“What the movie tries to do is shut up and listen to Marshawn Lynch’s silence.”
He’s just here so he won’t get fined: David Shields joined the show earlier this year to talk about his book-length essay, The Trouble With Men. Now he’s back to talk about his new documentary, Marshawn Lynch: A History (Amazon, iTunes and Vimeo). This time around, we get into the Awfulness of Greatness, whether human beings are capable of change, and the Deion Sanders interview with Marshawn that melted David’s brain and started him on this documentary project. We talk about the racial aspects of black athletes dealing with a white-dominated media, how Lynch made noise by keeping silent in press conferences, the one section of the documentary that led a Seattle audience to boo him, the challenges in structuring the documentary chronologically and thematically, what Pete Carroll was thinking on That Play, the split between “my truth” and “the truth”, the moment he got to meet Lynch after a screening of the movie in Oakland, and more! Give it a listen! And go watch Marshawn Lynch: A History, on Amazon, iTunes and Vimeo!
“I think Marshawn does have a lot to say, but he’s going to say it in his own idiom.”
“I think the awfulness of something and the greatness of something are famously married.”
“The way that I think and talk reflects, for better or worse, my consciousness. So I’m very distrustful of any too lucid explanations.”
“I’m very invested in the transgression of art, and sport.”
He’s just here so he won’t get fined: David Shields joined the show earlier this year to talk about his book-length essay, The Trouble With Men. Now he’s back to talk about his new documentary, Marshawn Lynch: A History (Amazon
