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SIDE HUSTLE 14: RICHARD PRICE: SEA OF MONEY
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THE COLOR OF MONEY and SEA OF LOVE
Directors with a day job for season 10? What about the most important person behind the scenes NOT the director? The writer.
RICHARD PRICE was a renowned author before trying his hand at screenwriting, which resulted in a "calling card" script that everyone loved but no one wanted to make into a movie. Classic Hollywood. As we discuss going over Price's career, he eventually ended up adapting the novel The Color of Money (1986), the sequel to The Hustler. Director Martin Scorsese (what ever happened to that guy?) and Price ended up chucking Walter Tevis' source novel and what we see onscreen is mostly Price, a pool hall road trip with Tom Cruise, Paul Newman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (no joke, what happened to her?). How the writing of this film informed Price as an author is almost as fascinating as the movie itself. We get into it.
In 1989 Price's script for Sea of Love was an immensely important film for star Al Pacino, who'd been in actor jail since the disastrous Revolution (1985), which was preceded by a number of financial disappointments . Pacino has since cemented himself as one of the all time greats but in 1989 a lot of people thought he was washed - going through the motions and box office poison. Sea of Love reestablished Pacino for the big screen and still stands as one of his best roles and maybe sexiest? Has Pacino ever been sexy? Price's script is so good it almost seems embarrassed to have a serial killer plot and we get into that dynamic.
Screenwriter and frequent guest Erik and Ken geek out over both films and Price in general. We talk a lot about directors on this show (many would say too much) so it is fitting we give a little love to the lonely art of writing and the weird art of writing for film.
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
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