242 – Pride

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is one we have promised for some time: 2014′s Pride. The film tells the true story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a queer activist group that partnered with a Welsh town in the 1980s during the mining strike under Thatcher’s rule. Following the lives of both the straight townsfolk and the queer Londoners, the film paints a portrait of queerness, allyship, and activism that rings true today while also satisfying on a crowd-pleasing level. After launching at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and winning the Queer Palm, the film launched in the fall of 2014 to some ardent critical fans, but didn’t cross the Oscar finish line.

This episode, we talk about the theatre career of director Matthew Warchus and the film’s comforts in this current tumultuous moment for queer people. We also talk about the film’s tremendous ensemble headlined by Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy, gay infighting, and unofficial THOB mascot Men Trussler.

Topics also include the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Monica Bellucci bluntly listing director names, and the concept of Festival Regret.
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0:00.0	We want to talk to Mellon here.
0:07.0	I'm from Canada, Waters.
0:30.0	Finding communities are being bullied just like we are. What they need is cash.
0:35.0	Yeah, because the miners have always come to our aid.
0:37.0	It doesn't matter. It's the right thing to do.
0:40.0	So we are going to pick a mining town completely around them.
0:44.0	Wales.
0:48.0	Die! Your gaze ever dies!
0:51.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast.
0:54.0	The only podcast that loves him, Daddy.
0:57.0	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty academy award aspirations.
1:03.0	But for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:05.0	The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy.
1:08.0	I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my gay who supports the miners, Chris File. Hello, Chris.
1:14.0	Lisbians and Gays support the miners.
1:17.0	This is, as I said before, we started recording.
1:20.0	This is going to be Chris File's audition reel with him performing...
1:25.0	This episode is basically just me putting myself on tape.
1:29.0	Exactly.
1:31.0	No, I feel like this episode is going to be Chris File trying not to get very angry and crying about a state of queer rights within the United States and the world at large.
1:46.0	I've watched this movie many, many times now.
1:52.0	And I always tear up by the end, of course.
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