The Peanut Butter Falcon

it.

We talked last episode that it passed Peanut Butter Falcon.

Yes.

As

Honey Boy, I really enjoyed.

The Peanut Butter Falcon.

Sorry, I haven't seen Honey Boy.

The Peanut Butter Falcon, I really enjoyed.

But he's gone off the rails.

He doesn't get films anymore.

And so since third grade, I knew I wanted to do this.

And then later down the line, seeing if you've ever seen the movie warrior and the movie goodwill hunting those two movies were what solidified i wanted to be a counselor as well and kind of wrap up these passions all together with the same goal of i want to help people find that hero within themselves and to defeat fatalism and nihilism and find a story worth living and find an adventure worth taking for themselves.

And so I became a counselor as well.

So now I just, I write, I do the counseling.

And I was like, okay, if I actually say I want to be a writer, I don't want these stories to be trapped in my grave.

That's kind of how I saw it.

I would see a graveyard and be like, how many businesses, how many books, how many movies, how many of this and that are just trapped in that graveyard?

Man, Les Brown is a motivational speaker back then.

They're not known for their hits.

This is going to be Peanut Butter Falcon.

Wow.

Wow.

know.

You thought it wouldn't happen.

It's beating Peanut Butter Falcon for what? Roadshow's biggest? No, I

think Roadshow's biggest is...

Right.

In 2019, he co-wrote and directed The Peanut Butter Falcon.

Such a great film

Which starred Shia LaBeouf, and it earned a 95% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes.

What's fascinating here is the thematic overlap.

It's striking.

Look at the core narrative of The Peanut Butter Falcon.

It's a story about wanderers.

He was charged with obstruction, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness.

Afterwards, he told Esquire that what went on in Georgia while he was shooting The Peanut Butter Falcon had been mortifying.

'White privilege and desperation and disaster.

It came from a place of self-centered delusion.

Jesus.

You say the peanut butter Falcon.

You ever see that with a.

Sure.

Then we have the Liam Neeson film Retribution.

Remember that thriller from a few years ago at $3.5 million? The Peanut Butter Falcon, which was another platform release that spent some time in a limited number of theaters before going wide.

It opened to $3 million.

Then we have Amazing Grace from 2007 at $2.4 million.