Ep 118: Retro Satallites with the Bragg Brothers

PodcastAnalysis updated 5d agoSep 23, 20231 hr 8 min listen

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The Bragg Brothers talk with us about their Roger Sharpe movie, "Pinball" and they challenges they faced making a movie during Covid lockdown

Highlights

Meredith and Austin Bragg created 'Pinball: The Movie' with 90-95% of plot points being factually accurate to Roger Sharpe's actual history
The film has a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score and was voted one of the top three must-see independent films of the year
Roger Sharpe insisted the adult bookstore scene occur during daylight and that he would never actually have taken Ellen there on a date
The Braggs received significant support from the pinball community, with people donating machines and traveling to set locations
Meredith Bragg initially found Roger Sharpe through a cold email after discovering information about the illegal pinball situation in New York City
The Braggs' primary goal was to keep making films after this project, not specifically to achieve major awards or recognition
Roger Sharpe served as executive producer on the film and helped source pinball machines for production when needed

“Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're an idiot.”

Austin Bragg (as screenwriter/character creator)

“I think this might be a feature.”

Meredith Bragg

“The villain's really a piece of paper and a filing cabinet somewhere, and the mayor's been dead for thirty years or something like that.”

Roger Sharpe (quoted in podcast)

“Roger, I'm going to open this movie with you saying, I don't think this should be a movie.”

Austin Bragg

“I never, ever would have taken Ellen to that bookstore. Like never. That would have been terrible.”

Roger Sharpe (quoted in podcast)

“I don't think you can find one person in the pinball industry that does not have a positive experience with Roger. I believe it. Universally liked.”

Josh Roop