Will Ross from the Film Formally podcast joins us on our discussion of Steven Soderberg’s Solaris. Ghost dogs and fake wives a-plenty.

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We said we’ll see and well, we did! We saw! We saw that we missed doing this. And we are happy to announce the upcoming third season which will start airing weekly from February 1st and on.

In this episode:

• Why did we come back?
• What is the podcast going to look like going forward?
• And Bram gives an intro to story structure with the help of Harry Potter and John Wick.

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This is our 50th episode. A cause for joy! An occasion to celebrate! And we’re doing so by announcing our hiatus. After next week’s Off Script, Ron and Bram will take a little time off, to regain some perspective and recollect their thoughts. We will be back, don’t you worry about that, we’re just simply unsure about the capacity or shape or form in which we will return. So, for now: we’ll see.

In this episode we discuss the creative process, its difficulties and the pressures of creating content for the internet.

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Sean Connery runs around a mining facility on one of Jupiter’s moons, trying to unravel a conspiracy which causes the crew to become suicidal. Outland crawls at an almost contemplative pace to give its viewer all the time to really see these fantastic sets through these fantastic compositions. This time, Ron and Bram are joined by critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya to help them gush over Sean Connery’s hunky hotness.

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Bram went out of his way and rewrote all the scenes we’ve had so far, whilst adding two more scenes, whilst getting all the Arabic wrong. Luckily, there’s Ron to touch up and rewrite the rewrites which have been rewritten. Loads of fat being stripped and fluff being thrown out in this greasy new episode.

You can read this week’s scenes 200601-S02E05-Bram.pdf">here (PDF). Ron’s touched up version can be found 200601-S02E05-Ron.pdf">here (PDF).

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A day on the job with Averie, a physical carrier of digital goods. We meet her right-hand Raniya (although only by voice), we meet her parents, and we enter skyscrapers, one thriving and one unfinished. And all the while we have an itching that Averie might be quite done with being a glorified USB-drive.

You can read this week’s scene 200525-S02E04-Scene.pdf">here (PDF).

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The second and final adaptation of a William Gibson text was seen by even fewer eyes than the first. The fact that it features Christopher Walken, Willem Defoe and Asia Argento (a cursed threesome) hanging around in beige hotels did not help. Ron and Bram are joined by critic Kaj van Zoelen to make sense of its tumultuous production history (it is directed by Abel Ferrara after all) and why it is largely forgotten in the annals of film history.

Sources: an interview with Abel Ferrara right around the release of New Rose Hotel and a video interview from 2012 in which Ferrara discusses his 1998 film.

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For our third and final brainstorming episode we are joined by Rami Ismail (50% of Vlambeer) to discuss the misrepresentation of the Arabic language, culture and Islamic religion by Western media. Is the Pyramid of Giza actually surrounded by a desert? How accurate is the yellow filter? Does anyone get to finish their prayer ever? And what is up with these mountains everyone keeps talking about? All this, and so much more, to better understand the world we are building.

Sources: Not Arabic is a website where Ramsey Nasser collects instances of wrong Arabic. A Guideline of Performing Ibadah at the International Space Station can be found here (PDF).

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A lone whisperbike carries our heroine Averie over the tarmac of a desert highway, a setting in which introduces some advanced water technology. All because Ron went extracurricular on last week’s set-up and gave our film its very first scene.

You can read this week’s scene 200511-S02E02-Scene.pdf">here (PDF). (Please bear with Bram’s audio quality this week as we had a malfunctioning recorder.)

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The very first adaptation of a William Gibson property was highly anticipated. Directed by a visual artist and music video director and adapted by the father of cyberpunk himself, this film could’ve, at the very least, been a singular piece of cinema. But there’s a reason why Johnny Mnemonic is not the film that comes to mind when you combine the words Keanu Reeves and science-fiction.

With their LoTek dreads and face tattoos on fleek, Ron and Bram travel down to The Free City of Newark to fight the corporations (they rule) and tackle the age old question: what the fuck is going on!?

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