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“Westworld,” “Do the Right Thing” and Managing Audience Reception [RFS-FJ27]

November 1, 2016 By Ron Dawson

An excerpt from our new podcast about HBO’s “Westworld” and a discussion about Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” set the stage for an insightful discussion about how an audience responds to your film.

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A few weeks ago JD, Yolanda and I apparently felt like we didn’t have enough time arguing and debating with each other on “Radio Film School”, so we decided to take our passionate debates to a new “frontier”—HBO’s “Westworld.” Our new podcast “Wrestling with Westworld” is a weekly fun, funny, and engaging discussion about the new hit show. On the very first episode, we had a great conversation about audience reception and a filmmaker’s ability to effectively and accurately convey their message to the audience. I felt it would be very informative to share with my RFS audience.

As a follow up to the “Westworld” convo, I share a discussion that JD and I originally had last year about “Do the Right Thing.” In it we address Spike Lee’s comments that he believes the Danny Aiello character, Sal, is a racist, whereas both JD and I don’t necessarily think he is. As the writer/director, did Spike do a good job of communicating to the audience that Sal is indeed a racist? That’s what we explore. Special “guest star” appearance by filmmaker Ryan Booth.

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Music in this Episode

Music was curated from FreeMusicArchive.org. In order of appearance, the music in this episode was:

  • Fire Ahead by Jahzzar (CC B-SA)
  • Black Lung by Broke for Free (CC BY)
  • Night Owl by Broke for Free (CC BY)
  • Old Western Firefight by Cullah (CC BY-SA)
  • Western Firefight 2 by Cullah (CC BY-SA)

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Filed Under: Filmmaker's Journey Tagged With: do the right thing, filmmaking, HBO, Spike Lee, storytelling, Westworld

About Ron Dawson

Ron is a writer, filmmaker, speaker, author, coach, and host of Radio Film School. He does brand and content marketing for the media and tech industries at Blade Ronner Media.

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