The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Wikidata Q628664, film, IMDb tt0035015, TMDB 965: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Orson Welles as director (‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Big Picture
- Griffin Newman: 1 line in The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!
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.
The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line the host's read ×1
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lineage (influence):
The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read).
Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
“it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
Connected to
The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (influence):
The Royal Tenenbaums → The Magnificent Ambersons.
Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
“it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
The Thief and the Cobbler: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (lost masterpiece):
The Thief and the Cobbler → The Magnificent Ambersons.
Williams's never-finished Thief and the Cobbler is one of animation's great Magnificent Ambersons.
“it's sort of one of the great magnificent Ambersons of animation.”
The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:36:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald, first at 1:15:59, 2 times
- passing in The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!, first at 1:36:19, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1, first at 0:53:58, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free), first at 0:35:20, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
lineage (1)
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lineage (influence):
The Royal Tenenbaums → The Magnificent Ambersons.
Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
“it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (1)
-
unmapped (lost masterpiece):
The Thief and the Cobbler → The Magnificent Ambersons.
Williams's never-finished Thief and the Cobbler is one of animation's great Magnificent Ambersons.
“it's sort of one of the great magnificent Ambersons of animation.”
The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:36:30 · Griffin Newman (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.
- Orson Welles: director (The Rewatchables, ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald)
- Orson Welles: director (Blank Check — Patreon, 2025 March Madness Update 1)
- Orson Welles: director (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))