For Love of the Game (1999)
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What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
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
Kevin Costner: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
For Love of the Game → Kevin Costner.
Costner told the speaker that John C. Reilly was the catcher and the film cut carefully around him.
“which I asked Costner about once, and he is basically like, he was the catcher, and they very carefully cut around him.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
Moneyball: 1 line industry ×1
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industry (industry):
For Love of the Game → Moneyball.
Baseball movies progressed from straight sports to merging genres (For Love of the Game) to a movement story that happens to be about baseball (Moneyball).
“now it's like this is about a movement that happened in a sport and it just happens to be about baseball”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:26:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- anecdote in The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag!, first at 0:20:59, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin, first at 0:15:49, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan, first at 1:55:14, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, first at 0:22:36, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin, first at 0:26:02, 2 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free), first at 3:20:26, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
craft (1)
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craft (craft):
For Love of the Game → Kevin Costner.
Costner told the speaker that John C. Reilly was the catcher and the film cut carefully around him.
“which I asked Costner about once, and he is basically like, he was the catcher, and they very carefully cut around him.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (1)
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industry (industry):
For Love of the Game → Moneyball.
Baseball movies progressed from straight sports to merging genres (For Love of the Game) to a movement story that happens to be about baseball (Moneyball).
“now it's like this is about a movement that happened in a sport and it just happens to be about baseball”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:26:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60 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.
- Kevin Costner: considered/rejected for Herb Brooks; star of For Love of the Game (The Rewatchables, ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan)
- Kevin Costner: star (The Rewatchables, A CR Month Mailbag!)
- John C. Reilly: actor (catcher) (The Rewatchables, A CR Month Mailbag!)