The French Connection (1971)

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Wikidata Q220735, film, IMDb tt0067116, TMDB 1051: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Gene Hackman as actor (Popeye Doyle) (‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald).

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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.

Beverly Hills Cop: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read). Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
    “Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Connected to

Beverly Hills Cop: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → The French Connection. Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
    “Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Blue Steel: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → The French Connection. Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case.
    “French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Internal Affairs: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Internal Affairs → The French Connection. Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them.
    “Yeah, connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

Pauline Kael: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): The French Connection → Pauline Kael. Kael has an interesting take on how black audiences respond to The French Connection, brought up to explain her BHC reaction.
    “she's got a really interesting take on, on, on French Connection, for instance”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance-lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The French Connection. Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman.
    “So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (lineage): Internal Affairs → The French Connection. Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them.
    “Yeah, connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → The French Connection. Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
    “Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Blue Steel → The French Connection. Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case.
    “French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance-lineage): The Royal Tenenbaums → The French Connection. Royal talks like Popeye Doyle; Anderson loves 70s Hackman.
    “So he talks like Popeye Doyle, right? Like from the French connection.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:58:08 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): The French Connection → Pauline Kael. Kael has an interesting take on how black audiences respond to The French Connection, brought up to explain her BHC reaction.
    “she's got a really interesting take on, on, on French Connection, for instance”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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