I'm Hello everybody and welcome back to the film re-roll.

We are the podcast where we play through your favorite movies as role-playing games and totally ruin them.

Now, what does that mean?

Well, we're going

to improvise our way through a movie. Everything you hear will be improvised. But instead of just

saying that we punch a guy or outrun an assailant, we have to roll dice that tell us if we

succeed or fail, and thus the story changes. Now, as always, I am your humble host and narrator, Paolo Quidos. Now, it's

just me right now. We're doing something a bit different. We're doing Memento. Now, in the movie,

Guy Pearce's character, Leonard Shelby, can't make new memories. He can't remember anything

after the accident that lost his memory. So whenever he

loses focus, he'll suddenly have no idea what's going on around him. So in order for our Leonard

to have no idea what's going on, we have many performers lined up to play him. Every time

Leonard loses focus or loses consciousness, the next improviser comes in

and picks up wherever the last person left them. With no context whatsoever, I tell them nothing of what's

happened before they came on. All they know is that they're Leonard Shelby and that they have a

memory condition and that they're trying to find the guy who killed their wife. Now, one more thing.

In the movie, they also give the audience Leonard's experience of not knowing what's going

on, and they do this by ordering the scenes backwards so that, like Leonard, the viewer

lacks context of what's just happened.

We're going to do the same thing.

Now, we played through the scenes forward in normal chronological order, otherwise it would be impossible, but we're going to edit them into reverse order.

So, to be clear, we're starting with the last chapter chronologically,

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