Ben Wheatley and Movies That Changed Your Life: Come And See, Blade Runner, Star Wars

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with UK director and producer Neil Thompson, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Imitation Of Life’s impact, Clockwork Orange analysis, and Gone Girl’ influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Neil Thompson also discusses next steps in the development of IDEALISTS, a film projects on his Fat Pictures slate. Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about Neil Thompson’s film project IDEALISTS  and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:40] Neil Thompson talks about next steps in the development of IDEALISTS. 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Imitation Of Life impact  [11:45] Neil Thompson says Imitation Of Life was a monster hit at the time. He got into it when he was a teenager and has loved it ever since. He watches it regularly, and introduced his daughter to it too. He guarantees you will be in floods of tears. It makes everyone cry.   Clockwork Orange analysis [18:30] Neil Thompson says that he saw Clockwork Orange when it first came out in a west London cinema. During the movie there were fights. Outside there was massive fight at the bus stop that spread on to the bus. This movie exploded on to the streets and, ignoring the second half of movie, made everyone want to fight.   Gone Girl Influence   [24:15] Neil Thompson talks about his constant love of really good, psychological thrillers, and Gone Girl is a really good example of a modern one. It’s prime neo-noir featuring a femme fatale. Instead of being punished for their lawbreaking like they would be in the past, they now get away with it. Neil also enthuses about his love of David Fincher: “Never put a foot wrong.” Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about Neil Thompson’s approach to developing films for the Fat Pictures slate. Understand cinema’s transformative power through Imitation Of Life (1959), Clockwork Orange (1971), Gone Girl (2014) About the Guest:   Neil Thompson is a director, producer and owner of Fat Pictures. He is an experienced owner with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Strong business development professional, skilled in Finance, Production and Post. Specialised script development experience and known for championing new talent. In addition, consults on Company Structure and Finance/Investment for a range of companies and clients. Find out more Neil’s company and slate at https://fatpictures.co.uk/  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with UK filmmaker Ben Wheatley, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Come And See’s impact, Blade Runner analysis, and Star Wars’ influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Ben Wheatley also discusses his new film Bulk Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about Ben Wheatley’s approach to making Bulk  and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:00] Ben Wheatley talks about making Bulk and the narrative is tyranny tour of UK and Ireland. 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Come And See impact  [14:48] Ben Wheatley says Come And See is a DVD he bought because it was suggested as the greatest war movie ever made. It sat on his shelf for five or six years until one night at 11pm when he wondered what’s it like and he’ll just watch a bit of it. At 2am when he’d finished he was like JESUS!  Blade Runner analysis [19:54] Ben Wheatley shares how he came across Blade Runner as a kid as the two-part Marvel comic book adaptation and probably only part two it. He was too young to go and see it and would eventually watch it on VHS - the original version with the voiceover. Then he read the book and he’s still a big Philip K Dick fan. And then over time he has watched it on every format he has found it on. Star Wars Influence   [25:09] Ben Wheatley talks about seeing Star Wars in the cinema in 1978.  Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about Ben Wheatley’s approaches to making Bulk Understand cinema’s transformative power through Come And See (1985), Blade Runner (1982), Star Wars (1977) About the Guest:   Ben Wheatley is a UK writer/director known for KILL LIST, SIGHTSEERS, HIGH RISE and MEG 2: THE TRENCH.  Find out when the BULK - NARRATIVE IS TYRANNY Tour comes to your town at https://rookfilms.co.uk/pages/bulk-narrative-tour  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Billy Liar's impact on David, Johnny Go Home's analysis, and Assault On Precinct 13's influence on his personal growth and evidence of cinema’s transformative power. David Nicholas Wilkinson also discusses the making of his latest documentary THE MARBLES Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about David Nicholas Wilkinson’s new documentary THE MARBLES and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:50] David Nicholas Wilkinson discusses the making of his latest documentary THE MARBLES 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Billy Liar impact  [23:05] David Nicholas Wilkinson says Billy Liar is film that grew on him over time and would become his favourite British film of all time. He became aware of when he worked with Wilfred Pickles - who played Tom Courtenay’s father in it.  Johnny Go Home analysis [29:00 David Nicholas Wilkinson shares how Johnny Go Home was a documentary he saw on ITV. It went out once and if you missed it, you never saw it because there was no way of recording it at the time. Within the innocent filming, if you can call it innocent, the filmmakers realise they have something that could convict someone of murder. Assault On Precinct 13 Influence   [35:00] David Nicholas Wilkinson talks about Assault On Precinct 13 as an example of films that flop in cinemas and go on later to have a second, more successful life - see also Withal & I, Bladerunner and/or The Shawshank Redemption.  Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about the making of the documentary THE MARBLES. Understand cinema’s transformative power through Billy Liar (1963), Johnny Go Home (1975), Assault On Precinct 13 (1976) Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest:   David Nicholas Wilkinson is an independent development producer who works in international film and theatre.  As a development executive, he has worked with some of the most influential producers in British and European cinema.  For screenings of THE MARBLES see https://linktr.ee/GuerillaFilms  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with independent development producer, Clive Frayne, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Everything Is Illuminated impact, Leap Of Faith analysis, and The Tango Lesson influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Clive Frayne also discusses 12 months of Filmutopia and the evolution of his innovative approach to screenplay development that he describes in his book THE PROCESS OF SCREENWRITING Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about Clive Frayne’s innovative approach to screenplay development and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [2:30] Clive Frayne celebrates one year of Filmutopia and the evolution of his innovative approach to screenplay development 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Everything Is Illuminated impact  [30:00] Clive Frayne says Everything Is Illuminated is probably one of the best films ever made but too few people have heard of it. It manages to be incredibly funny, genuinely odd and well written, but as the story progresses what you realise it’s a story about the killing of an entire Jewish population in Ukraine by the Nazis towards the end of the second world war. Leap Of Faith analysis [35:55] Clive Frayne shares how Leap Of Faith, again, is a film hardly anyone seems to know about. It includes the most polished, mature performance Steve Martin has ever given in a movie. Drawing parallels with Jim Carrey elevation as an actor following THE TRUMAN SHOW, Leap Of Faith is Steve Martin’s Truman Show. The Tango Lesson Influence   [42:30] Clive Frayne talks about Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson. It’s a very meta film because learning to tango is the side project of Sally Potter uses to distract herself from the writer’s block that is stopping her getting her film project away. Despite looking, at times, almost like student film levels of production, when she gets the dance sequences right, she has these moments of brilliance.  Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about Filmutopia’s innovative approach to screenplay development and Clive’s book THE PROCESS OF SCREENWRITING Understand cinema’s transformative power through Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Leap Of Faith (1992), The Tango Lesson (1997) Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest:   Clive Frayne is an independent development producer who works in international film and theatre.  As a development executive, he has worked with some of the most influential producers in British and European cinema.  He is best known for his innovative approach to development. For more see https://clivefrayne.co.uk/ or get his book THE PROCESS OF SCREENWRITING at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1083083015  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with singer/songwriter for the band Crippling Alcoholism, Jonathan Sadler, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Jason And The Argonauts impact, On Her Majesty's Secret Service analysis, and Cinema Paradiso influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Jonathan Sadler also discusses why he wrote the book Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the book Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:00] Discussing the book Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Jason And The Argonauts impact  [31:40] Jonathan Sadler remembers how Jason And The Argonauts was the first film he fell in love with as a kid. How it grabbed and transfixed him. On Her Majesty's Secret Service analysis [36:46] Jonathan Sadler shares a story of rediscovering On Her Majesty’s Secret Service on new year’s day 1996, the morning after the new year’s eve before when he met the woman who would end up being his wife. Cinema Paradiso Influence   [44:13] Jonathan Sadler talks about watching the 170 minute director’s cut of Cinema Paradiso in 1993 at, the sadly long gone, Metro Cinema on Rupert Street in Soho, London.  Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about how and why Jonathan Sadler wrote Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide came about Understand cinema’s transformative power through Jason And The Argonauts (1963), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Cinema Paradiso (1988) Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest:   Jonathan is a film marketing and distribution consultant and creative as well as a producer of documentary and narrative films. Jonathan is a now also a published non-fiction author and his first novel, The Aeonia Enigma - a literary thriller set on a Greek Island is coming soon.  Get your copy of Film Marketing and Distribution: An Independent Filmmaker's Guide at https://kamerabooks.co.uk/bookpage.php?isbn=9780857306128 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with singer/songwriter for the band Crippling Alcoholism, Tony Castrati, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore There Will Be Blood impact, Irreversible analysis, and The Lighthouse influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Tony Castrati also discusses how he and the band wrote Crippling Alcoholism’s 3rd album CAMGIRL Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the making of Crippling Alcoholism’s album CAMGIRL & the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [6:48] What does success mean with a creative endeavour like Crippling Alcoholism? Don’t do it for the money. [8:50] How the band wrote CAMGIRL [11:10] Why the varying letter cases for song titles?  [14:30] God is a stand for your reality; your world view. [19:25] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life There Will Be Blood impact  [20:00] Tony Castrati describes how he was 14 when he saw this movie. He remembers as a kid how he loved movies. He never thought movies could be bad. The nature of it being a movie meant it was awesome. Irreversible analysis [25:20] Tony Castrati shares how he watched Irreversible when he was 16 years old. How the vengeful act at the start seems so mindlessly violent and you’re not on the protagonists side, but as the film goes back through time you find out why in the world of the film, he would kill someone. The Lighthouse Influence   [31:00] Tony Castrati talks about how watching The Lighthouse with his wife. It’s one of their favourites. Which is funny as it’s about two people living with each other and going insane - which is not indicative of his marriage.  Key Take Aways:   Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about how Crippling Alcoholism’s 3rd album CAMGIRL came about Understand cinema’s transformative power through There Will Be Blood (2007), Irreversible (2002), The Lighthouse (2019) About the Guest:   Tony Castrati is singer/songwriter and founding member of the band CRIPPLING ALCOHOLISM. Crippling Alcoholism’s 3rd album CAMGIRL is out now - https://cripplingalcoholism.bandcamp.com/album/camgirl Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with screenwriter Philip Ralph, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Barton Fink impact, Big Night analysis, and Bloody Sunday influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Philip Ralph also discusses the ongoing, rolling paradigm shift/crisis in the TV industry (and film industry too), the impact on working class people entering/staying in the TV industry and what the TV industry could be doing to make things better. Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the ongoing, rolling paradigm shift/crisis in the TV industry and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [2:00] What do you mean by rolling paradigm shift/crisis in the TV industry? [8:40] Philip’s open tweet to the industry goes viral [12:00] The political argument for the cultural importance of public service broadcasting to the wider successes in UK TV (and film) [15:00] UK TV has to be affordable to be sustainable and costs are rocketing. [17:00] What are the opportunities to improve the UK TV industry? We need to go back to basics. You need to invest in the future of the industry. More low budget shows? [21:00] Channel 5 resurrection of Play For Today  [23:40] We need a bit of punk ethos [31:00] The pressure that every show has to sell around world stifles innovation/narrows the window of opportunity. [34:00] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Barton Fink impact  [34:45] Philip Ralph saw Barton Fink at the now defunct Lumiere Cinema when he was studying at RADA. It really stayed with him and has become something incredibly important to his life. Big Night analysis [42:00] Philip Ralph says Big Night is his favourite film of all time. He could’ve done a whole podcast on Big Night he loves it so much. For Philip, Big Night is the perfect evocation of art versus commerce.  Bloody Sunday Influence   [48:40] Philip Ralph says that Bloody Sunday, over and above the execution of it, demonstrates Paul Greengrass’s unique ability to take you into the minutiae of a day like that and never dehumanises anybody, even the people who end up doing appalling things. The power of it as a piece of documentary drama, it inspired a whole strand of Philip’s writing life. Key Take Aways:   - Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. Learn about the ongoing, rolling paradigm shift/crisis in the TV industry (and film industry) What the we and the TV industry could be doing to make things better Understand the impact on working class people Understand cinema’s transformative power through Barton Fink (1991), Big Night (1996), Bloody Sunday (2002) About the Guest:   Philip Ralph is a a multi-award-winning writer for screen and stage. Find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-ralph-1258a7260/ Philip's keynote speech on class in the UK TV industry given at Leeds University’s Media department in Ocftober 2025 - COMMON PEOPLE: Reclaiming The Narrative On Class in TV at a Time of Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_66i8f815oA Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/play-for-today-channel-5-b2863772.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1763018711 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with the two Irish filmmakers: director Alan Hopkins and producer Husni Hafid in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Jurassic Park and The Virgin Suicides’ impact, Badlands and Shawshank Redemption analysis, and There Will Be Blood and Donnie Darko influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. They also discusses how they made their short films: JUNGLE and OGHAM Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the making of the short films: JUNGLE and OGHAM and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:20] The making of JUNGLE [9:30] How did JUNGLE get broadcast on RTE? [12:20] The making of OGHAM [21:10] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Jurassic Park (1993) impact  [22:30] Alan Hopkins describes how he did apply to be a palaeontologist like many others as a result of this film, but more importantly for his generation this film is his E.T. The Virgin Suicides (1999) impact [27:06] Husni Hafid describes how the first time he saw this film was on TV in Libya. What he didn’t know at the time, Libyan TV edited the sex scenes but left any violence well alone.  Badlands (1974) analysis [32:20] Alan Hopkins shares how Badlands was the film that changed everything about how he viewed films. It was the first time he was engaging with film as a higher art form.  Shawshank Redemption (1994) analysis   [37:55] Husni Hafid says Shawshank Redemption is the first film that stuck with him. To this day, he can go back and watch any time. Every time he watches it he gets something new from it. It is a film that can actively change his mood because it fills him with so much hope. There Will Be Blood (2007) influence [43:14] Alan Hopkins chose There Will Be Blood but what he means is the year 2007, the first year he went to film school. This was a time when he was all about cinema; going to the theatre every other day to watch films. Donnie Darko (2001) influence   [49:24] Husni Hafid this is one of the first films where he saw the directors cut and it almost ruined it for him; realising how the theatrical cut had been edited so well. It is full of youthful energy and made him want to make a film.  Key Take Aways:   - Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. - Learn about how to make short films Understand cinema’s transformative power through Jurassic Park (1993), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Badlands (1974), Shawshank Redemption (1994), There Will Be Blood (2007), Donnie Darko (2001) Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest(s):   Alan Hopkins is a Dublin-based writer-director, and lead creative executive at HAL Pictures. His films have screened on national broadcasters and major film festivals across continents, picking up multiple awards along the way.  Husni Hafid is an award winning producer born in Libya and raised in Co Sligo, Ireland. He has a proven track record of bringing films to completion across projects of varying scale.  Their website : halpictures.com Jungle Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM3RTmBD5co Ogham Trailer : https://vimeo.com/967751228 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with the author of the self-help book “Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit”, Amanda Graham, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Pee Wee's Big Adventure impact, Edward Scissorhands analysis, and Gone With The Wind influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Amanda Graham also discusses how and why she wrote the self-help book Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the writing of Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:00] Talking about the self-help book “Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit” [19:20] How much has your perception of losing your shit changed since writing the book? [23:00] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Pee Wee's Big Adventure impact  [23:40] Amanda Graham describes how she was in a apocalyptic cult and there was no joy in it. And how watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure was so joyful and it was the first time she felt real. It was such a double fingers to everything she had been dragged through. Edward Scissorhands analysis [29:30] Amanda Graham shares how when Edward Scissorhands came out she was attending Liberty University, which is an exceptionally conservative, religious American university. It was miserable and she was in a group called ‘The Liberty Freaks’. Outside the university was a $1 theatre and you weren’t supposed to go. You would get in trouble for going to see a movie. And when Edward Scissorhands came out, she saw it 14 (fourteen) times. Gone With The Wind Influence   [35:00] Amanda Graham talks about how watching Gone With The Wind was super impactful. She watched it on VHS, and what made her uncomfortable was the way it was re-writing history. She watched it with her mom and she remembers her mother saying: “I wish we could go back to those days” and thinking ‘are you kidding me?’ She went off and did some research into book and found it was written in homage to the Ku Klux Klan. Key Take Aways:   - Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. - Learn about why Amanda Graham wrote the self-help book Good Stuff To Read When You're About To Lose Your Shit Understand cinema’s transformative power through Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Gone With The Wind (1939) Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest:   Amanda Graham is a screenwriter whose past work includes writing 23 eps of Apple/BBC TV and script editing, ghostwriting and punching up scripts and pitch decks for 90+ film and TV development projects including for the BBC, Channel 4, and Zero Gravity Group. Her self-help book Good Stuff to Read When You’re About to Lose Your Sh*t which gathers everything she learned, tried, and ignored during the worst decade of her life to help others not feel alone) is out now Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with the director of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS, Alexandre O. Phillipe, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Vertigo impact, Bladerunner analysis, and All Tex Avery Cartoons influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Alexandre O. Phillipe also discusses how he directed CHAIN REACTIONS Movies That Changed Your Life   Find out about the making of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.   [1:00] Describe CHAIN REACTIONS [3:00] Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an extraordinary film [5:20] Texas Chain Saw Massacre is pure cinema [7:20] Texas Chain Saw Massacre looks amateurish is part of the charm of the film [9:00] What changes in perception did Alexandre have from making CHAIN REACTIONS? [13:00] Gaining new readings of Texas Chain Saw Massacre from those interviewed. [14:00] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life Vertigo impact  [14:43] Alexandre O. Phillipe describes how Vertigo goes really deep and was his first film memory.  Bladerunner analysis [20:20] Alexandre O. Phillipe shares how Bladerunner was a film he watched in theatres, in Paris, when he was 10. He got the VHS as soon as he could and there was a time in his youth when he watched the film every day of his life. All Tex Avery Cartoons Influence   [26:00] Alexandre O. Phillipe talks about how watching Tex Avery Cartoons were a huge part of his pre-school routine when he was growing up in Switzerland. The absurdity and over the top humour and how Tex Avery could escalate every situation. Alexandre thinks that Tex Avery was the greatest.  Key Take Aways:   - Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth. - Learn about how Alexandre O. Philippe decided on the style and format of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS Understand cinema’s transformative power through Vertigo (1958), Bladerunner (1982), All Tex Avery Cartoons Full show notes and transcript:  About the Guest:   Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss American film director. Philippe is also the Creative Director and co-owner of Denver-based Cinema Vertige Fifty years after Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked the world, this feature-length documentary charts the film's profound impact and lasting influence on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King and Karyn Kusama.  Chain Reactions will be available on Digital and Blu-ray from 27th October Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts for more movies that impacted your life!  Share your favourite movies that impacted your life on X (@leytonrocks) and leave a 5-star review and tell us which 3 films impacted your adult life. Best ones get read out on the podcast. Credits:   Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/)  Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices