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Ali El-Sadany

Ali El-Sadany

Corporate Strategy Manager at Intuit and co-founder/editor of FilmSlop, a film criticism publication blending personal narratives with movie analysis.

Aug 6, 2026

54:08
[laughs]
54:08
Um, but I think with Alexandria, she has inserted herself into this male-dominated story.
54:14
And with the inclusion of a child/female voice, there's, like, a break from this toxic masculinity that dominates stories.
54:25
And it is more of, like, an invitation to add more diverse voices into the stories we tell.
54:31
So I think that's my one way of, like, here's how I can make this a little bit more tasteful to-

36 MINS LATER

90:13
Yeah
90:13
... you were, you were saying, um, that you're glad you cast a, they cast a girl, and I think to your credit, the original version of the story was a 10-year-old boy and a grown man.
90:22
So I think this iteration, I'm curious about why Tarsem went for this, and I'm not sure it's with the same nuances and motivations that we're talking about.

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