Episode: Movie Podcast
Date: December 17 2008
Time: 25:12
Website:http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=89697153
-Description of Episode:
Welcome to a pre holiday version NPR Movie Podcast the best NPR love for the movies, this week Bob Mandelow reviews 3 films in one review Beniciel Del Toro, on his latest revolution role, John Legisamo talks about his new holiday film, but first some of us find the holiday a bit emotionally challenging.
-Why I Picked This Podcast:
The podcast that I have chosen to listen to is called NPR Movies. It basically covers films and gives you a review about them for instants what are their strong points and. It gives you the opportunity to listen to the actor’s opinion about their character and how they played the role.
In the beginning of the podcast it talks about a girl called Amanda who’s parents got a divorce when she was in high school, ever since then Amanda has been suffering from Holiday Depression.
Because of the divorce Amanda says she had lost her Christmas Spirit, and Christmas started to become a dark painful holiday.
A few years ago Amanda decided that a few weeks before Christmas she would watch as many Christmas movies as possible at least 3 or 4 a night.
What I found really interesting about this is that Amanda knew by her self that watching these films over and over again would not help her solve her problem, however it helped her to get her Christmas spirit up again I mean she even started to believe that Santa still excites (which of course is true). But to me its really amazing how with some people after they watch a movie it makes them start believing.
The second part of the podcast talks about 3 movies. “The Reader” is about a 15 year old German school boy who has a 36 year old girlfriend. “Grand Tarino” is about a war veteran played by Clint Eastwood who hates immigrants however he gets in a middle of a fight and helps the immigrants and start stacking flowers on his front porch. “Doubt” is about a German priest from the Catholic Church played by Philip S Hoffmann who is caught by a nun played by Marel Streep molesting a alter boy. Now what puzzles me about this part of the podcast is that at the begging of all these movies the main characters are doing wrong things such as hate, and molestation but at the end of all 3 everything turns out well.
The third part is about the actor Beniciel Del Toro and his role as Che Guevara in the movie “Che”. Del Toro always wanted to play as Che Guevara, the first time he ever heard about him was in a Rolling Stones song called “Little Indian Girl”. Nearly the entire movie is in Spanish. What interesting about Del Toro is how interested he became about Che Guevara. The movie is 4:30 hours long. Del Toro says the way he became Che Guevara is he had to read about him how his personality was and what his reactions to certain feelings were. Something that I never news before that Che Guevara was from Argentina. Also another interesting fact is that there is even a beer names after Che Guevara.
The forth and final part is about John Lickwizamo new film about a Porto Rican man born in Chicago move to New York to be successful and ends up becoming as lawyer. Then he marries a successful investment banker who is a white Jewish girl. Then after years away from home he goes back to Chicago with his wife and introduces her to his family. Then the family has a hard time excepting her.
In this movie there’s a lot of jealousy and different emotions between the family which I am sure a lot of people can understand.
This podcast is very good it gives you all the information and back round about the movie and the actors playing in it. Plus it is not one of those podcast that is so boring that you fall asleep, NPR really keeps you awake and interested.
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