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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
He's just this willing hero that
charges across this threshold
a little bit.
He's really nervous
that his mom is gonna,
You know, give him
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.
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.
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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