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The Nothing, depressed horses, and dead moms–The Neverending Story! (Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…)
For this week’s episode, Emily shares her deep thoughts with Tracie about the 1984 film The Neverending Story, a childhood favorite with seriously dark undertones. She talks about how the original story was written as an anti-authoritarian fairy tale by a German survivor of the Third Reich, why she still gets goosebumps when the Childlike Empress knows about the children watching the film, and the surprising fact that Emily and Tracie’s father considered taking a hammer to their VHS copy of this film in the 1980s. Though neither the special effects nor the gender representation holds up, there is still much to enjoy in this allegory of grief that taught GenX that riding a luck dragon is the best revenge.
Throw on your earbuds and join us in the school’s attic as we play hooky and overthink The Neverending Story.
Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Mentioned in this episode:
What we can learn from the Neverending Story: authoritarianism, fascism, and the power of imagination
He Named Her “Moon Child”
Michael Ende
Wolfgang Petersen
Aleister Crowley’s novel Moonchild (1917)
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We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.
We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find.
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