Episode 24 – 'Big Wednesday'
Ted’s pick this week turns a little bit contentious due not to the movie itself — we both liked it — but, unsurprisingly for an election year, because of the politics of Big Wednesday’s outspoken and larger-than-life writer/director. On this episode we talk of the film’s robust romanticism, Milius’s accomplished screenwriting career, his love of literature and militarism, John Ford and how this movie aimed to be “How Green Was My Valley for surfing,” the questionable influence of violence and guns on film, and the role Milius’s self-mythmaking led into his arguable blacklisting from studio filmmaking.
