The Birthday Party with Charles Randolph | Revisionist History: Development Hell | Malcolm Gladwell
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2024
- Before Charles Randolph won an Oscar for writing “The Big Short,” he adapted a memoir called “The Birthday Party”: the true story of a white man kidnapped by three young Black men. Is there a way to bring a story like that to screen, in a way that's honest and authentic? Randolph gives us a masterclass on a screenwriter's many minefields.
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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every podcast episode re-examines something from the past - an event, a person, an idea, even a song - and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
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Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
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Love these episodes man. Such engaging stories and insights into the psyches of people
I love your videos
Very nice. I'd love to hear Douglas Murray's take on this
Hey, hi Malc!
Amusing how both of them do not see the irony that you can't tell the true story because it goes against the narrative.
I am so glad this movie didn't get made with Murphy's horrible attempt at telling the story the way he wanted it told-because for him the audiences would be too stupid to make their own conclusions about what the real story means. Murphy neeeded to Hollywoodize it, otherwise it would just be way too boring, and way too void of its speech giving moments. What a load of crap.
He could have just wrote the story the way it was, and let people see that individuals are complicated, and we could each decide for ourselves how these characters came to be how they were. No wonder the actual protagonist of the story also hated it. By trying not to make it a statement about race, Murphy decided the best approach would be to make it ultra-centered on race. Not all whites kids are innocent, and not all black kids are criminals, and I don't think I need Murphy to be the one to wedge his take into a story that has it's own lessons to tell.
Its no wonder why most movies made these days are crap. Take a fascinating story and give it to a screenwriter to turn it into broccoli and Cap'n Crunch Soup with lighter fluid.
This has nothing to do with actual history. Or the Idea of Revisionist History