Feature This Podcast – April 22, 2016


Podcast host extraordinaire Beezo has released two new episodes. The first is an in-depth discussion about Gatos’ 21 Grams Rebalanced, while the second delves into Panzerkut’s Elysium: Panzercut. From the show notes:

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_rebalanced-front-13417211731921 Grams is the spiritual successor and precursor to director Gonzalez Inarritu’s more critically acclaimed movies Amores Perros and Babel.  Central to the reaction of the film was its non-chronological narrative, which some argued elevated the intrigue of the movie while others found an unnecessary distraction.

Fan editor Gatos has created a chronological edit of this film allowing the audience “to experience the events in the same fashion as the characters.”  Join Beezo and GBTM Co-founders Donna and Ethan as they discuss this approach – what is lost and what is gained – with Gatos’ fanedit, 21 Grams Rebalanced.

 

21 Grams Rebalanced Podcast episode
21 Grams Rebalanced on IFDB

Elysium-36-1456431866Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 film Elysium suffers not only as a one-man army, CGI laden action movie, but also as a political allegory. The former is problematic because the main antagonist of the movie is a hired hand, with no direct tie to the hero or represent any thematic obstacle. The latter fails due to inserting technology into the movie without realizing how it undercuts its allegorical message.

Faneditor Panzerkut has set out to edit this movie to remove its more troublesome allegorical themes to make something that is “more brutal, fast, raw and direct.” Join Beezo as he discusses this parsed down edit of Elysium titled Elysium: Panzerkut.

 

Elysium: Panzerkut Podcast episode
Elysium: Panzerkut on IFDB

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_rebalanced-front-134172117319

21 Grams is the spiritual successor and precursor to director Gonzalez Inarritu’s more critically acclaimed movies Amores Perros and Babel.  Central to the reaction of the film was its non-chronological narrative, which some argued elevated the intrigue of the movie while others found an unnecessary distraction.

Fan editor Gatos has created a chronological edit of this film allowing the audience “to experience the events in the same fashion as the characters.”  Join Beezo and GBTM Co-founders Donna and Ethan as they discuss this approach – what is lost and what is gained – with Gatos’ fanedit, 21 Grams Rebalanced.

21 Grams Reblanaced Podcast episode
21 Grams Rebalanced on IFDB

Elysium-36-1456431866

Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 film Elysium suffers not only as a one-man army, CGI laden action movie, but also as a political allegory. The former is problematic because the main antagonist of the movie is a hired hand, with no direct tie to the hero or represent any thematic obstacle. The latter fails due to inserting technology into the movie without realizing how it undercuts its allegorical message.

Faneditor Panzerkut has set out to edit this movie to remove its more troublesome allegorical themes to make something that is “more brutal, fast, raw and direct.” Join Beezo as he discusses this parsed down edit of Elysium titled Elysium: Panzerkut.

Elysium: Panzerkut Podcast episode
Elysium: Panzerkut on IFDB

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