Episode 85: Those Crazy Cats

Apr 21, 2019, 03:00 PM

This time on SpeakBeasty:

→ The rainbow pinwheel of death is very misleading. → Happy Easter! → Could Queenie be believing that Jacob is an exception to the “wizards first” rule? → To kill Jacob, or not to kill Jacob? → Are the words “coward” and “crazy” gendered (and not in a good way)? → We love you, Paris! And we love your Notre Dame. → Marjolaine is going to have a coronary when she hears our French. (Sorry, girl.) → What parts of Paris featured heavily in the film? What role does Paris play in Crimes of Grindelwald? → “And then we all got confused.” → How do the first and second films compare in terms of how they use their setting as a part of their story? → Do any of these intricate details inform the story of the film? Does it work for an audience uneducated in Paris locales and their history? → The Time Turner: Rio de Janeiro in the 1920's!

Podcast Question: What was missing from Paris as a setting? How could the city have been better utilized in the story?