Ending Turbulent Poetry (In the Style of a Bed Ridden Horror Movie Like Misery‪)‬ In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

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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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(film)
 
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



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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