Sarah Jilani
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Podcast Appearances
You can have that line.
Frank, for your thoughts, I'm happy to have Casey Robinson get the credit for those things.
And here's the true story.
Julian Filler riding down Sunset Boulevard, and they come to the red light at Beverly Glen in Sunset.
And their top is down in their car, and they're sitting at the red light, and they look at each other.
They knew that Strasser had a gun and that Bogart was going to shoot him.
And they simultaneously say to each other, round up the usual suspects.
And by the time they went through the tunnel and got to Burbank, they had the ending.
The movie ends with the triumph of social consciousness, duty.
She'll go off to a man she doesn't love, but that duty and patriotism means that she has to.
It's the triumph of the studio system, the factory system.
The lighting guy was no genius.
Bogart is no genius.
But the level of sheer competence came together in a way that I think exemplified this wonderful period in Hollywood where they didn't take themselves so seriously.
And then every now and then it would spell out something that would last.
Although Del Toro has said the faun in this story isn't meant to be that mythical deity.
Ivana Baccaro played Ophelia when she was just 11 years old.
I had to travel to Madrid for it.
I was from Barcelona.
So that was already in and of itself kind of an adventure, having to go to a different city to audition in person with the casting director.