SUCCESS Movie Rewind with Alex Stevens

We're borrowing from last week's theme with The Intern, about an older man (played by Robert DeNiro) who returns to work at a job populated by younger peers. Alex touches on the relationship between work and love and identifies Freudian theories in the film that carry over into our own lives.

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This 2013 comedy features Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as two salesmen grappling for a job at Google. Alex draws parallels between the film's focus on the future of work and how well we adjust to consistent changes in our own lives.

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This week, Alex dives into the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code. This book-to-movie adaptation exploded Western intellectual traditions since the time of Jesus and Constantine, and brings up an important question: Where do we go during times of chaos and uncertainty?

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Alex considers what we can learn from the story of Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams. He speaks to the necessity of believing you can do things others believe you cannot. He also relates this story about fatherhood back to the current events that happened in Uvalde, Texas.

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Alex discusses this major cultural touchstone of the late 1990's and manages to do so in a family-friendly way!

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Alex steps again into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He draws lessons from both the regular family life of the characters and their fantastical journeys.

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What can we learn from the example of Elle Woods? This classic 2001 legal thriller holds many lessons. Alex, a lawyer himself, breaks them down.

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With interest in the franchise renewed, we look back to the original Matrix to see what we can learn about how to approach our own lives. There's many lessons, much of it centered around how to answer our calls to greatness when they come.

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Come for the songs, stay for the lessons. We're talking about the classic 70's musical about the 50's, Grease. Alex places the movie in historical context before discussing what one can take from it.

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We go heavy on Dr. Ian Malcolm quotes. We're talking about the original 1993 installment of the now-famous Jurassic Park franchise. What can it teach us about how we should approach our own lives in 2022?

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This week Alex turns his attention to the highest-grossing film of all time, Avatar. Though sometimes mocked upon its release, the movie rewards repeated views through its fully realized viewpoint and densely-packed construction.

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In our second look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Alex discusses the lessons one can take from 2018's Black Panther. The truth requires no maintenance fee!

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Shrek is a modern fairytale that makes a lot of jokes about the fairytale genre. Those jokes have a way of showing us what about fairytales are silly fluff and what about them is a necessary core part of the story. How can we apply a similar process to our own lives?

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Here we are with another installment in one of America's foremost cultural touchstones, that of Batman. The series has had strong themes throughout its 90 years of existence, and this latest film has themes of its own. Alex analyzes all of it and offers thoughts on what we can take away to better live our own lives.

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"Dreams are messages from the deep." These are the first words to appear in Dune. The movie has many messages that we can meditate on and much to say on how we should think about what our next move ought to be. Alex explores these.

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This Meryl Streep classic has much to teach us. A fulfilling work life often does require some sacrifices, but we need to learn when those sacrifices are worth it and when they aren't. Alex provides some advice on how to evaluate.

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We are resisting the urge to start this description with "Great Scott!" This episode is about what lessons we can take from Robert Zemeckis' 1985 classic, Back to the Future.

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In the inaugural episode of SUCCESS Movie Rewind, host Alex Stevens divines what lessons we can take away from 2021's top-grossing film, Spider Man: No Way Home. Stand in your spiral!

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New host Alex Stevens talks with SUCCESS President Jairek Robbins about the latest SUCCESS Podcast. Alex gets into his journey to this point and what to expect going forward.

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