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Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 126: Memento

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Memento's place as a modern noir mystery, its careful control of information, and of course, the challenges of telling a story in reverse.


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0:00.0

Bye.

0:06.9

And Alex Cayetos.

0:08.6

Bye, bye, Brian Bittner.

0:11.3

Bye, everybody.

0:12.7

I've been joined today by Tricia Arand.

0:14.9

This has been our conversation on Memento, the 2000 film directed by Christopher Nolan, screenplay by Christopher Nolan, and Jonathan Nolan.

0:22.5

So we're talking about Memento. Before we get started, at the time of this recording, we've just

0:29.2

opened our Patreon vote, which is the monthly vote we do, where patrons get to choose what

0:35.7

our patron exclusive episode is going to be.

0:38.5

But this month is the Battle of the Second Places.

0:41.8

So all the second places from the previous votes are now head to head.

0:46.4

And it's quite a matchup of Lady Bird versus the Lion King versus the Wolf of Wall Street versus Inside Man versus Starship Troopers.

0:57.0

So this is what you're missing over on the Beyond the Screenplay Patreon

1:01.5

is trying to decide our fate between these five very similar movies.

1:07.2

Okay, so, Memento.

1:10.0

So this is one of the movies that has a video essay on it on The Lessons from a Screenplay.

1:17.3

We're getting down to only a few of those left.

1:19.2

We talked about almost every movie now that there's a Lesson from Screenplay video on.

1:24.4

And this one in my memory is a pretty early one. I guess it's number 21, which is later

1:30.4

than I actually thought it was. But I remember- Memory's pretty unreliable, Michael.

1:37.0

It's very true. Yeah, as watching this movie, I was like, is this going to be the hardest

1:42.9

movie to talk about ever?

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