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This Sounds Serious

3: How to Make a Fake Movie

This Sounds Serious

Kelly&Kelly

Comedy, Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Audio Fiction, True Crime

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In order to pull off the Grand Casino con, Kirk had to convince the studio and the crew that he was making the movie. How did nobody catch on? Go to http://thissoundsserious.com/join to get the entire season right now, ad-free.

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0:00.0

Kelly and Kelly

0:07.8

Two rival thieves a man and a woman

0:14.4

What is more exciting than a casino heist

0:18.3

to the scene of heists

0:21.1

We should turn my back to them at that point

0:24.1

You know what you're listening to is a dictaphone recording of Kirk Todd

0:28.7

We're hercing the pitch for his movie grand casino the casinos don't catch on at first. They don't realize that they're being robbed because

0:38.3

The house always wins

0:40.7

As you know Kirk's not really a filmmaker

0:43.3

He's a con man who cheated hundreds of people in the late 60s and 70s

0:50.4

But in the early 80s he moved to Hollywood where he found some success as a television producer

0:55.6

gentlemen

0:56.8

How many people in this room have an Oscar?

1:00.0

Would you like one in 1991?

1:02.0

He got the chance to pitch greystone pictures his idea for a movie. So what have the successful movies this year told us they've told us one thing that

1:10.6

audiences

1:12.0

Want to be challenged. He leaned on his con man skills. I believe

1:17.7

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. His years of manipulating people I know

1:22.9

We can make this film for five million dollars and

1:28.1

Sold it easily

1:31.4

Well, it's one thing to convince a studio to finance your movie

1:35.1

It's another to convince them you're actually making it on this episode

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