Recounting the Cri$i$, Part 2: Slumdog Millionaire (+ WALL-E and films of 2008)

In Part 2 of this season on movies and The Great Recession, Tori and Dávid pick up in the midst of the Crisis of 2008 to examine the films that hit it big that year and discover why those films thrived in the chaos.

Topics and films mentioned:

• Wikipedia: 2007–2008 financial crisis
• Slumdog Millionaire, 2008, directed by Danny Boyle
• Trailer: Slumdog Millionaire
• Poster #1: Slumdog Millionaire
• Poster #2: Slumdog Millionaire
• Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture
• Wikipedia: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Wikipedia: Cool Britannia
• Star Wars, Braveheart, The Matrix, The Hunger Games
• The Devil Wears Prada, 2006, directed by David Frankel
• The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006, directed by Gabriele Muccino
• The Dark Knight, 2008, directed by Christopher Nolan
• Iron Man, 2008, directed by Jon Favreau
• WALL·E, 2008, directed by Andrew Stanton
• Oh, Bloody Life, 1984, directed by Péter Bacsó