Engineering Titanium Destiny (In the Style of a "Robot Friend" Movie like Short Circuit and The Iron Giant‪)‬ In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

In this episode, we pay homage to “friendly robot” movies, like Short Circuit and the Iron Giant. You know the ones, where a robot (usually military) escapes and finds its way to some nice humans who it befriends? But of course, the military people always want to get the robot back at any cost...


Links


Short Circuit on Wikipedia:
The Iron Giant on Wikipedia:


Time Codes
Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:25
Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 09:42
Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 18:46
Start of show: 25:48
Improv Game - A to Z: 25:57
Improv Game - Pardon: 32:56
Improv Game -  What Happens Next: 42:20
Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 52:03
Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:01:04
End of show, into announcements: 1:19:57




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Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up)



Avish Parashar: segment one discussing the genre tropes right all right now Mike and I are going to spend five minutes discussing the tropes commonalities and cliches of this type of movie so i'll start our timer now.



Avish Parashar: All right, mikey let's talk robot friend short circuit iron giant yeah.



Avish Parashar: What do you think of when you think of these movies.



Michael Worth: Well, first of all, I definitely say the tone is going to be family friendly right we'd like Well, this is not one of these, this is not like superhero hard was that one break bread burn or whatever, where it's like.



Michael Worth: Oh yeah Superman was a sociopath so it's gonna be family, friends.



Avish Parashar: I mean the.



Avish Parashar: The genre is usually family friendly where our improvisation mego could be a whole other thing but, in general, these stories.



Michael Worth: yeah family friendly reserve the right to go dark.



Michael Worth: yeah i'm usually the robot oh boy there's two ways to go if you do the iron giant the robot is basically iron john is basically et.



Michael Worth: So do you want to go that route, or do you want to go experiment that grew beyond the control of the creators.



Avish Parashar: You know, like, I mean when I think this sort of movie I usually think of some kind of military robot that developed a conscience or escaped and accidentally got lost the programming got screwed up, so I forgot the iron giant was an alien or was actually a military or a.



Michael Worth: was an alien invasion kind of tied in with the war of the worlds thing you know yeah i'm thinking more like military experiment or science experiment that kind of grows beyond is creators it's kind of like a there's a Frankenstein component to it right yeah.



Avish Parashar: Nice Frankenstein like.



Avish Parashar: The monster like.



Michael Worth: Right well Mary shelley's Frankenstein originally was highly intelligent That was the whole.



Avish Parashar: Oh yeah yeah you like talking it's conversational very philosophical at times it's very weird.



Michael Worth: yeah yeah so so that that's a good way to start it, which is like it starts yeah because usually it's a comment on like the military industrial complex in the research thing.



Avish Parashar: So, and then yeah.



Avish Parashar: So okay yeah so the robot either escapes or gets left behind, as abandoned and then is found by.



Michael Worth: Do this call it's a kid I always found a kid.



Avish Parashar: Well, you know, a kid or Steve Gutenberg.



Michael Worth: Is there is there a difference.



Avish Parashar: Okay, it or it's like someone innocent like a child or someone who's like very kind of like positive optim