Craig Brewer
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Podcast Appearances
I'm being general here.
I cry every movie I see.
But why is it that Field of Dreams just unashamedly makes men cry?
It's like, okay, you're dealing with father themes.
You're dealing with themes of am I able to like honor my family?
Like am I able to take care of my family and do they ā
Does anybody know perhaps even though I'm kind of quiet that I am suffering with it?
And I think that there's been a lot of ā
probably justifiably and understandably there's, there's, there has been a lot of criticism for towards masculinity.
Um, and I think that, that the interesting thing that I've heard in some of the test audiences is some women saying it's nice to see positive masculinity, you know, uh, an era of men that like if something's not exactly, uh,
The way everybody would want it, they're still making it work.
They're just patching themselves up and in silence moving forward.
And it was a nice way to see that or celebrate that in a character.
And there is something happening there.
I know.
It sounds like such a horrible thing that I've done, but I get it.
What was happening to me is that I was getting ready to work on the movie.
And so people go, what are you making right now?
And I'd be like, well, I want to make this movie about this Neil Diamond tribute band.
And they would say, oh, are you going to do Sweet Caroline?