Hello, Kaiju Lovers! Nate and company reach the end of their world tour with a jump across “the Pond” to Mexico, where they cover Gareth Edwards’ cult classic indie film, Monsters (2010). Mitch and Hayden from Entertain This! join him for the first time on MIFV to discuss the little-movie-that-could that got Hollywood’s attention and led to Edwards later directing movies for not one, not two, but three franchises. Those being Godzilla (2014), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and most recently, Jurassic World: Rebirth. Edwards is hands on in this film, “writing,” directing, and even creating the special effects. His secret was using a story that’s set “after the Spielberg movie,” as he said. The Toku Topic veers into potentially controversial territory (and forces Nate to, for the first time ever, mention President Trump on the air) with a brief history of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Such a wall is a key facet of Monsters‘ world, and it’s a much older issue than you might know.
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Timestamps:
- Introduction: 0:00-17:43
- Entertaining Info Dump: 17:43-24:33
- Toku Talk: 24:33-1:48:40
- Ad (Henshin Power V3): 1:48:40-1:50:49
- Toku Topic (A Brief History of the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall): 1:50:49-2:35:54
- Outro (listener feedback and housekeeping): 2:35:54-2:48:41
- Credits: 2:48:41-end
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
- “Brief Legislative History of the Last 50 Years on the U.S.-Mexico Border, A.” Mexico Initiatives. 28 April 2020.
- Ebert, Roger. “Monsters should be heard and not seen.” RogerEbert.com. 17 Nov. 2010. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/monsters-2010.
- Klein, Christopher. “Everything You Need to Know About the Mexico-United States Border.” History.com. University of Arizona. 17 April 2018. https://mexico.arizona.edu/revista/brief-legislative-history-last-50-years-us-mexico-border, https://www.history.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mexico-united-states-border.
- Lambie, Ryan. “Gareth Edwards interview: on making Monsters, meeting Quentin Tarantino and more.” Den of Geek. 29 Nov. 2010. https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/gareth-edwards-interview-on-making-monsters-meeting-quentin-tarantino-and-more/.
- Mendoza, Mary E. “America’s Wall is Bipartisan.” Time. 30 Oct. 2023. https://time.com/6324599/bidens-trump-history-border-wall/.
- “Mexico-United States border wall.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_wall.
- “Monsters.” IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/.
- “Monsters (2010 film).” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(2010_film).
- Monsters blu-ray special features (released by Magnolia Pictures):
- Audio Commentary with Gareth Edwards, Scoot McNairy, and Whitney Able
- “Behind the Scenes of Monsters”
- “HDNet: A Look at Monsters”
- “Interview with Gareth Edwards”“Monsters: The Edit”
- “New York Comic Con Discussion with Gareth Edwards”
- “Visual Effects”
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