Adam and Aaron have returned with a new episode of Themes & Memes recorded live on Thanksgiving, 2024. During Aaron’s holiday special, War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, they did a review of the fairly new Francis Ford Coppola movie “Megalopolis.” A very unorthodox piece, this film raises a lot of questions.
Topics include: podcast hiatus, Fall of Rome, decadence, elite, aristocracy, dominant minority, dystopia, compositing, new digital filmmaking techniques, Elon Musk, time, NYC, Manhattan, Megalon, dreams, tepid response at release, little character development, Coppola and classic cinema, classic narrative structure, David Lynch, telling story with image and sound, augmented reality, technocracy, current American politics, rabble rousing, idealism, virtual reality, we are in the future now, media is now changing, media is the message, narration, color, shot and missing one eye, Times Square, building, eugenics, future of podcast
Watch the War on Christmas Thanksgiving Spectacular, which has the live version of this show. War on Christmas on YouTube