The Wire (2002)

Wikidata Q478360, series, IMDb tt0306414: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the best known by that title (49 Wikipedias; the next, 6); 3 more episodes agree.

Also said as The Wire (TV): the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

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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.

Paths of Glory: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Frankie Faison: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (later career): Frankie Faison → The Wire. People later know Faison from The Wire and many films.
    “who I think people would later know as like a from the wire and a lot of films over the years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:20:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Idris Elba: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Idris Elba → The Wire. Elba got very famous through The Wire's late-arriving HBO Go audience, so he is now too big for Heimdall's small part.
    “The wire got really big around this time because of HBO Go.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:41:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Internal Affairs: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Wire → Internal Affairs. Cops in The Wire beat suspects and plant evidence but read as more human than police, so dirty cops work differently on TV.
    “You see a couple these, Hurricane Carver, take some money, the whole not, so they're more human than they are police, which makes the lens that you look at them through a little bit different.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:16 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

Michael K. Williams: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Michael K. Williams → The Wire. Casting directors loved The Wire and Omar, so he gets cast in a small part.
    “I love the wire and I love Omar.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:50:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Paths of Glory: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → The Wire. David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ray Winstone: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (turned down): Ray Winstone → The Wire. Winstone turned down the McNulty role that became The Wire's, per Simmons's Googling.
    “Turned down the role of Jimmy McDulty in 2002.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:26:14 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

The Departed: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (that guy): The Departed → The Wire. James Badge Dale shows up in lots of things, and they note Black Hawk Down had every actor.
    “Every single actor was in Black Hawk Down, so you can just say.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:26:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Zodiac: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (tone of the era): The Wire → Zodiac. Zodiac's boring, methodical procedure is why The Wire felt revolutionary around the same time.
    “this is why the wire had felt so revolutionary, which is around the same time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:43:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (later career): Frankie Faison → The Wire. People later know Faison from The Wire and many films.
    “who I think people would later know as like a from the wire and a lot of films over the years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:20:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Michael K. Williams → The Wire. Casting directors loved The Wire and Omar, so he gets cast in a small part.
    “I love the wire and I love Omar.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:50:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Idris Elba → The Wire. Elba got very famous through The Wire's late-arriving HBO Go audience, so he is now too big for Heimdall's small part.
    “The wire got really big around this time because of HBO Go.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:41:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Wire → Internal Affairs. Cops in The Wire beat suspects and plant evidence but read as more human than police, so dirty cops work differently on TV.
    “You see a couple these, Hurricane Carver, take some money, the whole not, so they're more human than they are police, which makes the lens that you look at them through a little bit different.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:16 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (tone of the era): The Wire → Zodiac. Zodiac's boring, methodical procedure is why The Wire felt revolutionary around the same time.
    “this is why the wire had felt so revolutionary, which is around the same time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:43:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → The Wire. David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (that guy): The Departed → The Wire. James Badge Dale shows up in lots of things, and they note Black Hawk Down had every actor.
    “Every single actor was in Black Hawk Down, so you can just say.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:26:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (turned down): Ray Winstone → The Wire. Winstone turned down the McNulty role that became The Wire's, per Simmons's Googling.
    “Turned down the role of Jimmy McDulty in 2002.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:26:14 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

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