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How ‘The Greatest Hits’ Director, Ned Benson, Dreamt Up Its Genius Musical Time Traveling Premise · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Films often utilize music
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  Speaker 1: in meaningful ways, some even weave it into the narrative,
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  Speaker 1: but the apptly named new movie The Greatest Hits takes
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  Speaker 1: it to a whole new level by turning its music
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  Speaker 1: into a time machine. We all know music it can
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  Speaker 1: take your places, transport you in to different memories. But
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  Speaker 1: what if it could literally take you back in time.
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  Speaker 1: That's the basic premise the filmmaker Ned Benson brilliantly dreamt
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  Speaker 1: up when he reflected on his own experiences with music,
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  Speaker 1: telling Elle, music has always been such a nostalgia machine
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  Speaker 1: for me, and it could take me back to many
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  Speaker 1: specific moments in my life. I thought about music and
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  Speaker 1: how it related to certain relationships in my life, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the story's genesis. He highlights one particular strong example, saying,
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  Speaker 1: if I listen to Fleetwood Max's rumors, I remember being
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  Speaker 1: in my dad's Chevy Blazer where we would drive into
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  Speaker 1: town in the morning wearing my little red bet director
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  Speaker 1: Ned Benson, there, we all have great memories fueled by
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  Speaker 1: a particular song or album, and that's why his premise
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  Speaker 1: for the movie is just so relatable to everybody searts
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  Speaker 1: like pictures. New movie The Greatest Hits ats streaming on
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  Speaker 1: Hulu right now. Yah Direct from Hollywood.