Billy Wilder Profile – Episode #35 (July 7th, 2015)

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4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people to have won Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film (The Apartment), and was the first person to accomplish this. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, Wilder, who wasJewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the screwball comedy Ninotc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network.
0:13.0	For the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news and interviews, press one.
0:19.5	Popcorn Talk.
0:22.2	We talk movies.
0:36.9	From the Popcorn Talk Network, the online broadcast network for movie talk.
0:39.8	Alicia Malone with Scott MovieMancece and the Schmoz know.
0:41.2	This is Profile.
0:45.4	In-depth spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history.
0:48.8	Hello, Profilers!
0:53.3	Wait, we're going to start the show with three high fives in a row.
0:57.0	One, two, three, and here's why, ladies and gentlemen, this is what Profiles is all about talking about the greatest of the greats.
1:04.8	Today's spotlight, today's profile is without question one of the all-time greatest filmmakers
1:10.6	of all time. Of all time.-time greatest filmmakers of all time.
1:11.7	All time of all time. Of all time. Of all time. That gets another high-five because we are profiling Billy Wilder.
1:20.9	What is it about his movies that makes Billy Wilder one of the top three greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
1:29.0	I think because he's such a versatile director, you know, he doesn't just stick to one genre.
1:33.9	He's done film noir as well as screwball comedies and romantic comedies,
1:38.7	and they all seem to have this thread of darkness underneath them.
1:42.6	Oh, yeah.
1:43.1	He's also written the most memorable dialogue,
1:45.7	probably during that golden age of Hollywood, and some of the most iconic images, too. I mean,
1:51.5	who could forget Marilyn Monroe with the white skirt and seven-year itch? You're wrapping Marilyn.
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