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"Hollywood vs. YouTube" : What Today's Creators Can Learn About Communication-Part 1 · How To Talk To Humans

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Larry Wilson: Welcome.
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Larry Wilson: Thank you for being here.
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Larry Wilson: Those of you who've been around here with me for quite some time, you know I frequently refer to Wilson Method as Hollywood's best kept communication secrets.
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Larry Wilson: And they are.
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Larry Wilson: I mean, as I hear myself saying it, I'm not sure how well I know that world anymore.
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Larry Wilson: Things change.
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Larry Wilson: That's kind of the nature of the beast.
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Larry Wilson: The trade paper, Daily Variety, that's really a daily trade about entertainment business.
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Larry Wilson: Screams major headline, Hollywood and big tech prepare for war.
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Larry Wilson: Yeah.
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Larry Wilson: Sure they do.
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Larry Wilson: Well, I mean, maybe Hollywood does, but this is not going to be any kind of balanced war at all.
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Larry Wilson: And it's it's the beautiful hyperbole of show business to suggest, and in the in the framing of the headline, it suggests that Hollywood and big tech are equals, and they're going to well, they aren't equals.
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Larry Wilson: They aren't anything near equals.
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Larry Wilson: Hollywood is now, it seems, a very quaint ancient technology.
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Larry Wilson: It doesn't mean it doesn't have any value, it does, but it's not the powerhouse that it was in the last century, maybe even the beginning of this century, I'm not sure.
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Larry Wilson: But you know, those of you who, like I say, have been here a while, you know I'm always willing to learn from any source.
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Larry Wilson: If I meet someone who I think is really dumb, but I see I can learn something valuable, I don't care if they're dumb.
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Larry Wilson: I don't care if they're mean, I don't care if they're thoughtless or what if there's something I can learn, I will take what I can learn from them.
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Larry Wilson: Other times, sometimes it's the opposite.
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Larry Wilson: It's someone who's so lovely to spend time with.
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Larry Wilson: And there's so much to learn that I feel like I could spend the rest of my life and not absorb all of this.
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Larry Wilson: But does it seem like I'm holding off here?
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Larry Wilson: Hollywood is going through a uh I had a teacher in high school named Bill Taxerman, and he had a theory about history.
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Larry Wilson: I think he was a history teacher.
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Larry Wilson: Okay, and he used to say, I can't remember how he set this up or framed it, but he referred to certain events in history as GCTP, great convulsive transition periods.
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Larry Wilson: And I at this late stage, now I can't remember if what Bill Thaxerman uh, whether he said what caused these GCTPs, or maybe he just said it was a way of identifying periods in history.
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Larry Wilson: And I'm sure something like the Industrial Revolution he considered a great convulsive transition period.
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Larry Wilson: Well, in terms of communication, I feel like we are in the middle of a great convulsive transition period.
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Larry Wilson: And there's a variety of reasons.
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Larry Wilson: Obviously, they're all technological.
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Larry Wilson: The internet has totally revolutionized how people communicate.
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Larry Wilson: Not necessarily for the better, just changed.
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Larry Wilson: But by the same token, you know, all these different things, by texting, by email, by uh reels in Facebook or Instagram or TikTok, or all these different things, with people's incredibly shortened attention span, where I don't I don't know all the parameters for some of these platforms.
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Larry Wilson: But I know you know some of them extremely short.
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Larry Wilson: They only want this much, because that's all anyone can take.
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Larry Wilson: But they're all very clever because they leave some little breadcrumbs for you.
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Larry Wilson: If you happen to watch 15 seconds of their reel and you like it and you want to know more, there's a way to find out more.
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Larry Wilson: I do it myself on my YouTube channel.
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Larry Wilson: I'll grab excerpts from podcasts that I do, I'll grab a particularly intriguing or controversial sentence or two, and that way people can see something about Wilson Method, but it also hopefully will inflame their curiosity.
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Larry Wilson: And some people have, in fact, done a much deeper dive into what I'm doing here because of something they saw in a short bite.
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Larry Wilson: If you close your eyes and listen carefully, you can hear sphincters all over Hollywood snapping shut in terror.
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Larry Wilson: That headline from Daily Variety.
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Larry Wilson: No, Hollywood prepares to get massacred by big tech.
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Larry Wilson: And I'll tell you exactly what I mean.
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Larry Wilson: The reason right now, at this juncture, a phenomenon is taking place in Hollywood that is causing many a sleepless night, many a huge consumption of Valium or whatever other uh self-medications people are prescribing for themselves.
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Larry Wilson: The phenomenon is taking place.
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Larry Wilson: Uh perhaps some of you who are not in entertainment may not realize this.
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Larry Wilson: In Hollywood, in the last 20 years, 30 years, it has become durigue to track box office receipts for movies, how they're doing.
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Larry Wilson: They track the opening, how much money to take in on the opening weekend.
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Larry Wilson: And then it tracks subsequent weekends.
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Larry Wilson: And it's, you know, gauging what is the number one film, what if the number one film last week has been uh replaced by a new number one film, all that sort of thing.
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Larry Wilson: But it has also become the standard in the entertainment business, in the motion picture business.
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Larry Wilson: And and I referenced just a few moments ago the incredible changes that are taking place.
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Larry Wilson: When I was growing up, there was no target higher, there was no greater aspiration, if you were in entertainment, than to be a movie star.
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Larry Wilson: That was as big as it gets.
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Larry Wilson: That was the height of heights.
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Larry Wilson: And also, that was where you made the most money.
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Larry Wilson: Those are the wealthiest people.
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Larry Wilson: Television was sort of like the JV team.
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Larry Wilson: There are many people who had fantastic careers in television, made a lot of money.
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Larry Wilson: I know that you've heard me mention my friendship with Carl Malden, you know, multi-academy award-winning actor, films like On the Waterfront and Street Carnamed Desire.
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Larry Wilson: Phenomenal, I mean, a phenomenal actor.
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Larry Wilson: And also just a lovely person.
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Larry Wilson: So down-to-earth, so sweet, so completely unpretentious and interested to talk about acting and theater and all these things.
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Larry Wilson: And I remember, I remember things, it's not just about entertainment, but I remember things that happened during my life that I think other people may not realize I will remember.
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Larry Wilson: Things that maybe are said in passing, things that may not seem that important to them.
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Larry Wilson: I remember everything.
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Larry Wilson: I remember in the early 70s, Carl had incredible resume of extraordinary work he had done.
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Larry Wilson: And like I said, been awarded more than one Academy Award and, you know, the highest respect from everyone in the motion picture industry.
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Larry Wilson: And then he had taken this uh television show, Streets of San Francisco, and that exploded and became a gigantic hit.
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Larry Wilson: Gigantic hit.
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Larry Wilson: It's hard to give an image of how big it was, but it was huge.
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Larry Wilson: And then some very clever person.
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Larry Wilson: This is also going to be confusing for some younger people here, because I'm going to reference some technology that is so old it might as well be from Mesopotamia.
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Larry Wilson: It um it's crazy.
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Larry Wilson: In the days before there were computers, I know it's impossible to imagine.
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Larry Wilson: In the days before everyone was linked with the internet, and everyone had debit cards, and ATMs were omnipresent.
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Larry Wilson: They were everywhere.
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Larry Wilson: Uh now they are, but I mean, there was a time when there didn't such a thing didn't exist.
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Larry Wilson: I remember when it was an incredible novelty that you could go up, stick a card in, and get cash out of the seemed impossibly futuristic.
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Larry Wilson: But in the days before that, one of the things that concerned travelers was that they might be carrying a large amount of cash.
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Larry Wilson: Now, people did have credit cards, but sometimes if you went out of the United States, your credit card might not be accepted in some foreign country.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
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Larry Wilson: You never knew.
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Larry Wilson: And you also, if you used a credit card in a foreign country, you might not know what the exchange rate was going to be until you got your bill.
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Larry Wilson: And it might be usurious, it might be horrible.
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Larry Wilson: They probably could put in anything they wanted.
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Larry Wilson: So people had a tendency if they traveled to carry cash.
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Larry Wilson: And they were concerned if they lost their cash.
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Larry Wilson: Or worse, as I'm telling you this, it sounds like it sounds so ancient.
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Larry Wilson: They were worried of having their pocket picked by a nefarious street pickpocket of some kind, you know.
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Larry Wilson: So a number of large financial institutions uh created something they called travelers' checks.
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Larry Wilson: See, part of what's funny about this, I can't even believe that I have to explain what this is.
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Larry Wilson: But uh uh traveler's checks you purchased from a particular financial institution.
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Larry Wilson: Uh might be Bank of America, I know, had them, Wells Fargo had them.
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Larry Wilson: And you would buy them in denominations of$20 or$50 or$100.
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Larry Wilson: Uh, like a regular check, you would sign at the bottom.
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Larry Wilson: But there was also a place on the traveler's check where you could write the name of the business or person who you wanted to pay.
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Larry Wilson: And they would just be receiving the amount that that check was in.
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Larry Wilson: And like I said, they came in$20,$50,$100.
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Larry Wilson: So if you were buying something that costs more than that, you would have to use more than one check.
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Larry Wilson: And then they would probably refund you the difference in cash or all kinds of things like that.
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Larry Wilson: And then you would put their name in, saying this traveler's check is being paid to this person or business.
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Larry Wilson: And then you would counter sign the traveler's check so that the person who you're trying to use it to purchase them could see that your signature matched the other signature that presumably you had written when you first purchased the traveler's checks.
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Larry Wilson: This VIP training is not supposed to be all about traveler's checks, but I'm only telling you this because it's hard to believe such a thing.
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Larry Wilson: They're gone now.
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Larry Wilson: I'm I'm sure they're long gone.
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Larry Wilson: You with you know ATM and debit cards and you know uh Zell and Venmo and uh Bitcoin and all kinds of other means of paying people electronically, their ancient history.
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Larry Wilson: But one of the beauties of travelers' checks is the big financial organizations would guarantee their replacement if they were lost, because they would not honor the checks if the two signatures didn't match.
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Larry Wilson: So you signed one place on the check.
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Larry Wilson: If someone stole them, they would have to do a perfect forgery of your signature in order to cash that check.
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Larry Wilson: And of course, most people couldn't.
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Larry Wilson: So a number of these companies boasted about how easy it was to use them and get immediate replacement.
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Larry Wilson: The most successful was American Express.
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Larry Wilson: And some genius at American Express realized that Carl Malden was the star of this hugely popular show, Streets of San Francisco, where he played a tough detective, a street detective, street smart and tough and you know, very effective detective.
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Larry Wilson: And they approached Carl about hiring him to do a series.
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Larry Wilson: Actually, I think starting was just one commercial for American Express.
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Larry Wilson: Now, he didn't say, I'm a policeman or I represent policemen.
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Larry Wilson: And that was the genius of this campaign.
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Larry Wilson: People saw him and knew unconsciously, they felt I can trust.
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Larry Wilson: You know, Carl would say, You're on vacation.
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Larry Wilson: Well, you do.
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Larry Wilson: And then, of course, the idea is if you had American Express travelers' checks, you have no problem.
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Larry Wilson: You would immediately get replaced.
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Larry Wilson: Anyway, this campaign blew up.
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Larry Wilson: It went insane.
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Larry Wilson: And American Express came back and said, Oh, we want to do a series of six more commercials.
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Larry Wilson: And I remember one time talking with Carl very casually, and he said, You know, I've been on Broadway, I've been in films that won Academy Awards.
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Larry Wilson: He said, I've won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Larry Wilson: He said, I've been, my movies are shown all over the world.
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Larry Wilson: He said, I was on this incredibly hugely successful TV show.
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Larry Wilson: I guess it probably ran five, six, seven years, Streets of Sam.
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Larry Wilson: He said, but it wasn't until I did these commercials that I became famous.
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Larry Wilson: He said, Oh yeah.
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Larry Wilson: He said, I used to be able to walk around anywhere in public.
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Larry Wilson: He said, sometimes people would look at me and they'd think, oh, I know that guy.
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Larry Wilson: But he said, now everywhere I go, I'm mobbed by people.
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Larry Wilson: Well, that was like the mid-70s.
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Larry Wilson: And I think that may have been indicative of a turning point in the entertainment business because gradually television began to take the place of what movies had become.
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Larry Wilson: Now, movies were still huge, and movie stars still had a certain cachet.
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Larry Wilson: They were still magic, they were still demigods, but presentatives, agents, and managers and stuff in there started to realize, you know what?
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Larry Wilson: We can get more money from these TV people.
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Larry Wilson: And they did.
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Larry Wilson: So that now in the 21st acting in Motion Pictures, you know, people will say, oh, you know, what did you get for your last well, 30 million dollars?
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Larry Wilson: Oh my god.
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Larry Wilson: Well, Lisa Coudreau just mentioned in the interview just recently that her residuals from Friends, Friends, which ended 20 years ago, Lisa Coudreau said she's still receiving$200,000 a year.
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Larry Wilson: This is 20 years later.
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Larry Wilson: It's a whole different ballgame.
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Larry Wilson: Whole different ballgame.
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Larry Wilson: And one of the I've gotten very fucked up to have a point that I think you'll find very important here, ultimately.
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Larry Wilson: It's Hollywood wants to defend itself, always does, no matter what's going on.
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Larry Wilson: And its idea of how to defend itself was to start making these astronomical budgeted films where you saw when when they announced that Titanic was going to go over$100 million, all the smart money in Hollywood said, Oh, well, it can never make that back.
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Larry Wilson: Can never make over$100 million.
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Larry Wilson: That's ridiculous.
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Larry Wilson: Well, of course, they were wrong.
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Larry Wilson: And now it's very commonplace.
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Larry Wilson: $50 million,$200 million.
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Larry Wilson: Now, what are you getting for your money?
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Larry Wilson: That's a whole separate episode of this because clearly I know that you've seen films where you thought, I paid$12 to see this and I want my money back.
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Larry Wilson: But sometimes I don't know, you're paying for gigantic special effects of techno stuff, or you're you're paying for superstars.
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Larry Wilson: We don't just have one star getting all this money.
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Larry Wilson: We have five, and they're all getting whatever they're getting.
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Larry Wilson: 20 million, 50 million, whatever.
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Larry Wilson: So Hollywood is kind of a self-perpetuating golden fleece machine that is designed to, as my good friend Rick Marcelli always taught me, he said, the talent comes and goes, and by that he meant the actors.
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Larry Wilson: They come and go.
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Larry Wilson: He said, but the business remains.
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Larry Wilson: Well, of course.
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Larry Wilson: Rick is a hundred percent correct.
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Larry Wilson: The business remains, and its main job is to make money.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes something incredibly wonderful comes out of it, like Casablanca, a film made in the studio system, a film that writers were rewriting while it was being made.
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Larry Wilson: Writers were handing Humphrey Bogart new pages every day of dialogue.
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Larry Wilson: Crazy.
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Larry Wilson: It shouldn't have turned out as the most wonderful film it has.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes things like that happen.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes great works of art appear like Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strange Love.
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Larry Wilson: I don't know how that happens.
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Larry Wilson: But sometimes it does.
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Larry Wilson: But the first and foremost goal is to make money.
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Larry Wilson: Why is everyone in Hollywood having conniption fits right now?
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Larry Wilson: Well, because it has become standard with these gigantic budget films.
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Larry Wilson: They hype the hell out of them before they're released.
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Larry Wilson: They do everything possible using social media and everything else to really make that opening weekend gigantic.
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Larry Wilson: And sometimes they are.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes they're making upwards of a hundred million dollars just in ticket sales in the United States in the opening weekend.
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Larry Wilson: That's a phenomenal amount of money.
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Larry Wilson: Now it's not quite as much money as it sounds like, because in the motion picture industry, a general rule of thumb is you'll need to make at least two to two and a half times whatever the film costs.
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Larry Wilson: You'll need to recoup that to break even.
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Larry Wilson: So a film that costs 150 million to make, probably going to need to make north of 400 million before it ever sees any profit.
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Larry Wilson: There's costs involving distribution of the film to all the different theaters, and then the theaters take a big chunk of the money.
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Larry Wilson: It doesn't all go to the producers of the film and on and on and off.
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Larry Wilson: So although 100 million for an opening weekend is great, it doesn't mean you're out of the woods.
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Larry Wilson: But it has come to be understood in Hollywood that the last 10, 20 years, they've seen a very clear pattern.
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Larry Wilson: The opening weekend is where the biggest return comes.
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Larry Wilson: Now there's some films, uh some superhero films, Iron Man, things like that, you know, where they stay in theaters for a long time and they keep making money, but the money keeps going down.
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Larry Wilson: It may still be tens of millions of dollars, and it adds up.
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Larry Wilson: It may wind up being 600 million, 700 million, eight, but it may take 20 or 30 weeks.
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Larry Wilson: Then, of course, there's international sales, and that could equal the same amount.
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Larry Wilson: So there's great potential there.
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Larry Wilson: But it's just understood.
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Larry Wilson: It's perceived wisdom.
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Larry Wilson: It's just accepted as the way things are, that after the film opens, subsequent weekends won't be as big as the first one until now.
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Larry Wilson: Right now, something phenomenal and unprecedented is taking place.
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Larry Wilson: Two very low-budget film, both horror films, which is a perfect thing, of course, because horror is a perennial favorite.
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Larry Wilson: Been around since the beginning.
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Larry Wilson: People gathering to sit in the dark and be scared witless.
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Larry Wilson: And the other one, I think, is back room or back rooms, maybe I'm not sure.
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Larry Wilson: And here's what's scaring Hollywood to death.
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Larry Wilson: Well, there's a couple things.
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Larry Wilson: First thing that's scaring Hollywood to death is the directors of both these films.
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Larry Wilson: One of the directors, I think, is 26.
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Larry Wilson: The other one's 22.
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Larry Wilson: And they did not come out of Hollywood.
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Larry Wilson: Where did they come from?
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Larry Wilson: YouTube.
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Larry Wilson: That's where they came from.
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Larry Wilson: They're YouTubers.
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Larry Wilson: Now, uh sort of on a whim, because I was interested, because of the second thing that is scaring Hollywood to death.
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Larry Wilson: Both these films have made more money in subsequent weekends than the first weekend.
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Larry Wilson: What does this mean?
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Larry Wilson: Well, it's an old-fashioned thing that Hollywood has forgotten about.
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Larry Wilson: It's called word of mouth.
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Larry Wilson: People are seeing these films and telling their friends, oh, you've got to see this.
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Larry Wilson: Fantastic.
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Larry Wilson: And so I know for a fact obsessions, it almost sounds like I'm setting up some sort of vaudeville joke here.
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Larry Wilson: It sounds like, but I'm not.
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Larry Wilson: I'm telling you the truth.
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Larry Wilson: Obsessions, there's some dispute over what the actual budget was.
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Larry Wilson: I'll go with the high estimate.
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Larry Wilson: They say that obsessions cost$750,000.
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Larry Wilson: So I've also heard that it really only costs$500.
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Larry Wilson: And seeing it, I could easily believe that.
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Larry Wilson: There's no special effects, there's no fancy sets, there's no fancy actors.
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Larry Wilson: It could easily be made for half a million dollars.
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Larry Wilson: But let's say it costs three-quarters of a million dollars.
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Larry Wilson: At the latest juncture, I think Obsessions has taken in more than$380 million.
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Larry Wilson: There are no words to describe that.
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Larry Wilson: The only word I can think of is phenomenon.
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Larry Wilson: But this other film, Back Rooms, I think has done the same thing now.
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Larry Wilson: Back Rooms, I think, had a budget of$10 million.
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Larry Wilson: But I think it's taken in$280 million.
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Larry Wilson: And also continues to earn more the longer it's in theaters, the more money it's making.
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Larry Wilson: That's what's scaring Hollywood to death right now.
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Larry Wilson: And that's why I went to go see Obsession, because I I felt I owed it to you.
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Larry Wilson: This is clearly about communication.
27:36
Larry Wilson: This training is going to be a little mini review, very mini.
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Larry Wilson: I spoilers for this film.
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Larry Wilson: Let me just begin by saying so many things I want to tell you.
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Larry Wilson: It's a masterwork.
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Larry Wilson: It is a masterwork.
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Larry Wilson: My wife uh confessed that she'd never seen a horror film before.
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Larry Wilson: And she wasn't sure exactly what to expect.
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Larry Wilson: She thought, oh, what's going to be like a lot of blood and guts?
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Larry Wilson: And I said, I don't I don't know.
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Larry Wilson: We'll have to see it.
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Larry Wilson: Well, it's not like that.
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Larry Wilson: But it is scary.
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Larry Wilson: It is very scary.
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Larry Wilson: And my wife was very impressed by it.
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Larry Wilson: I said, Well, I have to warn you, you started with the bar set very hot.
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Larry Wilson: It may be a long time before you ever see a horror film as good as what you just saw.
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Larry Wilson: I feel compelled to mention at this juncture that uh there's also a lovely quality Hollywood has of eating its own.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes when things are panicky, people do terrible things.
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Larry Wilson: It's not a town that's built on great loyalties or honor.
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Larry Wilson: The headline I told you, you know, Hollywood and big tech prepare for war.
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Larry Wilson: Yeah, there ain't gonna be any war.
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Larry Wilson: But yesterday I read a review of a new film coming out, and it's the antithesis of this film obsession, because it is uh the giant superhero movie Supergirl.
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Larry Wilson: I haven't seen it, but the Hollywood Reporter, either Hollywood Reporter or Daily Variety, one of the two main long-established trade papers in entertainment, gave it a scathing review.
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Larry Wilson: Now, I also want to point out so that you understand, for those of you who are not in entertainment, this is very unusual.
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Larry Wilson: They're supposed to be unbiased.
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Larry Wilson: They're supposed to just be a regular, you know, here's a, you know, unvarnished review of this.
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Larry Wilson: But truthfully, they aren't really that unbiased because it's an industry town, and it's in everyone's best interest, everyone's best interest to make money and have things be successful.
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Larry Wilson: And they rarely attack themselves.
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Larry Wilson: Sometimes they'll come up with explanations that make no sense, or pathetic explanations for why a film doesn't do well.
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Larry Wilson: Well, this reviewer, who I was not familiar with, did not pull any punches on the review of Supergirl.
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Larry Wilson: And he said two things I thought were so interesting.
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Larry Wilson: First, he said, This is the worst script I can remember.
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Larry Wilson: Now that's that's that's a pretty scathing indictment.
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Larry Wilson: I'm not saying it's the worst film of the year or the worst film, a horror film.
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Larry Wilson: He said, the worst script I can remember.
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Larry Wilson: And then in the next sentence or two, he said, The problem is there's no story here.
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Larry Wilson: This is unforgivable.
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Larry Wilson: This is a cardinal sin.
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Larry Wilson: There's no story here.
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Larry Wilson: I only don't wish anyone ill.
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Larry Wilson: I don't hope for bad things to happen to any of these people.
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Larry Wilson: A lot of people's livelihoods are tied up in this.
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Larry Wilson: But when you spend$200 million on a film, probably you should throw an extra$15 to a writer someplace and have them write some kind of story, be that as it may.
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Larry Wilson: Obsession is a very strong story.
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Larry Wilson: You know, sometimes I get so involved that time just slips away.
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Larry Wilson: There's so much here I want to share with you, but I don't want to take up more of your life.
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Larry Wilson: So we're going to continue the second part of this next week, and it only gets better.
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Larry Wilson: This has been Larry Wilson.
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Larry Wilson: I want to thank you for spending this time with me, and I hope you found this information useful.
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Larry Wilson: If you're looking for more, you can find it at thewilsonmethod.com.
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Larry Wilson: If you want it, you can speak to me.
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Larry Wilson: Thank you.
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Larry Wilson: Send me an email at info at wilsonmethod.com because I read everything you want.
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Larry Wilson: I hope that you'll join us next week in this continuing journey.
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Larry Wilson: And you'll be with me for the next episode of How to Dr.