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Nick Paley and a Very Small Shell

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Nick Paley is a writer, editor and director for film and TV, and a co-writer on the recent film, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which stars an adorable one-inch tall shell who wears shoes and is looking for his long lost shell family. Nick is from Vermont, and he's working on a new TV series set here, so when he was in town I dragged him to a matinee of Marcel the Shell...the same movie theater where he used to clean the bathrooms. And then afterwards he let me ask him ten million questions about what it's like to work in the film industry. This show is a bit of both.

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0:00.0

Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.

0:06.0

This is Rumbel Strip, I'm Erica Heilman.

0:11.0

Welcome to the movie.

0:12.0

Thank you. There's hand drawings of Marcel on the door.

0:16.0

It's so nice. Somebody is a fan at the theater. It's so funny to be back here.

0:21.0

I just used the bathroom that I had to clean a million times. I feel...

0:24.0

I feel... Yeah, what if you don't like it? That's going to be hard.

0:30.0

Okay, so this is the beginning of the movie.

0:33.0

She should be quiet now.

0:35.0

Hello, my name is Mars, my heart is not the first time I've done that.

0:41.0

My name is Marsel, and I've done that. My name is Marcell and I'm partially a shell as you can see in my body,

0:46.2

but I also have shoes and a face. So I like that about myself and I like myself and I like myself and I have a lot of other great qualities as well.

1:00.0

That's my friend Nick Paley and this is sound from Marcel the Shell with shoes on

1:06.2

which is a movie that Nick wrote with his friends Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny

1:10.4

Slate. Marcel is a one inch tall shell with a googly eye and little plastic shoes and he lives with his grandmother Connie.

1:19.0

The movie's all about Marcel and his human friend trying to find Marcel's long lost Shell family.

1:25.3

It's really the best movie I've ever seen that stars a tiny adorable shell with a can-do

1:30.3

attitude.

1:31.3

It's also hilarious and it's charming and my niece said that she

1:35.0

cried the whole way through the movie. Anyway, Nick Paley is from Vermont and

1:40.1

now he lives in Los Angeles where he writes and directs and edits for TV and film.

1:45.0

I met him or sort of met him when he sent me a recording of himself singing

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