Episode 3: Walter Chaw (Senior Film Critic at FilmFreakCentral.Net ) and J.R Hennessy (Political Commentator and Editor Business Insider)
About the episode:
In this two-part episode, I'm joined by senior film critic for award-winning webzine FilmFreakCentral.net - one of the world's premiere film critics - Walter Chaw. Walter and I discuss that unpacking our reactions to Mohicans is a 'Rosetta Stone' for masculine entertainments of this type, and marvel at Wes Studi's monumental Magua. To close the episode, I talk to the editor at Business Insider and writer J.R Hennessy about DDL as beefcake, his hilarious twitter and layering in three distinct political apparatuses.
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 Mohicansis 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 WALTER CHAW
Walter Chaw is a senior film critic for award-winning webzine FilmFreakCentral.net. His last book, a monograph for the film MIRACLE MILE, was published in 2012. Currently, you can find Walter teaching courses at the University of Denver's OLLI curriculum or at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton, CO where he's the General Manager.
Twitter: @mangiotto
ABOUT J.R. HENNESSY
J.R. is a writer and editor at Business Insider. He has written at The Guardian, Pedestrian. T.V. and blogs media politics here.
Twitter: @jrhennessy
