41. The Ten Commandments

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the book of Exodus—the story of The Ten Commandments!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• The Book of Exodus. From the actual Bible. Available literally everywhere.
• The Ten Commandments, 1923, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Theodore Roberts. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, 1956, also directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Prince of Egypt, 1998, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and starring Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, the 2006 miniseries, directed by Robert Dornhelm, starring Dougray Scott, Naveen Andrews, and Omar Sharif. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The Ten Commandments, 2007, directed by John Stronach and Bill Boyce, and starring Christian Slater, Alfred Molina, and Ben Kingsley. Watch it on YouTube.
• Exodus: Gods and Kings, 2014, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, and Ben Kingsley. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• “Go Down Moses”
• “Dayenu”
• The Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible
• Anne Baxter and All About Eve
• Age of Empires
• Roma and lead actor Yalitza Aparicio
• Stephen Schwartz, Godspell, and Wicked
• Brenda Chapman

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40. A Star is Born

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss every version of A Star is Born!

For this episode, we watched versions of A Star is Born from:

• 1937, directed by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, written by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1954, directed by George Cukor, produced by Sidney Luft, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• 1976, directed by Frank Pierson, produced by Jon Peters, written by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Watch it on iTunes.
• 2018, directed by Bradley Cooper, written by Eric Roth, Cooper, and Will Fetters, and starring Cooper and Lady Gaga. Watch it on iTunes.

Footnotes:

• What Price Hollywood?, 1932, directed by George Cukor, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, and Neil Hamilton.
• The Motion Picture Production Code, aka The Hays Code
• Gregory Ratoff and All About Eve
• Dorothy Parker
• Andy Devine and Disney’s Robin Hood
• Joan Didion
• You Must Remember This: The Birth of Barbra Streisand’s A Star is Born
• Jon Peters, American film producer and former hairdresser.
• Kevin Smith on his experience working with Jon Peters: Part One and Part Two.
• Kris Kristofferson, star of Tad and Blade, and songwriter of “Me and Bobby McGee.”
• The video for Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” ft. Beyoncé
• Jeff Bridges and Crazy Heart

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39. Godzilla

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Godzilla!

For this episode, we watched:

• Godzilla (Gojira), 1954. The original. Directed by Ishirō Honda, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, and starring Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, 1956. The “original.” Directed by Ishirō Honda and Terry Morse, and starring Raymond Burr. Watch it on Amazon.
• Godzilla, 1998. The modern “classic.” Directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, and starring Matthew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, and Jean Reno. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Godzilla, 2014. The newer American one. Directed by Gareth Edwards, and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, and Bryan Cranston. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• Shin Godzilla, 2016. The Japanese reboot. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, and starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, and literally every other actor in Japan. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 11. The Fault in Our Stars
• Takashi Shimura and Seven Samurai
• The History and Evolution of Godzilla by YouTuber Cynical Justin
• Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah
• Independence Day and Stargate
• “Museum,” the original teaser trailer for Godzilla (1998)
• Godzilla and Taco Bell
• Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos
• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

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