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Breaking Down Pressure Starring Brendan Fraser Directred By Anthony Maras · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: my father's spirit is with us inside the studio today
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  Speaker 1: because this is the kind of stuff that he said.
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  Speaker 1: One day it's going to happen. They're going to tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth of these stories. And to learn this about
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  Speaker 1: Dwight D. Eisenhower and everybody that was involved with a decision.
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  Speaker 1: You have no I know you have to know inside
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  Speaker 1: your heart you are touching people in ways they can't explain,
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  Speaker 1: but they're going to carry it forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's the hope.
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  Speaker 3: That is definitely the hope because it's the story that
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  Speaker 3: touched me and it's something that we want to bring
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  Speaker 3: to the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean I grew up in the age
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  Speaker 1: where it was always the eleven Days of October, which
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  Speaker 1: was the missile crisis in Cuba, and so until pressure,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those things you heard
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  Speaker 1: about but you didn't know about. And Dwight D. Eisenhower
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  Speaker 1: was that dude that was on the silver dollar and
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  Speaker 1: it was just one of those things where you know,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't know the story. But if you don't think that,
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  Speaker 1: I have been doing research after research after research, I'm
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  Speaker 1: learning more about what you've got in this movie. You
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  Speaker 1: have planted a wild man's seed, is what you have,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not the only one.
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  Speaker 3: It's Look, it's just fascinating what these little, these types
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  Speaker 3: of stories turn up and how how relevant and how
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  Speaker 3: fitting that they can be for right now is what
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  Speaker 3: amazes me. Like, yes, it's history, and yes you can
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  Speaker 3: look back at it and be like, oh wow, how
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  Speaker 3: fascinating is it that this all that happened. But sometimes
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  Speaker 3: there are stories and this is definitely one of them
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  Speaker 3: where it's not just oh wow, look back at that story.
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  Speaker 3: It's holy moly, how much can we learn from these
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  Speaker 3: tales and how fitting are they are, How fitting are
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  Speaker 3: they and universal are they for the problems that we
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  Speaker 3: face today? And that sort of contemporary resonance is something
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  Speaker 3: that I was shocked by when I read the underlying story,
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  Speaker 3: and then the more I.
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  Speaker 2: Read about this history, so yeah, I got to agree
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, And the thing about it is, I would love
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  Speaker 1: to sit in a focus group where they talk with
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  Speaker 1: the people when they finally realize a meteorologist was a
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  Speaker 1: major part of this, how many of us actually thought
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  Speaker 1: about our own meteorologists in our local cities, about what
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  Speaker 1: they are doing with other people's lives, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: political decision making world. Because this is a kudo, This
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  Speaker 1: is a loot to those who really do study whether
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  Speaker 1: and its atmosphere and its effect on us.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is, and it's it's also an acknowledgment of
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  Speaker 3: something else, which is human knowledge now is so specialized
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  Speaker 3: that no one person doesn't matter how bloody smart you are,
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  Speaker 3: you can't know everything. And whether it's meteorologists, whether it's medical,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's about engineering, whether whatever whatever the subject is,
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  Speaker 3: you can find a bloody expert in that who you
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  Speaker 3: know has devoted their lives you know, to finding out
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  Speaker 3: about this one thing. And you know, this story kind
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  Speaker 3: of celebrates the idea of a type of leadership that
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  Speaker 3: embraces that expert opinion. Not to just say, because you're
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  Speaker 3: an expert, we're going to believe everything you say. Not that,
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  Speaker 3: but to say, we're going to try and have the
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  Speaker 3: wisdom to look into what it is that you know
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  Speaker 3: and to see how that can lift everyone's boat, so
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  Speaker 3: to speak. And I think that was the genius in Eisenhower.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that you know, he specifically was the smartest
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  Speaker 3: guy in the room in terms of this or that
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  Speaker 3: or the other, but he was a great delegator and
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  Speaker 3: he was he had the humility to know what he
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  Speaker 3: didn't know and the wisdom to find out who it
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  Speaker 3: was to get that stuff from. Anyway, that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: really grabbed me. And yeah, who would have thought that something?
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  Speaker 3: You would think that the weather is dry is boring?
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  Speaker 3: In fact, there's the line in the film about that.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that draws me so close to
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  Speaker 1: the story is I'm that guy who will sit in
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  Speaker 1: a movie theater and I'll see a moment of war
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  Speaker 1: battles and my heart instantly goes to those on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and I start thinking about their families. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I loved about Brendan Fraser in this movie is that
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  Speaker 1: he does talk about that, about this weather. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't go right, this is going to affect
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  Speaker 1: that this family, this family, these people, and I would
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  Speaker 1: I'm so drawn to that because I'm going I'm not crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He was obviously thinking about it too. This wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: about winning a war. It was about the people that
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  Speaker 1: he needed in order to get in there to make
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  Speaker 1: this happen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think he saw his own sons in
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  Speaker 3: the face of those soldiers he went to visit. He
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  Speaker 3: agonized day and night, like this guy was smoking six
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  Speaker 3: packets of cigarettes a day, He's drinking twenty cups of
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  Speaker 3: coffee a day.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: He might have got two hours three hours sleep a
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  Speaker 3: night because he was agonizing over the fate of these
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  Speaker 3: young men, like it really pour his heart out. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that because of that pressure, he forced himself
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  Speaker 3: and all of those around him to just do their
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  Speaker 3: bloody utmost to make sure that before a single shot
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  Speaker 3: is fired, that they had the best chance that they
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  Speaker 3: could and not bloody easy to land a million men
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  Speaker 3: on the coast of a hostile territory where there are
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  Speaker 3: Nazis waiting for you with lots of mache guns and artillery.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what these young men had to face, and
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  Speaker 3: Eisenhower knew.
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  Speaker 1: That please do not move. We'll be right back with
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  Speaker 1: director Anthony Morris. The name of the movie is Pressure.
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  Speaker 1: With Brendan Fraser, we are back with the director Anthony Morris.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like for you to bring a motion
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  Speaker 1: picture like this together? Because the thing is is that
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  Speaker 1: you were on the set. It was your imagination, your
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  Speaker 1: eye behind the lens of that camera. You're the one
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  Speaker 1: that's bringing it forward and bringing us all together as
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  Speaker 1: a world again. In other words, it's like the whole
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  Speaker 1: world is watching this and united. We are experiencing this.
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  Speaker 1: And I love the way that directors like yourself do this.
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  Speaker 1: You bring us together in a way of saying, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, there's something you should know, and this is
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  Speaker 1: this is it right here?
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's funny to say it, but film is not
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  Speaker 3: a It's not like painting with you go off in
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  Speaker 3: a dark room and paint your colors and reveal it
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  Speaker 3: to the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's a collaborative sport and director.
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  Speaker 3: I know this sounds cliched and the fake humility and
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  Speaker 3: stuff to say it, but a director really is only
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  Speaker 3: as good as the cast and the crew that they
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  Speaker 3: have around them, and so a lot of what I
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  Speaker 3: think I did well in this film is I picked
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  Speaker 3: number one great people to work with across the board,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cast and crew, because without that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to get at the best film that
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  Speaker 3: you have, especially a film like this, which it's not
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  Speaker 3: an obvious one to get right. You know, it's not
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  Speaker 3: the easiest thing in the world. I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: to make a film about dueling meteorologists in back rooms
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  Speaker 3: of Suffer House and make it compelling. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: not an obvious slam dunk. It is once you sort
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  Speaker 3: of look into the story a bit more, but so
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  Speaker 3: much performances and so much of it rests on the execution.
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  Speaker 3: One of the reasons I wanted to shoot it in
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  Speaker 3: England in particular it was set there, but so many
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  Speaker 3: of the crew members had fathers and grandmothers and cousins
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  Speaker 3: and relatives who were directly affected by the war, and
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  Speaker 3: many by D Day in particular. They brought a lot
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  Speaker 3: of their own stories and passions into the film. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, for me as a director, I just wanted
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  Speaker 3: it to feel true to the to the immense tension
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  Speaker 3: and pressure and sacrifice that these great characters sort of
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  Speaker 3: you know, under in the lead up to D Day,
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  Speaker 3: and to feel the excitement of it like it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's exciting as as much as is anything else, because mate.
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  Speaker 2: The fate of the free world rests on the decisions
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  Speaker 2: that are made in these rooms.
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  Speaker 3: Like the head of the octopus, you know, the brain,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like that. What was happening in the
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  Speaker 3: in that mansion, in that headquarters was like the brains
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  Speaker 3: and the bronze braun if.
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  Speaker 2: You want to say.
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  Speaker 3: That, was you know, a million a million strong fighting
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  Speaker 3: forces of young men. And to try and try and
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  Speaker 3: penetrate that and put audiences in the position of the
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  Speaker 3: generals and the offices, and to just bring them into
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  Speaker 3: the war room was what we wanted to do here
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  Speaker 3: so they could see what kind of went into something
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  Speaker 3: like this, the.
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  Speaker 1: Way that you developed that camaraderie and and basically the
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  Speaker 1: conflict as well. Though, the one message that my wife
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  Speaker 1: and I have talked about since watching and experiencing the
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  Speaker 1: movie is it wasn't about me. In other words, every
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  Speaker 1: decision that was made, we didn't hear this is about
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  Speaker 1: my decision. My decision might know it was about us.
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  Speaker 1: It was about us as a whole. And and and
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  Speaker 1: everything about this movie was about the future. And and
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  Speaker 1: how you were able to put this together is mind
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  Speaker 1: blowing to me because we believe it. We now have
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  Speaker 1: experienced this and we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, bloody hell, that means a lot for you to
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  Speaker 3: say that, And it's it's funny sometimes someone will say
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  Speaker 3: something to you about your film and you realize something
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  Speaker 3: that you hadn't and you just did that for me.
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  Speaker 2: You're right. They it wasn't about me. It was about us.
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  Speaker 3: And there are no there were no real enemies in
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  Speaker 3: the film, so to speak, in that all of the
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  Speaker 3: characters that you see on screen, they all want the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. They all want to win. They've just got
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  Speaker 3: wildly different ideas about how to do it. Something they
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  Speaker 3: should postpone, something, they should be cautious somethings.
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  Speaker 2: You know that.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's the cautious thing is to go now, because
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  Speaker 3: if we wait, we're going to lose anyway. And to
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  Speaker 3: watch these great minds and egos clash against one another.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's an excitement to that, and there's also a selflessness.
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  Speaker 3: Eisenhower himself on the eve of D Day he thought
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be a failure, or he thought
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  Speaker 3: it could be a failure. He actually wrote two letters,
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  Speaker 3: and in failure, he specifically blamed himself. He said, all
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  Speaker 3: the responsibilities in his mine. There's another letter. Your audience
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  Speaker 3: can go look online and read this. The other letter
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  Speaker 3: was in the case of victory, where he gave it
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  Speaker 3: all to the troops. And you know, that's the kind
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  Speaker 3: of leadership that I think is pretty alien to us
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  Speaker 3: today because everyone's very quick to claim credit her jerk responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to see a time where leaders operated a
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  Speaker 3: little differently than that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you've got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future. The door is always going to be
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  Speaker 1: open for you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you man. It's been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much for everything. All Right,