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Michael and Abe are joined by Gamefully Unemployed’s David Bell to discuss the 1997 thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher. Michael Douglas finds himself in an expensive and existential game of cat and mouse. The gang talks about how they’re terrible at escape rooms!

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E l i j a h

i think a really good example of a modern way to do twists is what Jordan Peele does with his movies, especially with Nope. He’s using the marketing campaigns as a kind of first act, setting up a false premise before the film even starts so that the “twist ending” actually comes somewhere in the middle of the movie, and you spend the rest of the movie engaging with the reality of the film’s true premise (which with a traditional twist ending is an experience you often have only 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 the movie has ended). He’ll even have those typical buried “second viewing realizations” within the promotional material itself, so people will go back and look at movie posters and have that “Ooohhhhhhh” feeling.

Steve Snyder

So much fun. I loved every minute of this conversation.