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Approx. transcript time · 01:11:00Read transcript
- Scorsese is chosen with Mr. Piat imagined running a large cocaine operation above the shop.
- Lloyd is imagined as a solitary Paul Schrader-style journal writer.
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Schrader's rejected script, military noncooperation, the alien performers, the $3.3 million effects budget, motion-control advances, and Truffaut's response to the sets
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Approx. transcript time · 01:36:40Read transcript
- Spielberg is quoted calling Paul Schrader's screenplay one of the most embarrassing scripts submitted to a studio or director.
- Schrader's version reportedly followed an experiencer who threatened to expose the government after fifteen years of attempted contact.
- The Air Force and NASA reportedly refused to cooperate, which Spielberg interpreted as encouraging evidence for the film.
- Julia Phillips criticized Spielberg as a perfectionist before being removed from the production.
- Fifty girls, each six years old and from Mobile, were cast as aliens after puppetry failed.
- Douglas Trumbull supervised visual effects that advanced motion-control photography.
- The visual-effects work is reported to have had a $3.3 million budget.
- Ralph McQuarrie's contribution to the mothership is noted alongside his Star Wars work.
- Truffaut reportedly ignored the giant landing-site set but praised the small hotel-room set as familiar to his filmmaking experience.
- Truffaut's role is defended because communication beyond language is a central theme and his films influenced the filmmakers' generation.
- The Searchers is cited as a visual influence, including its doorway and horizon compositions.
- Topps reportedly issued sixty-six trading cards and eleven stickers, excluding Dreyfuss and Truffaut at their request.
- Jaws, Rocky, Rocky II, and E.T. are cited as other films with card sets.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:34:04Read transcript
- Who won: Schrader is proposed; a distinct George C.Scott choice cites his performance and the enduring meme. Seedy late 1970 scities are then floated as a playful alternative.
- Who won: the cities proposer settles on Schrader, and another explicitly agrees with Schrader while appreciating the Scott argument.
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Slow opening; some effects; Exorcist II; Linda Blair’s later career; dangerous directing methods; Burke as party guest
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Approx. transcript time · 00:50:49Read transcript
- The slow opening and some dated effects are criticized; Exorcist II is described as a notorious failed change of direction.
- Exorcist 3 is praised, while the prequel production involving Paul Schrader and Harlin is described as strange.
- Blair’s post-film career is reserved for later discussion; a Toyota Pazuzu story is a joke, and the gray jogging sweatsuit receives affectionate attention.
- The hosts describe injuries to the actresses, a gun fired near Miller, and the director striking the real priest before his scene.
- Burke’s drunken and confrontational party behavior is criticized with some nostalgia.
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