And we decided to do it-- Thematically. --thematically. We had people who were coming over here for opportunity, people who are coming over here for love, people who were coming over here fleeing something. But I guess the common theme was that people came over here for opportunity, and because they really
almost, you have the UN Women's Guild talking about these sorts of things. Thematically, it's the same. It's the imagination of a world united through a particular kind of progress that has gotten rid of ancient evils of one sort or another.
Or to put it more specifically, there are certain things that his six predecessors did that obviously were rather badly wrong. So thematically, they all did various things to displease Stalin. They all themselves became victims of the purges, along with hundreds of thousands of other members of the party.
It's not actually one of the bubbles, but... does feel thematically in-line. Makes you think. So then, number two is this whole collection of what I'm going to call...
But in this one area, in Epirus, it's very much a part of the local tradition. I also did some thematic episodes, just examining different aspects of life in Athens and working food into them, like the art scene, or different aspects of the food life in Athens, different dietary--
has on you now, both in terms of their impact on your life and your responsibility towards those other people. And I think thematically, that was something we were really interested in exploring that's not always talked about and I think is very real to a lot of people, certainly is real to us in terms of people we have in our lives and the way that we emotionally are affected by them and emotionally overreact sometimes
to things that they do, which might or might not be warranted. So I think thematically, that's something we talked a lot about. Did you look at other buddy comedies like maybe "Midnight Run" or "The Odd Couple" or any number of classic-- you're always dealing with polarities in those,
So that was a big thing. And I think thematically, we can all probably talk about this-- about how it was updated in terms of, like, it went from it was a movie of the early 2000s, and now it's a movie of Gen Z for sure.
And it's been likened by my publisher to the book that Stephen King wrote, where the body-- the story that became "Stand by Me" comes out of "Four Seasons," that's just four thematically-connected but not continuity-connected tales. Had any of the stories been published previously?
But I feel as if my stories are not literally linked. But they are thematically linked. And that was almost a conscious decision I made.
And there's also a lot of very honest discussions of things. and a strong thematic link.
That didn't work. That was a joke. And it fits thematically, but it's hard to think of how do you make a puzzle that is that?
If you're ever going to jump out of a plane, it's very handy. But our show is thematic-- the light and the rain play off of each other throughout the entire show.
Color often sort of anchors something in time. It might be thematic.
and sometimes when I'm striding across middle earth, the gown catches. the visual and the thematic together.
So lame argument number one, for example, the one that I cannot get over is in baseball you are allowed, if you're a pitcher, to replace your ulnar collateral ligament It's a thematic connection.
And the thematic areas in which they work are to promote recovery from conflict and disasters; to defend access to
It was thematically oriented to horny housewives, naughty neighbors, family secrets-- terrible, terrible, terrible stuff.
And because it intersected thematically with other things that Frieda, my wife and I, are doing up in San Francisco with the Level Playing Field Institute and my foundation, I immediately
really uh thematic programming meaning every piece is handpicked for some purpose to give you a contextual
If you were to look thematically across some of the companies you've now worked with, what are, if you were to name like the top two or three issues
I move into a more thematic mode.
we literally had one person who wrote his essay on the day that he was sworn in as a US citizen. And we decided to do it-- Thematically. --thematically. We had people who were coming over here for opportunity, people who are coming over here for love, people who were coming over here fleeing something.
And it's kind of a thematic CD in the way that from the first track to the last track, it goes from darkness into light.
instrumental music than necessarily about thematic storytelling from a more conservatory, educated
And they also have these thematic menus that they bring out with a lot of fanfare every six months.
So there's always a thematic link between the science and the story.
how do these people connect with this thematic structure.
We are organized much more thematically than we think and much less in a way that's linear.
between 2006 and 2009 and the pieces thematically address climate change. And in each of these works, I took a fairly different approach to the material, somewhere between moving
That episode planted the seeds thematically that would go all the way to the last episode.
But I had a highly thematic approach.
We have Dr. Thema Bryant is in this book.
were things that we were actively watching over and over again and talking about in the lead up to while we were writing the film and just letting it kind of seep in thematically, I guess, as opposed to being too direct in terms of the aesthetic. There was a fun brashness to those films that we really loved where characters would just say how they feel and act the way they thought was the best.
And I maintain-- and this is sort of the thematic thing that I would hope that we take with us with "Genuine Fakes" is
And what drew you to twins and that thematic need for distance and closeness?
Hi. So thematic to everything you've been able to discuss today, did you ever have a situation in your career where you felt disconnected from the things that brought
Also, the thematic thread that runs through the record is social justice ghost stories.
Or what do you see yourselves highlighting or really elevating thematically in the future?
Like, there were thematic throughlines that were happening in some of the calls.
It's about the things you don't think you're going to see, especially at a Cirque show. It's the first time we've gone so thematic in something. People often wonder, well, it's all sung in Spanish.
We'd distribute them around the country geographically and thematically and say, OK, you got 24 hours.
No, it's a thematic book.
So the second half of the book is more thematic-- chapter on football, chapter on colleges, chapter on my life with television, both local
And so the first third of the book is thematic, in the sense that-- some of it is talking about what we were just talking about.
out of your restaurant experience whether it's ordering thematically or balancing.
So there were a couple really great questions that were kind of thematically tied that I wanna reconnect with before we head into today's topic.
I often steal ideas from him, like thematic ideas or even structural ideas, because every third variation
Those discussions, those really big thematic discussions take place largely before the first season when you're really kind of trying to figure out what the show is
Yes, correct. Wow. So looking at where you guys started, I guess, or even DC to Broadway, beyond songs changing here and there, were there big sort of thematic changes or was it really just, yeah, switch a number here and there, a joke didn't land, let's replace it? I would say, I think we all experienced a lot of changes.