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Big thanks to Graham King for joining me on episode 90!

In this episode we chat about the great film Boogie Nights (1997) by Paul Thomas Anderson. In this episode we wrangle with notions of:

• The essence of Faustian bargain being that you don't even ask for what you really want, and the isolation that comes with not knowing what you want
• The importance of apologies
• Exploitation
• The desire to make something good
• The state of film and quality films
• Stigma
• Plucking knowledge and art from the teeth of taboo and custom
• Surrogate parental instincts
• Flattery from insecurity
• Great films giving homage to other great films
• The mindblowing cinema that is Boogie Nights

Additional Spoiler: Magnolia - 8:20

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Welcome to a bonus episode of Really True Fiction. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that our last two episodes were on 1984 and Brave New World. So, for a bonus, Dan and I do a bit of a compare and contrast between them; seeing as they are both very famous and of a similar ouevre. In this bonus episode we talk about:

1984 being a better novel, sociopathic vs. beaurocratic evil, what is a more realistic villainy, the ennui of BNW, 1984 as a society that has actually been achieved in history, media/art/culture portrayals as more accurate in BNW, 1984 as more insightful on the manipulation of language, the different takes on hedonism, speaking as indecipherable from thinking, blasphemy, and which world we find more bleak.

Thanks for listening to this mini-adventure into classic dystopia!

Welcome to our second foray into the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this episode we discuss his first novel This Side Of Paradise. We talk about:

- How it might feel to have peers die on mass, Eros and Thanatos, egoism vs. narrcacism, the resentment of educated people towards those who make more money than them, hedgehogs vs foxes, butthurtedness, definite optimism and pragmatism, speed and velocity, conformity, personality vs personage, the flywheel life, and cynicism. 

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In where we gush all things human and tiger.

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Into The Wild 1:32:58

In which we surmise whence the near utter destruction of love; and how to find the avoidance to such tragedy. 

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Before Midnight 14:20

It is no coincidence that we are doing this movie! Enjoy.

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Breaking Bad 1:19:59 and 1:46:58

It's cold out, close the FyoDOR!

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Memento 42:09

500 Days Of Summer 49:38

Rope 1:04:10

Breaking Bad 1:13:20

1984 1:37:44

Regression 1:52:20 (I forgot the name of this movie in the episode but this is what it is) *Emma Watson is the actress in this movie, not Emma Stone*

Take in the sweeping Steinbeck epic of paradise and California. 

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Breakfast of Champions 10:42

Mark the Twain! Mark the Twain! 

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Will and Grace 30:20

It's like The Body, but more visual, and then only auditory.

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Scream 2 8:30