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on its marketing.

And I thought we did

very good marketing.

They started interfering

with our marketing.

We couldn't get an agreement on

how to run the movie operation,

So that's when I left behind

a lot of projects.

"Back to the future" breaks

as many rules as it follows.

I mean, it...

Marty McFly is

a flawless protagonist.

He doesn't learn a damn thing.

He has no unconscious wish

that he needs to fulfill

Except maybe if you count the idea that

he wishes his parents were cooler,

Which is a selfish, dumb thing

to wish for.

And it's not like he learns

a lesson through any of it.

He's just this willing hero that

charges across this threshold

And mucks things up

a little bit.

He's really nervous

that his mom is gonna,

You know, give him

a HJ in the parking lot.

Oh, you mean like how you're

supposed to act on a first date.

For a movie where the guy that

you're in the shoes of doesn't...

he doesn't have an arc.

And that's one of many things

about that movie that's like,

Oh, this, strictly speaking, according to

Robert McKee or a screenwriting class,

It shouldn't be

as satisfying as it is.

I mean, it's definitely not

a perfect movie.

There might even be

one or two shots in it

That are a little bit,

a hair out of focus.

You know,

so it's not a perfect movie.

But the screenplay

is really good.

I mean, that's really something that

they should study in film school.

I know people who

have been to USC film school,

And certain teachers use the script of

"back to the future"

As the perfect script.

It rides this

Razor's edge between an absurd

amount of exposition...

Good evening.

I'm Dr. Emmett brown.

I'm standing in a parking lot

at twin pines mall.

It's Saturday morning,

October 26, 1985, 1:18 a.m.

And this is

temporal experiment number one.

...And total immersification.

It's just bursting at the seams

with pipe.

The molecular structure of both Einstein

and the car are completely intact.

Where the hell are they?

The appropriate question is

when the hell are they?

You're being told so many facts for

the first quarter of that movie

Simply so that the sudoku

can complete itself.

This readout tells you

where you're going.

This one tells you

where you are.

This one tells you

where you were.

And that's a rule being broken.

It's not supposed to, uh,

be fair to do that to an audience.

I'm gonna make you

flying-Saucer shaped pancakes.

Oh, there's no need to do that, Beth.

Regular pancakes are fine.

Oh, my god!

What is happening?

"Rick and Morty" was

Justin Roiland's frustrated,

punk rock tantrum

That he was throwing after finishing

working on someone else's show.

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