YMMV / Screen Rant Pitch Meetings

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is the Screenwriter a talentless hack who can't write a movie to save his life? Or is the main problem that he's too lazy to iron out the flaws in his work, something that the Producer seems to enable through his inaction? Or is it some combination of the two?
  • The Producer seems to have at least some idea that the Screenwriter's ideas are terrible but (almost) never poses any significant opposition to them. Is he simply spineless, not to mention possibly under the thumb of a boss who'd likely overrule him? Or is he confident that the films will make a lot of money despite the problems?
  • The Producer often cheerfully points out the various problems with the ideas but lets them go without any further comment. Is this because he has a very skewed idea of what makes a good movie, since he mentions that he doesn't watch many films in the Beauty and the Beast (2017) pitch meeting? Or does he not actually have much power to change the Screenwriter's script, and merely has to settle for making Stealth Insults about the work being pitched?
  • During the pitch meeting for Batman (1989), the Producer is shown to have been hallucinating the Screenwriter. Could he have Dissociative Identity Disorder and be writing all these scripts himself?
• Anvilicious:
  • During the Aladdin (2019) pitch meeting, the Producer gets passed the Smart Ball, and goes off on a brief spiel asking about why they're remaking a beloved animated film when they could only, at best, make it as good as the original, and improvements in film technology don't justify remaking it. True to form, when the Screenwriter says, "...because money?" the Producer immediately acquiesces.
  • In general, the worse a movie or TV show is, the less subtle the series is about criticizing its flaws. In the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides pitch meeting, the Producer flat out states he has no reason to care about the central conflict of the story, and the Screenwriter agrees with him. Even the Screenwriter doesn't care about the romantic subplot between the missionary and the mermaid.
  • Discussed during the Barbie (2023) portion of the Barbenheimer pitch meeting, one of the two Screenwriters starts to repeat the film's heavy handed anti-patriarchy message much to the increasing annoyance of the Producer. At one point he goes as far as to literally hit the Producer over the head with the message of the film.
• Archive Panic: As of 2023, more than 300 pitch meetings have been produced.
• Broken Base: The pitch meetings for The LEGO Movie & The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, where Ryan refers to the movies as "commercials". Is this an accurate reflection of the films, or does it discount the films' far superior quality compared to most other Merchandise-Driven media?
• Fridge Brilliance: Given the usual stereotypes about Hollywood producers, it might seem a little odd that the Producer is so willing to roll over for almost anything the Screenwriter insists on. But considering that this particular Screenwriter is responsible for many of the most successful movies ever made, it's no wonder that he gets a lot of leeway.
• Growing the Beard: Somewhere around 2019 the Producer's and Screenwriter's characters and over-the-top mannerisms became more pronounced, making the shorts a lot funnier.
• He Really Can Act: During the Breaking Dawn Pitch Meeting, the Screenwriter pitches the infamous imprinting subplot, and the Producer's demeanor immediately becomes sullen and uncomfortable. While it's rather brief, Ryan George's acting is flawless in how quickly it snaps to and from being absolutely depressed about the movie's plot and being ecstatic at the thought of all the money they'll make.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the Marvel Phase 4 Pitch Meeting, the Screenwriter suggests that they remake all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in animation. It would later be announced that Marvel would be making What If...?, an animated show where MCU films would be revisited, although they would diverge.
  • Due to how high the stakes were in Avengers: Endgame, the Screenwriter plans to give future movies stakes so low that no one will compare to them to Endgame. Phase 4 actually did end up deriving a lot of emotional moments from less dangerous, more relatable situations with comparatively low stakes (such as Hawkeye having to get home to his family by Christmas, Peter Parker failing to get into college, or The Falcon failing to get a loan from a bank).
  • The Producer suggesting that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 be split further more accurately describes the final season of Attack on Titan, which was split into three parts, with the third part later being split into two parts as well due to the amount of work it took for MAPPA to adapt the material.
• Memetic Mutation: Virtually the entire format of the show is something easily parodied for other contexts and then will be quickly recognized by people familiar with it. Most every Catchphrase Ryan spouts is quotable too, most especially, "super easy, barely an inconvenience."
• Play-Along Meme: The videos have a screenwriter and producer (and occasionally more characters) played by the same person, Ryan George. A lot of fans joke in the comments that of course these are different individuals: they look nothing alike, they wear different clothes, and also, the screenwriter has glasses.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The addition of sponsored content in the Toy Story pitch meeting once it was reposted to the Pitch Meeting channel sparked an almost unanimously negative reaction from viewers, with people even using the Play-Along Meme to complain about the development.

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