00:00i didn't have to read it you didn't read it in school no i read it before this okay great
00:04yeah so that this was like my first introduction to nice i think george orwell's books in general
00:10way i'm a very i matured late you should jump on yeah oh my god 1984 broke yeah there's uh
00:16but no it it's such a jarring picture the ending of the book and it really sticks with you that
00:24final image and i was like so curious how they were gonna you know adapt that into a children's
00:31movie because that seems not very uh uh hopeful but andy again he has such a like positive
00:39world view and really uh inserted that into this film and so you get this like really helpful
00:45element and the movie is almost like an extension of the book if anything so we we get to see
00:51you
00:51know the powers that be we get to see how power corrupts and how it can twist the truth but
00:56we
00:56also get to see how you where you come in as like someone who's living in that system right like
01:02these
01:02are yeah it's pretty brilliant i also think it's what's interesting is that a lot of times the way
01:08tonally something can end can be a reflection on on when they were created and of course orwell
01:14i mean it was published in 1945 which is i think famously not a great year for people uh and
01:21so i
01:22think it was a deep reflection of current events and that's why it was so jarring when it came out
01:26and
01:26i think why it's such a staple and why why it works so well and seeing it through that lens
01:31just reminds
01:32you of how horrifying things can be and things can get and i think that what's interesting about the
01:37time period in which this is being tackled is that it's throughout a time that is is incredibly
01:44scary and a lot of these questions are being brought up i think a lot earlier than they always
01:48work as information is so accessible that i think that introducing these questions uh in a context that
01:55is i think safe for younger audiences i think is basically essential because you can't just throw
02:00orwell into the lap of of somebody who's like seven years old and expected really to to kind of make
02:08much of a difference there yet but by the time people now are entering high school these these events
02:14and these questions have already been kind of circulating for a very very long time so having
02:18the option that's a very funny way of putting it when they're like oh great for sure oh this is
02:26what
02:26they're talking about right and i think that does leave enough i think like you said it ends on a
02:31note
02:31of hope but it also brings up these questions and then i think it kind of is a great like
02:36maybe
02:36launch pad of being able to kind of go in deeper later on and i remember when this was introduced
02:42it was one
02:42of the first i think any time an older novel is put on your desk in school the first thing
02:48you do
02:48is roll your eyes and the minute we cracked open this one it was just we just tore through it
02:53i remember
02:53my entire class it was like the first time all of us were completely invested and excited to talk
02:59about it and discuss and it was the one time like you would read beyond the assigned chapter that
03:04you were given that day no spark notes no spark notes needed not for this uh and i think it's
03:09just
03:09it's a very it's a powerful piece and i think it resonates consistently and it's exciting to see
03:14andy take a swing at this and i think we're both pretty stoked to be a part of it
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