Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
"Turn Me On, Goddammit!" (2011), a conversation
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss Alma, a high school girl boiling over with sexual curiosity in a small Norwegian town.
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Referenced media:
- “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986)
- “The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)
- “American Pie” (Paul Weitz, 1999)
- “American Reunion” (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, 2012)
- “The Avengers” (Joss Whedon, 2012)
Audio quotation:
- “Turn Me On, Goddammit!” (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 2011)
- “Take Me Breath Away”, composed by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock and performed by Berlin, from “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986),
- “boing sound effect 1” (2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3qnJxEYmc