This week the Antagonist Podcast covers the Oscar-nominated film Elvis and the should-have-been-Oscar-nominated film Nope. And Bad Bunny gets a shout out.
Join The Antagonist Managing Editor Laura J. Burns with writers Orly Minazad, Dustin Waters, and John Brown Spiers as they amaze you with their knowledge of pop culture.
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0:11 — Introduction to this episode.
5:30 — Viola Davis got an EGOT!
10:14 — Why has Beyoncé won more Grammys than any other human being ever and still never won Best Album?
12:35 — Does anyone want Orly’s thoughts on the movie?
15:01 — It’s hard to play Elvis when you’re just impersonating him.
17:05 — We took an hour for the first 25 years of Elvis’s life.
19:02 — Shakespearean influences on the Elvis story.
24:39 — Elvis’s Black and white influences.
26:04 — Elvis’s relationship with Black people in the ’50s.
30:50 — This movie is meant to stabilize the myth of Elvis Presley.
38:48 — We grew up with the ghost of Elvis.
47:30 — The erasure of the Black Cowboy from the American West.
50:55 — The goal is to capture proof of this thing, not revenge.
56:38 — John calls back to Kaleidoscope. Again.
1:04:22 — Is Nope too long?
