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Dr. Peter Weller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2004 total appearances

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History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

The tragedy is that, and he's talking about tragedy, but when you're in the character, I'm not thinking this is tragic. You see the movie 20 years later, it's tragic. He says the one thing they can't, they've taken everything. But the most important thing is they've taken your identity. But the most important thing is they've taken your family. They've taken your wife and child.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

The tragedy is that, and he's talking about tragedy, but when you're in the character, I'm not thinking this is tragic. You see the movie 20 years later, it's tragic. He says the one thing they can't, they've taken everything. But the most important thing is they've taken your identity. But the most important thing is they've taken your family. They've taken your wife and child.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

The tragedy is that, and he's talking about tragedy, but when you're in the character, I'm not thinking this is tragic. You see the movie 20 years later, it's tragic. He says the one thing they can't, they've taken everything. But the most important thing is they've taken your identity. But the most important thing is they've taken your family. They've taken your wife and child.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And they've taken your consciousness away from you. But they cannot take your soul.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And they've taken your consciousness away from you. But they cannot take your soul.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And they've taken your consciousness away from you. But they cannot take your soul.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And your soul wakes up on its own. And so I'm remembering that conversation in my suite. And I tell you, I could cry like that thinking about it. But when I listened to it, I thought it was the weirdest fucking thing. Like, I don't want to really hear about it. That, in spite of the fact that I was sober at the time, and I really had no serious spiritual program.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And your soul wakes up on its own. And so I'm remembering that conversation in my suite. And I tell you, I could cry like that thinking about it. But when I listened to it, I thought it was the weirdest fucking thing. Like, I don't want to really hear about it. That, in spite of the fact that I was sober at the time, and I really had no serious spiritual program.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And your soul wakes up on its own. And so I'm remembering that conversation in my suite. And I tell you, I could cry like that thinking about it. But when I listened to it, I thought it was the weirdest fucking thing. Like, I don't want to really hear about it. That, in spite of the fact that I was sober at the time, and I really had no serious spiritual program.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

But to hear Paul talk about it then and talk about it now, and then when you see that the idea of resurrection, which, by the way, is the theme to that film. I asked people that. I love the film. I asked a kid the other day. He said, oh, you know, I grew up with that film. And it was at the World Renaissance Society, and here's this young academic. I grew up with that film.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

But to hear Paul talk about it then and talk about it now, and then when you see that the idea of resurrection, which, by the way, is the theme to that film. I asked people that. I love the film. I asked a kid the other day. He said, oh, you know, I grew up with that film. And it was at the World Renaissance Society, and here's this young academic. I grew up with that film.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

But to hear Paul talk about it then and talk about it now, and then when you see that the idea of resurrection, which, by the way, is the theme to that film. I asked people that. I love the film. I asked a kid the other day. He said, oh, you know, I grew up with that film. And it was at the World Renaissance Society, and here's this young academic. I grew up with that film.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

I said, what's the theme of it? And it's like great Elia Kazan said, my mentor Uta Hagen says, if you can't say what the theme of a work is in one word, all you're talking about is plot, story, significance, you know, resonance with whatever. It's all important. But what is the damn theme?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

I said, what's the theme of it? And it's like great Elia Kazan said, my mentor Uta Hagen says, if you can't say what the theme of a work is in one word, all you're talking about is plot, story, significance, you know, resonance with whatever. It's all important. But what is the damn theme?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

I said, what's the theme of it? And it's like great Elia Kazan said, my mentor Uta Hagen says, if you can't say what the theme of a work is in one word, all you're talking about is plot, story, significance, you know, resonance with whatever. It's all important. But what is the damn theme?

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

It's resurrection. It's rebirth. Like all great stories. It's not war. It's not this. It's not that. It's like the theme of Chinatown. I got to tell Robert Towne, thank God, with John Milius when they were smoking a cigar. Thank God I got to tell Robert Towne. Listen, Chinatown is the, or one of the three, greatest pieces of visual rhetoric on America ever made. Ever made.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

It's resurrection. It's rebirth. Like all great stories. It's not war. It's not this. It's not that. It's like the theme of Chinatown. I got to tell Robert Towne, thank God, with John Milius when they were smoking a cigar. Thank God I got to tell Robert Towne. Listen, Chinatown is the, or one of the three, greatest pieces of visual rhetoric on America ever made. Ever made.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

It's resurrection. It's rebirth. Like all great stories. It's not war. It's not this. It's not that. It's like the theme of Chinatown. I got to tell Robert Towne, thank God, with John Milius when they were smoking a cigar. Thank God I got to tell Robert Towne. Listen, Chinatown is the, or one of the three, greatest pieces of visual rhetoric on America ever made. Ever made.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And because the theme of it is dynasty and incest. Now, people don't want to see that. People want to say, oh, it's power. No. Oh, it's water. No. Oh, it's land. No, it's not. What's the last thing John Huston does? Take that girl out of that car, say, come with me.

History For Weirdos
Episode 150: Art, Ancient Rome, and Androids - The Weird World of Dr Peter Weller

And because the theme of it is dynasty and incest. Now, people don't want to see that. People want to say, oh, it's power. No. Oh, it's water. No. Oh, it's land. No, it's not. What's the last thing John Huston does? Take that girl out of that car, say, come with me.