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

In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Identity_(2002_film): 

The Long Kiss Goodnight on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Kiss_Goodnight

Absentia on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentia_(TV_series)

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

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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 a

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