Podcast here.
We open with an elephant being pulled up a hill. The technology to do so is deficient, but a way is found — eventually. It’s a classic ‘the film in a nutshell’ scene: the ambitions of cinema push past its technological limits, always wanting more and causing destruction as it tries to keep up. The elephant (here a metaphor for spectacle and filmic excess — the dialogue even makes reference to it being interchangeable with a big horse.…