Episode 5: Carly Severn (writer at KQED and host of the Cooler Podcast) and Mark Olsen (Writer at The L.A Times and host of The Reel Podcast)
About the episode:
In this two-part episode, I'm joined by a writer for KQED and host of The Cooler podcast - Carly Severn. Carly and I discuss that the character of Alice the character that anchored her appreciation of The Last of the Mohicans and that watching Mohicans with a glass of wine at altitude is perhaps the ideal conditions to view the film. To close the episode, I talk to the of The Reel podcast and writer about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen. Mark and I discuss the tumultuous shoot of Mohicans, and that Mr Mann bristled at being labelled a "stylist."
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 CARLY SEVERN
A writer making social media, radio, podcasts & internet things for KQED (NPR/PBS in San Francisco). The host of The Cooler Podcast.
Twitter: @TeacupInTheBay
ABOUT MARK OLSEN
Mark Olsen writes about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times as both a feature writer and reviewer. He creates a regular series on independent, documentary and foreign-language films under the banner of Indie Focus, also curating and hosting the Indie Focus Screening Series. His work has also appeared in Film Comment, the New York Times, LA Weekly, Sight & Sound and other publications. He is from Kansas.
Twitter: @IndieFocus
