Episode 2: Fran Hoepfner (Editor at Large Bright Wall Dark Room) and Kris Tapley (Recovering Journalist and Filmmaker)
About the episode:
In this two-part episode, I'm joined by the legendary editor at large for Bright Wall Dark Room, Fran Hoepfner, to discuss loving the score before the movie and pondering Daniel Day-Lewis' hair routine. To close the episode I talk to the great recovering journalist and filmmaker, Kris Tapley, about growing up in North Carolina and experiencing stunning wilderness and pitching Mr Mann two more entries in a potential period epic trilogy.
About the show:
THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS is a twelve-episode limited podcast series focusing on the climax of the Michael Mann’s 1992 epic The Last of the Mohicans. The format of the podcast, which slightly differs from ONE HEAT MINUTE, utilises the entire final twelve-minute climax of Mohicans as a portal to explore the themes of the movie, the cross-section of political apparatuses, colonial superpower wrangling, and Mr Mann’s riff on the “great American hero.” With an Academy Award-winning score from Randy Edelman and Trevor Jones, iconic performances, stunning cinematography from Dante Spinotti, a relentlessly paced script from Mann and co-writer Christopher Crowe and masterful orchestration from Mann; the film’s extended finale - triggered by the delivery of tribal justice until the credits roll - is arguably one of the greatest endings to almost any movie ever.
About the movie:
The Last of the Mohicans is adapted (and significantly altered from) James Fenimore Cooper novel, set in 1757, Mohicans follows three trappers who are inadvertently drawn into the French and Indian War when they rescue the daughters of British Colonel and their British Captain escort from an ambush. It stars Academy Award Winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Academy Award Winner* Wes Studi, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May and Steven Waddington.
ABOUT FRAN HOEPFNER:
I AM A WRITER FROM CHICAGO CURRENTLY WORKING ON MY MFA IN FICTION AT RUTGERS IN NEWARK. I’M AN EDITOR AT LARGE FOR BRIGHT WALL/DARK ROOM, AN INDEPENDENT FILM MAGAZINE, AS WELL AS A CLASSICAL MUSIC COLUMNIST FOR WQXR. FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, NONFICTION INTERNET WRITING WAS MY BREAD AND BUTTER, AND WHILE I DO LESS OF IT NOWADAYS, I’M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND HOW TO MAKE IT 100% ABOUT ME.
Twitter: @franhoepfner
ABOUT KRIS TAPLEY:
HUMAN. DAD. HUSBAND. WRITER. RECOVERING JOURNALIST. UNAPOLOGETIC 90S NOSTALGIST. FORMERLY: PLAYBACK PODCAST
TWITTER: @KRISTAPLEY