iTunes Exclusive Episode Born In China

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Number 280, nice even number.
My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast and I enjoy nature, I really do.
But I am not alone for this particular episode joining me across the desk as he tends
to do from time to time.
Is the official fact checker of this show and a man who has aspirations to be a world
traveler.
But then again don't we all.
You may know him as fun, don't go, but his mom and even don't want to call him
Don't Ford welcomes her.
I've been in London in Ireland.
Oh, they're in Mexico.
Well, they go the other side of the world.
Okay.
So we're talking about the other side of the world today as Disney Nature releases their
latest opus as we approach Earth Day.
It is called Born in China.
From start this whole thing, yes, sir.
We got to thank Susan, Jenna, everybody.
Susan Jacobs in Disney for the invite.
Such fans of those guys, they always do such cool stuff and let us get to see movies in
advance so that we can tell you about them.
Again, this is the latest film in the Disney Nature series.
This is actually supposed to come out last year, but they pushed it back to this year.
Yeah.
This is basically the story of four different animals.
A family of news, GNU.
A family of monkeys.
Yep.
A mother, panda, and her cub and a mother snow leopard in her two cups.
Now, the Empire members out there who don't really know what a new is.
It's kind of like that little animal.
It's like an animal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they all live in different areas of China.
And this is their stories over a year, starts in spring and in spring.
It is narrated by the great John Chris Sinski as you may remember him as Jim from the
office.
Of course.
What is it about an hour?
Just sort of an hour 20.
I mean, that's really all you need to know.
Don't give me your thoughts.
This is going to be kind of different because there really is no acting or, you know, in
a normal film, it's, it's your good documentary.
Now, the thing I want to start, I don't know if I want to bury the lead on this, but
the thing that blew me away on this thing, okay, the scenery and the nature shots, the
photography.
Oh, I said it.
The photography was amazing.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
I mean, it's Disney nature who has brought us a lot of great films of the past.
And this one, no exception to the enjoyment factor and the wow factor.
Because I know that.
I was watching it.
And there were a couple scenes where I remember it showed the book in the stream and
some leaves fall down and you see those leaves fall and some shots of the water falls
in nature.
I was blown away visually.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Beautiful.
A lot of work with time lapse photography as well as it pertains to the changing of the
seasons.
I mean, this, that you're absolutely right, this was shot gorgeously.
The sound field also beautiful.
Yes.
Using the entire theater for this, for the surround sound of things of that nature, you
kind of felt like you were out there in a way, absolutely, with that surround sound
around you.
So, I mean, I just, it's like National Geo and all those things.
How do they get all those beautiful shots and get those moments with the animals?
A lot of patience.
Yes.
There's a lot of patience.
Yes.
There's actually, there's scenes, almost all the way through the credits.
Yes.
When they show some of the outtakes or, you know, the director's sitting there and the director
this, she on the Lou, but there's also some of the photographers in there that are just
like, you know what?
We came out here.
Thought we'd have a great day, 30 minutes ago, blue skies, now it's raining.
They'd cut back.
It's like, 30 minutes later.
Now it's leading.
I mean, this is a whole game, but in like a signal day.
But they got the shots they needed.
John Chrysonsky.
I think that's a great job narrating this.
We're good.
He's good.
He's one of those voices that you don't maybe see as a voice over guy, but the way he does
this, he kind of lets his voice lens really well to what's going on here, because it
lets the animals be the story, where he's more kind of in a background role than anything else.
And I really dug that about it.
I can see that point that you did there.
And I won't say this, like we said about monkey kingdom two years ago, which was our
first one with Susan Jacobs, and he's been still as happy as we were back then.
Yes.
His narration really puts a change into the film.
Because if you had that 70-year-old English man with the little, and then things of home
in the middle of the nest, that's exactly, you know, his voice adds a kind of special
fun.
This is for kids where the kids can watch this and get a little more enjoyment because
they'll make him feel better because of the tone of his voice.
First is that normal, like you're saying, you know, and right now there's the monkey
on the road, that he's exactly.
So he's just like Tina Fey's did in monkey kingdom.
It really puts a different feel into this film, because if you had that narration of the
70-year-old English man, it would have a totally different feel.
Okay.
Even though he showed the exact same film, but the narration was different, you know.
So he really does good.
I, yeah, give it to him.
I think it's very well-paced, especially for a nature documentary.
I think they go between the storylines really, really well, so that it's been a whole
lot of time on one specific storyline that give you just enough so that they can move on
as the seasons progressed.
I really dug that.
And a couple times in each season.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know.
I feel like it wasn't 5-10 minutes here, 5-10 minutes there.
It wasn't like the whole story of the news or the snow lepros.
It was going back and forth, back and forth.
So you felt like you had four different stories going in and you were able to keep up
with one thing get too complicated, I thought.
And just right, I mean, the run time, I think, is perfect for it, too.
Oh, yes.
It told an up story to tell a complete story, but didn't bog itself down in the details.
Yeah, it wasn't like a two hour and ten minute film that you're just like going and
going.
It is a little short, but I was right about right, but that was a little short.
I should have been.
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying that.
Time-wise compared to most films, it's a little bit shorter, but still, I think it's
a good run time.
Okay.
And there wasn't that time wanting to drag him going, you know, that kind of thing?
It, the pacing I could say, and I think was really perfect on this thing.
Agreed.
It just, it worked out, and I thought that everybody in the screen were at thought, a lot
of the same things we did, and the thing, the kid meter.
Oh, yeah.
The kids were paying attention, man.
Yes.
There were a lot of kids in that auditorium that night.
And you didn't hear their little rustling around, and nobody got restless.
Everybody was really focused and having a great time, and I just, I really
really enjoyed this film.
Is there anything else we want to talk about?
The question to you, the watch gauge, the watch gauge, I did have my watch on this time,
I didn't watch on 25 minutes, which is, which is pretty good, it's pretty good, considering
the length of the film.
But yeah, also, you think of it from the length of the film standpoint, that was almost
halfway through.
Yes.
So, you know, so Kudos to them there as well.
I will say this.
I thought with the plot that you really got to personally know the different animals,
like that pandas, the story of the mother and the mother and the cub, you really got
to know them and feel for them.
And you really like the snow leopard, you really got into, and the thing I like about
this, it's, it's good for the kids.
It's, it's good for the entire family, for the kids who might not really know like the
five-year-old, six-year-olds, they may watch this and just see the animals and the narration,
they may really not comprehend everything that's going on versus an adult who's watching
this.
So, it's good in that aspect for the entire family, the adults are going to watch this
and, you know, being intrigued about the story of this.
Now, go ahead.
Now, if you see this opening weekend, as Disney Nature does, and all of the opening weekends
for their, for their films, a portion of your ticket price will go to conservationists
efforts around the world.
Which they do two years ago, which they do it with all their films.
Now, I will say this, that in the film, like my girlfriend Faith was with me, there's
many times she loved it, and so many times I heard her laugh, which was a good sign.
Like the little scene with the baby panda rolling down the hilltop, you felt the whole
theater feel that kind of aura, but the thing I liked about it, it did it in a perfect
way for the entire family, she's saying that nature is not mislead heart.
Mother Nature is a force to be reckoned with.
And there are some moments that, hey, this is Nature, but they did it in a perfect way
where I don't think any kids would really cry.
You know what I'm saying?
I see where you're going with that.
Okay.
Hey, this is Nature and, you know, this is life and death, this is life and death
out there.
And, you know, sometimes this killer bee killed when some of these animals and how there
are some scenes, I remember one, just one animal and I'll leave it, I'm not even going
to say which one, but it's probably the scene even, I'm going to say is the snow.
It's a very, it's a very emotional thing, but they did it, but they did it perfectly.
I agree with you.
I agree.
I think that once, you know, and it, so kind of kept it going and saying, here's this
here, there's this where they're going to go, but they did it all in the right way for
the entire event.
You didn't even told.
Absolutely.
Anything else for you to decide to go to the final analysis?
I'm good.
The way we do the final analysis on this show, we're not going to give you thumbs up, thumbs
down, we're not going to give you, you know, two paw prints or whatever.
We're actually going to ask two questions.
The first question that we're going to ask is, would you see this film again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, then we have a follow up question of how much, how far you
are going to go?
The spectrum from top to bottom is as follows, full price at a theater, twilight, matinee, early
morning on a Saturday, second run at the dollar theater, actually leaving your house to
go to red box, streaming it on Netflix or watching it on cable.
Don, would you see this again?
That's a definite.
How far you want to go?
I would, I would do this recommendation kind of as either the matinee or twilight.
Okay.
The perfect family night, family day weekend film.
Okay.
Take the family out, see the film, maybe go to dinner after whatever it's enjoyable for the
whole family.
Enjoyable.
I think for like a first or second date, I mean, there's a little aspect from where I
think this film will really fit.
I sit more solid matinee.
Okay.
Again, up, and we have a speaking of nature, we have animals in the studio right now.
I want to talk.
Yeah.
That's what I'm going to know.
It is the, it is the big dragon, it is my mountain lion that lives in my home,
my hunter.
Yeah.
But I think it's a solid matinee.
Going to the middle of the day, make a day of it, maybe visit the zoo after
words, making a theme of it.
Also, opening weekend is, like I said earlier, celebrates Earth Day and here in the
Dallas Fort Worth area, there will be the Earth X festival going on.
They'll be film showing some great things for kids to learn about Earth Day.
So make sure you're getting out this weekend.
See it?
Yeah.
If you see it in the theater, see it this weekend.
Absolutely.
The charity is really good.
Help.
The big day conservation.
You got to give it to Disney for doing that.
And they did great job.
Yes.
It is born in China, directed by Sean Lou, before we end this thing.
Yes, sir.
We got to thank Susan.
Janet, everybody.
Susan Jacobson.
That's your fans of those guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for the invite.
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