Cal Newport

You know, that opening shot of Saving Private Ryan took like four weeks to film and cost $12 million.

Did it really?

And that was 25 years ago?

90, 99, uh, 98.

And then it was 99 Oscars.

Yeah.

It was robbed for best picture by Shakespeare in love.

Um, I liked, I mean, I liked that they're making these movies.

Um,

My note was, I don't know if you noticed this as well, they didn't do, like Aaron Sorkin would have been better about this in the screenplay.

They didn't do a good enough job of setting up what specifically about how the, whatever the guy's name is, what specifically about the way he was doing meteorology was different than what the other guy was doing, Chris Messina was doing.

Sorkin was very good.

He could create tension about abstract concepts.

You would understand, like, oh, there's this new school of doing meteorology based on these principles, and then the old school is based on those principles, and this is where the tension is.

People don't trust this new principle, and this is how we would verify, oh, but this is how we know that principle is right.

They didn't actually try to explain the meteorology, so it took some of the friction out of the tension.

He would just say like, you're moronic.

This is dumb how you're doing it.

But it's like, I think it's the weather is going to be this.

Right.