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Part 6 | Rick and Morty

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Part 6 | Rick and Morty

Effective use of 'show, don't tell' for the origin story
Strong emotional hook by revealing the tragic loss of family
Rapid montage efficiently conveys years of character development

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Hook

8/10

Viral

7/10

Analysis

Execution Elements

Visual Style

cinematic animated

dramatic moody

Audio Design

emotional

emphasis

The Hook

curiosity

Immediate emotional backstory reveal about Rick's wife

Setting

garage lab

portal gun, green fluid, family photo, sci-fi scanner

Structure Analysis

19 SHOTS

01

Setup

Establishes the backstory of Rick inventing the portal gun and his encounter with a variant of himself.

00:00 - 00:589 SHOTS

100:00

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Establish emotional stakes immediately.

Camera

static

Action

Flashback: Rick looks at a green energy field where a silhouette of his wife and child fades.

Audio

Melancholic music, Rick's voiceover begins.

hard-cut

200:02

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Show the origin of the iconic prop.

Camera

static

Action

Rick holds the first prototype portal gun.

Audio

Dialogue continues.

hard-cut

300:05

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Demonstrate success of invention.

Camera

static

Action

Rick tests the portal gun on an apple; it successfully teleports.

Audio

Portal sound effects.

hard-cut

400:08

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Contextualize the memory.

Camera

static

Action

Rick talks to a Gromflomite agent in a flashback within a flashback.

Audio

Dialogue.

hard-cut

500:11

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Introduce the antagonist.

Camera

static

Action

A portal opens and a variant Rick (Prime Rick) steps out.

Audio

Portal sound.

hard-cut

600:14

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Establish the dynamic between the two versions.

Camera

static

Action

Prime Rick mocks our Rick about inventing teleportation.

Audio

Dialogue.

hard-cut

700:22

medium close-upeye-levelstatic

Present the temptation/call to adventure.

Camera

static

Action

Prime Rick pitches the idea of interdimensional travel and infinite possibilities.

Audio

Dialogue.

hard-cut

800:30

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Highlight philosophical difference.

Camera

static

Action

Rick calls the idea 'lonely'. Prime Rick counters that he has infinite selves.

Audio

Dialogue.

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900:40

close-upeye-levelstatic

The refusal of the call.

Camera

static

Action

Prime Rick offers the technology. Rick passes. Prime Rick gets offended.

Audio

Tense dialogue.

02

Conflict

Rick rejects the offer of infinite power, choosing his family instead, creating tension with the variant Rick.

00:58 - 01:234 SHOTS

1000:58

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Ominous departure.

Camera

static

Action

Prime Rick leaves through a portal, making a threat.

Audio

Portal sound.

hard-cut

1101:01

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Show what Rick is protecting/choosing.

Camera

static

Action

Diane (Rick's wife) enters. Rick decides to give up science for family.

Audio

Warm, gentle dialogue.

hard-cut

1201:18

medium shoteye-levelstatic

False sense of security.

Camera

static

Action

Rick and family getting into the car for ice cream.

Audio

Happy dialogue.

hard-cut

1301:22

wide shoteye-levelstatic

The tragic turning point.

Camera

static

Action

A bomb drops from a portal and explodes the garage/house.

Audio

Loud explosion SFX.

03

Tragedy

The variant Rick kills Rick's wife and daughter, serving as the inciting incident for his entire character arc.

01:23 - 01:291 SHOT

1401:25

medium close-uplow anglestatic

Show immediate aftermath and grief.

Camera

static

Action

Rick screams in horror at the wreckage. Cut to him grieving in a chair.

Audio

Screaming fades to silence/somber music.

04

Montage

A rapid sequence showing Rick's desperate, violent, and futile search for the killer across the multiverse.

01:29 - 02:532 SHOTS

1501:29

medium shoteye-levelstatic

The start of the revenge mission.

Camera

static

Action

Rick constructs his own portal gun from scrap.

Audio

Montage music begins.

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1601:32

25 cuts

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Show the passage of time and descent into obsession.

Camera

static

Action

Rapid montage: Rick traveling through diverse alien worlds, killing aliens, searching for Prime Rick, getting more hardened and cybernetic.

Audio

Driving, intense music.

05

Reveal

The twist is revealed: Rick returned to the killer's dimension to wait for him, inadvertently adopting his abandoned family (Morty).

02:53 - 03:443 SHOTS

1702:53

wide shoteye-levelstatic

The realization of his plan.

Camera

static

Action

Rick returns to the destroyed garage of Prime Rick's dimension.

Audio

Music slows.

hard-cut

1803:00

medium shoteye-levelstatic

Show his ruthlessness.

Camera

static

Action

Rick waits. A portal opens, he shoots, but it's just a Council of Ricks member. He kills them.

Audio

Gunfire SFX.

hard-cut

1903:22

medium shoteye-levelstatic

The final twist: Morty is Prime Rick's grandson.

Camera

static

Action

Rick explains to Morty that he crashed into this house (Prime Rick's house) to wait for him to return, but he never did. He just lived with the abandoned Beth.

Audio

Dialogue reveal.

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