{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast","title":"Gladiator (with Blake Howard)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3964,"description":"Be thankful we did your Gladiator II homework, rewatching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 1 (2000) with amateur Russell Crowe historian Blake Howard. \nThis is a Gladiator II-spoiler-free conversation: listen as we get into Crowe kissing disembodied feet, Scott’s world-building, the technology of acting, Oliver Reed’s digitized face (RIP), is anything better than practical effects, expressionism vs. historical accuracy, and more. Gladiator: a good movie.\nFurther reading: here’s Gladiator cinematographer John Mathieson on returning to the sequel after 24 years.\nThe Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast is co-hosted by Veronica Fitzpatrick and Chad Perman, produced by Eli Sands, and edited by Buczar. Our theme music is composed by Chad. \nThis episode is sponsored by Galerie: a new kind of film club. BW/DR listeners can sign up for 3 months of free access to essays, curated film lists, live screenings, and more at join.galerie.com.\nYou can find every issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room here. Holy trinity: please give us a follow, rate the pod, give a review. We’re on Bluesky at @BWDR and @BWDRPod, and welcome feedback & inquiries at podcast@brightwalldarkroom.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/F3ADF-_dUFITESYa-d8-ew8ND7x-yTSh_Sw_FQyX2co/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NTZi/Yjg0YzlkYjFkZTYw/OTMwMDA3YzA2NGQx/NWQ3Mi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}