Hello world, welcome to WFHR's Directors Playhouse session 63.
Yeah, I think so.
Your hosting program director here, James J. Mailoff with my partner in art,
our head of production and sound, Seth Habhager.
Well, we have, you know, we do many things here on Directors Playhouse.
We look at all the arts, but recently we got to talk to Nathan,
you know, another filmmaker who's won some awards.
And thanks to Nathan, we got another person, a local filmmaker right here
from Wisconsin Rapids that also won a recent award.
So we're going to talk to him today.
We welcome to the WFHR stage actor, film maker, creative, and Wisconsin's own
Sawyer Wideman. Sawyer, good to have you with us.
Yeah, thank you for having me on.
Appreciate the time, man.
And I just want to say right out the gate, I really am enjoying your story.
What I've gotten to see, I'm going to be following you throughout.
I, you know, I was a young kid myself falling in love with acting.
And I don't, we're going to find out your origin story in seconds here.
But I just want to make a guess that you are similar, that you fell in love with
acting or creative or just entertaining at a young age.
Let's get right into it, man.
What is your origin story?
You're going to give us a little bit of your beginnings.
Yeah. I think from a young age, I was always playing
outside with either my sister or my friends or neighbors.
And just creating these little games.
And I think that's where I really fell in love with storytelling.
I think it's very important to have that experience as such a young age.
I think it helps shape how you see the world.
And it really helps when I started falling in love with film even more.
And seeing all these different ways, you can tell a story and be creative and express yourself
whether that's through cinematography, score, directing, acting, whatever it might be.
But yeah, for a very long time, I was definitely on a different path.
I wanted to be a calculus professor, which is kind of totally on the other side of the spectrum.
But then ninth grade geometry happened, and I did not like geometry.
So I took a test one day, did not do well on this test, and I thought to myself,
okay, this is not going to work out what's the next thing I can do.
And I went to bed that night, and I was like, you know, I really like movies.
Maybe I want a director right one, and then I switched over and, of course, the 24 hours.
So yeah, now I'm graduated from college already. I'm a year out.
And I guess I'm a director and filmmaker of source.
Sure are. Yeah, bona fide, bona fide, I think.
Yeah, there are every kid plays pretend.
Just some take it a little more serious than others.
You know, I had a feeling. It's really cool to hear.
And now anywhere, if you were from anywhere, I would think you would have a very cool story.
But certainly we're doing this show right here in rapids, and we have a local tie to it with that.
So I think it's not only that much more unique, but that much more noteworthy.
Because one of the things we like to do with this show, so it certainly highlight and bring
attention to locals and local creatives and, you know, support their art artists supporting artists.
But the other side story, side quest of this show is encouraging other creatives out there
to be the next Sawyer, to be the next this, to be able to do these things themselves.
We are big believers that there could never be enough art.
There could never be enough creatives out there.
So I want to get into some other stuff with you a little bit later about that.
But for now, just sticking with you right now, do you remember your first role?
Oh gosh.
I was active within the theater department at Lincoln Heights School,
whether that was.
I did some acting, mainly crew, text stuff.
I think my first role was for, they were doing the musical Mary Poppins.
I was on the crew and I was told to make some kites.
So that was my main job throughout that.
And it was so exciting just to even make something so small and just seeing that within the
production. And that was just, I just think about that time a lot and how it was a great experience
and it really opened me up to the world of being an artist and being a creative.
Shout out to Lincoln High School, also a graduate of Lincoln myself.
Any chance to shout that out, we will do it.
That's really cool to know and really interesting when you consider what you've done.
And you're so early in your career here and everything, but what you've already accomplished,
what you're talking about, you didn't go directly to the role or to the acting,
but you talked about other parts of performing and what it takes to put on a production.
Being behind the scenes, when I'm teaching or I'm talking to young actors or comedians or anything,
the first thing I tell them is reps.
There are no roles to turn down, work as much as possible.
It's how you get good at this, you get more comfortable with it.
The very next thing I will suggest is work behind the scenes.
Be, do props, work the curtain, whatever it might be, do as many different roles as you can back
stage. It makes you that much stronger and that much better on stage.
When it comes to filmmaking, I got to think that that's all the times 10.
Yeah, it kind of is at least from my experience how I started
right away, if you know you want to be a director, you're going to get some
light training of like, okay, this is every basic of how to make a film.
This is how you set up a camera, this is how you start to work with actors,
think about lighting, think about sound, stuff like that.
But as I continued on rather than just sticking straight with only
directing classes or only writing classes, I took many courses to learn about all the
smaller stuff like lighting. That was one of my favorite classes for my sophomore year.
Testing has become a really fun thing for me. I really enjoy working with actors and finding
them and then script supervising continuity that is incredibly important and so overlooked.
And it's one of the most difficult jobs, but it's also so fun because you've just noticed all
the small things that you wouldn't know before. So I think in order to make a film, you need to
understand or at least have some experience in all other levels. And then you'll get this
really strong appreciation while you're on set of directing or whatever you're doing and just
being like, wow, you're making a film and you're seeing all these moving parts and it's really
amazing thing. Is it very well said? Isn't it interesting so many of us that like story telling,
whether it's writing a short story of novel or a script, a TV show movie, whatever,
that we are so locked in on the story part. We don't always focus on the telling
and how to tell that story. And I think that is, I don't think, I know it's my most difficult part
of anything. I can have a wonderful idea in my head. How to tell Seth it. I don't understand. I'm
lucky that he understands my brain pretty well. It's difficult to be able to get that out and it
seems like one of the more consistent things with good directing is when I was young, I thought it
was good, good directors always were their own editors or at least in the editing room. The more
older I get, I hear it in you, so you're lighting. How much that comes into play and how much
good directors not only love and enjoy that part of it but focus on that part of it. I think that's
really interesting. You brought that up. It's not something when I was a kid wanting to tell stories
I thought about. That's really interesting. Yeah, no, absolutely. And yeah, even just going off
with lighting, with our cinematographer, Evan Thompson, he worked with our gaffer. That's
the person who does the lighting. Sophie, those two, they, it was amazing working with them because
I've never had an experience like this before where we're going through a shot list and just,
you know, imagining how we have to set up this film and how we're going to portray every single
scene, every detail. And we were on the page, on the same page, literally the whole time. And
they, they really understood where my brain and mind was at. And I understood theirs. And it's
this amazing little relationship that we all had. And I, I think we created some really beautiful
shots. And they weren't just beautiful because they looked pretty, but because they have meaning.
And it kind of goes back to understanding every small detail and every person on the crew what
they're doing. And you just see these pictures and images unfold before you and you realize that
you are making something special. There's really nothing like that. I can hear it in my voice.
Yeah, absolutely. I was curious, Sawyer. What were some of your influences, whether they're
early or current, what are some of your bigger influences? Oh, yeah. Um, so at least for this film
and kind of all together with any film that I make or work on, I am very, very interested in
slow-moving parts, especially the slow cinema over the years, especially within the past five
years. I've taken a strong liking to quieter films and some that people might say are like,
they're just artistic. It's not like a popcorn movie or something like that. But I just like
looking at these small moments within these characters' lives. And it might not be the biggest
story. There might not be any action or even talking at all, but it's just quiet and it's
personal. So for at least this film, some of those inspirations were After Sun by Charlotte Wells,
Beauty by Jane Campian, Columbus by Koganada, and basically any Kelly Wright cart film. I
think those filmmakers and those films, they had just a beautiful eye on capturing life and
these moments within these characters' lives. And they're really beautiful and adult, and that's
something that I'm very drawn to. It's a really cool aspect of filmmaking and it's something,
I grew up my pop and my grandpa had me watching Charlie Chaplin movies and Silent Films a lot.
And I find myself, I'm a sucker for a good action movie and I will sit there and enjoy it and eat
my popcorn and everything. And I know immediately afterwards I need something like that. I need a
palette cleanser if you will. I need something like the gold rush or modern times or even a
trip to the moon or something like that. Very good. Now I don't know that that's necessarily
which me by quiet films, but for me, immediately my brain went there to that in part because it
puts such a more focus on the other aspects. I mean, it's like they, you know, you hear people talk
about what their senses and they lose one sense and the other's strength. I really do think that
art is like that where when it's a silent film, you're able to focus on this or vice versa.
I know a couple of filmmakers that I really like that are in that vein, that genre, Guy Madden,
a Canadian filmmaker who has made several films that tend to be like really quiet, very little
dialogue and that sort of thing. One of my all time favorite movies is a German film called
Shultzee gets the blues and it's another one of those very quiet. There's not a lot of dialogue
and it's basically the story of a retired German factory worker who plays the accordion for fun
and one night he hears zydico music and it changes his life because he wants to start playing it.
So I'm really appreciating Sawyer talking about those kinds of films because there's something
very, and yeah, they may feel more artistic, more arty, but for me, I think there's something
that's missing from, for being a sound guy, you know, still there's something missing about
those quiet movies that kind of explore these other realms as it were. It's, you know, it's
funny too because you and I were touching on this a little bit before about theater and when we
learned or when we had a director teach us that it's okay to be quiet on stage sometimes,
sometimes silence is the best dialogue. I would have never guessed that when I was a young starting
out or anything, realizing more and more as you get older and older, sometimes that's the best
moments when you take that pause. It really is. There's so many parts of it. That's really interesting.
We are speaking with Saurer Wideman right now and as an interviewer, I did a horrible job in not
mentioning this sooner. He is a Golden Badger Award winner. I should be mentioning that every 10
seconds, I'm going to put a timer here just to make sure I do from now on. That is really cool,
man. Congratulations on the award, the Golden Badger Award. Would you mind first letting people know
that may not know what that award is and why it's handed out when it's handed out and then we'll
kind of get into how you won and why won the award. Yeah, thank you so much for that. But yeah,
Golden Badger Award is given out at the Wisconsin Film Festival, which takes place in April
yearly. Every year, they give out three of these to filmmakers that are playing their film
within the festival. They're all Wisconsin filmmakers, whether it's short,
feature-length, documentary narrative, it doesn't matter. But from what I understand and I sort of
remove myself from this when I think about like, oh, why did I win this? There's so many great films,
but it's something where they choose these films because they see something special or something
unique that they haven't seen before or an emerging voice within the community of filmmaking in
Wisconsin. So that's why I think I might have won, but I don't know. It was a big surprise,
I got an email on my way to work thing that I won the award and I was like, well, the festival
hasn't even happened yet. So this is kind of a joke and then I wait this day and then I email back
and it was like, are you sure? And they were like, yes, and I was like, okay. So that was my whole
experience with winning that award. It was very cool going up on stage and making a small speech,
not knowing exactly what I was saying and couldn't even see the audience. It was kind of a blur for
good two minutes, but yeah, it's really, it's really amazing to be recognized as a filmmaker within
your home state, especially Wisconsin, because we live in a place where it's almost like the arts
aren't necessarily recognized quite as much. Usually we see that more in bigger cities or other
states, but in Wisconsin, we live such a quiet life where it seems that
how being a filmmaker, that's a far-off dream and something that you can't have, but you can have that
and you can work towards that and this can happen. We mentioned any chance we get, or at least I try to
that Wisconsin finish dead last in the funding the arts in the last year and I think that's
important to note and part of the reason why we're talking with Sawyer and we're having such a good
time doing so. We're going to get more into the film and some of the other factors of how it was
made and some of that with Sawyer when we come back here on Director's Playhouse. Welcome back
everybody to WFHR's Director's Playhouse, Seth and James here with you. We're joined by Sawyer
Wideman right now and talking a little bit about his film and Sawyer can tell us a little bit about
the film. Yeah, so Adagio is the story of Iris. She's a teenage girl who recently lost her brother
and it's the story of how she must find healing by recounting memories of music in origami,
which is sort of a strange combination of things. So the idea was to explore how we turn our grief
into art. So for the character Iris, she spends her time holding these origami frogs and for her
brother Daniel when we do see him in the few scenes that he is in the film, it's playing his
cello and his love for music. This story was very special for me to direct. So when I was in
high school, I'm still not sure what I wanted to do when I was older because obviously
geometry did not help my students to be coming at a calculus professor. My sister, she was in
one of these creative writing classes and she wrote this story about this character Iris and
I really loved this story and I was my way out of the door going school one day and I was thinking
about filmmaking a little bit at that time and I was like hey if I ever decide to make a film someday,
I'm gonna make this one and she said okay and then we move down with our lives but then
here we are now this is my first bigger film and I made that dream kind of come true. So it was
very very cool. That's incredibly great story. That's really good. The story of it is just as
cool as the story itself. That's wonderful man. And congratulations. That's really cool.
The award is one thing but just accomplishing this. Congratulations. That is really cool. That
is really amazing and inspiring. You know not just to others I imagine out there. I want to
get into how that how the film was made in a second and everything but before I do whether it's
getting this accomplished or the Golden Badger award has these have these things motivated you.
Yeah I would say so I think recognition motivates you at least a little bit.
It's great to have that but honestly it's just accomplishing the film seeing what you made with
all these other people that really got me thinking like okay this is something that I do want to do
and this wasn't just four years of my life at school just to make this one film and then move on
something else. I think when you make something and you're proud of it that that's all you need
really all you need. There's something about creativity and can feel so good and accomplished
and when you finish something or do something whatever it might be and I've talked to poets I've
talked to comedians I've talked to actors about this and they all get most of them I should say
come back to the same thing of they finish something and that just makes them that much more
hungry that much more want to do more. I think there's something to be said for that and I think that
we get so locked in on the end the finish line and accomplishing something that sometimes we miss
some of the journey and most people understand that but the next story is so interesting and so
pulling to it and everything and I think that that's a big factor in whether or not hey this is
something fun to do or hey this is my life this is this is a part of who I am that motivating factor
where you can feel like oh you've won all these awards Tom Hanks I think is a fantastic example of this
there isn't not much of that man hasn't done and yet he's he's constantly pushing himself he just
got done doing the the America's thing because he hadn't done anything like that and wanted to do it
he didn't need to do that his legacy set right Tom Hanks doesn't that do a darn thing the rest of his
life but he is a creative as somebody who just loves what he does he's constantly motivated to push
himself and do new things that's to me I think that part of the gig of being a creative I think a
lot of people have an idea here or there or anything it's the it's those of us that want to do this
they don't even have a choice we have to do this how did you get to this point how did you get
this film made necessarily a kind of getting into some of that if you don't mind us or
yeah so this film was part of my thesis at Columbia College Chicago so how that program was set up
was this would have been my second semester of my junior year we started the FAA thesis class
and we pitched these ideas to the faculty to see alright which because there's so many so many
kids within this program so many directors so many writers but you can only make so many films
so I had basic ideas of what I wanted my sister's story to be like if it was a film
and I worked a little bit on just a basic draft of the script made some storyboard
made a pitch deck stuff like that and I pitched that to our faculty they really liked that and
selected this as one of the films that they were going to make and that I was going to direct and
produce and co-writing all of that but then from there you're put into the world of filmmaking
you have to assemble a team find all these other people for these jobs not just within this
specific class but within the community of this college so I found some really great friends
and new people to jump on board to not only just wanted to work on this film but wanted to actually
be part of telling this story and from there it was the next I don't know how many months
we were in pre-production for maybe nine months because of the summer gap over between
semesters and then we shot within four days and then from there we edited we ran post-production
and then finally you know you finished the film and then you start submitting to festivals and
that's kind of where it goes from there oh so it's not that hard oh it seems really easy oh that's
all it is that that is that is awesome man that's really cool yeah love it and it's it's something
it's I don't know I haven't been a part of that much stuff but the TV movies that I've done
and everything what little I've been able to be on the set up and everything it's always
staggering to me of how little time really in the scheme of things you spend actually
creating filming the work or anything it's so much more of the post stuff that's right and where
the real time and effort is put in yeah being on set time flies so fast no matter how you schedule
there's never going to be enough time to get every single thing that you want to get
you have to cut some shots you have to change little things sometimes big things if you're really
that behind but I think that challenge of time really helps motivate you it really helps
bring out your creative side and be like okay I can't do both of these things how can I combine
this into one thing and make it even better and that's where you get some of the best moments
whether creating shots working with actors literally anything I love it I love how there's
this stress of okay we have to get this all done and you worry on set like oh is this even
going to work is this film even going to work out in the end but there's a point where you just have
to let that go and you just realize okay you're just making a film you're making what you want to do
and that's enough yeah that's great when you like you were talking about having to film or not
having to be filming on the particular campus and all these things so you're bringing in people
and resources from there which creates its own kind of positives and negatives and that you have
to work around with the film and that part is just as interesting too about this process and to
your point I just find all the factors that go into making these things just every part of it has
this a unique story too it's very interesting yeah yeah um and with this film we actually did
shoot it on film which created a whole mother challenge so I mean these days most people
they switch to digital and on campuses within their courses they only teach digital there's
not much for shooting on physical film anymore so that was the big challenge for us I knew from
the beginning I really wanted to work on film and I sold okay you've never worked on film that's
gonna cost a lot more money I've got to work with all these different factors I'm not sure you're
gonna be able to do that I said okay watch and do that so then I created a whole team of people
who were very enthusiastic we got them to get this experience of actually working with film and
it turned out absolutely wonderful I love 60 millimeter film it feels dreamy and sort of I don't
know if there's something about it that I just love and I think it worked perfectly with the film
and how it's very up close and personal and sort of surreal and it was just absolutely wonderful
to have that experience. Sawyer um is there are there ways people can take in the the film and watch it?
right now um so view is agile so it's not out publicly but we are in our festival run um it will
actually be playing at the Austin International Film Festival this upcoming week I think that's
actually in a few days now um you can watch it online um between May 17 through the 25th if you go
onto Austin International Film Festival dot com that's where you can get some tickets and you'll
be able to view not only Adagio but you'll also be able to see all these other wonderful films
like this um and yeah I don't like recommending things very often I highly recommend this everybody
yes it's not only a great way to support a local to support the arts but it is a really really good
watch it's it's uh very very much worth the time I encourage you to do so um just a couple more
questions for you man and these are all the tough ones um no but I always love asking creatives
this and so just a couple of quick ones um do you have any other creative outlets outside of writing
acting that sort of thing do you like to paint your knitter uh you're playing sports what do you do?
um my favorite pastime which I I do get make made fun of a lot for this is I like walking for
hours on end um and just listening to music and feel like my headphones die or my phone die
um I like to walk until I lost and then I have to figure out how to get back uh I love this one of
my favorite things I've done in the past years so I just think hobby yeah no that's fantastic I
I think I do a version of that myself I I just the older I get the less time I have to listen
to music so I feel like I have to almost remove myself from my life in order to be able to listen
to an album or something like that well he's got a he's got he's your idea there yeah that's great
I'm writing this one wander just wander out and then find out thing I know right now uh sorry you
are very focused on the the circuit you know the the film festival all doing that right now um are
you is there anything that you want to start working on when all this is said and done when all the
the this the uh the hoopla has fades for this one every what are you looking at what are you
looking at doing next uh yeah um I definitely want to make another short sometime soon um I try to
write every single day whether it's just a couple words or script or something else but I
would like to turn one of my writings into a short film um I have two super eight cameras now so
I'm testing them out just seeing how the images turn out and processing and all of that but I
would love to shoot on film again um make something personal something beautiful and something that
resonates with other people excellent wow it's a great answer very well said and I know I feel guilty
because really the only reason I had set to ask that is for acting jobs uh I just we're just
hoping for more no no that's really cool that's a great idea yeah uh it's something about eight
millimeter there's something about that that is just really I everything you were saying about
agree with yeah in our final question for you so you're and this is the toughest one it really is
for sure uh if you could have coffee with any historical figure who and why oh my gosh okay
um right now I think it would be Chopin um I love his music I think all his nocturns are brilliance
and I just like want to know how somebody could compose all these different pieces and
just know how it sounds in their head and just all of that I think the editions are just
incredibly interesting and I would love to just pick his brain it's a great answer uh the uh
so when the Chopin uh biopic comes out we'll know who directed it yeah we'll love
and he's on his way thank you so much for the time man uh if people want to reach out to you if
people want to find out more about your work or anything uh what's a great way to reach out to you
uh yeah so um at least for this film and I run these accounts so I'll be able to see any message
if it's for me or any other people who worked on this film um our Instagram page is at
edagio.film or you can find us on Facebook at edagio film um I got to tell I got to warn you
this isn't the last time you'll be with us uh you're coming back sometime uh especially any future
projects you have absolutely bring you come on back and bring him to us and we'll help you talk
and uh promote a man because this has been a lot of fun thanks so much for joining us or
thank you so much for having me and thank you for listening out there we appreciate the best
listeners and radio we'll be back more directors cut or playhouse hey everyone welcome back to
directors playhouse set them James here with you as a wrap it up the show whenever we have this
a little bit of free time we like to kind of focus on topics that are just fun and interesting
that have to do with entertainment yes and I think I've come across one of our better woods man
okay what's something that happens often in movies that is 100% unrealistic what on realistic
things happen in movies james what do you what are you telling me this is not documentaries this is
the first I'm learning of a two set I am as shocked as you and I can only imagine our listeners
yeah but I think one of the go twos is somebody calling and the phone rings once or twice and then
they pick up yeah always always they always well like there's one exception so and if if plot wise
if they if they can't find them then then they will not pick up you know ring ring ring ring where
where are they we have to go find them yeah that's a great point it's a good example and here are
some others like somebody falls and catches the edge of something hanging on by just their fingers
I mean no never sir I have fallen a lot and I will tell you even with my gigantic literal condor
wingspan in gigantic hands no no it doesn't happen no how it's it's so I mean I get it you know
and part of this is you know yet to suspend your disbelief and all that that's what movies that's
what makes them fun right yeah is that you don't have to buy every single thing nobody ever reloads
an action movie nobody nobody there's got an endless but you know it's always there but the idea
of somebody like falling any distance and like grabbing onto the side of the cliff with their
fingers I mean even in desperation I'm sorry physics and unless you are born with grappling hooks
for hand or Spider-Man what are the other no it doesn't happen no that's a pretty unrealistic
on that one um spotless spotless air ducts or air ducts that could support the weight of a
200 pound person seriously along with Natalie John McCain but his gun and like other things and
stuff like yeah that doesn't make any sense those things are not built well don't try that at home
no ductwork on the planet that's that strong seriously oh my god I know I get it you know it's
the surprise or you can this is the way we can sneak around into buildings and no one will see us
right but yeah doesn't really work it doesn't now this one there are there are this is a fun list
and usually they don't upset me I don't know why but this one is oh well I guess I do this one
is always bothered me all right people getting pissed a whipped being knocked unconscious and waking
up later functionally normal as if nothing happened see and the first to add on to that the one one
hit uh you know pistol whip which nobody in human history has ever done or been able to do no
now I would believe the throwing the gun or something like that it just just by chance knocking
them out if it's like you're not even trying to but I don't believe that this is ever actually
really happened we could probably get into a whole thing and I mean there might be some more
guns stuff in this I don't know all about guns and how they are in real life as compared to guns
as they are in movies because they the very big difference there but you know the idea that
you know exactly where to hit someone to knock them out unconscious okay guns are heavy
they're metal man they're gonna leave a mark yeah I mean we're talking split open blood we're
talking oh I mean there's no getting around no no no so but yeah people wake up but they don't
have a gouge out of their skull right a character moving four feet from the other character
and having a full volume conversation then no one else could hear this may be the biggest one
that were asked to suspend belief for right yeah they're they're they're not even leaning in they're
just kind of hey the the worst stage whisper ever yeah my favorite is not and it's funny bring
up theater because I think it's a little bit easier to suspend belief in theater I don't know why
but I feel like that that's probably is yeah uh in my head I would think it would be the opposite
but it's it actually is is that way it seems to go that way at least with with this it's only
more frustrating for me it happens more in TV where they'll person will just turn this move
to the other side and do this and like they could hear you you know they could know and with
club with with you could get around that in movies and TV you could do that sing called a close-up
where you literally like whisper in their ear right but they don't use it enough maybe I don't
know uh waking up looking fresh and styled and mostly in a very good mood I'm pretty sure and I
did have done a little homework on this nobody in history has ever done that nobody has ever
walked out no sure tap it a little bit so this is this was truly egregious in like old movies where
you have women waking up full makeup their lips are ruby red their hair is done perfectly and they
get out of bed like they've slept all night first of all how's there not like lipstick stains
all over their pillow first of all but I mean and they look just glamorous and and gorgeous and
they're come on even back then they've got it people were probably like hmm yeah it's something
wrong with it this doesn't look right it's um there's suspending belief and then there's just kind
of like well I can't I can't wrap my brain around that it is kind of funny to think of but that
is more unrealistic than some of the science fiction absolutely yeah even when someone's supposed
to get like be drunk like hang over they still look fine basically when they wake up like they have
their shirt untucked a little bit you know that's it right and it's funny because they've they've
uh quote unquote improved this but it's it still hasn't really gotten to realistic because
and you know to to be fair you know to filmmakers I mean you you have to compose shots in a certain
way and you can't sometimes you just can't do it the way maybe that looks the most realistic because
that's what you got to work with right yeah so yeah um hackers saying hmm typing 300 words per
minute and then five seconds later saying I'm in like yeah yeah I love that in every seed and
it's so unrealistic uh once again uh to to be fair to filmmakers how do you dramatically do
someone typing sir it's so hard I mean I get it it's totally unbelievable yeah I make 300 words
for it it's amazing I I make this joke all the time but I actually give uh like the CSI franchise
a lot of credit for this of like well how do we make medical you know then using beakers and stuff
and make this interesting techno just techno music that's it that's it we're just gonna
throw techno music out yeah we have no dialogue techno that's what we'll do it they took the
Michael Bay kind of for a movie making into TV and what will this do a little hand waving and
we're good and it kind of works it kind of works a little bit yeah um this is maybe my favorite one
no one ever looking for parking it's just there oh that is so not fair that's so not fair I want
to see one movie you know one non-comedy movie okay because you can get some comedy out of not
finding a parking spot I can see that okay but like a dramatic movie where I think you could
actually do this it's a suspenseful thing man it's like oh I got to get into the building by
this time I go oh no I can't find any parking I want to make a short film that is just about that
just about looking for parking all that would be a brilliant oh that would be fun it might be
something nobody's ever done I've just saved this off the top my head it actually be
be we may have stumbled across the one movie idea that hasn't been done be it be interesting uh the
classic zoom in enhance the image isolate that section enhance it more nobody's got that tech man
no we don't we all have zoom on our things and that's about it wait wait wait that's way down
I don't care who you are man you could be any you know the government agency with unlimited
funding and you do not have the tech that's that good the technology really doesn't even exist so
but it's awfully cool in a show it does look cool yeah and it adds to that again it's a
suspense thing you know like boom boom you know the zoom in zoom in they tell you this without
telling you this because every time this happens in a movie or a TV show it's always that
rogue group of people it's always a rogue group yeah and they are able to do this because it
doesn't actually yeah right exactly um and someone said brushing teeth without toothpaste
yeah I guess that does happen a lot in movies and TV shows because you do see people
but you don't see them off and putting the toothpaste no and I can understand that because
multiple takes right you know it's like eating it's like one of the things I always in I don't know
this is something I would add to the list why do they always I thought of this for a long time like
why do they always eat such small amounts yeah like they put like a little tiny bit of milk
in the bottom of the glass and that was always like well no one does that right and then I realize
multiple takes yeah they don't want to you know fill up on milk what they have to do like 10 takes
of them taking a sip right something that we experience in radio too I find even if I can save one
or two seconds that adds up and gives us more time for segments and those sorts of things right I
I have no doubt that that is part of the filmmaking too is you know even those three seconds it takes
to put on toothpaste sound silly but you add that up with taking away three here three here and
you get a couple extra minutes to play with you can put in a new scene that's true um I think
there's a little something to add something with that yeah to that I think you have a little bit of
the next one ordering a meal eating just one bite and then chucking the whole thing in the
garbage that's part of it too yeah it's like why isn't weren't they eating well again
multiple takes they don't want to fill up while they're they're trying to act right yeah um and
finally god this is good the general lack of tiredness
it's pretty good actually it's pretty good I love that yeah I've been up for 48 hours I've been
awake and and but I I gotta push through dude if you're up for 40 I mean I've pulled all
nighters I know the way I feel in the morning not good feeling like junk you know how about
just your everyday characters complaining about being tired like every single human being does
on almost a daily basis sir yeah you just someone asked you hey how's it going I'm doing all right
I'm kind of tired though you know yeah sir I want to see that in movie where everyone says like
oh I'm tired I've been working so hard it certainly wasn't the intention but in doing this
Seth I think we have come up with the most original movie idea of all time maybe we have we're
somebody looking for parking they can't find it so like you know I'm hungry they go in order
and eat a full meal and then go look for parking and can't find the most boring movie ever
but we will make it we're gonna make it it's already been picked up by Netflix it's art
oh that's a burn that's a burn you can go to ask reddit for this entire list there's we've
got pretty much all of a bit there but those are other interesting ones in there I think
that you might find and I want to hear from everybody else out there because I know that there's
more me next time you watch a movie like take a mental note of like wait a minute
then people don't do that in real life come on I actually think the matrix hit on one that I
was used to bug me a lot with the whole reloading thing yeah and I've noticed and I can't speak
to this other than just noticing and in watching so much content of movies and TV shows and everything
I I swear to you since they did that they kind of made they made the comment about that in the
matrix for the original matrix movie and they oh we don't have to reload all that stuff um you see
it more it's more of a much more common thing uh I will say long before that the movie heat I thought
did this to perfection oh yeah actually so much to the point um this came up recently with the
passing of Val Kilmer um Val Kilmer was so good at reloading in that movie they actually use it
for like uh like actual FBI training and stuff seriously yeah you can look it up it's a really
cool thing to see if you if you guys you Seth I encourage you guys to look this up because it's
he was so humble and so embarrassed talking about it like they actually asked his permission
and Michael man's permission and stuff and like well yeah Michael man was all for it he reaches out
to Val and Val is like get out of here like no like he was really blown away by it's kind of cool
that's really how about that learn something new every day thank you for joining us all for
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