Media Mayhem with Allison Hope Weiner
Episode 196
Reese Witherspoon Drama THE GOOD LIE Captures the Plight of Sudan Lost Boys
THE GOOD LIE writer Margaret Nagle talks about the Lost Boys of Sudan and bringing their story to the screen. Working with true Sudanese Lost Boys, the difficulty of getting the film made, and the overwhelming reception of the movie-which has landed Nagle a Paul Sullivan award-is all shared with the trailer of the film. We also discuss Nagle’s previous film, WARM SPRINGS, about FDR’s disability, and she weighs in on the immunization debate, and we also discuss Amy Pascal and what the Sony hacking scandal exposed about gender inequality in Hollywood, in this uncensored Media Mayhem with Allison Hope Weiner.
Episode Breakdown
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
00:01 Welcoming Margaret Nagle to Media Mayhem.
01:30 The Paul Sullivan award.
03:02 THE GOOD LIE.
04:04 The lost boys and the story of the Sudan re-imagined.
06:45 THE GOOD LIE, Trailer.
09:25 Showing the African experience and difficulty in getting it made.
15:00 The tone and response to the film.
16:13 Marketing missteps and the real conflict of the film.
19:09 The real lost boys on film.
21:25 Religion, genocide, and the film.
24:30 9/11 and the effects it had on refugees and humanitarian aid.
27:25 The difficulty of portraying African issues in an American film.
31:35 Does America understand Africa?
35:50 WARM SPRING, Trailer.
38:30 Making WARM SPRING about Roosevelt’s disability.
41:00 Polio and the surprising debate over vaccination.
44:00 Amy Pascal at Sony and the pay gap for women in Hollywood.
Guest Bio
Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter and television producer. She has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and won two Writers Guild of America Awards. Her first script, HBO’s Warm Springs, received a record-breaking 16 Emmy nominations and won five Emmys in 2005, including the Award for Best Television Movie. It also won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original Screenplay.
Additional Links
https://twitter.com/margaretnagle73
https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodLie
http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-Lie-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B00K2CI0HG
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