Anna Brownfield Interview

Can you tell us a little about your background and how you ended up involved in filmmaking?

I actually wanted to be an actor and spent a lot of my youth doing musicals, but my ever practical mother said that only 5% of actors ever make a full time living so maybe I  needed to have a back up plan!
When I finished high school, I did a year of photography but then soon realized that my ideas worked better in motion so went off and studied Media Arts at RMIT in Melbourne.

Breaking Bad and Philosophy

Can you tell us a little about your background and how you ended up involved with the Popular Culture and Philosophy books?

ROBERT ARP: I first got involved in 2003 when two of my graduate student colleagues at Saint Louis University, Jason Eberl and Kevin Decker, got a contract with Open Court Publishers to do Star Wars and Philosophy in their Popular Culture and Philosophy series; the one that was started with Seinfeld and Philosophy and then the wildly successful The Simpsons and Philosophy.  I have a chapter in the Star Wars book about droids and what constitutes personhood.  Bill Irwin was series editor at that point.  He moved to Wiley-Blackwell and started The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, and my South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today was the first book in that series.  I have more than 30 chapters in these kinds of books, and I’ve edited another half dozen or so.  Hard to believe it’s been 10 years!

Song lyrics that could be a movie VOL.1

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Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips

If we leave the metaphor meaning of the lyrics aside, this could be a psychedelic heroine based epic flick. A thrilling story with several layers, spiced up, fun and cheeky could be found in this hypothetical movie adaptation.

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The first name that comes to my mind is Quentin Tarantino because he has a unique vision and he’s very good writing witty dialogues. Another good option –with a more hectic approach- could be the Russian director Timur Bekmambetov.

ACTRESS: Ziyi Zhang