The General (1926)

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Wikidata Q850159, film, IMDb tt0017925, TMDB 961: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Buster Keaton as director, star (Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak).

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Sherlock, Jr.: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (critical standing): Sherlock, Jr. → The General. Sherlock Jr. has supplanted The General as the critical consensus perfect Keaton movie.
    “I feel like it's supplanted the general as sort of the critic consensus, perfect Keaton movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:58:18 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (period-accuracy obsession): The General → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton's obsessive uniform and detail accuracy on The General was Kubrickian, a push as a director beyond comedy.
    “he was so obsessed with like fucking, you brought it up, James, but like Kubrickian, every fucking uniform has to be period accurate.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:59:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Navigator: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (same hook): The Navigator → The General. Both started from Keaton getting hold of a vehicle and building the movie around it, but The General is a real movie while The Navigator is a series of bits.
    “It is so similar to what the general eventually is where he's like, vehicle?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:50:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (critical standing): Sherlock, Jr. → The General. Sherlock Jr. has supplanted The General as the critical consensus perfect Keaton movie.
    “I feel like it's supplanted the general as sort of the critic consensus, perfect Keaton movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:58:18 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (same hook): The Navigator → The General. Both started from Keaton getting hold of a vehicle and building the movie around it, but The General is a real movie while The Navigator is a series of bits.
    “It is so similar to what the general eventually is where he's like, vehicle?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:50:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (period-accuracy obsession): The General → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton's obsessive uniform and detail accuracy on The General was Kubrickian, a push as a director beyond comedy.
    “he was so obsessed with like fucking, you brought it up, James, but like Kubrickian, every fucking uniform has to be period accurate.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:59:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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