Civil War and The Sympathizer: Stark, Diverging Portraits of Americans at War

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Life during wartime is terrifyingly imagined in the new A24 film Civil War, and provocatively revisited in HBO's Emmy-contending The Sympathizer. Which of the two lands more resoundingly in the current moment, and will controversy follow either of them? Plus, we ask whether the Traitors phenomenon can shake up a very stale Emmy race.

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0:00.0	Vanity Fair. Hello and
0:13.0	welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.
0:16.0	I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.
0:21.0	And the Oscar goes to.
0:24.0	And the Oscar goes to the winner.
0:27.0	It's a tie.
0:29.0	And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know
0:35.8	Ma I just want an Oscar I'm David Canfield and I'm here with Richard Lawson.
0:48.0	I'm here with Richard Lawson.
0:50.7	Hello.
0:51.7	And joining us this week is the incomparable Chris Murphy. Hi Chris. Oh my gosh
0:56.5	hi thanks for having me that was so nice I'm working on my introductions to make
1:00.3	guests feel very welcome very you, enthusiastic to be here.
1:04.1	Well, you get five stars for me.
1:07.5	So this week we're going to be talking a little bit about Civil War, which is out in theaters this
1:12.2	weekend from A24. There's some kind of miso- Civil War, which is out in theaters this weekend
1:12.6	from A24.
1:14.0	There's some kind of miso standing here.
1:16.3	What?
1:17.3	Were you American?
1:18.3	Okay.
1:19.3	Okay.
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