Episode 35 - Finn's Film Fanatics

[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome to Kendall speaks. I'm Dr. Brian Stewart Kendall campus president. And today's show, we have three excellent guests. First, we have club advisor and employee, and behind the scenes man here @ Kendall speaks, Mr. Paul Klein. [00:00:27] Speaker B: Welcome. Thank. [00:00:27] Speaker C: You. Thank. [00:00:28] Speaker A: You. And then we have two of your students that are part of this wonderful club we're going to talk about today. Joshua Leyva and then Janser Rodriguez Perez. Yeah. All right. [00:00:36] Speaker D: Welcome. Thank. [00:00:37] Speaker A: You. Glad to have you guys here. [00:00:38] Speaker D: Today. Thank you. Thank you for inviting. [00:00:39] Speaker A: Us. All right, Paul, let's first start with. [00:00:41] Speaker B: You. [00:00:41] Speaker A: Sure. Tell us a little bit about your path to Miami Dade College and how you got to the Kendall. [00:00:45] Speaker C: Campus. Well. And what you do here and what I do here. So last time I was on the show, I compared how I arrived here at MDC to a movie to Floating Reeds by Yasujiro Ozu. This time I'm going to compare it to the movie Flow, which won best animated film Oscar this year, because that's kind of how I ended up here. I got a job here as a tutor. That was early 2000s. And like a lot of people at Miami Dade College, there's so many opportunities here. We just kind of hang around and just keep building our way up and up and up. And so here I am. And now I am the manager of the speech lab, which is now the speech and podcast lab. And I do everything podcast. I edit these episodes. I'm going to make myself sound really good. And that's basically it. Here we. [00:01:30] Speaker A: Are. Well, thank you for making me sound good all these times. I know that's difficult. All right, Janser, tell us about your path and how you got to Miami Dade. [00:01:38] Speaker D: College. All right, so basically I started off at John A. Ferguson Senior High School, and I. [00:01:44] Speaker C: Wanted. [00:01:44] Speaker D: Okay. And I wanted to kind of go to a place where I had a good sense of community and a closed area where I can meet new people and explore new options. Because I wasn't really sure on what to do for the future. I want to try and have a safe place where I can experiment. So I joined the Miami Dade Honors College. I got in, and I like it so far. I get a lot of chance to develop on filmmaking and editing skills and things like that that I really enjoy. So that's how I ended up. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Here. When did you graduate from Ferguson? 2024. Who was your. [00:02:09] Speaker D: Principal? Principal. It was Barnett. Her name was Burnett. [00:02:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then what year are you in the Honors. [00:02:15] Speaker D: College? I'm in the second year of the Honors. [00:02:16] Speaker A: College. So have you had all Your math. [00:02:18] Speaker D: Yet? Yeah, I got. Well, no, I'm missing one. I'm missing. [00:02:20] Speaker A: One. What are you missing? Statistics. Okay, well, I'm not teaching that one. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Sorry. All. [00:02:24] Speaker A: Right. We're glad to have you. All right. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Josh. Me and Yancer have been friends since high school, so I went to Ferguson as. [00:02:31] Speaker A: Well. [00:02:31] Speaker B: Okay. I kind of came to. To MDC Honors because I. I didn't really want. I don't think I was ready to move away yet. So I wanted to find a place that it was small. I heard that NBC Honors is a very small community. So I'm also in the Honors College and I saw that they pay for your tuition, so that was a. That was a good. [00:02:51] Speaker C: Plus. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah. And, yeah, I just. I. I wanted to come here because I also wanted a challenge. I didn't just want to breeze by college. I wanted to do more things. And I know the Honors College is a good pathway to. [00:03:02] Speaker A: Success. Yeah, Honors College is great. What are your majors? Do you know and where do you want to. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Go? I. I'm an English major and I want to go to somewhere in New York. Nyu. Emerson would be a good one too, because as an English major, I'm a writer, so I like to write movies and I like to write songs as well. So, yeah, that's my. [00:03:20] Speaker A: Career. My daughter went to college in New York, played college volleyball, but got her degree in media Studies and is now doing. You're probably going to be at a higher level than what she's doing, but, yeah, that's a great choice. What about you? What's your major and where do you want to. [00:03:32] Speaker D: Go? So right now I'm doing a graphic or commercial arts major and I'm super interested in video editing and learning about media and marketing and things like that. So there's this program at fiu that's the digital communications, and I definitely want to go there and check it out and get more. Learn more about media, learn how I can use it to create a bigger message and even help businesses. [00:03:49] Speaker A: Grow. Never know. Well, that's great. Well, the Honors College, you guys are doing a great thing, so thank you for being here today. Paul, tell us a little bit about the club and how it got started here at the Kendall. [00:03:58] Speaker C: Campus. Well, it started with an email. April 2023. I checked. I got an email from Keenan Machado, which actually you guys went to. [00:04:07] Speaker B: School with, or I know him because of the alums from last year. Okay. Yeah. [00:04:12] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, he was kind of very well known around campus. Kind of had his hand in everything, was always going on trips and doing film stuff. And he emailed me and said, I want to start a club. And John Frazier, who was on the last episode, recommended me because we worked together on arts and letters, and I did a presentation on the life of a film critic. And he was like, well, Paul has the experience, so talk to him. And I was like, immediately, yeah, this. I kind of feel like this is what I was born to do. So jumped on there, and that's kind of how it started. And we just sort of developed it since. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Then. I know these guys probably don't know Siskel and Ebert, but that's kind of the. The. You're now kind of picking up the. The banner of that. [00:04:54] Speaker C: Now. I. I like to think so. I think Roger Ebert kind of is actually like my. My favorite. [00:04:59] Speaker A: Critic. [00:04:59] Speaker C: Critic. You guys don't. [00:05:00] Speaker A: Know. You should Google. You really. [00:05:01] Speaker B: Should. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Okay. They kind of set the stage for moving reviews critically. They were very hard on movies. [00:05:07] Speaker C: And. [00:05:07] Speaker A: Yep. And sometimes we're right, sometimes we're. [00:05:09] Speaker C: Wrong. Absolutely. And they were. They were happy to be wrong. And I think Roger. No, actually, I know Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize. [00:05:16] Speaker B: Actually. Oh, he. [00:05:17] Speaker C: Did? Yeah. So the only critic to have won the Pulitzer Prize. So. [00:05:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:21] Speaker C: Yeah. He's been my inspiration and is kind of like my cool writer. [00:05:25] Speaker A: Idol. That's really cool. Well, tell us, what's the. The meaning behind the name of the club? Finn's Film. [00:05:31] Speaker C: Fanatics. Alliteration. Yeah, we, like. I love alliteration. And Keenan and I were sitting around, and I think we were throwing out ideas like movie sharks or something really kind of awful. And then I said, how about Finn's Film Fanatics? And he's like, I'm going to think about it. And then, like, a week went by, and then I got the letter from student life that said, okay, we're starting Finn's Film Fanatics. And I was like, well, I guess the name stuck. So here we are. I. I'm happy with it. I don't know how you guys feel about. [00:05:57] Speaker B: It. That is a perfect. [00:05:58] Speaker D: Name. Yeah, it's. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Perfect. So I think it was the last podcast, or maybe the one before that, that some of our students were saying, why don't we show more movies here? And so maybe. I don't know if that's. Maybe that's something we can talk about before, because I think there's a segment of our population of students who would love to maybe see a movie and then discuss it. Maybe you guys could lead that. [00:06:17] Speaker C: Discussion. Well, we're kind of doing that. We're kind of spearheading that now. We're having our, what, our third screening this semester tomorrow. [00:06:24] Speaker B: Right? Yes. Baby. [00:06:25] Speaker D: Driver. Baby. [00:06:26] Speaker A: Driver. Oh, really classic. It. [00:06:28] Speaker C: Is. It's not. It's not. Oh, it's a good. [00:06:31] Speaker A: Movie. It's not a great. [00:06:32] Speaker C: Movie. I'll be in the minority on this. [00:06:34] Speaker B: One. He hates the director for Baby. [00:06:36] Speaker D: Driver. Come. [00:06:37] Speaker C: On. I used to like him. I don't like him. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Anymore. Who's the. [00:06:39] Speaker C: Director? Edgar. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Wright. [00:06:40] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, he has the movie. Running man is out in theaters right now, and it's bombing, and I'm so happy. Are you not going to see it? Okay. I am going to go see it, actually. But still, yeah, I mean, uh, we've been doing screenings here, and then actually, because of the screenings, we actually had a student reach out to me about three weeks ago, and she was like, I would like to show a movie for my club, which was the Tribeta Biology. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Club. Is that Chemistry. [00:07:06] Speaker C: Club? I think it's a chemistry. [00:07:08] Speaker B: Club. It was Amanda. [00:07:08] Speaker C: Right? [00:07:09] Speaker B: Yes. [00:07:09] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. So she reached out and I was like, oh, well, we were just doing it for our club, but sure. And so they. They came in last week, Thursday, and they watched Avatar, the whole three hours of Avatar in the speech lab. And they brought a popcorn machine and everything. And like, they were so happy. And I just remember now she sent me an email thanking. I did not. I have to remember to write back to her. But yeah, so we're kind of expanding that already. We have the projector here and we have the sound going through our nice speakers that we have set up in here. So it's. It's going already. We hope to kind of keep going with. [00:07:43] Speaker B: That. Yeah. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, I'll come attending. Yanser, let's talk a little bit about what inspired you to join this. [00:07:48] Speaker D: Crew. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm really into making movies. And like we mentioned before, me and Josh know each other since high school, and we worked together on a lot of fun films that we worked on, and it was a lot of fun. So I'm like, man, this club has a film club, and I definitely would be like to be part of it. And one of my main motivators was the fact that I felt like the school kind of needed a place where people could hang out, meet other people as well and. And kind of connect on a smaller scale on something they have in common. Right? So like a movie or an experience we could all share. So it would be really cool if I could also be part of that experience, have a club and help people Connect with each other in the. [00:08:21] Speaker A: School. Well, that's great. I don't know if you even know this, Paul, but we bought a significant amount of equipment about a year ago that's never been. [00:08:29] Speaker C: Used. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Really? We have a lab over in building M that we need to walk through sometime, but we have cameras. We. We have all sorts of equipment to produce. [00:08:37] Speaker C: Movies. Oh. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Wow. And what we originally gonna do, the north campus, is the campus with the program. We're hoping to be the first year of that. So people come to us for the first year and transfer there. Well, meanwhile, we were told to get all this equipment, which we now have. Well, you guys are students, and under your leadership as the advisor, if you want to use that equipment, we can make that. [00:08:57] Speaker C: Happen. Yes, that'd be great. That's. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Awesome. So let's do a field trip one day, and I'll take you guys over there. Joshua, tell us, what type of films or genres does the club focus on and. [00:09:06] Speaker B: Why? Well, we like to. We like to hit every type of genre because staying stuck in one would just end up being boring at some point. Every month is a new genre. So for October, it was obviously Spooky month. And now November is action month, and so on and so. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Forth. But what's your favorite spooky movie since we're on. We just finished. [00:09:24] Speaker B: It. Spooky would be a quiet. [00:09:26] Speaker D: Place. Oh, I like that. [00:09:28] Speaker B: One. [00:09:28] Speaker A: Yes. Is Die Hard a Christmas movie or. [00:09:30] Speaker B: Not? It's one of those that take place in Christmas, but it's not a Christmas. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Movie. Yancer, what do you say. [00:09:36] Speaker D: Now? It's got to be a Christmas movie, Paul, you. [00:09:38] Speaker B: Would. [00:09:38] Speaker C: It. It's. It's not. But I do want to posit one that should be from the same era that's much more of a Christmas movie that's also an action movie. Lethal Weapon is so much more Christmasy than. Than Die Hard. They have Christmas music, Christmas decorations. Die Hard just has it at the beginning, but once you kind of get to the upper floors, there's nothing Christmassy about. [00:09:56] Speaker A: It. You're gone. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's a party scene in it, too, but that's quick. Go ahead. I. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Interrupt. I also feel that a Christmas movie is something that you can show to everybody. And I don't think you should Die Hard to. [00:10:08] Speaker A: Children. No, you can't. Well, along those lines, we showed a movie last year that apparently we've been doing forever, and we didn't do it this year, but it's a Nightmare Before Christmas. Before Christmas we showed outside Building M. On the wall and I'd never seen it. Don't laugh at me. And I see movies all the time. And I watched it last year. I'm like this movie. I didn't like it for that very reason. You can't. It's not for everybody, I guess. Yeah, but you may probably love that. [00:10:33] Speaker B: Movie. I do love that. [00:10:34] Speaker A: Movie. Okay, well, maybe I didn't get. [00:10:35] Speaker C: It. So it's kind of dark. And you don't expect that necessarily from a Christmas. [00:10:40] Speaker D: Movie. Let's get a little. [00:10:41] Speaker C: Bizarre. It gets a little bizarre. [00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah. There is the Halloween or Christmas. Which one is. [00:10:45] Speaker C: It? Do we choose which one we prefer? Yeah, Christmas. Hundred percent. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. [00:10:50] Speaker A: Okay. I think so. What do you. [00:10:52] Speaker B: Say? I. I think it's both. I think you show it at. [00:10:54] Speaker A: Any. Oh, you didn't give us that choice though. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. Are we picking. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Question. Are we picking which is our favorite season or what kind of movie is it? Is it a Halloween or a Christmas. [00:11:02] Speaker B: Movie? Yeah, I mean, it could be both. Or which one do you. [00:11:04] Speaker C: Prefer? I think it's more of a Halloween movie than a Christmas. [00:11:08] Speaker B: Movie. Yeah, I know. I just saw it at both times. I can't get. [00:11:11] Speaker C: Enough. No, we said just now we were talking about the same. Just randomly. This is what we talk about. We talked about that and we said we would just watch it in November, like right in the middle, right after Halloween, right before Christmas, just to. [00:11:22] Speaker A: Make sure there's a lot of great movies around. Both of them. My daughter is huge into Halloween. It's her favorite holiday. So she just watches movies all the time. So how do we, how do you guys decide what film to feature and watch? And, you know, how do you, how do you analyze as a group what's the process of you're gonna do Baby Driver? Coming up. Tell us how that process works and did you discuss it and what do you. [00:11:43] Speaker D: Do? Yeah, so we have this group chat where we kind of send a list of movies that we want to watch for the month and then we vote on it. Democracy. We take a vote and see what each person would like to watch and then the one with the most votes gets chosen. And that's the one that's had. [00:11:55] Speaker B: To screen for the board members. We try to choose movies that people have heard of but never seen. So I've heard. Like surprisingly, I thought Baby Driver was a well seen movie, but it's not. Yeah. So that's just something we try to. We try to show people new things without it being too niche. Right. [00:12:13] Speaker A: Okay. What. What's Been the biggest surprise that you movie that you saw anything. [00:12:18] Speaker D: That. Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. So we recently, recently watched For Halloween, the Substance. And that movie was just not it for me. I personally don't like gore and I dislike it a lot. And this movie, for context, extremely gory, extremely bizarre on that aspect. Body horror. And I couldn't watch. I stood up and I went out and I pretended I wasn't looking. I couldn't take was. It was definitely a. [00:12:39] Speaker C: Ride. Can I really want to tell this story? Because this has been like my favorite experience of Finn's film fanatics over the two and years that we've been doing this. I was here for the screening. I was actually in my office watching a different gory horror movie. I was watching the thing for our podcast because I'd already seen the Substance and I was like, let me let them watch it. I warned the answer. I told him from the beginning, I said, you don't like gory movies, you're gonna have a hard time with this. And so I was kind of stepping in and out and then when it was over, I was. I was watching the last five minutes with you guys. And as it was over, it was just dead quiet in here. And I go over to turn the lights on. I have never seen so many pale faces in one room. Like everybody was just sick to their stomachs and they're all just quiet going, what the heck did we just. [00:13:19] Speaker A: See? Was it. [00:13:19] Speaker C: Gory? It's very. [00:13:20] Speaker A: Gory. When did it come. [00:13:21] Speaker C: Out? Last year. It actually. Debbie Moore was. Is starring in it and she was nominated for an Oscar for it. It's one of the few horror films to be nominated for an Oscar. So there is stuff going on. It's not just gore, but it doesn't hold back on that on that either, so. But yeah, and then Yanser turns to me when I. When I'm standing there and he's like, why didn't you warn me? And I'm like, I warned you. [00:13:44] Speaker D: For a week it was going to be that. [00:13:46] Speaker B: Bad. Yeah, it's the only horror movie that's made me sick to my stomach. I. [00:13:50] Speaker A: Couldn'T. You too. [00:13:51] Speaker B: Huh? [00:13:51] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, well, I have to watch that one. All right. What do you focus on when you're doing this? The filmmaking, the critique, the appreciation for it. All three. What is sort of the. The. [00:14:02] Speaker D: Goal? Definitely all three. Again, like I mentioned, the goal is to get people to connect to a movie, appreciate it. We critique it as well. We talk about the cinematography, the Type of shots, they use those little minute details that you missed that is really interesting to see back on. You're like, wow, I didn't notice that. And someone always has, like, a different take on it. Someone's like, oh, yeah. Did you notice that this scene applied to the foreshadowing? Whoa. Applied to the foreshadowing. I didn't notice that. So then you get all these people that come together, talk about a specific thing, and you connect and you make friends, and it's really exciting to see who shows up and what we watch and what people's reaction is on. [00:14:34] Speaker B: It. Yeah, from. I wanted to do this thing because in high school, we had a film teacher, and after the end of every movie, he would just sit down on the stool and say, what did you think? So after we watched the Substance, we were sitting there for, like, 20 to 30 minutes just speaking about what just. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Happened. Yeah, that's a great point. Anytime I go to a movie, my son is who I would always go to movies with. I took him very young to Resident Evil. In some of those movies, you shouldn't see the very first thing we do. That's what we talk about. All the blind spot. There's several movies that we just came out of, just shocked. Blindside was a movie that we really liked, the football. [00:15:09] Speaker C: Movie. Oh. [00:15:09] Speaker A: Yeah. And so that's a really good point. Paul, talk to us a little about what inspired you to advise the Finns, film fanatics, and what you found to be the most rewarding part of mentoring these. [00:15:20] Speaker C: Students. So as I mentioned before, it was just sort of like kismet, you know, like, it was like, no, we gotta do this. This is what I'm doing. It was just a natural fit for me. And as far as what I've learned, what I get out of it, and what I really like about it is sort of is that conversation that we have after. And especially for me, like, what I've noticed, I didn't notice it until recently, is like, I'm kind of aging out, in a sense. And like, my friend groups, the people that I talk to, especially like my critic friends and things like that, we're all the same age and we're all kind of, like, you know, homogenized at this point. So I'm kind of hearing the same opinions. And so what I really like is hearing you young folks opinions. I'll disagree most of the time and yell at. [00:16:04] Speaker A: You. But especially movies that we grew up with that are no. [00:16:07] Speaker C: Longer. Oh, my. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Gosh. [00:16:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Like, the stuff that they call Classics. And I was like, that was 20 years. [00:16:10] Speaker A: Ago. That's not that. [00:16:11] Speaker C: Far. Yeah. That's not a. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Classic. Well, that reminds me of my question, and I'll start with you two. What's the best? And I'm from Texas, so I've only been here about seven years. What's the best movie that was based in Miami that you've. [00:16:24] Speaker B: Seen? I mean, a classic would be Scarface. I'm trying to think of. [00:16:28] Speaker D: More. That's the only one, like, I could pinpoint on top of my head that I've seen that is based on. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Miami. What do you. [00:16:34] Speaker C: Say? Not best, but the first one that comes to mind is Bad. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Boys. I know that's the one. That's the newest one that's been. They just did a fourth one, I think. [00:16:41] Speaker C: Yeah. Even though they filmed those in Atlanta. Oh, like 70% of them are filmed in Atlanta. The first two were filmed here in Miami, but, like, now it's, like, cheaper to film in. In. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Georgia. You see that on the ends of the shows, it says Georgia. Georgia. When you're waiting for the. If you're seeing an Avenger movie and you want to see. You always see. And, you know, Fort Worth, Texas, is also becoming a. I don't know if you see the show Landman, but Texas has also done some things that's a. That's a show on Netflix, I think. But anyway, that's no hbo. [00:17:11] Speaker C: Hulu. I think that's the Bob. I forgot his. [00:17:15] Speaker A: Name. Billy Bob. [00:17:15] Speaker C: Thornton. Billy Bob. [00:17:16] Speaker A: Thornton. Really great. Really great series. But anyway, Fort Worth has created some things because of the cattle and the Texas and all that sort of stuff, so. But you're right. Georgia is very, very. [00:17:25] Speaker B: Popular. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Are anybody else on Miami shows? I. I mean, I know there's a lot of scenes, but you're right. They. They don't shoot them here, necessarily. It's just the setting is the. [00:17:34] Speaker C: First two they did because they. [00:17:35] Speaker A: Just. [00:17:35] Speaker C: They. I don't know why. I. I guess they got tax breaks or something, but those. And then the next two. Now off to. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Georgia. All right, this question's for all of you. If you could direct or remake any movie, which one would it be and. [00:17:47] Speaker D: Why? Who wants to go first in. [00:17:50] Speaker A: Genre? [00:17:51] Speaker C: Anything. [00:17:51] Speaker D: Anything? I would love to direct a comedy. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Movie. [00:17:54] Speaker D: Okay. It sounds like so much fun. You ever seen, like, the Office, like one of those shows? I would love to be the. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Director. Who would your stars be? Who would you. Who would you put in it as your. As my stars is your funny Guys. Guys and. [00:18:04] Speaker D: Gals. Wow. That's a. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Good. You have to bring back. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Michael. [00:18:08] Speaker D: What? Oh, my. Yes. I love that guy. That guy's great. I'm really good with actor. [00:18:13] Speaker A: Names. [00:18:14] Speaker D: Yeah. I don't know how they look. That's. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Okay. You're just going to direct them. Yeah. What you say? What about you. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Joshua? For me, one thing that I definitely want to do in my lifetime is the Great Gatsby. Every iteration of that movie has been. [00:18:27] Speaker D: Terrible. That's right. [00:18:28] Speaker C: Yeah. You didn't like the Baz Luhrmann. [00:18:30] Speaker A: Version? [00:18:30] Speaker B: No. After reading the book, I was like, this is not anything like the book at all. But I just. I don't know how it ever. I don't know how I could ever get someone better than Leonardo. [00:18:42] Speaker A: DiCaprio. No. Right. How many versions have been. [00:18:44] Speaker B: Done? I think there's only. [00:18:45] Speaker C: Two. There's a Robert Redford, then there's the Leo. [00:18:48] Speaker A: DiCaprio. That's enough. Huh? If there's two of. [00:18:51] Speaker C: Them. Got it. The obvious answer is. [00:18:54] Speaker B: Tron. [00:18:55] Speaker C: Okay. I love Tron. So I would love to do another Tron movie. Last one. Bomb. So it's not gonna happen, but we can all hope. And then I kind of have, like, the jerk answer that I just want to. I just want to troll. Joshua. The answer. I would say I would like to remake Interstellar and actually make it. [00:19:12] Speaker D: Good. I know, Paul. [00:19:14] Speaker C: No. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Yes. That movie. [00:19:16] Speaker C: Is. Did you see Interstellar, Dr. [00:19:17] Speaker A: Stewart? I don't think. [00:19:18] Speaker C: So. That was the. Was it Matthew. [00:19:20] Speaker B: McConaughey? [00:19:20] Speaker C: Yeah. When they Go to. [00:19:21] Speaker A: Space? Yeah, yeah. [00:19:23] Speaker C: Yeah. It was advertised as being like this hard sci fi movie, and all it was was the. The sci fi went to the side and it was just sort of platitudes and, you know, and I. I despise that movie. But people love it now. Like, it's really, like, in the 10 years since it came out, people love it. I want to redirect it, I want to remake it, and I want to set things. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Right. Paul might be the only person doesn't like that. [00:19:45] Speaker D: Movie. I'm actually so curious, but what do you change about. [00:19:47] Speaker C: It? Like, like I said I would. I would remove all, like, the platitudes of, like, there's a love universe and, you know, and put in some. The real sci fi, the real science that was actually initially in the script. I'd kind of focus more on that. [00:19:59] Speaker D: So. Interesting. [00:20:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, I'm not a big fan of underwater movies or space movies now. I do love Star wars, all that. [00:20:07] Speaker C: Stuff. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Yeah. But some movies that, you know, like, Alien. When you're underwater, in the water. I just don't like those kind of movies. To me, when you're trapped. And now that's part of the scary part of. [00:20:17] Speaker C: It. Are you. [00:20:17] Speaker A: Claustrophobic? Not at. [00:20:18] Speaker C: All. [00:20:18] Speaker A: No. Just. That's why I didn't see Interstellar, because something about the space didn't. Didn't. [00:20:24] Speaker C: Jive. You saved yourself a lot of heartache. [00:20:27] Speaker A: There. You guys. [00:20:29] Speaker B: Disagree? I could tell saying, yeah, all. [00:20:31] Speaker A: Right. Are there any specific skills that you've learned, editing, directing, script writing that have helped you since joining the. [00:20:38] Speaker D: Club? Yeah, absolutely. So since I was like 12 years old in seventh grade, I got into editing videos. Many for, like, a fun YouTube channel type of thing. But then I'm like, wow, I actually like doing this. So I spent a lot of my time just editing, messing around with programs like Premiere Pro, Photoshop and After Effects, and just kind of learning and getting better as I progress. I also, like I mentioned me and Josh worked on movies before, so we definitely have some filmmaking experience in there that helped us with this. [00:21:01] Speaker A: Club. And the technology's really improved and. [00:21:03] Speaker D: Helps. Yes, the technology has been a great. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Factor. You can do things on your own you. [00:21:08] Speaker D: Couldn'T. Yeah, that's. [00:21:09] Speaker B: True. Yeah, I know back in the day, like in the 90s or like in the 1900s, you would have to, like, save up forever to buy. To buy a camera and it's just on your. [00:21:17] Speaker A: Phone. Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker B: Exactly. Yeah. No, I'm mostly like. I like to write and direct, so I, like, answer said I wrote and then I. I like. I knew Yancer was a great editor, so I instantly got him as my editor for the movie and we started filming and everything. But I think because I like to write, I see a pattern in every movie that I watch now. Especially since I read a book that, like, analyzed the patterns in movies, but it helps me just analyze. [00:21:44] Speaker C: Everything. What book was. [00:21:45] Speaker B: That? Save the. [00:21:46] Speaker C: Cat. Save the Cat. I knew it. I read that one, too. Do you see how old he made us feel? The. [00:21:51] Speaker A: 1900S. I tried to just skip over. [00:21:55] Speaker C: That. I couldn't. It got stuck in my head. I'll hear it at 2 o' clock in the morning tonight. I'll be like, he said. [00:21:59] Speaker A: 1900S. What would you two say to students that maybe are listening to this, that are now excited? Because, you know, one of the things I loved about movies is UA cinema, which didn't even exist anymore. I don't think their logo was Escape movies. And to me, that's what it was. But what would you say to People that are maybe students and, you know, this club could be an escape for them. It could be an opportunity for them to do something besides all their schoolwork and have a. Have a relationship with a group of. [00:22:25] Speaker D: Individuals. Yeah, absolutely. I feel like school can get a little stressful at times. There's a lot of responsibility, things that you have to get a hold on. But it's equally as important to have time to calm down, meet people, and focus on your mental health. There's a huge indicator that mental health is contributor to grades and test scores. So by offering a place where people can connect together and talk about something in common, just. Just escape for a second. Even if it's just for a minute to relax, get together with people, it does make a huge. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Impact. Yeah. One thing that has. Has been lowering as the years go by are people going to theaters. So one thing I want to provide is the theater experience again, because $20 to watch a movie is not worth. [00:23:01] Speaker C: It. Yeah, yeah. [00:23:02] Speaker A: Yeah. There's something about the big screen, and I know there have been ads at movie theaters when we came back from COVID that actors would say that, and they're right. I mean, it's not the. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Same. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Same. Paul, what would you say is the adviser to. [00:23:12] Speaker C: Those? I. You know, the. When we had our first meeting this year, we kind of went around the room, we asked all the students, they're like, why did you join? What kind of made you interested in this? And I think everybody said, it's like, I. I want to know more about movies and I want to talk to people about movies. And I think that's the cool thing is that kind of like this podcast, like we're. We're sort of offering this space where we can actually talk to each other face to face and kind of see movies from a different perspective. And I think that's the thing that we offer, and that's the thing I'm kind of very proud. [00:23:40] Speaker A: Of. Great. Well, two more questions I want to ask you your favorite movies. So think about that. Anything you want. One, two, three. I don't care. But while we're doing that, I want to start with you, Paul. What's your favorite film character and who would you want to spend a day. [00:23:52] Speaker C: With? So I was thinking about this, and I think, who would I want to spend the day with? There's two people. Okay. There's three. Of course, there has to be three. For me, I have a whole list. Cliff Booth from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I think the stories he could tell Brad Pitt that would Be a lot of fun. The dude from the Big Lebowski, because he hates the Eagles. And I think that would be. I wouldn't have to listen to the Eagles if I hung out with him. And then I had. Okay. I had to go classic, classic film. I was like Cary Grant, John Roby, and To Cash a Thief. Because if we hung out together, we could sneak around the roofs of the French Riviera, and I think that would be a lot of. [00:24:31] Speaker A: Fun. All right, Joshua, who would you want to spend a day with, and who's your favorite character? Characters. Characters you can. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Be. Yeah, you don't have to be specific because of that. I'm not adding to, but I. There's this. There's a trilogy called the Before Trilogy, and it's about this couple that meet each other and they get married and have kids, and I would love to. To just spend the day with. [00:24:51] Speaker C: Them. Great. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Choice. Yeah. The movie is just them talking. Like, all three movies are just two hours of people talking, and it's great. Wow. [00:24:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Yancer, what about. [00:24:59] Speaker D: You? Growing up, I've loved the original Spider man movies, especially Toby Maguire. The Spider Man. So I would love to spend a day with Spider man of Peter Parker. Just like swinging around the Toby. [00:25:09] Speaker C: Maguire. [00:25:10] Speaker D: Okay. That's. [00:25:11] Speaker C: Right. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Interesting. And Toby Maguire is married to. [00:25:13] Speaker C: Who? Who is he married. [00:25:15] Speaker D: To? [00:25:15] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't. [00:25:16] Speaker A: Know. I'm thinking. I'm thinking of the current one, Greatest. [00:25:18] Speaker B: Showman. Oh. [00:25:19] Speaker A: Zendaya. [00:25:20] Speaker B: Zendaya. Tom. [00:25:21] Speaker A: Holland. Tom Holland. That's him. Yeah. So. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What's your favorite movies? Three movies on the. [00:25:27] Speaker C: Top. This is going to be. People are going to cringe because, of course, like, the critic guy is going to throw out these movies that most people have not heard of. My favorite movie all time is still Run Lola Run. German movie from 1999. Joshua, you just put your head into your. [00:25:42] Speaker B: Head. I hate that. [00:25:43] Speaker C: Movie. [00:25:44] Speaker D: What? We watched. [00:25:45] Speaker C: It. You guys are done. That's it. Yeah, they're out. They're out of the club. They're not running anymore. You guys hate Run Lola. [00:25:52] Speaker A: Run. Oh, I didn't mean to. [00:25:53] Speaker C: Solve. Oh, my God. I. I watched that movie five times in the theater. I dyed my hair red because of that. [00:26:00] Speaker D: Movie. Oh. [00:26:01] Speaker C: My. You guys. Oh, my gosh. Okay. And my other favorite movie, hardboiled John Woo, 1991. One of the greatest action movies ever made. I love genre movies. I'm kind of proud of that. I think a lot of times we critics are kind of lumped in as being too hoyy. Toy for genre movies, but I. I love my genre. [00:26:20] Speaker A: Movies. That's awesome. All right, answer. What's your. [00:26:23] Speaker D: Top? All right, Paul, I want you looking me in the eyes when I say this. My favorite movie is. [00:26:27] Speaker A: Stellar. No. Get. [00:26:28] Speaker C: Out. We can't do. [00:26:29] Speaker D: This. I love that movie all the way. One of my favorite movies. I watched it with a group of friends, and it's made me feel such a peculiar way because it's so interesting, but also so ominous. [00:26:39] Speaker C: And. [00:26:39] Speaker D: Ominous. Yes. I love that. [00:26:41] Speaker C: Movie. Endless, is what you're. [00:26:42] Speaker D: Thinking. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Yes. Anything else that you're gonna go. [00:26:48] Speaker D: With? One Spider man. [00:26:48] Speaker A: Trilogy. Okay, those are good. Those are. [00:26:51] Speaker B: Good. Mine is a 90s movie called Scent of a. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Woman. I have seen. That's a great. [00:26:57] Speaker B: Movie. Alucino plays a blind man. I thought it was. [00:26:59] Speaker A: Great. That is a great. [00:27:00] Speaker B: Movie. And second, the only other one I could think of is La La Land. All. [00:27:04] Speaker A: Right. That's an awesome movie, too. I wanted the ending to be different, but it was. It was written. Right. It was written the way it should. [00:27:10] Speaker C: Be. That's what gives it its. [00:27:11] Speaker A: Power. It does. No, and that's. That's what's tough on movies, that you want to change the ending. But, you know, the way they did it was the right way to do it, so. All right, well, this has been great, gentlemen. We do like to end our broadcast, and I. I'm scared about this question, but we turned the microphone on me, so I'd be glad to try to answer any question, realizing I'm not the film critic that you boys. You men are. So ask away. Anybody want to ask. [00:27:34] Speaker B: Anything? I. [00:27:35] Speaker C: Have. Oh, wait. Do you guys have questions? Sorry, I'll. [00:27:37] Speaker B: Just. I'll go after. [00:27:38] Speaker C: You. You're after. [00:27:39] Speaker B: Me? [00:27:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. So as I edit every episode, I listen to every episode. We have learned that you love Broadway musicals. So my question is connecting it to film. Do you have a favorite film adaptation of a musical? And if so, which one is. [00:27:55] Speaker A: It? Let me think a minute. There's a musical that I told my wife four years ago that we saw that was going to be a movie, and they're doing it, and I wish I had time to think about it. I've seen Moulin Rouge a million times, and I do. I did see the movie first, and now I've seen it in Broadway twice, and then it's coming to the. Our. [00:28:16] Speaker C: Center. Oh, it's coming. [00:28:16] Speaker A: Here. So that's kind of the reverse of. [00:28:19] Speaker C: That. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And Juliet comes to mind. That's the most recent one I've seen that Would make a great movie because it's got a lot of pop songs in it. Paradise Square is an off the. It was a. It was a. Nominated for the Tony Award. Didn't win. But it didn't even make the traveling tour. But it's one that would make a great movie. Paradise Square. I'll probably have to think come back on that. But there's. I've seen about 45 Broadway on Broadway productions and another probably 50 here in Texas. So I have a pretty good list of playbills that I could go through. That. [00:28:51] Speaker C: Question. Do you have a preference between now that you've seen Moulin Rouge as the movie and you've seen it on Broadway? Which one do you. [00:28:56] Speaker A: Prefer? God, the movie was great. Yeah. I don't think I would like Moulin Rouge as much if I hadn't seen the. [00:29:04] Speaker C: Movie. [00:29:04] Speaker A: Okay. Because, you know, it was no Cole Kidman. There was a bunch of great people in that show. I did get to see the. The Circus Master. The guy that's in charge of the. Was the last time we saw it. Boy. [00:29:17] Speaker C: George. Oh, Boy George was the ring. [00:29:19] Speaker A: Master. So I got. We got to see him play it for a month. He was there only for a month. It was interesting to see someone you'd seen. I didn't really care for his. [00:29:27] Speaker C: Music. [00:29:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I appreciated it. But he wasn't as good as a Broadway actor playing. [00:29:33] Speaker C: It. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Right. And so that was a little. But I have seen it three times on Broadway. My favorite production that I don't think they've made a movie of yet is the. [00:29:42] Speaker C: Prom. [00:29:43] Speaker A: Okay. When I saw that. I've seen it four times. It's the. I actually saw it on the road in Dallas and it wasn't near as good as on Broadway. Original cast. But the prom. Prom is just an outstanding. Yeah. Outstanding. [00:29:54] Speaker C: Music. Okay. We have. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Homework. Yes. [00:29:57] Speaker B: Yes. We do have to go to more. [00:29:58] Speaker C: Broadways. Yes. [00:29:59] Speaker D: Absolutely. All right. Well, if you were in a room with students and you had to pick one movie to show one movie with each. [00:30:05] Speaker C: Other. Oh, that's a. That's a great and nasty question right. [00:30:07] Speaker A: There. I know you guys are gonna ask me something like that. So. Growing up, I. I've seen more movies than I can count. When I was on my master's degree, my degrees are in math, so it was really hard. Degree. I would. The UA thing. I told you earlier. I'd escape to the movie so I would go see the most off the wall movies. The original Crow was one of my favorite movies. And I don't Care what it was. I don't care if it was a, you know, a karate movie. I would go just to escape because it got my mind off a difficult time. So that's the way I've always looked at the movies. I couldn't even tell you how many thousands of movies I've seen for a while there. I would see a movie almost every week when I was single, when I was in school, and those kind of things, you know, you're gonna laugh, but I love the star. Star Trek trilogy. I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie. I don't know that I can answer that question. But there's not any movie that I haven't seen. The movie that scared me the most was Friday the 13th, the original. I was in a theater in Tyler, Texas. Usually I don't like to go to the movies when they're packed. Every seat was full. And if you've seen that movie, at the very end, they're on the water, and you're like, it's finally over. And I would. That scared me more than anything I've ever seen. When they came out of the water. Yeah. Sorry if I ruined that for anybody, but I just had so many movie references in my mind that just, you know. You know, from Poseidon Adventure, which. [00:31:29] Speaker C: Is an underwater movie, sort. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Of. I just. I love movies. I. I wish I was smart as you guys to be able to talk about them and know about the directors and all that kind of. [00:31:37] Speaker C: Stuff. The. The fun is just in talking about. It. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Is. It. [00:31:40] Speaker C: Is. You should join our club one. [00:31:41] Speaker A: Time. I want to come see the movie, so let me know when they're. What you're. [00:31:44] Speaker C: Showing. Yeah. [00:31:45] Speaker A: Absolutely. All right, Joshua, what do you got for. [00:31:47] Speaker B: Me? I was just gonna say I remember seeing everything everywhere all at once. And I don't know if you've ever seen the. [00:31:51] Speaker A: Movie. What is it. [00:31:52] Speaker B: Again? Everything everywhere all at once. Well, the main thing to take is, like, after I saw the movie, I. It changed me so much that I just wanted to spend all my time, my family, because the movie just hits you like a brick. So I want to know what. What movie influenced you to change something in your real life? Because that's what movies are trying to do a lot of the. [00:32:09] Speaker A: Time. Well, I played college basketball, so athletic movies have always hit me kind of close to home. Rudy was a good one. I don't know that it changed the way I thought about things, but, you know, when. When I was a math teacher, that was one of the prerequisites to Class is I'd go to the students and say, okay, this weekend, here's what I'm seeing. So when you come to class on Monday next week, we're going to talk about this. [00:32:29] Speaker C: Movie. That's. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Great. So what I wish that I'd written down all the movies I'd seen and taken notes. That would be something I would say to, to a younger student is you need to make a record of it because, you know, letterboxd. Letterboxd, you think about what is. [00:32:43] Speaker C: That? It's a website called Letterboxd. And you put the movies that. It has all the movies on there. You put the name in you, you click that, you watched it and you can leave a little review underneath. [00:32:50] Speaker A: It. I could have that now. Pay almost anything to have that for all the. [00:32:54] Speaker C: Movies. Start. [00:32:54] Speaker B: Now. Start. [00:32:55] Speaker C: Now. Do it. [00:32:55] Speaker A: Now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a great movie that really moved me that my son and I saw with Woody Harrelson. Zombie. [00:33:02] Speaker C: Zombieland. Oh. [00:33:03] Speaker D: Zombieland. [00:33:03] Speaker A: Yeah. The first one to me just. I. [00:33:05] Speaker C: Can'T. It's. [00:33:06] Speaker A: Great. It was hum. It was everything. The next one, when they made the sequel, I was so excited for it. I couldn't believe they were making a sequel. And it was okay. Yeah, but it wasn't as good as the original. You know, a lot of things the original is not. Not is the best thing. So I don't know if I answered your question. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Joshua. Yeah, I mean perfectly. That's. [00:33:21] Speaker C: Right. [00:33:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, thank you guys for being here. It's great to hear about this club. I didn't know anything at all when we started this podcast and now I do. So Paul, thank you for your leadership for this gentleman. Thank you for your being a part of this. And I do want to come to a movie, so let me. [00:33:37] Speaker C: Know. We'll let you know for. [00:33:38] Speaker A: Sure. All right. Well, as we close this podcast, I want to thank Paul Klein, my executive producer, Christina Signs, my head writer and Alex Bello is our producer. Thank you for being here today and goodbye for.