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Who are we talking about today? You kind of teased this last
Week. 2 directors. Two directors we are talking
about Greta Gerwig, the actors, writer, director and Noah
Baumbach, the director and writer.
They are a couple. They've been together a while,
but they have a pretty interesting relationship, an
interesting origin story that I think not everybody knows about,
so I'm going to be telling that story today.
I'm really excited to learn about it.
So what three? Sorry.
I just like choked as I was saying that.
I'm really. Excited.
I'm really excited to learn about it.
So what? 3 words would you use to
describe this couple? I would say creative.
Kind of obvious, bookish and in inspired.
Inspired by each other. OK, those are all positive.
Yeah, they are. They are, I know, two weeks in a
row positive. This is a pretty, I would say,
happy relationship it seems, at least from the outside, but
definitely still has drama and scandal.
I could have put that in there, but well, I'll, I'll get into
it. So yeah, if anyone doesn't know,
I I think some of you do. But Greta Gerwig?
She's known for her movies like Frances Ha Ladybird, the 2019
version of Little Women, and Barbie might have heard of that
movie. Barbie.
No, hi, Barbie. Sorry.
Guys like. It's not my favorite movie.
I'm going to admit that. I do like, I OK, we're going to
talk about it. Let's let's talk about it when
we get to it in the timeline. OK.
Which what We will have to wait a while because that's recent,
but but it it's not my favorite movie.
Guys, I'm sorry. Stay tuned for controversial
opinions, yes. But I do like Frances Ha and
Lady Bird. I love Lady Bird, Yeah.
Yeah, so I I do really. I do respect Greta Gerwig.
I do think she is a smart woman. Yeah, what should we also, We'll
also talk about little women when we get there, too.
Yes, and yeah. Well, I'm not turning people up
too much. It's a truth universally
acknowledged that I I think Mel, my family, we really prefer the
1994 little woman and I could write like a 200 page thesis
about my feelings about that. But yeah, and then Noah Baumbach
he is also a filmmaker. He is known for.
He actually Co wrote Barbie and has created movies with Greta
Gerwig. He also did Francis Hall.
He directed that Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale.
His debut movie was kicking and screaming not the soccer 1.
It's a it's like a coming of age movie from the 90s.
But he's like a indie filmmaker. Oh and how can I forget?
He also did Marriage Story. That was his.
He wrote and directed Marriage. Story and I'm sure that will
come up right. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Because a lot of people speculate, and it's pretty
official, that marriage story is based on his life and his own
divorce before or during Greta. So yeah, so who are they?
I'm going to start with Noah Baumbach because he's older.
Noah was born September 3rd, 1969 in Brooklyn.
He grew up in Park Slope. So cool.
He was brought up in a very intellectual family.
His father was an author of experimental fiction and Co
founder of a publishing house. He taught at Stanford and
Brooklyn College, and he was a film critic for the Parisian
Review. His mother, Georgia Brown, was a
film critic for the Village Voice and also wrote fiction.
His father was Jewish, his mother Protestant, and he had
three siblings, and his parents got divorced when he was a kid,
which really affected him and inspired his work later on.
And his dad actually married four times.
Oh, which I feel like it's got to do something to you as a kid.
Oh, that has to, because Can you imagine, like, getting attached
to your step parent? So was his mom the first wife?
Actually, the second wife? I think so.
Two of his siblings are half siblings, yeah.
I had always imagined. That previous marriage.
I went to school with some people whose parents got
divorced and then had new significant others, and those
didn't never worked out. And I'd imagine there'd be some
resentment of like, stop making me go through this.
I know. I I think so too.
So Noah, he wanted to be a filmmaker from a very young age.
He have. We talked about a director
before. Yeah, a.
Flashback. We did Tim Burton.
Oh. Tim Burton, Tim Burton and we
also have talked about Lena Dunham and Olivia Wilde.
Oh yeah, true. But I was thinking of Tim Burton
because I was going to say I feel like Noah Baumbach, you
know, he had that, what's it called?
The Fablemans type of upbringing, you know, making
little movies. And I I said the same thing for
Tim Burton. But yeah, he wanted to make
movies from a young age, and he attended Vassar College, where
he studied English and he graduated.
And then he worked as a messenger, like a paperboy for
The New Yorker. And basically, right after
college, or maybe even during college, he started working on
his first film, writing it and then trying to get it created.
Four years after graduating, he then did write and direct the
film Kicking and Screaming, which stars Josh Hamilton.
You might he's doing a lot of things.
But he was Clay's dad in 13 Reasons Why, which is like how I
most know him. All right, I will have to stop
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