Cruel Intentions (1999)
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Wikidata Q64151, film, IMDb tt0139134, TMDB 796: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Reese Witherspoon as actor (‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check — Patreon
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
The Rewatchables
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
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Guardians of the Galaxy: 1 line industry ×1
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industry (industry):
Guardians of the Galaxy → Cruel Intentions.
Needle-drop costs can sink a song choice, as with Bittersweet Symphony in Cruel Intentions.
“Bittersweet Symphony costs so much because you have to pay the Rolling Stones.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:06:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Mean Girls: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (genre commentary):
Mean Girls → Cruel Intentions.
Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99.
“That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:58:53, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins, first at 0:03:52, 3 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free), first at 1:42:31, 1 time
- anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy, first at 2:06:15, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
industry (1)
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industry (industry):
Guardians of the Galaxy → Cruel Intentions.
Needle-drop costs can sink a song choice, as with Bittersweet Symphony in Cruel Intentions.
“Bittersweet Symphony costs so much because you have to pay the Rolling Stones.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:06:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (1)
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theme (genre commentary):
Mean Girls → Cruel Intentions.
Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99.
“That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Reese Witherspoon: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- Reese Witherspoon: cast (Blank Check — Patreon, Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free))
- Ryan Phillippe: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- Sarah Michelle Gellar: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- Selma Blair: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- The Rolling Stones: rights holders of the Bittersweet Symphony sample, who had to be paid (Blank Check — Patreon, Guardians of the Galaxy)