them like for months and then one day, they call me, they wouldn't see me again. I still didn't know who director was. And then I went again, they gave me a legal scene and to memorize right in in that moment, I did it. And in the end, they told me it was a movie that was going to be directed by on. So my heart release topped their unlike Reno you hadn't done a lot of acting. How did you find out about this movie? What was your first contact from Honda Koran about being in Romo Redmond annoy to another? But I'll see. So I'd never done thing in the movie industry before at all. Actually, I've never studied to become an actress or anything at all. I just graduated to become a teacher. There were I leave in lackey echoing Oaxaca, actually, I would to the casting because my sister wanted to know what a custom was all about. And I didn't have a glue who voted what was not a clue. So I started looking up him on the internet. But just the pictures. I just saw the pictures once I got to the gusting place. I did the casting whether to custom process and what I liked that. He spoke to me as if he knew me from longtime ago. So I trust it. And he asked me to have peace of mind to take it easy. And he said just do what do normally too. And that was my custom brussel those were the Oscar nominated actresses from Roma another film with a best picture nomination. It's based on real life is vice which stars Christian bale as former Vice President Dick Cheney and Amy Adams as his wife Lynn, both Christian bale and Amy Adams are nominated for Oscars as his writer director, Adam McKay, polarizing movie bought people love. A lot of people hated it. I don't think George W Bush and Dick Cheney are big fans. I thought just as he did in the big short advocate did a superb job of taking a story that may be you vaguely understood and making it really relatable and deeply entertaining. Good news for Adam McKay that the majority of the academy is politically liberal since how people responded to this movie does seem to fall in some ways along political lines. No question in particular that Christian Bale's, physical performance and his inhabiting of the character of Dick Cheney was really stunning MacKay. Just picked up the BAFTA for original screenplay. This is how we saw his main character former Vice President Dick Cheney entered the story of Dick Cheney is sort of a mystery because he's not a guy who's left a lot of bread crumbs as to who he is. And how is life came into shape? I really do think the first act is Lynn story. And I really do think when you look at dick Chaney, it's really dick and Lynch. Cheney's story. You already got your Astro out of Yale for drinking and fighting an just going to be a lush than hangs power lines for the state that you're gonna live in a trailer. We're gonna have ten kids as the plan. No, we're gonna discuss this right now, you smell like vomit cheap booze does tick want some coffee get out out. Dick want some cotton Jesus Christ. And then I think what happened the second part of it is that once he got into government at turned out. He had the skills. He had a patience. He had an eye for detail. Lot of came from him being a fly fisherman. People liked him. He was funny. He got what was going on? And he was able to ascend to heights that maybe Don Rumsfeld in and Lynne. Cheney wouldn't have been able to reach. That was writer director Adam McKay, his movie vice is among the eight nominees for best picture. Rebecca, it's a very open race. I think been a lot of ups and downs. We've come to this part of the show where I have to ask you who do you? And by by declaring this I am virtually dooming this movie because of my track record in in prediction making, but I will say that I think Roma is going to be the first net flicks movie to win best picture. I think the number of categories in which it's nominated the respect for the filmmaking craft and also the extent to which many people in the academy. See the industry evolving Bina sesame in part because of this company. I think that is probably right. I think found those gonna win director of the could win for cinematography. I will say the chance of the spoiler in all of this is green book a lot of people didn't like the movie, but enough people love it that I think it has an outside shot. So Rebecca, we will not have a host to think we're gonna have a good show hope so the weirder. The better in my book, the more surprises, the more spontaneity on down and all of that in three hours or less impossible. I'd say, so why do we think will happen when they hit the man? Updated three hour point. I think the screens go black. They're gonna cut the local news, and you'll have to find out on Twitter who won dark dark, and that's going to do it for our preview of the ninety. I Academy Awards from KPCC in Los Angeles. I'm Rebecca Keegan of the Hollywood reporter you can follow me on Twitter at that. Rebecca, and I'm John horn, the host of the frame, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram at J G horn, you can find the frame in apple podcasts Spotify or wherever fine podcasts are found to all the nominees and good luck to you Rebecca for your office pool, which I know probably won't. Casting is supported by FOX searchlight presenting the favorite now nominated for ten Academy Awards, including director your goes length. Actress a Levin Coleman supporting actresses, Emma stone in Rachel vice original screenplay and best picture of the year. Now playing.

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