The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast
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S9E28: Rapid Hiss
🕑 Added 2025-07-15 09:39:48 +0000 UTCBret discusses failing to reach the finish line on a recent movie trip, a legendary entertainer's lascivious leap and an acclaimed actress who failed to make an impression as he replies to questions from Platinum listeners on the air.
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Zach Rudolph
Bret have you seen “Black Bag”? One of my favorite recent movies. It’s a soderbergh spy movie with a very tightly focused/minimalist feel. Also, on the broader point of movies and blandness, I believe it’s the death of religion. This may seem strange but go with me. Religion posits something like a stable sense of human nature. That humans are not a blank slate, but a creature with a certain nature that can bend, but even bending it comes at a cost. Stories today do not wrench the soul because filmmakers today do not believe in human nature. They write from a perspective of blank slate-ism or current-thing-ism. We viewers (still being human) still have a human nature. Leading to a mismatch resulting in unsatisfying stories. Love the podcast!
Andrew Collis
I’m h
Dee
loved the rs pod… Brett sounded “back”
Shawn Kilroy
I’m an alcoholic with 16 years sober. That fuckin gin monologue almost took me out! Love ya, Bret. Love ya, Adam.
Thomas Davidson
Bret has gotta check out Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It's on Apple TV now.
