There haven’t been a lot of movies about pandemics, yet, but today Alex and Jonathan take a look at the various ways they have been done in the past, specifically in Outbreak (1995), Contagion (2011), and Flu (2013). We talk about the ways pandemic movies suffer from not having a defined genre, what they might look like in the future, and how our current pandemic is affecting the state of big-budget filmmaking in the US.
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Skip to: Outbreak (04:55), Contagion (23:35), Flu (50:28), Overall (1:11:13), Coming Attractions (1:36:53)
Resources referenced in this episode:
- WATCH: Steven Soderbergh’s black and white cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark
- READ: Lessons for the Movie Industry from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic via the New Yorker
- Alex on Twitter: @AlexGeringer
- Jonathan on Twitter: @JSSatchell
- Jason on Twitter: @TheBluejay1994
Coming Attractions – Team Sports
- Field of Dreams (1989)
- Remember the Titans (2000)
- Invictus (2009)
Intro/outro music by Mike Braudrick
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