Episode 1390 - Elvis Mitchell
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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The Shawshank Redemption
There's a myth in the American movies that really doesn't exist in any other place where they're about heroism and taking this kind of stand. So much of this is built on this weird self-hatred or self-abnegation. I wanted to include both Olivier and Orson Wells doing that. There's an idea in the movie that you kind of blow through, which is that the entitlement of white culture thinking they could do it better.
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