Charles Pulliam-Moore of The Verge interviewed Julian Glander, whose animated movie “Boys Go to Jupiter” was inspired by the NPR show “Planet Money” and its Tik Tok videos.
Here is an excerpt:
What kinds of ideas about people’s relationships with money and capitalism were you keen on exploring here?
Jack [Corbett]‘s Planet Money TikToks really got my wheels turning on this idea of economics being something bigger than just a section of the newspaper or something that happens in The Economist. He got me thinking about economics as a cultural force or even a religion. My way into writing these characters for the movie is that each of them has almost like a different denomination or a different belief in essentially how they’re going to get rich. Because almost every character in the movie believes that somehow, someday, they’re going to be rich, whether it’s from a winning lottery ticket, from their hustle, from their inheritance, or from something even more magical than that. I think that sort of thinking is a universal American attitude.
I was at Target the other day and a lot of people were doing their back-to-school shopping. I saw this girl looking at a classic KitchenAid mixer, and she said to her friend, ‘When I’m rich, I’m gonna have one of these in my kitchen.’ That’s such a normal, off-the-cuff thing to say, and I think we’ve all expressed some variation of that feeling.
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