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Movies vs. Capitalism

The Lever

Released: 2023-06-27

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20 Episodes

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Free New

20 Episodes

Audio

Released: 2023-06-27

Most Recent Episode

Good Burger (w/ Andrew Ti)

Time: 1:13:30

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This week, Rivka and Frank are joined by comedy writer and podcaster Andrew Ti for an insightful discussion about the 1997 Nickelodeon original movie “Good Burger.”

Last year, McDonald’s introduced its first largely automated location, which raised serious questions about the future of food service workers. Roughly 3.6% of the America workforce are employed by the restaurant industry at any given time, so what will happen to those jobs once robots can easily take orders, serve tables, and even cook the food?

With such questions in mind, the group digs into “Good Burger’s” central theme of “good capitalism” versus “bad capitalism,” and how the film propagates the myth that some businesses are “nicer” than others. They also unpack the bizarre racial dynamics of a kids movie written by middle-aged white men, starring Black teenagers, marketed for a white audience — and discuss the incredibly problematic career and legacy of Nickelodeon writer Dan Schneider.

For next week’s movie, MVC will be watching the 1984 military drama “A Soldier’s Story.”

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A rough transcript of the episode is available here.

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Artwork by Rufus Paisley

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Episode ID: 1000618468118

GUID: fda78ff1-212f-409c-902f-8988a6eb5002

Release Date: 27/06/2023, 15:35:00

Description

A movie-rewatch podcast that explores the politics of your favorite films through an anti-capitalist lens. Each episode, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by a special guest for an irreverent yet critical discussion about a film and how it’s *obviously* a scathing indictment of late-stage capitalism. Fight Club? That’s about the degradation of modern consumerism. Office Space? A stark depiction of worker alienation. Antz? An animated kids movie about the military-industrial complex.

Movies vs. Capitalism examines the crucial intersection between pop culture and politics — an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative, anti-imperialist analysis of your favorite talking pictures. It’s a middle finger to our rotting institutions and ruling-class proprietors who are slowly driving the human race into extinction.

But, like, in a fun way ;)

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