The Tonight Show game "5-Second Summaries" involves one person trying to summarize a famous movie in 5 seconds (or less) for the second person to guess. Jimmy Fallon is pretty good at the game. Director Martin Scorsese, Fallon's guest Wednesday night, is not. Scorsese proved very able at guessing movies, but when it came to summarizing them, he just didn't seem to know the right details to include. "You're too much of a director," Fallon said after Scorsese's terrible 3-second summary of Casablanca. "My movies are long — what can I tell you?" Scorsese explained. But the famous director did catch on, and his 1-second summary was spot-on, even if Fallon almost blanked on Rosebud. Watch this lesson in the perils of knowing too much below. Peter Weber
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