Good Story 278: Metropolis (1927) and The Phantom Carriage (1921)

This week, Good Story handles the tough questions: Has Julie been replaced by a robot? Why does Scott see dead people? Will the audience stay tuned all the way to the big closing number? In Episode 278, Silent Film Month continues with Metropolis (1927) and The Phantom Carriage (1921).


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Our Favorite Books.

Our Favorite Movies.

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Good Story 057: The Night Watch

Good and evil, collective good vs. individual good - these are some of the themes in Sergei Lukyanenko's The Night Watch. And vortexes. And some body switching. And vampires, werewolves, magic... urban fantasy, straight from Russia! Scott and Julie discuss the book.

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More stuff:

• Sergei Lukyanenko's discontinued blog
• Sergei Lukyanenko's website

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies. -- Sergei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch

Good Story 040: The Stand

Episode #40 - It's the end of the world again, this time due to a plague. Julie and Scott discuss The Stand by Stephen King. Bumpity bump!

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More stuff:

• The C.S. Lewis quote from On Stories:

  Another very large class of stories turns on fulfilled prophecies--the story of Oedipus, or The Man Who Would Be King, or The Hobbit. In most of them the ver steps taken to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy actually bring it about. It is foretold that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. In order to prevent this from happening he is exposed on mountain: and that exposure, by leading to his rescue and thus to his life among strangers in ignorance of his real parentage, renders possible both the disasters. Such stories produce (at least in me) a feeling of awe, coupled with a certain sort of bewilderment such as one often feels in looking at a complex pattern of lines that pass over and under one another. One sees, yet does not quite see, the regularity. And is there not good occasion for both awe and bewilderment? We have just had set before our imagination something that has always baffled the intellect: we have seen how destiny and free will can be combined, even how free will is the modus operandi of destiny. The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

• Brandywine Books
• Inspiration for The Stand

Good Story 034: Coraline

Episode #34 - Julie and Scott recorded this podcast... someday, maybe, Coraline and a nameless cat will come save them both. In the meantime, they discuss Neil Gaiman's short novel.

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More stuff:

• Neil Gaiman has a Mouse Circus of his own...
• The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer in 1917 and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. From Wikipedia.
• Circling back to Joss Whedon: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Good Story 021: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Episode 21: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Also, Julie and Scott race to the barber pole, go trick or treating, and barely mention zombies.

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More stuff:

• RayBradbury.com
• At Happy Catholic: Offering it up
• At Happy Catholic: Cardinal Virtues!
• mmm... zombies
• The Halloween Tree - review and audio link
• Flicks That Church Forgot podcast
• October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish