"Sound of Freedom” (2023), a Conversation about a Blockbuster

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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023. *** Referenced media: “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)“Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now)“God’s Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014)“First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)“Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011)“The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014)“Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)“The Flash” (Andy Muschietti, 2023)“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)“Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)“Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)Audio quotation: “Sound of Freedom” (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023)Theme for “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now), written by Russ Landau

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