When did April change over from the cruelest month into the best movie month of the year?! Nathaniel, Sara, Marisa, and Jesse all saw Everybody Wants Some!! and Sing Street and wanted to talk about their common ground, as well as the careers of their respective directors: Richard Linklater and John Carney. Listen to our wide-ranging discussion and find out:
- What we like best about Linklater
- If any of us have seen The Newton Boys
- What movies (besides Once) Sing Street brought to mind
- Whether we could stomach hanging out with the baseball team from Everybody Wants Some!!
- Our bizarre next assignment for John Carney
Spoiler Warning: We talk about the endings of both movies.
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We talked a lot about Linklater, but I still feel bad we didn’t talk about Waking Life/Scanner Darkly.
Well, for my part I regretted not getting to point out maybe my favorite touch in EWS!! (SPOILING PRACTICALLY THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE SPOILED IN THIS MOVIE):
Willoughby has a collection of Twilight Zone episodes he’s taped on VHS. Later, after it is revealed that he’s actually a 30-something and Willoughby isn’t even his real name, I wondered if he’d chosen the name after the Twilight Zone episode “A Stop at Willoughby,” which is about a guy who falls asleep on a train and wakes up at a stop in an idyllic 19th century town called Willoughby. He keeps waking up before he’s able to get off the train and stay in the past, until the end of the episode where he succeeds and after he is greeted warmly be the townspeople in the past, we see back in the present that he actually died leaping from the still moving train.
Amazing!
Jesse was totally right about the intentionality of gay subtext in EWS!!
http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/linklater-on-everybody-wants-somes-gay-subtext.html