Slice (In the Style of a Vampire Hero Movie like Blade, Underworld, or Morbius)

In a World…where people feel safe and assume monsters aren't real…there exists a second world of evil and vampires. However, there is one man who walks in both worlds, and he may be the only thing between evil and light. He is…SLICE.

This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Best of Times / Worst of Times, Last Letter / First Letter, Blind Line, and Cutting Room.

About This Episode

In this episode, we pay homage to vampire hero movies - those awesome action movies where the vampire (at least one of them) is the hero. We recorded this to prep for Morbius, but since we hadn't seen it yet this episode is much more of an homage to Blade.

It is also the first episode we recorded in 2022, and we tweak our format a bit. We hope you like it!

Links

Blade on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(film)

Underworld on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(2003_film)

Morbius on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius_(film)

Time Codes

Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes:

Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline:

Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games:

Start of show:

Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute

Improv Game - Best of Times / Worst of Times

Improv Game - Last Letter / First Letter

Improv Game - Blind Line

Improv Game - Cutting Room:

End of show, into announcements:

More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish

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

Avish Parashar: Alright, so if you've been listening for a while, you know, this is our five minutes segment where we discussed the tropes and cliches our second change we're doing to our format trying this out for 2022 is.

Avish Parashar: Mike and I bring a lot of history to a lot of these movies and genres so which may be comes out in the show, but maybe the audience is aware of that so we're going to expand this segment to closer to 10 minutes.

Avish Parashar: But so we're going to start first by talking a little bit about the movie and our experience with the genre and Mike this is.

Avish Parashar: probably true for many movies matrix certainly um, but this is one we actually saw together.

Avish Parashar: We played.

Avish Parashar: together in the theater way back when so take us back, would you remember, like what What did you think when you saw blade for the first time.

Michael Worth: Oh man I forgot that we start the theater together to you know the um what did I think my first take was um i'm damn this is stylish like this was like because.

Michael Worth: Up until now, what other superhero movies were there, there was Batman Batman was cool but I had a bit of the Gothic this at the other end seen Superman so this comes in and the.

Avish Parashar: Opening when it goes this.

Avish Parashar: Before was this before after spider man, this is right around spider man.

Michael Worth: This was before Spiderman, but it was a because spider man is as a mom as an MC you so yeah it was before Spiderman um and it was after Batman cuz Let me take a look here.

Michael Worth: bleed film um but I remember walking in and you're watching them go to that rave club and it's all like full that great 90s like.

Avish Parashar: It does oh yeah.

Michael Worth: And it's all you know slickly shot and then, when the blood comes down.

Michael Worth: And the guys you see the reversal you guys the guy that's gonna get eaten and then blade shows up and they're all stuck around have covered and read being fair like hot shit this movie it's doubling down on visual imagery like.

Avish Parashar: It was yeah.

Michael Worth: So stylish.

Avish Parashar: Was it was so cool and Wesley snipes was just cool as blade.

Michael Worth: Yes, absolutely.

Avish Parashar: excited because I think they do a remake with a mashallah alli and I think you'd be great as a blade yeah but Wesley snipes was just so and he delivered the most ridiculous one liners so well.

Michael Worth: Oh, the credibility people forget about Wesley snipes like about a he's a legit martial artists like he trains hard and he's kind of Michael J white when he's got like legit chops to he can make shuts down so smugly like self pompous some of the Fuck is always trying to escape.

Avish Parashar: The line I love that.

Michael Worth: so good, and he just delivers it with such like, just like I do this lads fucking stupid, but i'm gonna make it awesome right um.

Avish Parashar: it's funny because when blade came out I feel like I read a lot of comic was growing up and I read a bunch of spider man, but I think when it came out I didn't even realize that bleed was a marvel comics character, I just thought it was I got cool vampire movie.

yeah yeah.

Avish Parashar: And it was so it doesn't feel like a comic movie it feels like a vampire movie.

Avish Parashar: Great.

Michael Worth: A good darkness to where the vampire is the hero is a vampire hunter first in the style of van helsing it's not like he's like a superhero right.

Avish Parashar: yeah it's like a vampire vampire hunter which is awesome.

Michael Worth: yeah exactly and and the plot is legit I didn't like, and this is this is always going to be a problem, going to see if more be as well.

Michael Worth: As this the vampire villains are hard, it is hard to set up a vampire film to be blades match because blade is pretty clever and the amazing physical specimen so you got to play the vampire mastermind against him because blade can wade through.

Avish Parashar: yeah he just like phase waves of bad guys would like a mastermind meeting them all.

Michael Worth: Right, and so the mastermind of the first one was deacon frost and his big thing was he's trying to resurrect the blood God um it was a decent enough.

Michael Worth: hook, for it but, and it was you know, certainly a very solid hook, in terms of yeah again okay vampire trying to resurrect an all powerful for us trying to like you know become immortal or you know super powered.

Michael Worth: But it just I think like anything else the protagonist is defined by how good the antagonist is and I thought that decompress was great in this as a character.

Michael Worth: yeah whiny email 90s post-punk you know.

Avish Parashar: And if I recall correctly blade tues better in that context, like blade to actually look like was good from blade and had like a better villain and had almost like an alien sort of subplot like.

Avish Parashar: Yes, like a aliens feel to it.

Michael Worth: It did because that was one where they their experiments kind of vampire and made vampire vampires like a metal vampire and he could convert vampires into reapers and it did have an alien's five to it.

Avish Parashar: yeah and.

Michael Worth: They brought out the one thing that blade didn't do as well, they brought it and blade to was they brought out some of like the light hearted like badass humor of Wesley snipes his character blade like he was very grim in the first one.

Michael Worth: And the second we did a lot more funny lines a lot like that scene, where he you know i'm steers up decks who's buying the blows a kiss at his bike before it goes off.

Michael Worth: And fun kills the vampires like it was yeah.

Avish Parashar: It was really good.

Michael Worth: So I would I would actually live out of state as we're starting to move into blade blade you know doing this oh my gosh we incorporate elements of blade too, because that was.

Avish Parashar: Another I think.

Avish Parashar: Any kind of jack and it's funny like we call this blade it's gonna be more of an homage to blade but you know, this also kind of kicked off the like the whole underworld series is kind of like this.

Avish Parashar: Right yeah yeah so the vampire and what's his name is a werewolf and like yeah so yep it's.

Michael Worth: I have to also say that one of the things for you as we start to build the actors and it's always fun for us to try and do this in another podcast but.

Michael Worth: The action scenes are beautifully choreographed like Wesley snipes knows karate or Kung fu fill it up Filipino cali and Judo so his shit is tight like he's doing all the trapping and all the wing chun.

Avish Parashar: He knows yeah but.

Avish Parashar: It was like a combination like superhero vampire and martial arts movie which was it at the time wow.

Avish Parashar: Very you know with brain we're that was we were both.

Avish Parashar: very regularly training together martial arts, I was like we just saw this cool, so I think we like incorporate that.

Michael Worth: into our training yeah yeah, we were told we weren't you and I are both.

Michael Worth: Training G condo in cali and then we had come off of rookie tempo and small circle Jiu jitsu so we had the lots of stuff that we see this guy with all the outside.

Avish Parashar: yeah alright s