In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

The funny podcast that uses short form improv comedy games to tell long form improvised stories in the style of famous movies. Do you love movies? Are you a fan of short form improv comedy like Whose Line is it Anyway? Are you intrigued by the idea of long form improv comedy storytelling? Are you interested in storytelling and the creative process? Do you enjoy funny movie podcasts? Then this is the show for you! Join Avish Parashar (improv comedy performer and teacher and professional speaker) and Mike Worth (improv comedian and music composer of film, tv shows, and video games) build a “movie” on the spot, right before your very eyes - err - I mean “ears.” Here’s how our “improv comedy podcast” works: We start with a base genre and a couple of example movies, shows, or stories. Then the show is broken into segments: First, we brainstorm the tropes and standard elements of that style of show Second, we create a high level outline for this week’s show. Third, we pick the improv games we will play to create this story Finally, we perform the show! All this is done in real time so you can observe the creative process and also enjoy the finish product. For more info, the episode archive, and to submit ideas and suggestions for future shows, visit: www.AvishAndMike.com.

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Wet Slimy Death Creature (in the Style of an Underwater Sci-Fi Horror Movie like Leviathan and Deep Star 6) 06/14/2022

Gaming the Hunt (In the Style of a "Hunting Man for Sport" movie like The Most Dangerous Game and Hard Target) 06/07/2022

Fantastic Fires in the Neverland (In the Style of a Kids’ Fantasy Movie - with Puppets! - like Labyrinth and the Neverending Story) 05/31/2022

Mounties (In the Style of a Training Movie like Stripes, Police Academy, and Feds) 05/24/2022

Breaking Down and Discussing the First 6 Episodes of 2022! 05/17/2022

White House Slapped (In the Style of “White House Action Movies” like Air Force One, White House Down, and Olympus Has Fallen) 05/10/2022

The Farmer’s Milk Season (in the Style of a Dan Brown Thriller like The Da Vinci Code) 05/03/2022

The Dropped Parcel (In the Style of a Heist Movie Like The Vault, The Italian Job, and the Leverage TV Show) 04/26/2022

Teaching With Honor (In the Style of a “Savior Teacher” movie like Stand and Deliver and Dangerous Minds) 04/19/2022

Near to Exhaustion (In the style of a Steven Seagal Police Action Movie) 04/12/2022

Near to Exhaustion (In the style of a Steven Seagal Police Action Movie) In a World…where good cops may find themselves on their own…Lance Hurricane is a good cop, a good husband, and a good man. When he finds himself in the middle of a giant plot to corrupt the nation’s politicians, he must use his mastery of the martial art, “Octopus Fu,” to stop the plot, even if it drives him…Near to Exhaustion! This episode features the improv comedy games Prologue in a Minute, Two-Word Typewriter, Ding, Gibberish Switch, and Cutting Room. In this episode, we pay homage to a genre that we love, but that doesn’t really qualify as “good cinema.” But darn it, they are fun movies! And the genre is of course, classic Steven Seagal movies, specifically from his early days. His first four movies, where his movie titles all had three words. So much fun, so much fighting, so many bad one-liners, and so much terrible acting! Hopefully we did the genre justice, or else Seagal may come find us… Links Steven Seagal on Wikipedia: Hard to Kill on Wikipedia: Out for Justice: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 16:25 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 20:15 Start of show: 24:08 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 26:10 Improv Game - Two-Word Typewriter: 28:30 Improv Game - Ding: 37:17 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 46:40 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 55:58 End of show, into announcements: 1:08:36 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, we are now going to spend a few minutes talking about the genre our experience with this kind of genre and i'm. Avish Parashar: Also, getting into some of the clubs and commonalities and boy, there are some cliches in this sort of thing, yes, I thought I set a timer here it's gonna quack like a duck when it's done so Mike let's talk Steven seagal you and I kind of. Avish Parashar: enjoyed and bonded over the years and our younger days were creating the martial arts regularly and watching this kind of nonsense. Michael Worth: Oh yeah believing it actually was like functional martial arts and actually worked right. Michael Worth: Alright, so how specific are we getting are we getting Steven seagal specific or just the general 80s like. Avish Parashar: Probably the more Steven seagal specific at least right now I mean we don't have to jump into discussing the tropes but just kind of. Avish Parashar: You know. Avish Parashar: Like your thoughts on the Steven seagal genre in July. Michael Worth: 1 of all first of all there's something gloriously nostalgic about this, because this this film, you know you gotta think when it came out in the 80s, it was done for the low budget like let's just get butts in the seats, and so the. Michael Worth: The focus is on basically badass fight scenes and, most notably segall just like being completely invincible and he's never in any trouble like he just he goes he waits through the plebes he went to the lieutenant's any ways to the chief bad guy. Avish Parashar: yeah it's ridiculous is that even when he fights the big bad guy he. Avish Parashar: Barely gets touched. Michael Worth: yeah I think the worst seattle's yet he got stabbed once by Tommy Lee Jones in under siege during the call a knife fight. Avish Parashar: yeah. Avish Parashar: And even though he looked so yeah this era where they it was an era before again, you know we recently recorded are taken episode, where it was like Liam neeson. Avish Parashar: And we talked on that one about somewhere along the way they realize you get a good actor interaction movie it kind of elevates it. Avish Parashar: This is from that era were all they were looking for someone who had action skill so yeah van damme will have like some martial arts training was like a dancer could you great body busy. Avish Parashar: You have speak they go yeah Jeff speakman. Avish Parashar: You got um, then you got say girl who was like a legitimate like whatever seventh degree a keto yeah no. Avish Parashar: No real acting talent. Avish Parashar: So i'm sure he would digress. Avish Parashar: He definitely disagree. Michael Worth: Oh yes, let's take all could do no wrong and to god's world seagal is the most cigar you can never say go. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah and even read stories like he's like one of the most. Avish Parashar: hated guests outside of that live like when you talk about the cat stories like they talk like their worst guests he's like because he's like an attitude was like almost violent and just like arrogant. Michael Worth: He also, I believe, had a big REP in Hollywood for like injuring a stuntman all the time because because you know he basically like. Michael Worth: Like did the stunts like he was actually trying to do it, you know and like you do, like some of the dogs in the webinar because it's almost like most things. Michael Worth: I don't think they're very practical, but if you're letting the dude get to your neck with that, like forearm strike and then he frickin does it. Avish Parashar: like this yeah they're not I mean you know they're not like street fighting practical they'll work if you can lot you know it's not a matter of. Avish Parashar: Like they're legitimate techniques that are very difficult to land in combat but the techniques themselves are like legitimate and that they'll work like to bend someone's risk that way they're going to flip over in a circle yeah. Michael Worth: funny enough i'm going to go a little diatribe here a red because i've been training Brazilian Jiu jitsu and what all the upper belts are starting to train now. Michael Worth: Our wrist locks but they're coming out of grappling so you're already kind of tangled up in the clothes, but these guys have been landing. Michael Worth: Whatever the kota guys share they've been landing enough people but it's in a grappling contest and they all say the same thing, but the only reason I can get away with this is that you and I already touching each other and there's no punching. Avish Parashar: bag yeah yeah it's not yeah exactly it's not like grabbing some of this out of the air. Avish Parashar: But you know we also you know we watch movies about killer robots and space aliens and giant lizard so like I. Avish Parashar: I love a like this, I love to see what I got fight scenes because they're so cool looking in there, so fluid and. Michael Worth: Well, that that's the thing about. Michael Worth: describing these fight scenes and Erica of the game we're going to do, because the the the cigar stuff since this new striking it's not like the bourne identity was like jerky camera back it's like this really cool stuff we're. Michael Worth: Throwing a baseball BAT and to go like step to the side and throw the guy through a plate glass window, so the fight scenes of segall are super exciting and dramatic and everyone's getting thrown into objects and thrown into like you know storeroom, as you know, items in the store way. Avish Parashar: That is also why they're so short, though, because, like. Avish Parashar: there's no punching and kicking right so like in a normal a fight scene, you know Bruce Lee van damme Jackie Chan. Avish Parashar: they're punching each other and they get hit like Oh, they come back and they fight they hit the other guy that Oh, they come back and they get hurt a little like, if you want really watch the same movie, especially with the henchmen it's like one move for enjoyment. Avish Parashar: enjoyment attacks him. Avish Parashar: He does the you know i'm gonna knock the elbow down and do the rich hand strike across your throat. Avish Parashar: yeah that guy's done next I punches of all i'm going to sidestep grab your risk autograph reverse it up you're done. Michael Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: It just one hit it's like that's me he just like. Michael Worth: Yes, what i'm gonna do a sacrifice, if not he, like hip. Michael Worth: throw like boom he's done right so so it's fun it's beautiful to watch but it's a really fast, which also brings up the whole like seagal just can kind of wade through people. Michael Worth: um The second thing that I love about the signal is he's unabashedly like wants to be like the every man every in every movie he's like a family man he's an Italian he's like Roman Catholic like he's just like he's got his niche he's just. Avish Parashar: Basically, got to be himself, because he can't act so. Michael Worth: Basically he's himself he's he's his own perfect version of himself right like you know. Michael Worth: yeah good father, a good husband like, although the cost of the force love him, it is like yeah that's that's art not imitating life. Avish Parashar: yeah he stands up to power, he does what's right like regardless yeah. Michael Worth: Speaking of power it's it's so the plots of these are also so gloriously paper thin that's so much fun to check out because that's part of the charm of this stuff it's like you just want a bunch of bad guys and you want a lone wolf to just take them down so they're just like. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah I mean we're talking about like the cliche is and stuff you know you've got. Avish Parashar: yeah he's almost always rogue in some way you know. Avish Parashar: People in charge are corrupt or they're not corrupt, but whatever he's been told to like lay off. Michael Worth: Your time because the bad guys have too much political power. Avish Parashar: yeah kind of thing yeah. Avish Parashar: And that's also why he doesn't have backup so he's got to go in solo. Avish Parashar: You can't trust anyone don't get help them. Michael Worth: To, of course, because you say go right, you know so. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Michael Worth: um yeah and I think that the bad guys are just like good old fashioned bad guys that you love to hate they're always dealing drugs or like you know i'm in hard to kill a they're doing. Avish Parashar: Articles drugs I think right, it was drug dealers know marked for death was drug dealers hard to kill with the politician. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah corrupt politician oh. Michael Worth: Right, but he was killing politicians, he get his opium deal to remember the first met in the CIA in in Vietnam. Avish Parashar: That was above the law. Avish Parashar: Yes. Michael Worth: wow so much diversity in this stuff. Avish Parashar: yeah there's always a rich powerful person who's corrupting the system. Avish Parashar: You know, for drugs or political power money or all of that. Avish Parashar: It gets personal somehow you know either his family's killed like in hard to kill or attacked. Avish Parashar: You know, once the bad guys realized he's trouble they kind of go after him and or is COP friends are killed so it gets personal. Michael Worth: So and, by the way, that's The other thing is like right before we get started into the X three x four right before the final assault usually. Michael Worth: He gets a couple of his buddies killed like they get they get targeted either they are they buy him time to get away and they die or they just get targeted by the bad guy and that's kind of the what pushes them over the edge, you know because I don't. Michael Worth: yeah I don't only in hard to kill is the wife killed and that's because, in the very beginning kind of sets up the plot Sharon stone above the law, can you believe that is not killed. Michael Worth: The Italian girl in out for justice is not killed and I kept my room marked for death through the wife is but no. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah so it's easy but yeah i've had some was targeted more often right the COP buddies are. Avish Parashar: are taken out. Michael Worth: yeah yeah righteous, and I mean honestly what makes the film great and let's talk about dialogue. Avish Parashar: I was about to say there's some. Avish Parashar: horrible dialogue and some terrible like one liner. Michael Worth: But the dialogues usually like the bad dialogue it's usually say call you know it's, like the other actors actually have legit dialogue, I don't know what it is. Avish Parashar: equal quality it's just the other actors are actual actors, so they can make it sound semi decent. Avish Parashar: Plus they're trying to give him, like the shorts neck or one liners. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah. Michael Worth: Which failed utterly I mean my God let's let's let's let's put up some of these gems where it's like yeah i'll take you to the bank body bank with. Avish Parashar: bank. Michael Worth: Of the blood banks over the place. Michael Worth: Although it has my favorite like I just killed lieutenant line where he takes the pool cuny staff that throw that is that's killing my wife Fuck you and die. Avish Parashar: yeah I do like that live. Michael Worth: that's the one good one, but I can't think of a single other mind that he said that's remotely interesting, so what is about these movies that make it so far, because he's a wouldn't actor, the plots. Avish Parashar: I thought you know they get to the point right the plot it's like. Avish Parashar: it's like cake right. Avish Parashar: it's like cake is nice but cake is really just a conveyance for frosting it's just the frosting delivery. Avish Parashar: that's that's kind of the same movie right like the plot the movie the acting. it's fine. Avish Parashar: You know, but it's really just conveyance device for sega fight scenes like that's all. Michael Worth: that's a good point yeah it is it delicious it's literally it's like why, why are they Why are these are crackers out because I want that pepperoni and that Brie. Avish Parashar: Cheese exactly I mean that's why like that's why I received was like a legitimate mainstream movie because. Avish Parashar: You got the single fight scenes but they actually managed to wrap it in a movie with a decently interesting plot, and you got you know Gary busey and Tommy Lee Jones I like real actors. Michael Worth: And I bought a call was not nearly as involved that with with the script I think the script was actually written by a couple of Hollywood guys would actually had a legit three act. Avish Parashar: structure so he. Michael Worth: keeps it all the hell out of the way you know, and the same thing with executive decision couple that with the fact that they figured out let's get rid of steak on the first five. Avish Parashar: that's true yeah they did they they asked him right in the beginning, so. Avish Parashar: All right, so that is just about our time is about to go off here. Avish Parashar: So that. Avish Parashar: I think we talked about the genre enough here. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Creating the outline, we are going to spend five minutes coming up with a high level outline for this movie we're going to use a four act structure. Avish Parashar: And there's our starting point, we may veer from it, we may stick to it, who knows it's improvisation so we'll see alright, so there goes a timer alright, so what has to happen is this is really thin right it's like I said it's all the excuse of oh yeah act one we. Michael Worth: will establish the COP and he gets in his first small time fight scene. Avish Parashar: You know, like there's always like an opening little just to show that he's a badass. Michael Worth: yeah I can't wait for us to invent his martial arts could be absurd. Avish Parashar: Animal. Michael Worth: Animal and then act one um. Michael Worth: Well i'll say this, and tell me whether it's one or two he runs into his first encounter with So yes, he has a little scuffle, this is nothing new that's a couple people mugging an old lady pizza. Michael Worth: But then he runs it was first encounter with the larger crime Arc like again with drugs he he see some kids selling drugs he gets shot and he finds out that there's a new drug on the scene and that starts to tie into there's something big going on. Avish Parashar: So I don't know yeah I think I think act one usually ends with him stumbling onto the bigger thing like just like I said. Avish Parashar: Maybe on a small lower level like yeah the kids selling drugs or you know stopping some crime, but he gets involved in whatever and you know, for the purpose of our show that might be combined with the opening fight, you know the opening little fight maybe the one that kind of. Michael Worth: yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: Perfect next into the bigger world. Michael Worth: Sure sure. Avish Parashar: But he's asked yeah kind of where he he stumbles upon the bad guys bad guys kind of syndicate or plan. Michael Worth: Act two is him a teaming up with probably a couple of his buddy COPs to figure out who's doing what are learning about who the bad guy is a. Avish Parashar: So this they almost always so yeah This is where this is the they're trying to figure things out and there's almost always a scene, where they go to some like. Avish Parashar: gang hide out or dive bar some alleyway though the one biker gang always hangs out and he just wants to get some information, but of course there's a fight. Michael Worth: So if I see right. Michael Worth: So we've seen that right that gets the attention of the head bad guy that this that that are RSA golf guys is on to them, and that leads to act three, which is they've tried to kill segall is. Michael Worth: This the show is going to be today they try to kill cigar that these two buddies are killed his force pulls them off the thing, and he goes rogue and that leads into act for me this is literally how easy, this is going to be right. Avish Parashar: yeah I would say yeah then he goes rogue. Avish Parashar: And then, and then usually there's some oftentimes there's some additional danger. Avish Parashar: that's introduced right the end of act three like his family's in jeopardy, or you find out what the big plan is like Oh, you know this guy is gonna blow up this building on this day or you know the big deal going down. Michael Worth: yeah yeah exactly so. Avish Parashar: plan or personal issue I know. Michael Worth: I had a couple something really funny and silly and then act for us literally him just going to the head villains um. Michael Worth: You know, he does one or one or both things he had to go ahead villains layer and kills him and also tenants he goes and destroys the crime scene like it destroys the drunk supply quite as both. Avish Parashar: yeah stop the crime and fights a bad guy and beats. Michael Worth: and kills everybody and and barely takes a wound. Avish Parashar: Barely takes it kills everyone. Michael Worth: Your meters can't see this but i'm literally showing my sketch pad. Avish Parashar: Right. Avish Parashar: There you go that's about it so. Avish Parashar: All right. Avish Parashar: So that we finished we'd like. Avish Parashar: got their outlining phase ever. Michael Worth: Good what else isn't right let's get to it right oh. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22741103

Phineas Jones and the Stubble of Apollo with Special Guest Craig Price! (In the Style of the Indiana Jones Movies) 04/05/2022

Phineas Jones and the Stubble of Apollo with Special Guest Craig Price! (In the Style of the Indiana Jones Movies) In a World…where there are good men and evil men, and some seek to help while others seek to destroy…one of the evilest groups in history seek an object of such immense power it could completely change the course of World War II. The US government will call upon the intrepid accountant adventurer, Phineas Jones, to beat the Nazis in their race to acquire the mythical and magical Stubble of Apollo! This episode features the improv games prologue in a minute, emotional lists, best of times worst of times, ding, and cutting room. This episode also features our friend and movie podcaster extraordinaire, Craig Price! Mike and Avish had the pleasure to be a guest on , as well has his super fun recasting game show, Craig is a huge fan of Indiana Jones movies, so we use his expertise in our planning section. In this episode, we pay homage to one of our absolute favorite heroes and movies: Indiana Jones! This episode specifically parodies Raiders of the Lost Ark (but we hope that we will do our first sequel with this one!). We hit most of the tropes of a good Indiana Jones movie and boy, did we have fun doing it! Check out Craig’s Stuff! Avish and Mike on Cast-Off! Recasting Dick Tracy (COMING TODAY!) Links Indiana Jones on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes with Guest Craig Price: 06:37 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 23:08 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 30:45 Start of show: 35:35 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 38:08 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 40:18 Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 50:48 Improv Game - Ding: 1:00:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:08:51 End of show, into announcements: 1:26:00 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) so mikey why don't you begin by letting everyone know what today's genre or starting movie is. Michael Worth: This is such my pleasure i'm so excited to do this we're going to do a fantastic archaeology exploration type movie in the style of indiana Jones or King solomon's minds. Avish Parashar: let's just say indiana Jones. Avish Parashar: knock off, which is interesting because the book King solomon's mines came out. Avish Parashar: The whole quarter main thing came out long before raiders of the lost Ark raiders lost Ark was almost it almost to that. Michael Worth: It was it was an homage to the 30s pulp exploration, you know, doctors, the savage jungle and that kind of stuff. Michael Worth: yeah but. Avish Parashar: Once but once raiders lost Ark came out like cool let's get on this gravy train and they made an hour to Ellen quarter made movies, which were bad. Avish Parashar: weather was bad I didn't even bother watching the second one, because. Avish Parashar: The first of all, so bad. Michael Worth: No it's so bad, it was so, but the best part about it was the fact that Jerry goes with it, the music and the end the score is like legit so uh yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah Mike and I did a movie like podcast slash Facebook live for a while we review an 80s movie each week and we did this one, and it was terrible. Avish Parashar: But we found is almost every week, we talked about how bad the movie was when are we talking about a bad movie the score was always amazing it's like they get better so that's three or like. Michael Worth: This Jesus man well because they knew that we'll get to that a bit, but they knew that the movie was terrible and the only way they could possibly sell which it was to make at least make it sound epic right, so all right, so this. Avish Parashar: We love we both love indiana Jones all genre but this episode is double specials got two additional reasons why it's extra special number one, we have to prep for this episode we interviewed our buddy Craig price. Avish Parashar: was a great movie guy he hosts a podcast called matinee heroes. Avish Parashar: which you can find a matinee heroes COM, or just look up matt night heroes on whatever he also hosts a a a kind of a game show called cast off that Mike and I have appeared on before and we're going to appear on again coming up soon depending when this comes out. Avish Parashar: Where you compete against one recasting famous movie so Mike and I competed recasting interview with a vampire and now we're gonna get crazy. Avish Parashar: So it's a lot of fun craig's a big movie guy he loves indiana Jones so we go in depth into the tropes. Avish Parashar: So we're gonna do that for a trope discussion, the other reason that i'm excited about this genre. Avish Parashar: Is that way back at this point about a year ago, when we first had the idea for this podcast we didn't know if this show format would work, so of course we just jumped in like good improvise it let's try it. Avish Parashar: yeah very first one we ever tried was a indiana Jones movie now that was so new we were just testing stuff out we didn't even bother to record it, which is a shame, because it went really well. Michael Worth: Did I did I was a good show you first really production entertainment, which is record everything record everything right. Avish Parashar: yeah we. Avish Parashar: should have recorded it we didn't. Avish Parashar: But does the first time, returning to this so i've been almost a year since we've done in indiana Jones so we're gonna do today. Avish Parashar: That one was called phineas Jones and the cult of Marmara um we're not going to do the call tomorrow, but we are going to stay with phineas Jones as our main character. Avish Parashar: Yes, you'll see that further adventures of phineas Jones in the in the. Michael Worth: unreleased or the release sequel to the unreleased original which has been lost in the midst of time. Avish Parashar: Exactly it's like when there's a pilot that that's not aired but they still turn into a show that's. Avish Parashar: that's what this is going to be like. Michael Worth: it's gonna be. Avish Parashar: So real quick before we get into all this craziness if you liked this show, if you like, what you hear. Avish Parashar: Please give us a rating and review head over to wherever you listen to your podcasts ideally apple podcast give us a five star rating. Avish Parashar: And if you feel so inclined, just a short review a couple sentences about what you like about the show, and why other should listen and help us out a lot it'll help others find the show and help us grow this podcast. Avish Parashar: Alright, so we are going to start and again, our first segment, which is discussing the tropes we're going to drop in our conversation with Craig price. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment two, we are now going to create an outline Based on this information that we talked about with Craig and Mike and I know. Avish Parashar: we're going to create a high level outline we're going to use a four act structure and again, this is a rough guide because of improv comedy we may not follow this outline exactly but there's going to be our rough guide of what happens in each segment of the story yep so like a. Michael Worth: Oh man i'm already all this, you know mean indiana Jones but I love this stuff I think it's one of my favorite films Harrison ford's been in a first of all. Avish Parashar: i'm making a call right so that's going on and i'll real far limb there. yeah. Avish Parashar: So contrary in that I like raiders of the lost Ark I know exactly. Michael Worth: Being like I like to be in the conversation now that's different. Michael Worth: That will be a bold statement yeah or or or the mosquito coast whoo that's it that's it that's it. Michael Worth: So, first of all going to be the call right now, because I know this this this flow we're doing a prologue not a trailer because they always do a prologue that's a fun little cold open unrelated to the main quest. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Avish Parashar: For this prologue you will be the one singing anything goes in China. Michael Worth: Yes, in China. Michael Worth: Steven spielberg's wife right and play police gotten that right. Avish Parashar: yeah at least wife at the time, I know they're still married or not. Michael Worth: yeah who knows man and Hollywood whatever so uh it's pretty easy act act one is establishing of our character in his everyday life, because you know this guy is is not a. Michael Worth: Just like in the library and indiana Jones he has a normal life and it gets sent out on missions uh and then the establishment of. Michael Worth: Information that some artifact exists, whether it's oh we've got news clippings of somebody excavating this pyramid or whatever, and that is the gestation to send them out on a quest we don't see. Avish Parashar: It so there's the prologue that act one is like. Avish Parashar: You have the like the exposition yeah. Michael Worth: The inciting the inciting information is really what it is. Avish Parashar: yeah and then you either it's a conversation with the professor, you know the government comes in, or you know the villagers came to him in yeah yeah. Michael Worth: orange or a private investor in who. Michael Worth: You know, has an affair, the private investor in the last crusade. Avish Parashar: Yes, yes, his. Avish Parashar: intention is to walk the the snow walkers the Ad ads to the. Michael Worth: he's like is he getting revenge because hog got purchase layout during the added innovation. Avish Parashar: For those who don't know the bad guy in a holy grail or last crusade, is also the commander of the ad ads in empire strikes back. Michael Worth: Exactly there it is. Avish Parashar: Julian glover right. Michael Worth: Yes, yes he's been he's been a bunch of things. Avish Parashar: Alright, so. Avish Parashar: Okay, so act one we establish that and then he goes on there's usually the first um he can investigate the first clue and. Avish Parashar: So there's some action there's some some yeah and I think we found over the last few months that yo loser outlines, so we don't need a whole lot when we meet the hero first clue and you're going to use the meat, the female interest in in that first. Michael Worth: And, and this is a great way, especially because that's that we've really tightened up our structure he's going to find the clues and act to. Michael Worth: That get him to the object in APP three that's how we kind of parse it out and an APP to it's also going to have his first couple one or two for us probably one because it's shorter interacted with the bad guy and or his cronies. Avish Parashar: Rights Act to heal me it'll be the bad guy he'll fail, I think, the one thing I read a book. Avish Parashar: On screenwriting and it's talking about the concept of spectacular failure and it's like that's why indiana Jones is so good, not because he succeeds in fact he fails, like every step of the way he has failed spectacularly. Michael Worth: yeah exactly. Avish Parashar: don't act one you know they they get the first clue act to they pretty much like he basically it's like each actors just act one you get a clue. Avish Parashar: That leads you to act two which ends with them fighting another clue which is X three of them fighting another clue and then an act for is when they find and then lose the final object yeah. Michael Worth: or they finally did the end of that three and then kind of everything goes wrong and act for. Avish Parashar: Sure, I guess, in. Avish Parashar: In raiders lost Ark to actually find the Ark but then lose it and then have to get they ultimately lose it act for but right. Avish Parashar: But basically it's just a clue clue. Avish Parashar: Resolution. Michael Worth: yeah exactly and and and every step of the way that you have to flush out a little bit of a couple of number one is that the enemy is almost always i'm able to become either not one step ahead but they're able to whenever. Michael Worth: Whenever phineas gains is taken away so it's never like he gets there and they've already found the Ark and taking it it's like, no, no, he gets York and the bad guys swoop in like like cheap bullies in a playground, the second is. Avish Parashar: it's almost like you're saying there's nothing you can have that I cannot take. Michael Worth: I know it's like. Michael Worth: Well, I got I hate the fridge. Avish Parashar: Now let's go to let's go to the show today baby. Michael Worth: So um but here's The other thing diabolical death traps and puzzles we don't have too many of them, but like that that'll be. Avish Parashar: gather are like. Avish Parashar: A lot, and you know what is it's it's the things we need this death traps. Avish Parashar: And there's riddles and. Michael Worth: puzzles and. Avish Parashar: yeah puzzle the puzzle so death traps and puzzles. Avish Parashar: yeah it's um and they'll kind of come in. Avish Parashar: And they can be throughout like it can be an act to or activity or act for. Michael Worth: Sure, for sure. Avish Parashar: yeah when he def traps and puzzles. Michael Worth: And then act for is a the following happens like there's look, you know whether or not we've they've got the artifacts in that three or where they get an act for. Michael Worth: They they lose it right and then their witness the bad guys get greedy and they're witnessed to the. Michael Worth: exposition of the power of the artifact and it basically killed on the bad guys and saves them right or or or you know that's so basically look at with a big part of that for is like. Michael Worth: They opened pandora's box they shouldn't have done that, and then, and then we get to have all sorts of fun descriptions of all the cool things that happen. Avish Parashar: yeah that's a real as artifact it ends up backfire on the good guys and. Avish Parashar: Have those ones one other thing Oh, at some point if we're going to indiana Jones there's always some kind of creature issue like critters you know snakes. Michael Worth: Oh rats. Avish Parashar: rats bugs. Avish Parashar: there's always like some kind of one of the traps or situations as. Michael Worth: They have to open yeah man it's actually it's funny like when you think about all things that that Spielberg and Lucas, I put in this it actually is kind of a railroad movie plot, you know. Avish Parashar: it's just. Michael Worth: You kind of have to you have to tick the boxes, a little bit right. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah yeah I mean that's what we do right we just follow the guy was what makes indiana Jones movie without those elements at what point are we going to make sure aliens appear in this story. Michael Worth: Not aliens extra dimensional beings. Avish Parashar: entire discussion we just basically ignored the fact. Avish Parashar: That crystal skull exists. Michael Worth: Exactly, although and i'm going to wrap up with this one thing that people do forget and it's only because i'm in video games and I love and i'm working on adventure games right now and narrative games. Michael Worth: There was a slew of high quality Lucas arts games, the Emperor tomb the staff Atlantis that were like legit puzzle games and or legit third person. Avish Parashar: I. Avish Parashar: You know what I knew they were, I never actually played any of them, but I always want to play the Atlanta when I heard amazing things about that one. Michael Worth: Is that the one that was the classic king's quest where's the side scrolling adventure one, I think that. Avish Parashar: I think that was maybe yeah probably I also like the whole tomb raider franchises essentially like. Michael Worth: indiana Jones with. Avish Parashar: Dr Jones variations of. Avish Parashar: All right, well, that was our timer we got kind of a good basic outline so. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22678406

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Slice (In the Style of a Vampire Hero Movie like Blade, Underworld, or Morbius) 03/15/2022

Slice (In the Style of a Vampire Hero Movie like Blade, Underworld, or Morbius) In a World…where people feel safe and assume monsters aren’t real…there exists a second world of evil and vampires. However, there is one man who walks in both worlds, and he may be the only thing between evil and light. He is…SLICE. This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Best of Times / Worst of Times, Last Letter / First Letter, Blind Line, and Cutting Room. About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to vampire hero movies - those awesome action movies where the vampire (at least one of them) is the hero. We recorded this to prep for Morbius, but since we hadn’t seen it yet this episode is much more of an homage to Blade. It is also the first episode we recorded in 2022, and we tweak our format a bit. We hope you like it! Links Blade on Wikipedia: Underworld on Wikipedia: Morbius on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: Start of show: Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute Improv Game - Best of Times / Worst of Times Improv Game - Last Letter / First Letter Improv Game - Blind Line Improv Game - Cutting Room: End of show, into announcements: More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so if you've been listening for a while, you know, this is our five minutes segment where we discussed the tropes and cliches our second change we're doing to our format trying this out for 2022 is. Avish Parashar: Mike and I bring a lot of history to a lot of these movies and genres so which may be comes out in the show, but maybe the audience is aware of that so we're going to expand this segment to closer to 10 minutes. Avish Parashar: But so we're going to start first by talking a little bit about the movie and our experience with the genre and Mike this is. Avish Parashar: probably true for many movies matrix certainly um, but this is one we actually saw together. Avish Parashar: We played. Avish Parashar: together in the theater way back when so take us back, would you remember, like what What did you think when you saw blade for the first time. Michael Worth: Oh man I forgot that we start the theater together to you know the um what did I think my first take was um i'm damn this is stylish like this was like because. Michael Worth: Up until now, what other superhero movies were there, there was Batman Batman was cool but I had a bit of the Gothic this at the other end seen Superman so this comes in and the. Avish Parashar: Opening when it goes this. Avish Parashar: Before was this before after spider man, this is right around spider man. Michael Worth: This was before Spiderman, but it was a because spider man is as a mom as an MC you so yeah it was before Spiderman um and it was after Batman cuz Let me take a look here. Michael Worth: bleed film um but I remember walking in and you're watching them go to that rave club and it's all like full that great 90s like. Avish Parashar: It does oh yeah. Michael Worth: And it's all you know slickly shot and then, when the blood comes down. Michael Worth: And the guys you see the reversal you guys the guy that's gonna get eaten and then blade shows up and they're all stuck around have covered and read being fair like hot shit this movie it's doubling down on visual imagery like. Avish Parashar: It was yeah. Michael Worth: So stylish. Avish Parashar: Was it was so cool and Wesley snipes was just cool as blade. Michael Worth: Yes, absolutely. Avish Parashar: excited because I think they do a remake with a mashallah alli and I think you'd be great as a blade yeah but Wesley snipes was just so and he delivered the most ridiculous one liners so well. Michael Worth: Oh, the credibility people forget about Wesley snipes like about a he's a legit martial artists like he trains hard and he's kind of Michael J white when he's got like legit chops to he can make shuts down so smugly like self pompous some of the Fuck is always trying to escape. Avish Parashar: The line I love that. Michael Worth: so good, and he just delivers it with such like, just like I do this lads fucking stupid, but i'm gonna make it awesome right um. Avish Parashar: it's funny because when blade came out I feel like I read a lot of comic was growing up and I read a bunch of spider man, but I think when it came out I didn't even realize that bleed was a marvel comics character, I just thought it was I got cool vampire movie. yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: And it was so it doesn't feel like a comic movie it feels like a vampire movie. Avish Parashar: Great. Michael Worth: A good darkness to where the vampire is the hero is a vampire hunter first in the style of van helsing it's not like he's like a superhero right. Avish Parashar: yeah it's like a vampire vampire hunter which is awesome. Michael Worth: yeah exactly and and the plot is legit I didn't like, and this is this is always going to be a problem, going to see if more be as well. Michael Worth: As this the vampire villains are hard, it is hard to set up a vampire film to be blades match because blade is pretty clever and the amazing physical specimen so you got to play the vampire mastermind against him because blade can wade through. Avish Parashar: yeah he just like phase waves of bad guys would like a mastermind meeting them all. Michael Worth: Right, and so the mastermind of the first one was deacon frost and his big thing was he's trying to resurrect the blood God um it was a decent enough. Michael Worth: hook, for it but, and it was you know, certainly a very solid hook, in terms of yeah again okay vampire trying to resurrect an all powerful for us trying to like you know become immortal or you know super powered. Michael Worth: But it just I think like anything else the protagonist is defined by how good the antagonist is and I thought that decompress was great in this as a character. Michael Worth: yeah whiny email 90s post-punk you know. Avish Parashar: And if I recall correctly blade tues better in that context, like blade to actually look like was good from blade and had like a better villain and had almost like an alien sort of subplot like. Avish Parashar: Yes, like a aliens feel to it. Michael Worth: It did because that was one where they their experiments kind of vampire and made vampire vampires like a metal vampire and he could convert vampires into reapers and it did have an alien's five to it. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Michael Worth: They brought out the one thing that blade didn't do as well, they brought it and blade to was they brought out some of like the light hearted like badass humor of Wesley snipes his character blade like he was very grim in the first one. Michael Worth: And the second we did a lot more funny lines a lot like that scene, where he you know i'm steers up decks who's buying the blows a kiss at his bike before it goes off. Michael Worth: And fun kills the vampires like it was yeah. Avish Parashar: It was really good. Michael Worth: So I would I would actually live out of state as we're starting to move into blade blade you know doing this oh my gosh we incorporate elements of blade too, because that was. Avish Parashar: Another I think. Avish Parashar: Any kind of jack and it's funny like we call this blade it's gonna be more of an homage to blade but you know, this also kind of kicked off the like the whole underworld series is kind of like this. Avish Parashar: Right yeah yeah so the vampire and what's his name is a werewolf and like yeah so yep it's. Michael Worth: I have to also say that one of the things for you as we start to build the actors and it's always fun for us to try and do this in another podcast but. Michael Worth: The action scenes are beautifully choreographed like Wesley snipes knows karate or Kung fu fill it up Filipino cali and Judo so his shit is tight like he's doing all the trapping and all the wing chun. Avish Parashar: He knows yeah but. Avish Parashar: It was like a combination like superhero vampire and martial arts movie which was it at the time wow. Avish Parashar: Very you know with brain we're that was we were both. Avish Parashar: very regularly training together martial arts, I was like we just saw this cool, so I think we like incorporate that. Michael Worth: into our training yeah yeah, we were told we weren't you and I are both. Michael Worth: Training G condo in cali and then we had come off of rookie tempo and small circle Jiu jitsu so we had the lots of stuff that we see this guy with all the outside. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so let's kind of transition point, then, so this kind of our history with it we love so much of it, so what are then. Avish Parashar: blade specifically but really any of these kind of you know sort of vampires among us, but the vampires the hero type movie what are some of you said you know, like, and this will be hard for the podcast but choreographed fight beautifully choreographed fight scenes. Michael Worth: yeah totally full full of slick martial arts, I mean it's definitely is a high martial arts quota. Michael Worth: and Avish Parashar: You know just just general like action and, like popcorn action yeah. Michael Worth: yeah yeah slickly shot, you know slickly told in our in our in our point um it's the underworld is a great idea there's a shadow world full of the Raven loft Gothic stuff so the vampires live among us. Avish Parashar: And you know revealing to all our listeners that we are dungeons and dragons nerds absolutely. Maybe. Michael Worth: So that's a big component, which is the vampires are not these federal creatures living in the wilderness they usually have two hooks into corporate America in. Avish Parashar: an urban environment yeah. Avish Parashar: And yeah most they're not well known, like the World doesn't know they exist, the hero is a vampire for our story it's a vampire hero yep. Michael Worth: Exactly or something with vampiric powers, and you know. Avish Parashar: Like a half vampire vampire day Walker. Michael Worth: None of this like i'm a highly trained to you, but no, no, no he's got a touch to the supernatural with this. yeah. Avish Parashar: I say to your point, like the villain needs to be. Avish Parashar: A mastermind a mastermind but even like it could be a badass but like usually it's some kind of like it should be one level above the vampire like a like an elder I like a lot of the stories, especially underworld has like the Elder vampires or the god vampire not just a regular vampire. Michael Worth: Right he's got additional powers and certainly additional resources and cloud, you know. Michael Worth: The vampires in these kind of movies, are cannon fodder which and what and what you'll show is you'll show us with the vampires beating up on people and then you'll see the blade character going through them and that basically showcases like the how bad ass blade is you know. Avish Parashar: yeah. Michael Worth: By the way, seagal can take a page from these kind of movie because he said I was trying to basically be blade but he fails were played succeeds. Avish Parashar: So yeah it does in many, many. Michael Worth: Ways our defensive level get some point so. Avish Parashar: there's no other guy a. Michael Worth: plot is pretty easy usually what happens is. Michael Worth: The main character uncovers a small criminal act which is part of a series of legos building to the big criminal plot. Michael Worth: So, like you know why are you breaking in and stealing this type of blood, you know he stops that robbery and they start researching and say Oh well, that type of blood is. Avish Parashar: For this spend on the plan. Avish Parashar: almost always involves either. Avish Parashar: Taking out all the humans and turning them into food like enslaving humans or raising. Avish Parashar: The apocalypse raising the Elder God that's good yeah. Michael Worth: Either superpowers, the head either making him super powerful or phrases like. Michael Worth: Or, he said it wipes out the human race it's it's either it's one of those two hands. Avish Parashar: So something apocalyptic on scale like yeah. Avish Parashar: Exactly yeah. Michael Worth: turn them all into food or whatever um. Avish Parashar: So there's all. Avish Parashar: there's usually the the hero is almost always like very withdrawn, but then encounter someone usually like a love interest or sort of a love interest. Michael Worth: Interest tonight. Avish Parashar: opens them up yeah. Michael Worth: The hero, if we want to play it like blade and I think we should will usually have one or two assistants that are playing Q and playing you know Q, like the James Bond techie there's usually a tech. Avish Parashar: yeah like like Christmas. Michael Worth: With her he actually and actually, this is a variation of the he had two and one of them betrayed that's that might be a little complex for a podcast there's nothing wrong with just having the hero kiss tech support and, like the love interest and that kind of works out um. Avish Parashar: yeah. Michael Worth: And so it's pretty it's pretty straightforward actually like the plot is literally that which is here shows up foil some small crime. Avish Parashar: yeah very nicely into our format because it's like all right, some stuff happens investigates. Avish Parashar: Proactive than big finish. Michael Worth: yep and, of course, of course, the drive in the in the final act to make the big finish is that his love interest and or his partner get kidnapped. Michael Worth: and Michael Worth: You know yeah. Michael Worth: yeah so now, yes, and not only go to stop the plan, but he also has to go for personal reasons, sometimes you'll see them get killed, but I don't know that's not necessary that's basically it, I mean it's pretty. Avish Parashar: And we are. Michael Worth: And there's always one liners there's. Michael Worth: always like a straight aloes humor one liners, you know. Avish Parashar: And there's something we That was a duck timer. Avish Parashar: The one thing that we. Avish Parashar: Probably don't have a lot of us have a lot of mythology which I don't think we need to get too far into like. Avish Parashar: Who was the god back that and what caused this now why the stone needs to be found to be this would. Michael Worth: Probably just enough mythology to justify the big bad evil guys. Avish Parashar: Most yeah it's improv comedy surprise sticking the mythology when we need it like oh yeah. Michael Worth: What will it do deus ex market a deus ex mythology you know. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment two all right now, we will hash out a high level outline we're going to use a for act structure. Avish Parashar: we're going to kind of figure out what happens in each act roughly we may not stick to it once we get into it, because it's improv, but this is kind of our guidelines for what's going to happen. Michael Worth: There aren't any more of a guideline. Avish Parashar: yeah exactly. Avish Parashar: Alright, so five minute timer. Michael Worth: We did come up by the way for listeners, you need to weigh in on what you want our time to change to for this year, because you might come with a new sound I don't know if. Avish Parashar: that's true I just been using the duck because i'm too lazy. Michael Worth: yeah but i'll build something or maybe if there's you know, looking at phrase you want us to. Avish Parashar: love it. Avish Parashar: Alright, so next one, what needs to happen in act one. Avish Parashar: It almost always opens with some kind of violence yeah. Michael Worth: So basically here's what it opens with it opens with the switch from the the the world that we think we know to the actual world, so it starts off with something very, very plain and blah and then all sudden the latest switched. Michael Worth: And all of a sudden, you see all the vampires you realize that the world you think you know, is a dangerous world and we're actually the lowest form of on the food chain. Michael Worth: And we're introduced to the main character, the main character just shows up and just just carnage like it's that simple right. Avish Parashar: yeah and and usually something happens right at the end, like you know he. Avish Parashar: Like you said discovers that crime or like finds a medallion that one of the bad guys left behind, or like basically starts them down the path to be like hey what the hell is a scope what's going on here like something you discover something unusual like at the end of that sequence. Avish Parashar: Or the last. Michael Worth: yeah exactly and um the the love interest is introduced at this point as either one of two things. Michael Worth: Either they're involved in that initial fight and they kind of tag along or they're the first clue linchpin to him uncovering the mystery like he's like oh they're doing this special kind of why they Robin this special kind of metal so he goes to like a metallurgist. Avish Parashar: And the metallurgist right they'd be born act, too, but yeah so somewhere, maybe act one they might be like a victim right. Avish Parashar: The thing or so maybe here, maybe act to we'll figure that out. Michael Worth: that's pretty much at once it's that fast and easy. Avish Parashar: yeah and active and I like to act, too, I think we're going to meet the sidekicks the assistance yep. Michael Worth: And so, less is more here if we just have one. Avish Parashar: that's fine but loaded, yet we meet the assistant. Avish Parashar: We investigate whatever they discovered in act one they do some investigation there's usually some kind of a token action senior. Michael Worth: Why um well what happens is uh yeah and we're introduced to the big bad guy and usually that took an action scene is. Michael Worth: blade the character starting to interfere with one of the stages of the of the plopping put in that attracts his attention to the bad guy the bad guys like whoa whoa what happened, what, why did my guys not come back from this particular thing and then. Avish Parashar: The bag I learned about maybe he would add guy you know he's investigating some of the course investigation cross paths with the bad guys action scene, but then, by the end of that act he's kind of. Avish Parashar: he's got a clue like of what's going on a little bit more of a clue i'm. Avish Parashar: You know. Michael Worth: i'm seeing the full plot, the end of that too it's not the full plot. Avish Parashar: He gets he that doesn't right like a lot of times at the end of Act two he'll know like i'm. Avish Parashar: Not the full picture, but a much bigger piece of the picture like he'll learn who the bad guy is right that's a lot of times will happen like. Avish Parashar: Killing counter the bag like oh crap it's deacon frost now we gotta yeah and he's trying to collect all the blood for some reason, let me. Avish Parashar: write like in the beginning of actually has no idea what the real plan is he's like Oh, and actually kind of learns a plan, but as know why and then an act three he proactively investigates. Michael Worth: Right and that three is worth two things happen. Michael Worth: A the plot is revealed like and and again we want blade to be an empowered hero he figures it out. Avish Parashar: yeah. ... /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22429769

Ending Turbulent Poetry (In the Style of a Bed Ridden Horror Movie Like Misery) 03/08/2022

Ending Turbulent Poetry (In the Style of a Bed Ridden Horror Movie Like Misery) In a World…where some appreciate art, there are others who appreciate it just a little too much. This is the story of Raymond, a poet, who has the unfortunate experience of meeting his number one fan… This episode features the improv games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Ding, He Said She Said, Emotional Lists, Cutting Room, Show Notes: About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to “bed-ridden horror movies, most specifically Stephen King’s Misery. In fact, this episode is basically a straight-up parody of that movie/book. If you are a fan of Stephen King, Annie Wilkes, and Paul Sheldon, this is the episode for you! Links Misery on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:17 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 17:35 Start of show: 24:05 Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute: 25:55 Improv Game - Ding: 27:39 Improv Game - He Said She Said: 34:16 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 42:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 50:18 End of show, into announcements: 1:01:53 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment one discussing the tropes so now we're going to spend five minutes discussing the tropes of this type of movie so i'm gonna set my timer for five minutes. Avish Parashar: And Mike why don't you start off since you're the one who initially mentioned the genre when you think of misery rear window carol's game. Mike Worth: Joking yeah yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: That one at the rear window knock off with Charlotte both like whatever. Mike Worth: yeah or the phone booth one, whatever that one is. Avish Parashar: yeah phone booth you mean phone booth. Mike Worth: what's that when we live photo booth and that's called Feral. Mike Worth: Apparently, I had a lot of wine last night um so you know here's the overarching thing that I think is actually big for all of Stephen king's things, but I think really applies to this, which is Stephen King loves to show true evil. Mike Worth: When a small person in a small slice of America gain some element of power he's not about having a huge distractible. Mike Worth: You know, like overlord who's like built an army of robots he's about the small town sheriff who could just let his bigotry run rampant and that turns into something horrible. Mike Worth: And so that's very much what happens in misery you've got this small town small obsessive person she's I mean she's a nurse, you know, so what I mean is. Mike Worth: A central tenet should be this person should feel completely normal as a person, and then, when this obsessive psychosis manifests it makes it that much more terrifying and money. Avish Parashar: yeah yes terrible. Avish Parashar: yeah and and along the lines you basically you got two main characters your protagonist and antagonist. Avish Parashar: And then maybe a couple of small you know, like the COP who ends up dying, or like the the assistant or girlfriend who kind of helps because the person depending on exactly the setup so, but it really is like it's really like a two person story yeah. Mike Worth: yeah totally and and not only that it's a 2% story the protagonist. Mike Worth: has something the antagonist wants and the whole point of the story is that it's a giant kind of like psychological torture porn where. Mike Worth: The antagonist is trying to get the protagonist to exceed to his or her wishes in the case of misery it's you know finishing the book but, but this is not. Mike Worth: she's not just being he or whatever is not being cruel, for the sake of being cruel in his own twisted world the antagonist wants to help the protagonist by exceeding. Avish Parashar: yeah I mean, especially if you're going down the misery route yeah It is like. Avish Parashar: The villain is. Avish Parashar: You know it's not like saw or hostile where the villain just wants to kill and torture and name there's like they have some code or some justification in their in their mind they're not the villain right they I think they're yeah yeah they're like they almost think that being helpful. Mike Worth: Exactly exactly that's that's part of what makes it so horrific like you know in misery, where she smashed his legs and stuff I gotta be really careful I don't want to like beat for beat turns into misery, because because there's other things we can do, but there's that's that now. Avish Parashar: But that doesn't always make for a fun day when we've done that, so when we just had to do like a parody that ends up being pretty fun. Mike Worth: let's do we when we've done quite well so okay that's good now the other, the other trips or this it's almost always in a. Mike Worth: Small kind of picture picture is kind of Well he can be. Mike Worth: I was gonna say misery takes place kind of like a little Colorado. Mike Worth: lodge and Stephen King likes that whole New England thing so that's part of the trope um the protagonist is almost always ill equipped for this he's not like an army ranger who's been like crippled it's like an author or a painter or you know just maybe just. Avish Parashar: yeah he's not like a combat veteran. Mike Worth: Know uh he has to it is heavy on the psychological at winning and and there is an the. Mike Worth: protagonist defeats the antagonist by using. Mike Worth: her own goals or his own goals against him it's not like the antagonist suddenly regains the ability to escape and just fleas he finds a way to like turn the tables. Avish Parashar: yeah he actually defeats the except in phone booth but that's all of the thing but yeah he finds a way to defeat the the antagonist and along the way, though there's usually at least one if not two like tense sequences of like them, trying to escape. Avish Parashar: You know, maybe they're healthier the other person knows. Avish Parashar: or they break in where they're not supposed to and but the other person is coming back and so there's not like that that kind of tense the future tense sequence or some nature. Mike Worth: yeah there's always going to be, it is Stephen king, so it could be a couple of deaths and the deaths are going to be, I mean I hate to say it, but usually the set one of the second tier character bites it, you know. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Mike Worth: And not only that it it the deaths are not gruesome and they're not graphic, but they are terrifying because it's kind of like the the idea. Mike Worth: Of this. Is the person is showing. Avish Parashar: terrifying in the movie in the movie and misery, she shoots the Sheriff in the. Avish Parashar: Books funds over him with a lawn mower I think. Mike Worth: Oh, you serious oh. Mike Worth: yeah about that never got the books, the Stephen King books is good. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah and in the movie she hobbled them with a hammer, in the book she cuts off megaman X yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah. Mike Worth: So that's pretty much it, I mean, is it are the tropes that simple well you know what look a Stephen King look at the book cujo what does cujo about a Feral dog they're trapped in a car and a House like his stuff can be really. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah he really digs into like I mean that's The other thing I didn't mean to say as much the the protagonist usually has some kind of. Avish Parashar: flaw or issue that kind of gets explored through the through the trauma. Mike Worth: Right like an issue would be like what like his inability to like commit to his family or or the fact that he's. Avish Parashar: yeah he's never lost his misery, but I think in misery like he kind of you know his like creative burnout and like he was not gonna do any more misery stories right, you know he's like creatively burnt out from it, I think he has an alcohol issues and his past and i'm. Avish Parashar: Good man yeah that Stephen King oh yeah. Avish Parashar: You know yeah. Avish Parashar: Gerald game, which is another one or something, but that one like the woman had her whole life, she was abused as a kid and repressed it never dealt with in you know, the fact that it's such a small story lends itself more to like internal. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: kind of reflection yeah right so that are as a bunch of controls, so now we get to. Avish Parashar: Creating the outline so now we're gonna spend about five minutes just generating a high level outline for this movie we will. Avish Parashar: We use a four X structure. Avish Parashar: And then each one will have an improv game we'll get to that later and then this is a starting point, because it's in probably May. Avish Parashar: stick to this, we may veer off of it a little bit or we may completely abandoned it halfway through, but this gives us a sort of starting point. Avish Parashar: Through outline. Avish Parashar: We always start with either a prologue or a trailer yeah. Mike Worth: This is gonna be probably a. Mike Worth: trailer but now i'm not sure. Avish Parashar: All right, well let's let's see what i'm doing that in our and I was. Mike Worth: Like reading a piece of music, you always leave the intro till the end because because that you know. yeah. Mike Worth: X one X one. Avish Parashar: X two X over X one um I mean that you gotta these stories get started pretty quickly, so we need to establish the hero, and the villain and whatever situation, whatever reason he gets trapped needs to happen in aqua. Mike Worth: yep that's that's pretty much what it is you establish the hero what his career slash jobs niches that makes him valuable to the antagonist and you set them up to get trapped right. Mike Worth: i've got a really interesting idea to be floating around that event but i'm trying not to like to improv push it but i've got a really interesting idea at the end of act one i'm probably the oh hold on just one second let's do a quick little clap. Mike Worth: Yes, Sir i'm on the podcast what's up. Great to please Thank you. Mike Worth: So in act one um we hear the protagonist and we hear and the antagonist I think in act one we we get to the point where the protagonist is now in the hands of the antagonist. Mike Worth: And I think at the end of the Act one we figure out the the antagonist a is not all there and B is determined to correct the protagonists. Avish Parashar: yeah I think that I think in some stories, you might say, oh at the end of act one is when the hero. Avish Parashar: gets injured and can kind of take it in, but I think in most of these stories that actually happens near the beginning, and then the end of act one yeah because in the beginning, I think it's also not clear that. Avish Parashar: The antagonist is bad or crazy they might just seem a little odd right, but then it's like the end of act one is when you realize oh there's something's not quite right about this person. Mike Worth: Right right into the REP and it directly manifest with some decisions, the protagonist is making in their life or career, that the antagonist is what's. Mike Worth: yeah so okay so that's pretty good at one right that's. Avish Parashar: yeah that's pretty straightforward so then act two is where um. Avish Parashar: But I think he still he or she the hero is still sort of recovering from whatever reason they're there. Avish Parashar: That are trying to like. Avish Parashar: I think there's still sort of treating it normally like I just got to convince this person i'm okay I got to convince them to go get me help it take me to a hospital. Avish Parashar: they're not desperate yet they're just like trying to play this person and and populate them in a way to kind of get them out of there, yes. Mike Worth: At the end of Act two is when the protagonist realizes that the antagonist is too far gone in terms of like. Mike Worth: You know she's not going or he you know, whatever we want to do is not going to let me go, it could be something like. Mike Worth: The police officer shows up and he's in the other room and he sees the antagonists like completely just like lie to say i've never seen him and he's like oh wow she really won't let me go, you know kind of thing. Mike Worth: Because that's and and she might even physically restrain him or you know hammered of the ankle because I think that's kicks in act three, which is what he begins to formulate a plan. Mike Worth: and go reactive to We always say is you said it perfectly are active at three is always reactive to proactive. Avish Parashar: reactive reactive he's like just trying to play the situation figure this person. Mike Worth: asking me she'll figure it out she'll she'll she'll let me go. Avish Parashar: A little odd or he lot and crazy, but I think you know if I can just kind of. Avish Parashar: See I think yeah then that revelation comes in an actor, he is when he goes proactive, I think this is where if there's gonna be a 10 sequence where he's like trying to explore the House or get out or get to the phone escape. Mike Worth: plan yeah exactly. Avish Parashar: Because proactive tries to do something tries to. Avish Parashar: But I think I think I think the big thing here is certainly we're looking at misery in act three he's proactive but he's trying to escape or get help, yes I think act for is when it's proactive. Avish Parashar: Timing to defeat the villain yep. Mike Worth: Bingo. Avish Parashar: that's perfectly actor, he is he's gonna try to escape. Mike Worth: yeah he is but he's also going to find out her some of her Achilles heels, but he's gonna find out that stuff in that three if it all works out well you know so man. Mike Worth: The plots easy, but the beats for a Stephen King novel are pretty tightly you can't you can't walk around with this you gotta like. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah I mean that's one reason I like reading I read allows even kidding cuz. Mike Worth: yeah i've. Avish Parashar: got some of it is like it's always a. Avish Parashar: Good story things move. Avish Parashar: me he might take 200 pages to make the story move like per chapter, but you know, maybe 1000 pages, but it's always like. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah it's progressing I like it. Mike Worth: yeah and. Avish Parashar: then act for is the confrontation, the. Avish Parashar: hero yep. Mike Worth: And, and we really want to reincorporate everything that we've learned, we want to reincorporate here again the the hero turns the tables on the antagonist. Mike Worth: Through combination of twisting what she wants out of him and exploiting her vulnerabilities and kind of like flaws, incidentally that's it that's that's pretty much it we're ahead of the curve. Avish Parashar: What are we doing we're doing a prologue or a trailer for this. Avish Parashar: trailer right I don't think we need. Mike Worth: To a trailer let's do a trailer because that could have a chance to do more, Stephen King he kind of. Mike Worth: Music yeah, by the way this is random and for dear listeners curious go on a little tangent for a second Dean koontz versus Stephen King they both tend to get lumped together and i've read both of them multiple books. Mike Worth: I love them both are they are they really that simple, though, I feel it includes has a different pacing with Stephen king. Avish Parashar: hey do I mean, I think. Avish Parashar: I think, Stephen king is a better writer I think Dean koontz is a little bit more like. Avish Parashar: I don't know what the word is, but like poppy or you know, Paul be your. Mike Worth: yeah a little more. Avish Parashar: I guess the includes is more like a between or guy versus Stephen king's books, you know, while not like literature, are a little bit more in depth, and I think Stephen king's about writer, but I read a lot of Dean koontz which I got very into him for a while, so his books are entertaining. Mike Worth: Well yeah that's a lesson for our third section is Dean, I remember that what you do is you read the first 14 cookbooks and whatever first four books you choose whatever they are. Mike Worth: Especially in the 90s you love them and then you start reading the rest of your life oh this actually the same for books that it keeps on music over and over so so like for me, the first word that. Mike Worth: we're like watchers and phantoms and midnight and like one other I love them and then they were like the children of twilight does like oh that was just this one rescan now you're like okay. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Mike Worth: Good ideas and he's kind of keeps it. Avish Parashar: kind of like our podcast. Mike Worth: Alright, so we're in. Avish Parashar: good shape, I would remind me, though, i'm going to add Dean koontz to our list of future potential. Mike Worth: yeah yeah. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22363307

Twisted Sticks (In the Style of a Misfits Sports Movie like The Replacements and Necessary Roughness) 03/01/2022

Twisted Sticks (In the Style of a Misfits Sports Movie like The Replacements and Necessary Roughness) In a world…where some people are meant for greatness while others just want a shot…one team of misfit lacrosse players will have to bond and learn to work together to win the game, go the championship, and save their coach and team. This episode features the improv games 90 Second A to Z, Old Job New Job, World’s Worst, He Said She Said, and Cutting Room. About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to those very entertaining misfit sports movies, like The Replacements, Necessary Roughness, and many, many more. Mike and Avish are actually big fans of Necessary Roughness and have quoted that movie many times over the years, so this episode features a lot of that Scott Bakula classic in it. You can also learn just how little about lacrosse Avish knows… Links Necessary Roughness on Wikipedia: The Replacements on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 17:41 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 22:41 Start of show: 29:42 Improv Game - 90 Second A to Z: 33:56 Improv Game - Old Job, New Job: 37:27 Improv Game - World’s Worst: 48:54 Improv Game - He Said She Said: 59:14 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:08:05 End of show, into announcements: 1:22:19 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: All right now we're going to spend about 10 minutes talking about the genre well they're talking about the tropes but also can talk about our experience and kind of what we think about these genres. Avish Parashar: And kind of pull out the tropes that we will use in the discussion so I don't have my duck time I have a different time are here today Oh, but I will set it so 10 minute timer starts now. Michael Worth: or five minute timer or 10 minutes 10 minutes. Avish Parashar: Well, we now we've switched it like a little longer time or because. Oh. Michael Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: Just like rifling through the toilet so when you when you think about this movie like what's your. Avish Parashar: kind of well, I know what my memory is, but what are, like some of the movies, or what are your memories of experiencing this genre. Michael Worth: Well it's funny because, although we are doing football, the first one that comes to mind is major league because that one kind of was the the rebooting of all those other movies came out afterwards, if necessary, roughness and and. Avish Parashar: on any given Sunday, I think this is a ravenous might have been before but around similar maybe that's the reference later, you might be right yeah. Michael Worth: First of all, what you love, is what I love about it is this. Michael Worth: The coach is always really likable like like he's you know he's not like a tough coach that has to like learn to grow as a person he's already a good guy and so he's trying to just kind of work among this whole real unfair thing you know, like. Michael Worth: Is it could it's cushioning Janeiro and major. Avish Parashar: In necessary roughness and so Robin is. yeah. Michael Worth: There is, I don't want to put any pressure idea but coach scenarios last words were when our i'll die. Michael Worth: Robert lotion event so good, so the coach is always like a good guy like he may have butt heads with with this with this, you know. Avish Parashar: he's like a mentor he's not the coaches like he's like a main character, but he's he rarely goes through, like a character transformation right. Michael Worth: he's the mentor Arc type he's the obi wan. Michael Worth: yeah and so, and you know. Avish Parashar: Gene hackman is like the. Michael Worth: replacements you've got the guy was like I don't know I gotta set a white walls, on the other. Michael Worth: Guy was from major league. Michael Worth: And then of course you've got whoever plays coach Janeiro is really plays pretty well he plays the. Michael Worth: drums on oh yeah yeah um so it's pretty easy one of the great things is part of the fun of this these kind of shows is there's a significant chunk of time of them ferreting out these players to stock their team. Michael Worth: leading them to the most bonkers situations, you know, like Kathy Ireland is like a girls soccer team they're like okay we're gonna you know get that or I think they have. Michael Worth: The Welsh smoker and he's like a soccer player. Avish Parashar: ifans yeah. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Avish Parashar: that's it's all misfits because you know these movies. Avish Parashar: And I think that's the when I when I publish this episode and i'm going to describe it as like a sports mitts misfits movie. Avish Parashar: Because that's really what these are and yeah you, because obviously the premise is that, like we don't have a budget or reputation to get real players, so we got to like just pull these like castoffs and other sports yeah the female kicker the the the Irish like smoker kicker. Michael Worth: yeah we usually get like you said linebackers are like ex cons right there like coming out of prison for all like. Avish Parashar: Just oh yeah yeah yeah the COP and the con. Michael Worth: As like yeah was it a. Michael Worth: Who was the COP. Avish Parashar: It was somebody who back row row. Michael Worth: yeah and he was fantastic have that luxury basically this jacked up like FBI guy right are you. Avish Parashar: crazy yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: cuz it's like. Avish Parashar: These movies, are all like On one level they're all terrible um but like are terrible it's such a good way, I mean like major leagues, probably the one that flirted the most of being like a legitimately good movie. yeah. Avish Parashar: Just terrible. Avish Parashar: Terrible but in such a good way. Michael Worth: To get you the ball I catch the ball. Michael Worth: yeah and you know what in the other thing is is there's two ways to go with this and i'm tired tropes little bit um. Michael Worth: The the players all start off immediately feuding and fashioning right like like there's already like they have to learn to grow together as a team that's part of the fun of it so like in the beginning. Michael Worth: What I love about movies, like this is no holds barred and how bad they are in the first couple of games. Avish Parashar: are truly terrible yeah. Michael Worth: Like things that would never happen in a sport habit, because these people are so incompetent like you know, like like one of them gives another player a concussion because they want to, they want to be the one to like. Avish Parashar: Get the back, because they're. Avish Parashar: People in with non sports or non football background so yeah it's like all the martial artist does a tackle by doing a spinning tornado kick like oh. Michael Worth: yeah he looks like like kicks out the dude muy Thai style to. Michael Worth: Exactly yeah I actually think i've already got an idea for that we're going to get one of those guys as a Judo QA and like I said. Avish Parashar: You get the terrible list of them and the thing that's like there's always not always but, at least in more than one there's the. Avish Parashar: The brawl with the opposing team, followed by the bond like that's kind of how they bought it I haven't necessary roughness that happens in the replacement sale I get a brawl yep. Avish Parashar: And for that that's like the MID points, because then, after that, like they're all buddies they're like a gel together and then now they're like all right now let's eat again. Michael Worth: Now what the replacements did, which was Okay, but I don't really feel like we need to do, that the bad guys in their placement, where this the the the initial players are on strike because remember how like they. Michael Worth: kind of coming in in in things like major League and necessary roughness I think it was just. Michael Worth: They were trying to have a winning record they're trying to make it to the playoffs and so there's there might have been some team in the back and they're like you know you some point you're gonna have to play the lions. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah necessary roughness it was the opposing team that was like the big university might necessary roughness that school is like a small like state school. Avish Parashar: scrappy team yeah Texas university and that's what they fought within the brawl replace it with the scabs yeah the. Michael Worth: enemy team that's. Avish Parashar: that's a lot of fun yeah I mean major league didn't have as much, but I think they did have like the Yankees or something like a bad guy was like the actual owner of the. Avish Parashar: team. Michael Worth: Oh, the woman who was the actress yeah yeah so bad and yeah and and they also immediately also played up with some. Michael Worth: They put a little more of the romance angle that corbin bernstein got cheated on by while thing which was a funny art but that's a lot for us to do you know I don't know if you want to. Avish Parashar: Know yeah we're pretty pretty key to the sports we, I think, having an opposing team team is good, and you know obvious things it's almost like the story designed around like moments, you know, like oh what what happened for karate guy had to play football, you know. or. Avish Parashar: The randomness of like you know, in the replacements is like. Avish Parashar: You got the two like bodyguards who are like the alignment it's like how there was a gun and shoot the car it's like. Michael Worth: yeah exactly oh you don't know what it, by the way. Michael Worth: This is one of movies, where I really ate some crow because I told you, for years, we'd watch this movie to watch this movie and then we watched it were like really there's like two or three good scenes first one was awful, but this is in that world slap shot. Avish Parashar: yeah I knew you're gonna say I feel like people who are listening are gonna be upset cuz I feel like that assaulted cult movie that people put. Avish Parashar: You know, like favorites and best I don't know I. Michael Worth: And we, you and I, I saw it was like a teenager and I was like man, this is, this is a great movie this great movie and I really got you to you did sit and watch it with you. Michael Worth: I did watch it, I was like like there's like two or three good seeds. Avish Parashar: Were brothers right like the. Avish Parashar: brothers like whatever the names are. Avish Parashar: They were funny. Michael Worth: yeah there's the hanson brothers. Michael Worth: And that's that's yeah there's that scene, but they're all skating around getting warmed up and they keep on looking at the other team is a scanner rather than just go at it like that's The funny shit. Avish Parashar: That, I think it's like these things are designed around moments, and sometimes the story isn't as strong, but I will say, the one thing that that these all have is there's a redemption Arc for someone. Avish Parashar: In that one it was the coach and slap shot, it was the coach was pulling you. apart. Avish Parashar: But in like usually it's like the start of the team that shane falco was a successful, but then he, like. Avish Parashar: macula didn't finish college and you know Tom berenger was the kind of capture, who is on his last legs so there's always like. Michael Worth: More go with the champion one more. Avish Parashar: Like a older more experienced player like you know we talked about the misfits a lot of them have no experience. Avish Parashar: yeah main characters you just someone with experience but, for whatever reason, they never quite. Avish Parashar: fulfill their potential. Avish Parashar: yeah what happens is. Michael Worth: And then, what happens is then you've got this great interaction between the coach and this main character, because. Michael Worth: They both want the same thing, sometimes they align sometimes they butt heads, because they have different views and at some point the mentor fingers like. Michael Worth: To the main character you're in your own way you've got to you've got to fix this flow and your character before you can actually lead the team, you know so so there's that there's the hero's journey really is, this is the top is the top recruited the misfit. Avish Parashar: Right and that's usually what happens at that midpoint scene right all the way up to that. Avish Parashar: That brawl scene right he's like reluctant and he's kind of keeping this, this is not bond you're connecting with other players yeah you know he's like almost unsure if he even wants to do this again. Avish Parashar: But then that's the moment where he likes steps up and something happens and then nine races roll. Michael Worth: yeah, and I mean honestly it's actually not that hard to plot it's really about would have been really good about coming up with some really funny scenarios because really it is assembling the team funny scenario where do you find these players. Michael Worth: The first, you know chunk of Games were there nothing's going right how How are they taking the game and really. Avish Parashar: Sure, because in the beginning, they lose it's like like this team comes together, because you mentioned like we see them being bad. Avish Parashar: But we might seem to be bad at practice mason being bad in the game, but they lose and then suddenly, they will get it together, and then they go on their winning streak. Avish Parashar: You know, to either make the playoffs it could be making the playoffs could be just winning that one game could be whatever but it's uh. Michael Worth: yeah yeah right. Michael Worth: um. Avish Parashar: So there was one movie I forget what it was, it was one of these or something else, where they literally didn't win a game. Avish Parashar: Until like the finale like the whole point was, I think they didn't win. Michael Worth: It o'neill with the kids one with the annexation of Poland was that one that one. Avish Parashar: Extension of Puerto Rico a little giant. Michael Worth: was that it was just that was just they want to win against. Avish Parashar: I forget what it was like the team was just bad and bad and bad, but then they face the rivals like Alaska and then they finally one so but yeah. Michael Worth: Oh well, that could have been miracle. Michael Worth: That is. No. Michael Worth: Different than a Kurt russell's most. Michael Worth: greatest sports speeches ever where he basically was like nine times out of 10 this team is going to be true, but tonight's. Avish Parashar: Nothing oh and that's a good point trump is there needs to be a motivational speech. Oh yeah. Michael Worth: When are all. Avish Parashar: Every every sports movie has it that dramatically we've had like a real output, you know from any given Sunday, or you know. Avish Parashar: Also honor. Michael Worth: And the other thing is, besides the main character was going to be the coach the main character and that usually one or two other characters might be main everybody else is just a two dimensional fund pasties. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah a lot of stereotypes yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah that's because. Avish Parashar: there's so out of the box like it's, not even a stereotype random like like you said, one or two to mentally yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah character. Michael Worth: is actually one of these fun little hidden gems of movie genres like you don't. Avish Parashar: yeah it is and it's almost I think we're almost finding, sometimes with these shows that. Avish Parashar: The less intricate the plot and the fewer crops are sometimes like when you got a few big tropes and the rest is just like yeah it's not a lot to the story it just got a lot of fun pieces like Oh well, we. Have a lot. Michael Worth: Of. Michael Worth: Basic instinct we're gonna be screwed it's like. Avish Parashar: Oh God yeah. Avish Parashar: We get to like doing are like an. Avish Parashar: ensemble um you know, like murder mystery like knives out or paro. Michael Worth: yeah the knives out. Michael Worth: So screwed. Michael Worth: Alright, so so we're in a good spot here we can jump. Avish Parashar: In yeah so that was the end our timer went off so that was our genre tropes discussion that brings us to. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Creating the outline, we are now going to spend about five minutes hashing out a high level outline for this movie this is going to be our. Avish Parashar: kind of starting point and our guide, but we may not stick to it entirely and we use a for act structure for different acts to tell the story, and the next segment will pick up will pick an improv game for each act right so. Avish Parashar: Let me start the timer and go cool alright, so now, the one thing we. Michael Worth: Have before we start. Avish Parashar: Before we start, let me tell you something like. Avish Parashar: Our initial thought was football but doesn't really have to be we could part of the randomness, we are very impressive, we could do a different sport like. Michael Worth: it's very true. Avish Parashar: Like something outside of the big four to make it really random or we could do football so that's something we don't need to decide that now, but that's kind of a yeah. Michael Worth: yeah yeah i'm already thinking about that, like what are some sports that we could do that would be kind of bizarre um so that one's pretty easy, which is. Michael Worth: The coach basically loses his team somehow he either has a walk out or they cut his budget or you know he gets transferred to new city and and the team is like nope we love our own code SIA. Michael Worth: And and he's just like. Avish Parashar: And to that point for a lot of these, and this is kind of where the trump thing a lot of times the. Avish Parashar: The person above the coach is not fully supportive of them, you know, like a major league she wants to move the team and necessary roughness the Dean wants to get rid of the football team, all together, so there's often another antagonist who's like. Avish Parashar: Make hard to say organization as a team, but yeah you lose this team um so in this act one he has to get a new team, and this so basically we we meet. Avish Parashar: Next, one we're basically it's like a tryouts right basically meet the coach set up maybe set up the rival like Oh, you know we got to make the playoffs, otherwise we lose our license or I always want to beat you know Texas a&m or whatever. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah we gotta meet. Avish Parashar: And do the tryouts and by the end of act one we've essentially chosen and assemble the team. Michael Worth: The team yeah exactly um. Avish Parashar: There might be a short scene between the coach and the main character like where to meet the manager. Michael Worth: Right who's going to become kind of liaison to the team of the coach and also have a hero's growth so that's one at to. Avish Parashar: That one with the meeting I would say a lot of these movies. Avish Parashar: And certainly in the two primary ones we're doing as a reference in the replacements, the main character is sought out so like I think like they gotta go get Scott bakula and gene hackman goes to get canneries they don't come back like say I want a part of this. Michael Worth: Oh no yeah they're reluctant, they were reluctant hero it's the hero's journey is really that that. Avish Parashar: is true like yeah they're... /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22269068

Last Entry Into Danger (in the Style of a Kids Adventure like the Goonies) 02/22/2022

Last Entry Into Danger (in the Style of a Kids Adventure like the Goonies) In a World…where criminals lurk and some treasure lays hidden…a group of misfits embark on a quest to save their town, save their families, and save the day! If you like the Goonies (and Improv Comedy) then you will love the adventures of Giggles, Toothpick Girl, Digital Nerd, and Muscles McGee! This episode features the improv games Countdown,, Superheroes, Blind Line, Ding, Cutting Room About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to those crazy kids adventure movies where the children get into some seriously dangerous situations but manage to make it fun and to come out winning. We both love the Goonies and this episode is a loving tribute (we think…) to that movie. Links The Goonies on Wikipedia: The Goonies Virtual Live Script Read with Original Cast: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:19 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 09:43 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 15:59 Start of show: 22:46 Improv Game - Countdown: 24:26 Improv Game - Superheroes: 28:54 Improv Game - Blind Line: 35:05 Improv Game - Ding: 43:05 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 49:13 End of show, into announcements:1:04:32 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Discussing the genre tropes all right now we're gonna spend five minutes talking about the tropes cliches and commonalities of the genre of this type of movie so i've got my timer and we're going to spend five minutes, starting now all right Mike. Avish Parashar: Why don't you kick us off when you think of this kind of movie kids versus adults. Avish Parashar: What are things that jump to your mind. Mike Worth: Well, the first thing is there's actually two things so one is i'm going to jump in no particular add order the criminal or the bad guys in this tend to be. Mike Worth: mildly competent but not so confident that they can't get out smarter by the kids and the two examples i'm thinking of is the is the fraternity brothers from home. Mike Worth: duties and also Joe pisco and Daniel stern from home alone they're competent. Mike Worth: Because the passion passion. Avish Parashar: I mean different movie. Mike Worth: But it's still a great movie still a great movie. Mike Worth: Like they're constantly figure out that you know these guys are leaving and they're and they're working theory things where the finale brothers kind of figure out what the treasure is, but they can get smarter about the kids so that's kind of an important things. Avish Parashar: I would say I narrow that down and say they are like. Avish Parashar: they're competent strategists there in company tacticians. Mike Worth: they're like. Avish Parashar: They have a good plan and ready to go, but like when it comes to like dealing with the obstacles of the children they're they're idiots and. Avish Parashar: Almost to a comical standpoint right the way they fail is. Avish Parashar: Is comical. Avish Parashar: yeah that's like they fail in a way that no real criminal would fail when it comes to. Avish Parashar: The kid. Avish Parashar: plan is like Oh, we got a good plan we. Avish Parashar: sneak in this. Mike Worth: Yes, and that that idea of comedy fail is really huge if you think about all of the of the ways that i'm using the goodies in the home alone. Mike Worth: bad guys, the way it feels almost like pratfall almost buster keaton right they have those kind of have really silly fun physical fails or or you know they almost a while it can be looked at ah they'll fall, you know. Avish Parashar: yeah I was about to say there's like slapstick yeah one point at home alone, I believe the kid rigs a blowtorch to burn off patches hair. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah he just goes when, in reality, he get like. 30 birds yeah. Mike Worth: I did, did you see some some graphics artist at La who's like i'm going to take all the seeds from have a lower macaulay culkin wants to the villains, but add real blood splatter. Mike Worth: it's the first time, you see, when the to paint cans come down and they hit the guy. Mike Worth: You see teeth fly out digital and all this blood explodes and they hit the ground this isn't funny anymore, this is not funny at all anyway. Avish Parashar: Exactly. Mike Worth: So there has to be like decimal point is, it has to be cartoony because, which obviously That means we can't be putting out our huge visual effects budget for this podcast. Avish Parashar: yeah sorry guys next year just going to use a corn syrup yeah. Mike Worth: About kids what's the truth of the kid or the kids up. Avish Parashar: Well, I would say, maybe less about the kids but the kids situation is that they're. Avish Parashar: on their own, they get isolated from adults, either because they're the goonies who decided they needed us on their own now they're away. Avish Parashar: from home alone his parents have them, so the kids are isolated they can't go to kit adult for help, or even even in like the goonies when trunk tries to call the COPs like they don't believe them. Avish Parashar: So right kids are on their own ah, you know they're usually they're pretty clever yep um they're clever they are not, they have no physical attributes it's not like Oh, the kid happens to be like an eight year old. and Mike Worth: Electric ninja whatever. Avish Parashar: way not like the sidekicks ninja. Avish Parashar: or like a gymnast if you have any like tangible. Avish Parashar: it's just a normal kid yeah but he's like clever. Avish Parashar: there's some level of wise accessory either one of the kids are the main kid is a wise ass. Mike Worth: yeah yeah um now that the the other trope is they're both after the same thing either that look in this case actually both after the House. Avish Parashar: You know kind of thing he's pretty. Mike Worth: Good there or they're both after one I will ease up. Mike Worth: yeah the kind of it as. Avish Parashar: PG PG. Avish Parashar: PG 13 on. Avish Parashar: The yeah the bad guys want something and the kid, for whatever reason, the kid or kids or an obstacle to it like. Avish Parashar: Right. Avish Parashar: Good well they went off the House the kids in the House, they want to feel the jewels that kids want to get the jewels first. Mike Worth: there's a healthy element of MacGyver ISM uh you know, even in the goonies that when the kids are kind of getting through there they're being clever and kind of solving puzzles because the healthy omit of drivers and like are solving problems creatively. Mike Worth: And what's the final thing um. Avish Parashar: And there is. Avish Parashar: You know they're cut off from adults but there's one misanthropic ally. Mike Worth: dwight. Mike Worth: I the shovel. Mike Worth: or oh man with a shovel the slot or whatever yeah yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah. Mike Worth: For men uh yeah I think that's. Avish Parashar: Like misunderstood everyone thinks is a bad guy but turns out to be a good guy and helps to keep it in yet. Mike Worth: Exactly uh I think that's pretty much hit man, this is a pretty bread and butter basic film yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah as long as it comes in the obstacles and the. Mike Worth: And the tone, the tone is action comedy that it's a very light non fearful thing and like you said, the obstacles are creative and interesting and continually into the bad guys well either continue to kind of forge forward. Avish Parashar: Alright, well, that brings us that's right at the end about here the duck. Mike Worth: yeah we're on point. Avish Parashar: Fantastic alright, so that now brings us to. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment two creating the outline, we are now going to spend five minutes, creating a high level outline for this movie. Avish Parashar: We use a four X structure we're going to go through the four X is basically a three act structure, but we split Act two into two parts, more reactive part of more proactive because that's. Avish Parashar: Good screenwriting and it's easier for our break down, and this is our outline, we will roughly follow it, but this is kind of a starting point it's improv comedy so we may veer very much from what we say we're going to do a check yes alright so starting now. Mike Worth: Okay, so actually it's pretty easy it's we want to establish the kids and we can establish their parents and you know we can't have one kid or we're thinking. Avish Parashar: I kind of need to establish why the adults aren't there. Mike Worth: Right when that happens at the end of act one is is is that the kids are kind of cut off not dangerous way look at the adults are not there, the kids end up in a park. Avish Parashar: So you know we don't need. Avish Parashar: We don't need to do a lot with the parents, but we need to kind of meet them are the adults yep and then set up their reason for not being. Mike Worth: Exactly, we also need to be the kids and and then we need to also establish the identities of the villains, and I think at the end of act one is when the macguffin shows up. Avish Parashar: The macguffin as in the thing they're all after. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah it depends yet whether it's a quest one or a home invasion one. Mike Worth: I think this is still a macguffin it's like Oh, you have to protect the House why because though all right. Avish Parashar: I would say we kind of launched into the. Avish Parashar: We launch into the adventure like whether it's bad guys wanting to come in, are the good guys going after the macguffin right right at one ends. Mike Worth: Okay, so now, would you add to that for us, we kind of funky because a act to its trials tests and trials tests and tribulations so that's going to be where a. Mike Worth: Problems emerged for the kids to have to solve the problems can either be from the quest like the environment or they can be actively from the villains trying to. Avish Parashar: You know what's interesting, especially because we really watch the goonies last year for our at Facebook live before we switch over to this podcast. Avish Parashar: They don't actually go after the jewels until like what we would call at three right there's a lot in the goodies a long time before they actually like enter the came to go try to find the jewels there's like. Avish Parashar: They go they find the fatality thing so they're doing so, but again it's reactive and act two is where they're kind of learning. Avish Parashar: So, and in home alone, like you, don't get too patchy and Daniel stern invading the House till. Avish Parashar: The second half of the movie the first half. Mike Worth: that's true. Avish Parashar: he's like trying to survive on his own and they're like scoping out the House, so I think this is where we're kind of so I said act one ends with them kind of launching into, but I think act ones precipitating event at the end is more like the kid being isolated. Mike Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: If the introduction of the big trouble in home alone at home alone and goonies it's like oh we're gonna lose our House so let's go. Mike Worth: yeah yeah and that it's the crossing the threshold because that's when they're put into this new world but they're still kind of not proactive in this new world. Avish Parashar: yeah so i'd say. Avish Parashar: choose the one that ends with the. Avish Parashar: The adventure really starting like. Mike Worth: I think that's I think that's fair yeah I think. Avish Parashar: What else happens in an actor is we're learning the kid is kind of the villains, are the kids learning about the villains, and the villains learning about the kid I think. Mike Worth: And the kids learn the rules of the new world that he's in in this case it's home alone, so this is how I survive as a as an eight year old, and you know, in the goonies it's like well now we're in this kind of cave and underneath and things like that. Avish Parashar: yeah so learn about each other, they learn about the thing they want right yep. Sorry. Mike Worth: we're gonna we ever do the part one, a big oh that dead pirate Mr penis. Avish Parashar: yeah. Mike Worth: Just just say. Mike Worth: i'm already thinking of these things. Avish Parashar: Are dogs long. slog so for. Mike Worth: Now man do. Avish Parashar: You, the explicit tag. Avish Parashar: To not a lot proactively happened is we, I could, but like it's just a lot of like learning figuring out maybe some close calls. Mike Worth: yeah um. Avish Parashar: And then, at the end of activity again that crossing the next threshold right he's like all right well. Avish Parashar: Like yes or no, do we go after this or not, and so that makes X three, and this is where you get really into the the trials and tribulations the questing. Mike Worth: yeah yeah this this starts feeling indiana Jones kind of stuff right there's like traps and there's and there's you know. Avish Parashar: and listening is when you get into more direct conflict with the villains like yes, the fatalities entering the cave after them, you know. Mike Worth: patchy and stern trying to break in and him kind of fortifying defenses through. Avish Parashar: route losses, I saw home alone and that may not even happen till the very end, but I forget, but I don't have as a whole, half of the movie or but. Avish Parashar: Our purposes we're gonna see a lot of conflict. Mike Worth: We there's a lot of outsmarting with the time where he gets all those mannequins and he sits them all up to like move around, so it looks like there's a house party so he's always defeating them but it's like. Avish Parashar: it's a good way of describing it, so I think it's not we're actually not it's also more indirect conflict neck three like like even with the fatalities they're not attacking the kids are chasing them they're causing trouble for them, but. Mike Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: it's not until the very end, where they all meet on the boat. Avish Parashar: Writing actor is in direct conflict and that brings us to act for which is that for. Mike Worth: US truly the moto moto like face to face the final. Avish Parashar: The final square off paint cans of blow torches the. Mike Worth: Are the iron. Mike Worth: iron door to like give you like the tote you know. Avish Parashar: In today in today's society Kevin mcallister would be like sued and arrested for. Avish Parashar: assault on those two guys. Avish Parashar: Out there like way beyond. Mike Worth: Defense you're kind of a sociopath. Avish Parashar: alright. Mike Worth: Alright, we got something here. Avish Parashar: And then obviously wraps up with the parents finally returning. Avish Parashar: or they. Mike Worth: finally returned they finally find the treasure of logs long silver. Avish Parashar: man. Avish Parashar: We may have to make. Avish Parashar: We have not done a porn movie as people see that. Mike Worth: it's such a good name for the pirate. Avish Parashar: Oh, my God. Mike Worth: will flow, the working title. Avish Parashar: Alright, so. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22203497

Lovely Remembrances (In the Style of an Amnesia Thriller like The Bourne Identity and The Long Kiss Goodnight) 02/15/2022

Lovely Remembrances (In the Style of an Amnesia Thriller like The Bourne Identity and The Long Kiss Goodnight) In a World...where most people live there lives unaware of the forces at work around them, one man will find himself with no memory of who he is or was. Moving on with his life, he finds peace, until his old life desperately seeks to drag him back for his own nefarious purposes. This episode contains the improv games Gibberish Switch, Old Job New Job, Pardon, Countdown, and Cutting Room. Show Notes: About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to the genre of “Amnesia Thrillers.” You know the movies, where a hero wakes up with no memory of their previous life, and the slowly discover that they used to be a very dangerous person involved in very dangerous things. Some movies in this genre are The Bourne Identity, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and the TV show Absentia (which Avish keeps referring to as “Amnesia” - whoops!). We make some changes on the fly to our improv game list and end up having a lot of fun being commentators at the world cup as player after player is taken out... Links The Bourne Identity on Wikipedia: : The Long Kiss Goodnight on Wikipedia: Absentia on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:53 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:53 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 17:27 Start of show: 24:35 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 26:00 Improv Game - Old Job, New Job: 28:57 Improv Game - Pardon: 40:41 Improv Game - Countdown: 51:27 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 56:11 End of show, into announcements: 1:09:53 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Without further ado, then we will begin with segment one. Avish Parashar: Right now we're going to spend five minutes discussing the tropes cliches commonalities of this genre so i'm going to set my little timer i'm still here on the duck I know at some point, I said I switched from the duck but I did not yet. Michael Worth: I like the duck the duck. Avish Parashar: Nothing. Avish Parashar: You know what some variety, though. Avish Parashar: All right, five minutes starts now all right, you want to kick us off when you think of the tropes of this type of. Michael Worth: email or what do you think so it's actually a fairly small cast you've got the main character, which is of course the amnesiac um. Michael Worth: The main character, has a series of skills that are highly specialized and very uncommon. Michael Worth: This is kind of the triple that what the skills will be will probably be part of the funny and it's at this particular one um there's usually the main character is there there's a second secondary characters are as follows. Michael Worth: The person or small group of people that rescue and slash nurse this person back to health, so it could be like a family could be you know, like just a person. Avish Parashar: off at a love interest. Michael Worth: yeah there's a love interest that emerges somewhere in there, like if it's a family, maybe, like the eldest daughter falls in love with him or you know this assuming it's a guy because it could be a girl, but whatever i'm. Michael Worth: The major secondary character is the villain that wants this guy back he either wants this guy back or dead yeah i'm. A pursuer. Avish Parashar: For what the pursuer like there's a person trying to get me or whatever is they're trying to get the the main character right. Michael Worth: And the pursuer will oftentimes have access to a couple things one is still have access to like good surveillance technology and like kind of like assets, you know, like he can he can. Michael Worth: spy on the guy or he can you know, like use like you know drones to like figure out where he is and then he also has access to like you know just warm bodies to throw the hero right he's got like. Avish Parashar: yeah and I would say this kind of movie though you get the almost the triangle so sometimes you get like. Avish Parashar: The villain villain but then you also may have like the government or authorities who are trying to recapture slash track this person down or like i'm born. Avish Parashar: The government is trained born, they thought he went road they're trying to get him back with them they're also like bad guy so that could be like. Avish Parashar: i've got that also bad guys but, like the others a combination, or maybe within the authorities there's like the rogue faction that wants in debt versus the other people that just want to save him so there's a lot of times as like a triangle is like two groups of bad guys. Michael Worth: Are antagonist exactly, and you know I think honestly there's not too many tropes right there is a the other trope is well let's talk a little bit about how the skills are revealed. Avish Parashar: And yeah. Michael Worth: What the skills are because that's kind of a very common thing I mean you can just you just say, maybe, just as easy as they're always when their emotions are always access assassins are always exercise. Avish Parashar: yeah if we're going with the thriller genre that the skills yeah always like violent. Avish Parashar: You know, and so one of the trope says they get forced into a situation where they have to use their skills and all of a sudden, they reflexively like almost kill somebody. Avish Parashar: yeah is one drove I think I don't know if it always happens, but a lot of times like there's there's like bread crumbs in mystery so like. Avish Parashar: They come across something that looks familiar or someone recognizes them on the street and they're like why I don't know who you are so there's like these weird like little little hints at who they are yeah. Michael Worth: And it almost always culminates in. Michael Worth: The hero, the here's the question does the hero end up at the end of the movie remembering who he or she is to the memories come back or do they kind of. Michael Worth: Because, at the end if they do at the end they take the fight to the boss, is part of the trope and they kind of free themselves in a good movie unless you try to build a sequel at the end, the hero has kind of freed himself from whatever. Michael Worth: marionette strings are hanging from either he eliminates the organization that wants to dead or he convinces the organization that wants to backlit he's dead. Michael Worth: The question is, does he do it, while remembering, who is old self is or is it almost like he's a new man with old skills new skills, this new way, because I think you can go both ways with. Avish Parashar: I think you can go I think in the born in the board book he doesn't really remember who he is. Avish Parashar: or your another good SCI fi example of this is total recall is like. Michael Worth: Yes. Avish Parashar: You scored like I mean that's he's because he went in the recall machine but same thing he's like discovering all this stuff, so I think I think I go either way but yeah I agree that whether or not he gets full access or not. Avish Parashar: He remembers enough and then kind of makes that choice to completely defeat the people who were trying to stop him recapture him kill him whatever yeah. Michael Worth: Exactly and. Avish Parashar: Usually some bigger plot as well, like they're after him or her, because they know something or they have like like the access codes to something like there's something about them that they have, or they know or like you know before they got amnesia they hit the the. Avish Parashar: Nuclear launch key or something and like yeah. Avish Parashar: The try to get them back for that exactly. Michael Worth: And that's the other part of the tropes, and this is a good thing, the villains are competent, the villains, are in a true thriller they're competent now, of course, we can Fuck with it because it's our. Avish Parashar: it's our podcast it's the car, it could be. Michael Worth: grossly but in general uh you know jace the main character has to play their a game to outsmart defeat the villains, but the villains are defeated but they're not like definitely empire. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so that's our town had one other thing to add is that. Avish Parashar: I think, often what happens is that the. Avish Parashar: When the main character learns about who they were they were not a good person it's almost always like they did bad things. Avish Parashar: Now they're like their new lease on life and I realized that they're like living a good life and being a good person, but before turns out, they were an assassin or a villain or you know. Michael Worth: something bad, yes, yes, exactly good job good. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Fantastic which brings us to segment to. Avish Parashar: Right now we are going to spend five minutes and it creates a high level outline based on the tropes we just. Avish Parashar: went through we're going to use a four act structure to tell our story it's like set up reaction proactive conclusion and just quick note. Avish Parashar: we're not this is improv comedy So this is the outline we're going to start with, we may veer from it significantly but we're going to come up with a rough outline, so I minutes now cool. Michael Worth: I think she'll prologue not a trailer. Avish Parashar: Okay, so for those listening, for the first time we usually start with either a prologue or a trailer I agree, I think prologue would be good for this. Avish Parashar: Car so then what's going to happen in the prologue is. Avish Parashar: We may see a glimpse of this person in their life in their like what what leads them to having amnesia is often what happens like we see them almost get shot or get in the car accident or we could see like the villains, and their big picture plot type thing. Michael Worth: yeah yeah i'm doing one of those two things we'll figure that out. Avish Parashar: Okay cool so. Act one. Avish Parashar: So here we meet the hero kind of in their life. Avish Parashar: In their quote unquote ordinary life right. Michael Worth: Now, do we want or what will sometimes happen is, we will be introduced to the hero in act one by having them be rescued. Michael Worth: meaning they washed up on shore and his family takes them in right or like the family's driving through the woods pump a campsite they're like oh my God there's this body in this guy's like all scratched and maybe he's got some some nice food. Michael Worth: yeah so. Avish Parashar: I feel most are like that long kiss goodnight was not but bourne identity is amnesia is, I feel a lot of them do start with the discovery of the person. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: Or that could be the prologue so yeah yeah so. Michael Worth: One of the ordinary ordinary life. Avish Parashar: or alive kind of see them, but I think we, I think we need to meet the villains here right like we have to see. Avish Parashar: Maybe I would say at the end of the actors, were the main antagonist discover where they were and what this person is yes. Michael Worth: Oh, by the way, do you know you don't have a great example of one that does what you're talking about where we start by beating the ordinary life history of violence with viggo Mortensen. Avish Parashar: There yeah. Michael Worth: that's another lesson classic one yeah cuz he starts off he literally is like a Deli owner owner owner. Avish Parashar: yeah I haven't seen a long time yeah remember it started like you didn't know. Avish Parashar: They kind of set it up, so you think these people are incorrectly after him and then you're like oh no there yeah yeah he's. Michael Worth: yeah that's really good that's really good viggo Mortensen could do no wrong he's amazing. Avish Parashar: Well yeah aragorn the bomb. Avish Parashar: I think, also maybe the hints we talked about like. Avish Parashar: An act one like the purse something happens and maybe the person uses their skills. Avish Parashar: Which is often the thing that tips off the bad guys like there's a news report about this person that like you know rescued a kid from a burning building and then they're like oh wait that's sorry so and so yeah. Avish Parashar: I think they use their expert skills somehow in this act one. Michael Worth: So the end of act one, the main antagonist shows up and there's that initial encounter it's either a direct face to face encounter or to them kind of discovering and maybe learn again doing surveillance or something like that. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah they get kind of. Avish Parashar: put on the case yeah then brings back to, so I think Act two is when the this is kind of the main characters quest to discover who and what they were they start like researching a little bit and like trying to learn what they were before their amnesia yeah. Michael Worth: yeah totally do that okay cool. Avish Parashar: um but they're very unclear very foggy for them like they're not like Oh, I must be to govern operative they're like wait a minute like here's a key to a safety deposit box, let me go see what's in there and oh my God it's like God what the hell is that now, at this point. Michael Worth: The years in reactive mode one of two things happen. Michael Worth: Either either the bad guy organization tries to kill him for the first time, because he can't be left alive right, so the first attempt that is life happens. Michael Worth: Or the first pressure attempt to get them to do work for them where they're like you know he comes like he comes back in like two of the members of the family are being held hostage or something and it's like hey listen you got to tell us where. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah right so yeah they do like a hostage and they're like oh you got to go use your expert skills that you don't remember to go do this. i'm. Avish Parashar: The course to do something clients yeah either work for them, or you know hey you know you have our diamonds bring to us and we'll let your family go or something like that. Michael Worth: yeah that kind of stuff you know so there's there's definitely an attack on the hero either to attack with the hospital force compliance or to tack on his life. Avish Parashar: yeah and then at the end of Act two is like I think they they learned some critical piece of information about who they were. Avish Parashar: Like they may not remember it but they learn like that they were a government operatives they were an assassin, or they were you know slip and slide or whatever they learned yeah exactly no APP three. Michael Worth: it's going to kind of be one or two things it depends on what i'm actually liking, the idea of of the the bad guys kind of holding people hostage to comply him to like you know. Michael Worth: finished whatever mission, he or he so at three is him proactively solving the conditions that created the hostages, meaning if the hostages were there, because you had to. Michael Worth: get this diamond that you had hidden somewhere he goes back and he finds the time and he overcomes trials and traps to get it right so. Michael Worth: Yes, at three is him removing the barriers to remove the hostage situation. Avish Parashar: Right and he's re acquiring we learning remembering those skills as he's going through this process right. Michael Worth: And then, if know how obvious you want to be, since you went up and reading and prefer storytellers, the answer is going to be very obvious. Michael Worth: For his he. Michael Worth: Rescue he knows he's going to get portrayed so he basically takes it to the villains breaks the back of the villain organization or no kills the main villain rescues the hostages and disappears kind of thing. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah oh I gotta say our plot yeah. Michael Worth: So at four is takes down shadow org. Michael Worth: rescues hostages. Avish Parashar: And then, and then disappeared disappears who's on with their life or whatever. Michael Worth: we're gonna have an epilogue we've never had an epilogue before. Avish Parashar: You have an epilogue. Michael Worth: gonna disappear disappears there we go. Avish Parashar: Alright, so that brings us I think that's a pretty good outline so that brings us to the end of that. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/22110068

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Climbing Intensely Down (In the style of an adrenaline field undercover cop movie like Point Break, The Fast and the Furious, and Terminal Velocity... ) 02/01/2022

Climbing Intensely Down (In the style of an adrenaline field undercover cop movie like Point Break, The Fast and the Furious, and Terminal Velocity... ) In a World...where some people need to push just a little farther, higher, and faster to live life on the edge...one man will get drawn into a world few ever experience. Torn between duty, justice, love, and the need for the adrenaline rush only a mega slip ‘n slide can bring, Detective Jensen will find himself...Climbing Intensely Down… This show features the improv games Scenes Without the Letter, Gibberish Switch, Questions Switch, and Cutting Room. Plus some mad cap slip ‘n sliding - and otters!! About this Episode In this episode, we pay homage to adrenaline fueled, undercover police, “got a little too close,” action movies like Point Break, The Fast and the Furious, Terminal velocity, and more! We play some fun improv games and somehow the “adrenaline activity” ends up being extreme slip ‘n sliding! Oh, and we completely mix-up the Charlie Sheen skydiving movie (Terminal Velocity) and the Wesley Snipes skydiving movie (Drop Zone). Whoops! Links Point Break on Wikipedia: The Fast and Furious on Wikipedia: Terminal Velocity on Wikipedia: Drop Zone on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 11:34 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 16:26 Start of show: 23:20 Improv Game - Scenes Without the Letter: 25:40 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 30:24 Improv Game - Questions Switch: 38:54 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 52:15 End of show, into announcements: 1:06:38 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: This brings us to segment one. Avish Parashar: All right now we're gonna spend five minutes discussing the tropes commonalities and cliches of this genre i'm going to set my little duck timer here for five minutes hello, the duck timer and away we go all right Mike why don't you kick us off, especially since it's fresh. Michael Worth: In your mind why don't know. Michael Worth: As Bourbon fresh that can be um so the trump's of this particular genre is it's always a young, law enforcement officer in point break it was obviously. Michael Worth: FBI and for terminal velocity I think it was FBI as well anyways The point is, there is a vexing series of crimes that happened that have some sort of. Michael Worth: cool hiccup to them like either they are the criminals either dress funny or they break in and an interesting way and nobody can figure them out there, like super super professional and. Michael Worth: one cup kind of notices something about them, that makes him think that they're not your typical criminals so that's kind of the the first trip is there's like some sort of. Michael Worth: reveal like I think in terminal velocity like left behind, like some polymer and the polymer is that kind of stuff you'd use in a parachute or something like that you don't mean like. Avish Parashar: yeah point break. Avish Parashar: Just based on the schedule of the break ins are like we think these guys are running backs to fund their surfing habits. Michael Worth: Right exactly and then one of them had a when they move the camera they have like a clear. Michael Worth: surfing line like when they when they move the cameras. Avish Parashar: yeah. Michael Worth: So for 10 so that's the the big trope now what that means is that basically um the young COP has to go undercover into this adrenaline filled sport that these robbers are kind of engaged in. Avish Parashar: yeah and he usually like he just gets in with one crew and then by chance that crew happens to be the criminals, but he doesn't know at first he just like trying to get into that world, so it looks up some people. Avish Parashar: And then they think like oh this other gang is probably it, but then turns out that's not it like an employee goes red hot chili peppers wherever it. Is. Avish Parashar: it's. Avish Parashar: A chili peppers right, I was like yeah this is Anthony kiedis and flee I don't know about the other two. Michael Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: that's awesome so, then you get you get the sequences where he has to like prove his worth. Avish Parashar: and learn kind of the. Avish Parashar: drag racing the surfing skydiving whatever right. Michael Worth: Right now, in point break and I think, also in terminal velocity the coach is usually the love interest. Avish Parashar: I was like helping him, does he was like two people right there's like a mentor figure like a vin diesel and Patrick swayze. Avish Parashar: yeah who's kind of mentoring to to be, but then yeah there's like someone who you're really green, let me teach you and that's like a love interest but, like a love interest the mentors like the head of the bad guys. Michael Worth: yeah exactly so um now here's the question that I have for this kind of trope does the. Michael Worth: Good guy witness a crime or is he already or does he become one of the criminals first look i'm trying to remember, if, like like. Avish Parashar: hey go either way and that'll probably come out but yeah there's usually like a mid movie crime. Avish Parashar: yeah that he's he's using involved in right maybe accidentally he doesn't want to be, but protect his cover or you know I think like. Avish Parashar: You know the love interest. Michael Worth: yeah I think. Michael Worth: yep yep i'm like yeah that's what happens is you kind of perfectly gets involved he doesn't want to, but to keep his cover yes to kind of join up with it right. Avish Parashar: yeah and there's always like the whole part I the whole point of this is that, even though he's undercover he starts to get drawn both the the activity, and especially to like the mentor like he really. Avish Parashar: feels a connection there and see them as a friend like almost like families these very conflicted about like doing his job at stopping them versus like hey this has become my friend and buddy. Michael Worth: I was gonna say that that's a big critical part is is he starts to kind of when he dances with monsters, and he becomes the master starts to look like you know, family and friends so exactly. Michael Worth: um and then the final act now uh I didn't finish point break last second I fell asleep, but does the bad guy bad the shadow mentor or the bad guys. Michael Worth: up the ante and F3 forcing the good guy to make a decision like does the Gary busey character get killed or something like that, because sometimes that happens where they the the team ratchets up to some level unacceptable crime. Avish Parashar: And the good guys like Well, no, I think there's a couple ways to go, I think. Avish Parashar: I think either yeah they ratchet up the crime, and I think that kind of happens in point break I forget exactly what the shoots bore there's like a third. Avish Parashar: group or something, and so, like the bad guys that the heroes close to. Avish Parashar: Still, a criminal but it's sort of redemptive like I think in both important break like kiana let's. Avish Parashar: Patrick swayze surf away I think yeah I think I forget we kind of hang out at the end, but like vin diesel I think gets away so there's like that the bad guys get stopped, but I think the main mentor guy kind of gets away or the hero, let them get away. Michael Worth: yeah yeah exactly and then I think um I think the people that we want to play i'll play PG were like the criminals do end up getting arrested. Avish Parashar: not killed listed like maybe the main guy gets like. Avish Parashar: The other thing I think that's critical to this genre is a. Avish Parashar: fun thing. Michael Worth: To do it's. Avish Parashar: it's our crack know is part of it is like pulling behind the curtain, so you really learn about the world of drag racing or skydiving or surfing so there's some minutiae in there about the culture and. Avish Parashar: The activity and. Avish Parashar: To an outside observer it's almost ridiculous right like I live my life quarter mile of a time and. Avish Parashar: You know the the obsession they have with surfing like so it's all it's kind of over the top there's like a. Avish Parashar: Like they're not actually playing it for laughs, but I think part of the appeal of like a point break this many years later, is it's sort of ridiculous. Michael Worth: It really is over the top espn ridiculous the over the top soundtrack is also a ton of fun like. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Michael Worth: Oh God it's great man it's like you know funny enough, you know weird way top gun has some elements of this point break because of the adrenaline junkie kind of thing more of. Avish Parashar: It I just don't have the undercover bit, but yeah the adrenaline junkie the whole that whole thing is there and don't worry, we are on episode coming. Michael Worth: Oh baby I. Avish Parashar: went to the other depending when this drops maybe the top episode already came I don't. Michael Worth: Whatever so. Michael Worth: This is. Michael Worth: This is not citizen kane or you know touch of evil you. Avish Parashar: Know it's. Avish Parashar: it's barely Harry and the hendersons. Michael Worth: speed of which. Michael Worth: An awful thing improvising a movie the style of chinatown oh God oh. God. Michael Worth: alright. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: So that brings us to segment two. Avish Parashar: Alright, so now we're gonna spend five minutes hashing out a high level outline number one we use a four act structure similar three x we just split the log act three into two parts and. Avish Parashar: This is the outline we're going to roughly follow but improv being what it is we may abandon it here on. Michael Worth: to it, who knows exactly it's. Michael Worth: Our rights. Avish Parashar: Alright, so now the duck timer for five minutes. Michael Worth: Yes. Avish Parashar: And away we go. Avish Parashar: Alright, so we often start, we always start with either prologue or trailer yep. Michael Worth: The prologue could be a them doing their first crime right that could be like kind of like. Avish Parashar: We don't actually meet the hero, we just see the crime. Avish Parashar: I think that's good. Michael Worth: To prologue yeah. Avish Parashar: prologue short prologue with the crime yep. Avish Parashar: Just one we got to meet our hero main character yep. Avish Parashar: We got it he's got to learn about the crime and then that oh it's it's probably you know these type of people yep. Michael Worth: So, so in act one he'll probably end up getting paired with a senior guy that's where he discovers because he's a new he's a new law enforcement so pair with the senior guy who's been tracking the crimes and then figures out. Michael Worth: Oh it's probably like you said this particular adrenaline junkie team right. Avish Parashar: And then he's got a I think act one kind of ends with him. Avish Parashar: meeting and getting in with the team, so we can meet them and then maybe as a past whatever little like initiation type test like Oh, you know show us, you can search for shows this you know kind of yeah they kind of sort of passively accept him into the group. Michael Worth: yeah exactly yeah yeah, but at this point he they none of them knows anything about anybody else but they don't know he doesn't know that there, possibly the criminals, they don't know that he's an FBI agent or. Avish Parashar: yeah he just trying to meet some you know surfers and. Avish Parashar: and get it with them, so he does yep then an act to I think this is where maybe you get like the red herring like the red hot chili peppers thing. Avish Parashar: where he thinks he knows who it is and he's sort of investigates and he's also learning more about the craft of this activity and getting more ingratiated with the group. Michael Worth: yeah yeah I agree a hill also make enemies and allies within the group there's going to be one guy that doesn't like him. Avish Parashar: Oh there's always want to do it, it doesn't trust them or like i'm yep. Michael Worth: yep and. Avish Parashar: oftentimes it's like the acts of the. Avish Parashar: romance. Michael Worth: romance interest yes and it's like the second in command usually right it's almost it yeah second in command right yeah lieutenant so that's going to be the tests allies and enemies portion right. Avish Parashar: cold I think act to will end right around with him discovering that his group is the. Avish Parashar: bad guys yep yep exactly. Michael Worth: So at three is going to be him drawn into the committing of the crimes while at the same time trying to get enough evidence or find a way to bring them to justice so he's he's going deeper into the rabbit hole right. Avish Parashar: yeah I think also didn't happen is maybe somewhere in act three enact at the end of Act two he discovered that this is the gang but maybe he doesn't have enough evidence right, but then in act three the gang discovers that he's an undercover COP. Michael Worth: And now there's no yeah yep. Avish Parashar: they're going to force him into their plan otherwise they're gonna expose him kill him kill the love interest whatever mm hmm yep that's it that's. Michael Worth: All these are all correct everything you say is correct, so act for is the final crime final heist or whatever it's going to be a with the hero trying to you know escape the snarl that they've been trapped in for the crime and bring everyone to justice. Avish Parashar: yeah I feel like act, I mean there's two ways of going either act for can be him, no longer part of the group and trying to stop their crime or at for can be him part of them kind of. Avish Parashar: times I feel like I can point break I feel like. Avish Parashar: Act for was like a separate thing I don't I never saw the end in a long time so. Michael Worth: I must be basically be the final crime, however, that plays out there can be a file crime yep. Avish Parashar: And he's also to an extent I think he's got to deal with his conflict of saving his reputation as a cop stopping the crime but also dealing with his own emotions about the appeal of this adrenaline activity in groups. Michael Worth: So much character nuance in this kind of film I, who would have thunk it. Avish Parashar: I know. Avish Parashar: Like Hamlet baby dimensions. Michael Worth: Oh, my God dimensions baby, let me tell you this this depth depth. Avish Parashar: I mean it's pretty straightforward there's got to be, and it does have a little bit of nuance between character interaction and kind of you know, some of the, how do you get out of the situation, but overall it's pretty straightforward yeah. Avish Parashar: This is not rocket law enforcement guy. Avish Parashar: got to go into the group gets in with the things there okay discovers they're bad they discover scenes a cop, then big finish yep. Michael Worth: Clarity and high jinks ensue all right good we're ahead of ahead of the duck let's do it. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/21973115

Gargle (In the Style of a Teen Slasher Movie like Scream) 01/25/2022

Gargle (In the Style of a Teen Slasher Movie like Scream) In a World…where some people will kill for no reason…one group of friends will find themselves in the middle of a mad killer’s lust for death. Who will survive, who will die, who’s the killer, and who will….gargle?? Listen to find out. This episode features the improv games Countdown, Superheroes, Last Letter, First Letter, Alibis, and Cutting Room. About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to those 90’s style hip slasher movies, specifically Scream. Mike and Avish both love Scream (and Avish loves all these types of movies) and they actually saw the original together way way back when. This episode is a of fun and a pretty direct homage/parody to Scream. Wes Craven would be proud…we think…if he liked improv comedy… Links Scream on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:54 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 15:48 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 23:00 Start of show: 30:30 Improv Game - Countdown: 33:09 Improv Game - Superheroes: 36:15 Improv Game - Last Letter, First Letter: 45:20 Improv Game - Alibis: 53:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:00:20 End of show, into announcements: 1:20:13 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so now we're going to spend a few minutes talking about the tropes and whatnot but we're kind of if you listen this podcast for a while, you know we spend five minutes kind of diving right into what are the tropes of the genre. Avish Parashar: we're going to modify this a little bit maybe talk for a little bit longer but also talk about just kind of our experience and what our thoughts are on this genre and how we came across it and through that the genre tropes will come out. Avish Parashar: of time here. Michael Worth: yeah apparently as we jump in everybody seems to like hearing about how we fell in love with this movie or what our experiences were when we first watch this movie so that's kind of where the thrust of this is. Avish Parashar: yeah and this movie I love this movie screen is one of my favorite horror movies, and I like horror movies, I think you don't like horror movies, as much but uh. Michael Worth: I don't like horror movies categorically unless it's a really good horror movie and then I love it so no obvious what is it that made scream awesome for you, because you've watched Friday the 13th you've watched nightmare on elm street you've seen what are some other. Michael Worth: classic ones like classic slash are. Avish Parashar: slash one's a Halloween. Avish Parashar: nightmare on elm street you know the supernatural sounds like the omen, the exorcist the shining sure. Avish Parashar: So we have what I like about scream and and it's funny I saw this in the theater I think we actually saw it in the theater together. Avish Parashar: And this is, I think this is this is where I learned an interesting little trade of mike's that when he when he gets scared me because he's a musician. Avish Parashar: When he gets scared he starts to cover his ears. Michael Worth: I plug my ears. Avish Parashar: were sitting in the theater and I kind of glance over to new bands like coming up with your fingers are going into here. Michael Worth: But I can't I can't not watch i'm still watching it, I was like a scary sound my brain. Avish Parashar: So when I what I loved about it, I mean a when this came out just the kind of it was hip right like the the characters were like funny there was interplay. Avish Parashar: They were fodder, like any other kind of teen slasher, but it was like just the dialogue was fun and sharpen witty yeah um and what was cool about screen was that when you look at it, it was actually different in a few ways one is that number one is no supernatural element to it right. Michael Worth: Sure it's a classic bad guy with with weapons. Avish Parashar: yeah and through all the franchise's like the all the other movies, the killer, even if they started human like Halloween or Friday 13th we're not like. Avish Parashar: ended up becoming ridiculous and supernatural and screen was always just like I remember seeing screen what astonished me was like when. Avish Parashar: When when the bad guy got hit or punch do you like got hurt oh. Michael Worth: yeah like when cities fleeing from him he likes slams the door knocks down the stairs or you kind of like gets gets he gets hit and flips horizontal lands like lucky you got like a shoulder. Michael Worth: yeah you know, like human. Avish Parashar: yeah acted human. Avish Parashar: So I love I love that element of it um you know, obviously the The self referential you know the scary movie that plays into scary movie tropes was pretty cool you know the the old drew barrymore opening is just iconic. Michael Worth: Oh okay so let's talk about like like was it Clive Barker West craven. Avish Parashar: wes craven. Michael Worth: yeah the rest in peace man that guy was a frickin champ. Michael Worth: Like they what was so cool that it was they turned the the tropes of the genre on their head from the get go so first of all okay when drew barrymore's on the phone and it's like then she finds out that he's watching what's what's the quote it's like because i'm watching you right. Avish Parashar: I want to know what i'm looking at. Michael Worth: i'm looking at yeah and you're at all thats dark shit but remember when she breaks out, and he comes in stab Sir, as opposed to the 70s and 80s, they don't pull the camera away with a knife hits they want to show. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah it's pretty good. Avish Parashar: ready for today. Avish Parashar: It is yeah it's pretty graphic and brutal. Michael Worth: yeah but but also done with the directors, I it wasn't done just to be like splatter Gore, it was like no, you want to be like, no, no, this is not your typical slashing but we're gonna we're gonna play with this a little bit you know um. Avish Parashar: yeah and the. Avish Parashar: And the twist like the whole thing with with slasher movies, and like the Mike myers and Jason things like they could kind of sort of magically appear like you'd be running and they'd be walking. Avish Parashar: did that, like that the killer would just appear, and it was like such a brilliant twist. Avish Parashar: You know spoiler if you haven't seen the first 120 years ago like having two killers it just like right to that point, I mean i'm sure there's some more obscure movies, but like in a mainstream movie like that, having the killer be two people was. Michael Worth: super super cool and very elegant itself so many problems it's solved well how could, how could the boyfriend and killed when he was there ah right, how can the killer get ahead of them ah. Michael Worth: Right, you know it was really elegant um and the the the acting was really good it was it was a lot of like the whole 90s not brat Pack. Avish Parashar: That kind of like you know, like those have been commerce yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah drew barrymore's like resurgence right you've kind of been yeah I wouldn't get a great subversion she didn't know she'd been hitting the sauce pretty easy days they got it again. Avish Parashar: But it was a great but that's the thing biggest name, one of the biggest names in the movie at the time and she's on the poster prominently. Avish Parashar: yeah and they kill her off in the first 10 minutes, that was a huge like. Michael Worth: Oh, my God stuff great stuff so let's talk about what another great thing about this movie, which is a big. Michael Worth: raising the bar the quality of the characters here the actors really good Courtney Cox is a surprisingly good job frickin eight legged arachnophobia. Avish Parashar: David arquette I don't think is a very good actor, but he was like he was like. Avish Parashar: Perfect for this role he was. Michael Worth: Was this character's name it was doing Oh, do we and and but they all look the writing, for they were just such a funny. Michael Worth: connectable memorable characters you know, like Courtney Cox played the whole determine reporter really well doing with this gorgeous aw shucks kind of guy you know, like thing and. Avish Parashar: It had like like I said I had that like like horror comedy wasn't like a horror comedy in that the horror wasn't funny the horror was like horlick the. Michael Worth: screen evil dead, which is really comedy with. Avish Parashar: Right, but in between the scary stuff the interplay the dialogue and all that, like the all the duty stuff is ridiculous and the fact that every time he came on screen they played the broken arrow. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah like its own theme was. Michael Worth: It was it was it was a. Michael Worth: lone gunman the opposite of the lone gunman. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah he was terrible. Avish Parashar: trivia i'm not sure if this is true, but I heard that in the original script he died um but. Avish Parashar: Oh people liked him so much that they. Michael Worth: brought back all. Avish Parashar: They came alive. Michael Worth: yeah but he's. Michael Worth: limping because he had, like all this. Avish Parashar: girl cuz yeah I was just smart he got nerd there. Avish Parashar: And then, at the end of screen to to keep him alive when they're willing i'm out you hear the background the medic say Oh, he had so much scar tissue it saved it. Michael Worth: stopped this stuff tonight. Michael Worth: um So what do you think of this a little bit granular but what do you think of the knife as the as the main murder weapon for the screen God he do you like that kind of. Avish Parashar: Every everyone's gonna have like a different weapon and I guess to this point, it was like a hunting knife right, it was like. Michael Worth: yeah it was a Bowie knife basically. Michael Worth: yeah I liked it, I was wondering if he was going to do the Jason thing where it's like everybody gets a different death, but that was his kind of thing right there was the the. Michael Worth: i'm going to be a little bit martial arts nerdy for a second the knife is a particularly gruesome now that i've killed anybody with a knife. Michael Worth: Yet not yet, or at least in no way they could prove that I have but it's a very intimate way to attack somebody you got to get real close like. Michael Worth: A baseball BAT you've got to like pretend you're hank Aaron you got like it's a really grim way to kill somebody because you are like literally holding them in place it just like poking their insides with basically your. Avish Parashar: Hand yeah. Michael Worth: So it's a pretty cool weapon and it gets dark like it gets you know that kind of thing. Avish Parashar: yeah there's not any real like they don't go too crazy with any of the death, other than i'm rose McGowan and getting kind of crushed by the garage door is the only like everything else. Michael Worth: yeah yeah it was yeah it was a pretty much a straight death and again very earthy and real right. Michael Worth: Like and also by the way, they also explain away by having up to athletic teenagers why the killer was actually in pretty good shape it's like I remember when I was young and fit. Michael Worth: yeah do shit like that, like I could just like get knocked off a staircase and who cares because i'm 15. Avish Parashar: Right yeah. Avish Parashar: And how they could do some of the more physical stuff like stringing up the body in the beginning and whatnot it's like. Avish Parashar: Well there's two of them yeah yeah yeah. Michael Worth: Two athletes, you know. Avish Parashar: So the other thing that I liked about scream that was different. Avish Parashar: And you know I think this will probably use in our show is that i'm screen, other than the slasher movies, up to this point had a mystery element to it because. Avish Parashar: Like in the all the other slasher movies, the killer someone outside the group right Mike myers Jason. Avish Parashar: Never. Michael Worth: Even I know she did last summer it's like the dude yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah in this one, it was one of the one or two obviously of the group, and so. Avish Parashar: Like. Avish Parashar: it's not like all this random killer we got to get away from them as like ooh there's a random killer which one of these people is the killer yeah. Avish Parashar: In addition to us. Michael Worth: So one night werewolf kind of thing or a mafia cost component to it right. Avish Parashar: yeah and that you know, and then a lot of the movies, you know, because this obviously was game changing. Avish Parashar: Almost genre defining so many movies came out like this, you know I know what you did last summer yeah I was outside, but like urban legends was one where I get one of the people is the bad guy. Michael Worth: yeah yeah I think final destination, that was notes with death, but. Michael Worth: yeah, but it also part of that idea of like the the hip group of it also changed the hip group of teenagers from sex loving idiots at a at a at a resort to like actually intelligent hunted pray you know. Michael Worth: yeah and, yes, they still play the SAS company in fact in this movie they've acknowledged the silliness like don't don't lose your virginity or else your target. Avish Parashar: Right yeah yeah and, as you know, after a what's her name is Jeff Campbell yes finally yeah she died when she gets attacked and and Randy at the end lives because he was a virgin so. Michael Worth: Randy Randy, so this is a great a lot of fun us riffing this off and it's good because I haven't seen screaming about three years so i'm a little rusty it was my fault i've had a lot of work, this week, a lot of boost a drink. Michael Worth: But this this is reminded me of all the good stuff I think really that's I mean the, the only thing that we can't really just doing a podcast I mean just the cinematography is great. Avish Parashar: camera work with it what's what's Korea good luck in movie. Michael Worth: what's best for him and he just. Avish Parashar: answered so. Michael Worth: He does yeah this was this was really a great resurgence, to the popular I have West craven because you know, he was nightmare on elm street, but he kind of fallen into obscurity as. Avish Parashar: Hard even left a serious because it it kind of gone down a lot of what he he may have done another movie or to be coming back. Avish Parashar: I mean, this is the guy That was our timer, but that was the guy who did I mean one person came up with nine, oh no nightmare elm street and scream is that's pretty. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah impressive yeah. Exactly. Michael Worth: So now you, dear listener have learned about how we experience this movie and loved it. Avish Parashar: yeah and through that we got a lot of the tropes and stuff out so this brings us now to. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Creating the outline so now taking the information and I love this movie and things we've we've mentioned we're going to hash out a high level outline for this movie. Avish Parashar: we're going to use a four act structure, and this is the starting point we're gonna make this a rough outline, but then it's improv comedy so we may veer from it. Michael Worth: We reserve the right to change any and all things because we don't care. Avish Parashar: Exactly. Michael Worth: Our show our show. Avish Parashar: Our show. Michael Worth: Our show David. Avish Parashar: Alright, so a five minute timer starts now so. Michael Worth: First i'm going to do trailer on a prologue come on. Avish Parashar: Well, maybe. Avish Parashar: I always say. Avish Parashar: prologue right because, like like in scream it's a prologue essentially right like there's no main characters you just see someone getting killed by the bad guy so um I would say either one could go, we could do a trailer like seeing the first death that's kind of that. Michael Worth: We have that we not commit. Michael Worth: To anything for the next four minutes and 55 seconds. Avish Parashar: decided the end, whether we want trailer. Michael Worth: Is act one as simple as the first death and we meet the the main party is it as simple as that. Avish Parashar: yeah I think so um so. Michael Worth: So that first death will happen in act one because that sets the tone for the killer right. Avish Parashar: yeah if it's not we don't do a prologue than the first death would be in the first act, and then we got to meet the cast of characters. one. First, death. Avish Parashar: And that cast will be mostly teams, with a couple of dollars like teachers COPs parents, whatever. Michael Worth: Sure sure I like the idea of you know what let's i'm just gonna write down teacher and a cop only because that'll help me to kind of guide my little improv brain, you know kind of thing again we may not admit that teacher made up becoming a reporter, and maybe come to a public calendar. Avish Parashar: yeah something completely random. Michael Worth: The account did. Michael Worth: We must kill the accountant. Michael Worth: He knows too much right so that's pretty easy now, how does the group understand there's a killer out is it was one of the first death is from the Group. Avish Parashar: yeah it's from the group or someone else in the group knows yeah again if it's if it's school high school, university it's like a student dies, and everyone obviously finds out. Michael Worth: OK, so now you to act two. Avish Parashar: yeah Act two is where. Michael Worth: You need help me on screen. Avish Parashar: yeah and I did just just I think an act to you know, the main character is a little bit wary but. Avish Parashar: I think something happens in Act two where they get attacked or becomes personal for them so they're kind of just going about their life, a little bit wary, you know, trying to stay safe like in screams Sydney gets attacked at her house. Avish Parashar: yeah out of nowhere and you see that in a lot of the movies, in the second act like. Michael Worth: Best justification reincorporation ever have the two doors that jam each other. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Michael Worth: That was like a chekhov's gun moment I was like what I thought I was like oh it's going to be worked in somehow I don't know I don't have it, I was like oh that's a corporation. Avish Parashar: So I would say the main character gets attacked. Michael Worth: You know what i'm going to take a step back, but you she will get attacked but, but here, he whenever. Michael Worth: It gets personal like the main character realize the killer has some vested interest in killing the main character, like you said, an act one it's like oh there's a killer out index was like there's a killer out and he's looking for me. Michael Worth: Right or right so that's really, really good i'm at this point in time, because we're dealing with scream we play the the suspicion game too. Avish Parashar: yeah I was about to say an act to the attack it's personal and I think. Avish Parashar: You start to explore a little bit about the suspicion how everyone's a suspect yeah. Avish Parashar: So then. Michael Worth: Do we want it no I won't I won't jump into yeah it's gonna have the improv. Avish Parashar: it's not a big deal so maybe it's excellent yeah. Michael Worth: A in apt to listen to more people die. Avish Parashar: Oh, they can, I think, in a... /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/21879599

Destructible Future Cyberman (In the Style of a Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Police movie like Robocop) 01/18/2022

Destructible Future Cyberman (In the Style of a Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Police movie like Robocop) In the Style of a Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Police movie like Robocop. In a World....where plastic waste has so overwhelmed the world that people are forced to live in domes and live off the slugs that cover their bodies, one police officer will be transformed into something more than human. This movie is a tale of loss, gain, plastic, slugs, violence, revenge, and redemption. And improv comedy... This show contains the improv games Gibberish Switch, Emotional Lists, A to Z, Pardon, and Cutting Room. There's also lava, salt, and champagne. Plus two bad accents. Show Notes: This episode is an homage to Dystopian Future Action movies like Robocop. We are both big fans of the classic Robocop movie, and that comes out in this episode. Some truly bizarre and entertaining things happen in this show and we think you will enjoy it! Links Robocop on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:07 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:56 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 19:24 Start of show: 28;01 Improv Game - Gibberish Switc: 28:25 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 30:42 Improv Game - A to Z: 40:07 Improv Game - Pardon: 51:07 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:03:01 End of show, into announcements: 1:25:03 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment one discussing the genre tropes. Avish Parashar: All right now we're going to spend five minutes discussing the tropes cliches and commonalities that you find in this genre of movie so i'm gonna start my five minute timer. Avish Parashar: and go all right mikey why don't you start us off when you think of this kind of movie what are some of the things that come to mind. Michael Worth: Well, the first thing is, is that it's almost always an urban environment okay so you're gonna be doing that because you want that kind of like. Michael Worth: i'm always gonna see like shadow run squalor right there's definitely an element of society that's kind of in its final stage of decay right so decaying society. Michael Worth: And there's a huge gap between the squalor and the rich in this that just kind of. Avish Parashar: that's kind of the big thing it's like and almost every one of these movies. Avish Parashar: A there's a very, very low income disparity is a very small group of very rich very powerful people a mega powers in this is almost always is always like corporations and they're always evil right Google. Avish Parashar: sheets with the government and the police are like kind of owned or sponsored because a lot of these like robocop go into satire and political commentary about like. Avish Parashar: Where you know capitalism run a muck could lead, so they always are running man is very much kind of like that right, like the society at least like a running man. Michael Worth: And demolition man. Avish Parashar: demolition man is a really. Avish Parashar: good example here I think that's gonna be one of the sample ones, when I finish this podcast episodes robocop and demolition man. Michael Worth: yeah yeah those those are great with that it's it's funny and run everything. Michael Worth: And they are evil in terms of like ends justify the means complete narcissism you know just whatever so how is our hero now here's the trope. Michael Worth: there's almost always a hero that comes out of this but they're almost always engineered by some facet of this society they don't just like stand up like. Michael Worth: They look like i'm sly and demolition man when he was carbon froze and then he was thought out to by society it's not healing trained harder something he was like. Avish Parashar: He is not just a normal. Avish Parashar: it's not just like you know it's like a modern day police procedural where it's like Oh, you know, Martin riggs is really good because, like a normal guy yet so it's a it's guys from a different time this guy was almost killed so we turned him into a half robot or assign more. Michael Worth: Engine yard yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: JESSICA Alba and dark angel is like genetically engineered so yeah there's. Avish Parashar: enhance or there's given like a special equipment and Armor right like like all those TV shows we talked about so right yeah but there's like an enhanced it's an enhanced Cuban who is usually I think almost always a cop like it's almost always is or was a police officer yeah. copper military. Michael Worth: will do that, and I think we should play that in this in this improvised movie or much I think we should play the idea of the enhanced human that's what a lot of fun for like our games and stuff like that. Avish Parashar: yeah and they could be. Avish Parashar: They almost always work or at least start out working for the police or for the government like it's it's not like knight rider right where it's like a shadowy figure dangerous quest. Michael Worth: looks like had a good yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah like this, like all right, you know you are a police officer, but you're super COP no. Michael Worth: No, right now, at this point in the game, the first thing they do, if you want to get a little granular with the movie and the tropes. Michael Worth: there's always going to be, and it could be jumping ahead but that's okay there's always going to be a moment where you get to see all the cool. Michael Worth: or a chunk of the cool abilities this guy has or girl, you know, like you get see the enhanced speed or like in robot cups of thing his his special gun is targeting computer in judge dredd you could see him with with the what's it called the war master or the the the bicycle. Michael Worth: The psycho he has and he's like super cool gun that has like 30 different types of ammo so that definitely happens because you want to showcase at this guy or girl is is above and beyond the kind of normal people. Avish Parashar: yeah and that's a lot of times that's like in the earlier part of the movie when they're kind of first rolling out going through the fodder you the cannon fodder like random thieves and narrow wells. Michael Worth: yeah just grinding through the. Avish Parashar: Meat grinder of this, you know. Avish Parashar: Now, so the bad guy is often someone who don't people don't know is a bad guy like. Avish Parashar: You know, like a corporate head or something, but you know they're implicitly or secretly doing something really bad. Avish Parashar: oftentimes they've got some kind of usually the bad guys Plaid has some sense of like exploiting. Avish Parashar: The lower class even more like you know we're gonna blow up this entire section of the city, so I can build my condominiums or i'm gonna harvest human organs to sell to make these other things are. Michael Worth: yeah in many ways he's kind of like the old. Michael Worth: silent film like land Baron. Michael Worth: You don't need where it's like. Michael Worth: That yeah I think publicly they're always on the up and up it's always like oh it's Senator so and so he's sponsoring all this, you know environmental rehabilitation and his company has been feeding blah blah blah what he's really doing is he's got this down. Michael Worth: This nefarious plan that you know, and this is where the third part comes in the trope is always the hero uncovers this nested plan. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Michael Worth: And one of two things happening concurrently the bad guy start building an antihero thing. Avish Parashar: yeah that's what I was gonna say I. Michael Worth: will add rather than. Avish Parashar: What I was gonna say that while i'm not sure what your other ones me but yeah usually it's like there is a counter point to the there's The anti here like again, like the other robot yeah oh we've got our technology to and we've made 9000 or whatever right. Michael Worth: And then the final wrap up with the final kind of big trope of this is at one point, the hero goes rogue from society and has to make society safe on his own merits there's a cool like mode, where he was. Michael Worth: born of society trained by society originally was protecting society and then has to go outside society in order to fix society. Avish Parashar: yeah or like has to kind of go against his programming or training like like robocop has to like you know, be a cop, again, instead of just a robot like has kind of tapping the human side. Avish Parashar: that's a big piece of a lot of times the person when their hands, they lose their humanity and then part of the journey. Avish Parashar: From a character's re tapping into it and real quick just there's usually side characters like a cop partner or a victim they rescue earlier who becomes like an ally. Michael Worth: Exactly and let's all say they're almost always jacked like. Michael Worth: yeah i've seen biceps the size of my head it's not one of these movies. Avish Parashar: Right all right excellent so that was one more five minutes that brings us to the end of our genre tropes discussion. Avish Parashar: I real quick hey i'll tell you what if you go and visit the blog post for this and fish and Mike calm. Avish Parashar: Go to this episode and if we missed a trope or a genre that either we didn't talk about now that comes up in the episode you're able to comment on the episodes on our blog so go ahead and let us know hey you guys most important tropes oh yeah. Avish Parashar: Perfect on these things were perfect and other things damn it, but nothing. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so that brings us to segment two. Avish Parashar: Creating the outline. Avish Parashar: All right now we're going to spend about five minutes, creating a rough high level outline that we're going to. Avish Parashar: Follow now, this being improv comedy and short form improv comedy we may veer from the outline but we're going to come up with a rough outline right now and we're going to use a for act structure. Avish Parashar: Basically it's a three act structure, but we take Act two is split into two parts, it just flows, a little better for this format alright so first question we normally start with a prologue or movie trailer just I feel like a probably use a movie trailer versus a prologue. Michael Worth: let's go with that yeah. Avish Parashar: I mean the other thing we could do is. Avish Parashar: Like a prologue, but a lot of these future dystopian movies have like the opening voiceover crawl where it's like a 2022 a catastrophic earthquake is blah blah blah or. Avish Parashar: No money 75 corporation, you know governments collapsing corporations takeover. Michael Worth: yeah yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: Why don't we do that with an improv game, like a like a storytelling or one word type game so. Avish Parashar: we'll come back and. Michael Worth: switch or something like that yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah let's do like a let's do like an opening Vo crawl. Michael Worth: crawl and that's our that's our trailer slash prologue. Avish Parashar: yeah I like that. Michael Worth: idea too so Vo crawl. Avish Parashar: Alright, so for. Avish Parashar: Act one alright so in act one This is where we're going to we're going to meet the hero now one thing we didn't talk about trope wise is we almost always see the hero before they're enhanced you know right before they get shot before they get frozen before they get modified yeah. Avish Parashar: So, I guess, we want to see the hero kind of an order in ordinary life. Michael Worth: yeah and but here's the thing, this is the one of the things the Homer, especially in the 90s, is this thing's pretty brisk so we don't want it to be like Oh, the here walk around getting groceries it's likely hero in media recce. Avish Parashar: yeah here. Avish Parashar: In action, action, like in kop action. Michael Worth: Right and and the whole point is that they're competent before they get buffed up before they get tipped up they're not like it's not like the 90 pound weakling it gets transformed. Avish Parashar: Like Captain America. Michael Worth: Captain America no hard, but nobody. Michael Worth: These guys are already pretty pretty competent. Avish Parashar: yeah so we've seen an order live in action as a police officer. Avish Parashar: Will usually meet one of the allies, whether it's a partner or potential romantic interest with someone we meet here and will often meet the villain here to like and comment ordinary. Avish Parashar: yeah sometimes the villain betrays the hero like before they become enhanced like so the ads that kind of person element to yep yep. Michael Worth: So when you meet the villain it's usually in a description Cinematic description of the state of society, where the Members remember the villain is usually have held at the pillar of the Community. Avish Parashar: yeah. Michael Worth: So it's like you meet the villain but it's like dinner with the OSHA was depleted, this company is able to give you portable oxygen or whatever you know so that kind of thing. Avish Parashar: yeah there's like some kind of propaganda ad type thing and then usually then act one ends with the transformation, whether it's because they got shot up and need to be rebuilt, or whatever, so it ends with like the the turn and the enhancement. Michael Worth: yep, this is the crossing the threshold because that's the that's the threshold crossing he's going from human to you know i'm vintage human or whatever. Michael Worth: yeah so apt to is usually a showcasing heroes new abilities. Avish Parashar: yeah there's where we see what they can do yeah with your random criminals it's not like. Michael Worth: yeah low level criminals. Avish Parashar: Right yeah oh girls, and I would say that we often will see the villain here. Avish Parashar: kind of furthering their plan and sometimes the ally will will come across it like the ally, has an agency here. Avish Parashar: You know, like the partner copies investigating something you know all the superheroes off becoming and testing the powers, the ally COPs like oh hey look this CEOs starting to learn the CEOs like evil right right. Michael Worth: Here are the two yeah this put your the here or ally uncovers layers of deception. Michael Worth: starts to see villains plan. Michael Worth: Okay, so showcasing here's new abilities low level criminals villainous forward and plans either here or ally uncovers layers of deception starts to see the villains plan cool. Michael Worth: You know, by the way this is like a hero's journey, one on one so here's tests and trials right it's like you know. Avish Parashar: Learning and developing on. Avish Parashar: And then act too so. Avish Parashar: I would say yeah back to turn this is when he's going to shift from reactive to proactive, so I said, the end of Act two is when the hero kinda learns I think oftentimes he won't find out to the end of act three that the bad guys the bad guy i'm. Michael Worth: Right, he knows, right here. Avish Parashar: So he, like uncovers the plot the plot is to like destroy the slums of the city he'll uncover that plot, but he wanted to say, know who's behind it. Michael Worth: Right, but at the end of actors, when he decides to be like now i'm going to start actively to foil in this plot. Avish Parashar: Right without knowing that it's you know he's been going to be betrayed by so yeah I guess as actor, he is in trying to stop the plot yep. Michael Worth: hero not resources detectives whatever it is not researchers, but if. Avish Parashar: that's the case. Michael Worth: investigate that's the word, thank you. Avish Parashar: As English. Michael Worth: investigates. Avish Parashar: investigates the plot and then usually this will culminate with him learning what you need to know, but then a learning the pillar of the Community is a bad guy and meeting slash fighting slash losing to the anti robot. Michael Worth: I just wrote villains starts building antihero tech hero confronts. Michael Worth: villain flunkies. Avish Parashar: yeah he learns the bad guys we're. Michael Worth: yeah and loses to anti tech. Michael Worth: um this is that that's heroes darkest hour. Michael Worth: oftentimes here the Allies wounded. Michael Worth: and take and take it out of the game. Avish Parashar: We I was in the I could be wounded here or the ally could be the one who saves after the hero gets beaten by the. Michael Worth: Law. Michael Worth: let's go with that let's go the Li saves them that's pretty cool I like. Avish Parashar: The beginning of back for like the ally saves the hero on. Avish Parashar: rehab This is where the hero will ideally learn like maybe they're going to tap back into their humanity or. Michael Worth: Their past or something. Avish Parashar: Like that kind of going around society, you know, instead of yep. Michael Worth: And so now there's two things about this. Michael Worth: At this point in time to hear was usually pariahs either they're either they're the propaganda sister persona non grata. Michael Worth: or the police has been bought out, and so they have to be because, when the hero has to decide through accessing his humanity or whatever to go it alone and so that's the big heroes mobile he said i'm going to do it myself, so the hero. Michael Worth: I decide. Michael Worth: To go solo. Avish Parashar: yeah there's gotta yeah the solo slash only here on the Allies like yeah the, the system has abandoned him right and oftentimes it's been he's moved on to make a strong political stand oftentimes at the very end. Avish Parashar: Then, like the system will get back on the system will realize it was wrong and yeah you know, like the whole police force that have been to him at the beginning of X for. Avish Parashar: At the very end and he's defeated the bad guy he's defeated the bad monster, and then you know he's confronting the CEO villain who's got the upper hand but then, like all the COPs show up or like no like now we're good yeah. Michael Worth: yeah or liking Superman for the quest for peace. Avish Parashar: In a bed. Michael Worth: in a bad way cannot hear that man it's in the podcast out. Avish Parashar: Basically that's all it has happened and act, I mean a lot of it can happen, a lot of ways loss that's basically it's you got saved by the ally rehabs. Avish Parashar: has to go kind of road. Avish Parashar: You know fights the bad robot monster and then. Michael Worth: Yes, up yeah society steps up to to help him at the end, but not like he needed it it's more like society's changed he's been the agent the agent of. Avish Parashar: Well that's why you have the two right like he uses his powers and smarts to beat the robot um but then like. Avish Parashar: You know society kind of helps him beat the CEO like because yeah he needs like society on his side, otherwise he just going to be the bad guy like he's going to be the criminal over. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so awesome that is a solid outline, which we will stick roughly to. Michael Worth: which will probably nor completely. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/21804257

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A Spirit of Love (In the style of a Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie - with Supernatural Elements) 12/21/2021

A Spirit of Love (In the style of a Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie - with Supernatural Elements) In a World…where people often question and even regret the decisions they have made in their life…one women will find herself given a chance to see what her life would have been like if she had made…different choices. This episode was performed live (virtually)! It features the improv games Movie Trailer in a Minute, One word at a time typewriter, Gibberish Switch ,Pardon, and Cutting Room. Show Notes: About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to Hallmark Christmas movies, but specifically movies that feature a supernatural element, like a ghost, or wish fulfillment. We performed this episode live and people watched via Facebook Live and Zoom. It was a ton of fun, and we told a nice little tale that probably involved more opium than most Hallmark Channel movies… Links List of Hallmark Channel Movies on Wikipedia: Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 06:25 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 13:30 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 20:22 Start of show: 29:20 Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute: 32:20 Improv Game - One Word at a Time Typewriter: 34:30 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 43:28 Improv Game - Pardon: 52:06 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:04:05 End of show, into announcements: 1:19:15 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: Our Facebook Group: Avish’s site: Mike’s site: Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment one discussing the genre tropes. Avish Parashar: So now Mike and I are gonna spend five minutes and I have my iPhone with my timer and a little Christmas hat on it. Avish Parashar: Yes, i'm going to set a timer for five minutes we're going to talk about the tropes cliches and commonalities of this genre. Avish Parashar: And please feel free to chime in via the chat or commenting on the Facebook feed, if you have any cliches that we've missed what makes a hallmark movie a hallmark movie please add that we'd love to do it, but Mike, let me start with you, I know you just watched a couple here. Mike Worth: What yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: What when you think of a hallmark Christmas movie with the supernatural what comes to mind okay. Mike Worth: So, first of all, of course, we're just gonna lean heavily into the whole Christmas thing Okay, but here's the difference there's two things that happened. Mike Worth: And and and funny enough Sarah kind of alerted me to something yesterday, where she was like Oh, you could actually do it's a wonderful life mclouth done a horror movie but it's kind of in that the first drop is this, it is somebody who, through their decisions in life have. Avish Parashar: fallen away from. Avish Parashar: What makes Christmas magical. Mike Worth: i'm not saying that they don't believe in Christmas, but there are prioritizing habits and or viewpoints that are like i'm christmasy like oh work instead of family, you know. Mike Worth: Money instead of true relationships all that stuff and one of two things happens in the in this kind of trope. Mike Worth: And they both need the same thing they both get in an alternate shot at a different reality that's kind of like what are the I think one of the big tropes right either they get the wish fulfillment. Mike Worth: or they get an external thing like I think there's one that I haven't seen there's one more like an angel is basically designed to like steer the person kind of like three. Avish Parashar: yeah and you know the. Avish Parashar: supernatural the broad category and we can sub divide my matrix of hallmark movies. Avish Parashar: In general Mike was talking about and I figured out if you take the y axis of dramatic slash sappy romantic. Avish Parashar: And comedic and the X axis of supernatural versus non supernatural those are four basic hallmark movies so we've done the comedic the one that dropped today on our podcast called near miss kiss was just straight romantic comedic. Mike Worth: Fine podcast. Avish Parashar: yeah that was that was like hallmark movies, that we had a lot of fun with that. Avish Parashar: But with the supernatural there's the wish fulfillment or ironic wish fulfillment yeah but there's also they can also be like ghosts and time displaced people so there's. Avish Parashar: Before Christmas with a K, whereas. Avish Parashar: 14th century night. Avish Parashar: there's like. Avish Parashar: I think it's called the spirit of Christmas, where a woman like has to like sell this manner, but when she gets there it's like haunted by a spirit, who she, of course, falls in love with, I believe that we were thinking more of the wish you know almost like. Avish Parashar: it's a wonderful lifetime. Mike Worth: Right right like the and again that that that's what I was saying, like if there's an angel something involved they're basically doing a wish fulfillment That was what your life would have been like if you have done that it's constant Nicolas cage thing, where he did the. Avish Parashar: You know yeah man. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah so alright so we've got a wish now. Avish Parashar: The whoever the grantor of the wishes once in a while it's just done some reason but there's often like you said, like and it's always like a wise ass like an older person who's always like slyly. Avish Parashar: You know, showing up throughout the story and kind of nudging them or winking at them are right. Mike Worth: Now Now let me know, let me ask this and it's okay to be too in depth, for this one does that person have a vested interest in getting the conversion like they're an angel that needs to get its wings like it's a wonderful life or it's just I guess my job, like I do. Avish Parashar: ya know usually it's just something like asshole who's like Oh, by the way. Avish Parashar: If you're deciding is a family show we're pretty clean, but we do drop some language. Mike Worth: yeah. Mike Worth: We don't we don't get super naughty but like 13 and up was it but. Avish Parashar: If you're like on a different coasts and you're watching this at work. Avish Parashar: You know, we may drop some put. Avish Parashar: Not a lot, but just you know. Avish Parashar: But usually it's like yeah it's it's usually the person you never find out why they're doing it, I mean you, just like the spirit of Christmas right there like they're doing it to help this person who is almost always a female reconnect with her. Avish Parashar: her family her right. Avish Parashar: is almost always a reconnection right. Avish Parashar: Like. Avish Parashar: Well that's what it is it's never a person who like grew up and never like Christmas. Mike Worth: Right right they had their childhood innocence and their love of all that is good, with Christmas and it fell away that's a huge trope. Mike Worth: And in this what I don't think there's a dead relative in the first one there's always a dead relatives. Mike Worth: In this yes everyone's still alive, because. Mike Worth: You have to have. Mike Worth: The strange people come back and reconnect. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah yeah well it's when when it's an alternate life like if she's going to encounter everyone from a previous life and she's gonna want to connect with them, but they're like oh Where are you missing. Avish Parashar: it's always a female leader like 99% of time, you know there's almost always a sassy sassy best friend or sister. Mike Worth: yeah yeah exactly yeah like a who's the one from lower merion that I love Tina fey Tina fey be phenomenal that. Mike Worth: it's basically. Avish Parashar: Like the friend the fight again doesn't believe her. Mike Worth: Right so so the here's the thing what is in the trope, why is the wish happening to show her alternate stuff Is it because she's broken something, and she has a chance to fix it. Mike Worth: Because that's usually what I think it is usually it's like she's headed down a path where she's gonna make a decision it's. Avish Parashar: going to. Mike Worth: hurt a lot of people, or you know, create a structure that's you know anti Christmas. Avish Parashar: yeah and that's our five minute timer. Mike Worth: We don't care I don't care it's Tuesday we're going. Avish Parashar: I don't know she's I mean there's almost always something to overcome there's some reason she lost touch and why she became so like career driven and material and into the city. Avish Parashar: You know universe like cities bad small towns good i'm right but I don't know if it's like it could be that she broke something but and that can kind of come out of the improv I think. Mike Worth: So last thing is her foils there's a man that she didn't settle down with because of one divergence, and when she goes to the which film he realized that he was a true love, what about the other guy that she's currently with it's your jerk or the just a bad fit. Mike Worth: Because what. Avish Parashar: I find with wish fulfillment she. Avish Parashar: She ends up realizing she's in the right place to be oh Oh, she got her husband and her kids or whatever, and then. Avish Parashar: She sees what our life could have been like actually taking the other path, but realizes oh no like I you know, like the one I saw not that long ago. Avish Parashar: there's a lot of tension in the relationship in the marriage because, like he's busy with his career and this and that she's like I, but then she wakes up she longer with them. Avish Parashar: So over the course of the movie she realizes Oh, she needs to be with the original guy, so I think when it's wishful phone. Avish Parashar: yeah you know she's she's brought back to so she does maybe meet that one she didn't go wish that she always thought about but realized that he wasn't the best fit for. Mike Worth: Okay okay well that makes sense we'll go with that one and. Avish Parashar: or who knows it's improv so maybe everyone ends up dying by a giant bag of the. Mike Worth: aliens aliens. Avish Parashar: we've gone there before alright, so that we got some basic crops and again if anyone wants to add, please feel free to. Avish Parashar: throw some in the comments are happy to to see what you got there and so now that brings us to segment two. Transcription of the “Creating the Outline” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Which is creating the outline, so we are now going to spend about five minutes, creating a high level outline for our story it's. Avish Parashar: we're going to use a four X structure it's similar to three x storytelling fruchter we just break Act two into two parts right have you explain more and we get to that. Avish Parashar: And this is just kind of a starting point it's improv comedy, which means we may veer from this, we may completely ignore it, but it's the basic it's kind of like our basic. Mike Worth: flow and keeping us from going off kilter you know it keeps it like organized a little bit you know. Avish Parashar: Exactly so. Mike Worth: For you, the listener. Avish Parashar: Five minutes starts now. Avish Parashar: alright. Mike Worth: So next one is pretty easy we're gonna. Mike Worth: it's gonna be a female. Avish Parashar: The main character is going to be female we established her her life satisfaction. Mike Worth: And the hook is in act one of this kind of thing it's materialistic Lee satisfying but spiritually lacking does that make sense. Avish Parashar: yeah she's successful she she has all the trappings I guess. Avish Parashar: You know what it is like her life isn't she doesn't appreciate this is a little different from the non supernatural because he has them she doesn't appreciate it and understand what she has right. Avish Parashar: Like in the in the non supernatural one she has it but it's missing something here what she's missing is really. Avish Parashar: Like Maybe she needs to make some decisions and changes, but for the most part, like the stuff he's got his good she's just so. Avish Parashar: Uncertain or resentful or sad she missed out on you know the other path. Avish Parashar: So we see all the. Mike Worth: yay and then they get nurtured like pummeling my head okay yeah so that that's that what does that mean okay so got us a rough that she's got everything she needs so she's actually supposed to be a pretty. Avish Parashar: content and maybe not necessary everything like Maybe she is like gave up her career to just be a family person. Avish Parashar: And then through the things she realizes that she didn't need to give it up, she read text her love of architecture, but yeah she don't have like everything but she's she's got a good life but there's some things there that are you know, causing her headaches problems. Mike Worth: Okay, so oh yeah. Avish Parashar: And I think it ends. Avish Parashar: yeah act one will end with the wish being granted her encountering the person right, so we do need to meet some of these other people, the sassy friend the. Avish Parashar: The angel. Mike Worth: she'll be married right with family. Avish Parashar: Probably doesn't have to be but. Mike Worth: yeah let's let's not not as soon as I put on the on the table there, and so, at the end of the day, which he basically says she's now she's yeah she's got a comfortable of, say, I watched Christmas air force drop yesterday, so I went back to what's up a little bit off on that. Avish Parashar: watching the wrong hallmark movies. Mike Worth: So Charlie boy was great um no but you know I know you're saying what you're saying is this she's got a comfortable life. Mike Worth: uh she's got the things that if you look at it through a external lens is like you've got a wonderful beautiful wonderful life she's like Oh, but I miss this chance because it's pivot point that I had. Avish Parashar: In right and then she gets to see. Avish Parashar: What life would have been like. Mike Worth: Okay So yes, that's gonna be. Avish Parashar: that's a pretty standard mentoring angel in Act two. Avish Parashar: She wakes up and is in this new world so there's obviously the you know wtf she's like. Avish Parashar: You know it's like the most these movies, a genie doesn't grand her the wishes Teller she just kind of wakes up and all of a sudden she's like oh yeah where Am I like this is row, this is my old high school flame is my husband now and. Avish Parashar: So there's a lot of like discovery of this new of the wish fulfilled. Mike Worth: yeah yeah and she's right into active is all about getting the crossing the threshold she's now in the Special World so we just want to basically described how different everything is and how maybe initially she kind of was like this is so cool. Avish Parashar: i've got yes. Avish Parashar: I think in this one she's just reacting and she's so happy to have all these things that she thought she needed in a previous life yeah oh. Avish Parashar: she's happy there might be a little bit of conflict, you know he started. Avish Parashar: You know, maybe she misses like her family her kid from a previous life but, overall I think she was like. Mike Worth: Well funny but then we can do we enact to we can actually play what in the other version of the homework thing was act, one which is like oh she's got a great life but she's like doesn't have time for family and she's not doing. Mike Worth: All these christmasy things that you used to do because she's so busy, and so it's like you kind of like take act one from you know near miss kiss and you make it act to have this, you can see i'm getting at where it's. Avish Parashar: Like. Mike Worth: she thinks she's happy it's like yeah we a lot of money, but you know. Avish Parashar: So yeah alright, so it ends, I think, with. Avish Parashar: Maybe the first challenge of this new life like you know things seem good, but then you realize oh like I don't have this oh now, I have to deal with this which i'd never had to do in my life yeah yeah. Mike Worth: I got it I got it already I already have a conflict that i'm like I know it's it's improv interesting, but if you get an idea you got to like kind of like this long form, you can be a little bit. Avish Parashar: Ly little way, maybe it'll come up maybe it won't but. Avish Parashar: yeah so then. Avish Parashar: I think in act three she kind of. Avish Parashar: I think she kind of goes on a parallel path one is trying to get back to real life, like maybe trying to Maybe she goes to where her family was original family was and tries to meet them and connect with them yeah Maybe she tries to. Avish Parashar: You know reconnect with angel to get out of this wish. Avish Parashar: Plus she's got to deal with solving whatever issues and problems exist in the in the new. Mike Worth: timeline yeah yeah and there's some crises there. Avish Parashar: tries to tries to go back and tries to solve. Mike Worth: This is a fairly complex, what did what did homework and so nuanced. Avish Parashar: We might be adding maybe i've analyzed too much. Avish Parashar: Maybe there's and then ideally this much nuance in them. Mike Worth: Chinese brainwash someone to trigger him. Mike Worth: candidate. Avish Parashar: Other duck timer well. Avish Parashar: Until we get. Mike Worth: To act for is actually pretty straightforward, which is she does the following things she basically decides realizes your old life was amazing makes gestures. Mike Worth: In her new life that are. Avish Parashar: indicative. Mike Worth: of her character from the old life. Mike Worth: There by solving that timeline. Mike Worth: And then the angel basically. Mike Worth: says yeah you've learned your lesson and kind of brings her back to the. Avish Parashar: yeah so she takes what she did in the new life and uses that to make changes in her old life and. Mike Worth: And also, we appreciate that what she had is what she had. Avish Parashar: Right that's kind of the dovetailing of the two lives is like Oh, I can do this, and this and here's how it lands and then she wakes up. Mike Worth: yeah I like what you said about the idea of like her, like being like oh yeah I can actually take what I what I thought I gave up you know, like, I gave up the skill set to, and I can actually bring it in incorporate into my current LIFE and have the best of both worlds. Mike Worth: yeah man look at my music. Avish Parashar: You and yours go bad music. Avish Parashar: Alright, so we got a pretty good outline like you said, we may or may not stick with that. /episode/index/show/inaworldof/id/21547859

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