Boogie Nights (1997)

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Wikidata Q291170, film, IMDb tt0118749, TMDB 4995: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Paul Thomas Anderson as director (The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along); 17 more episodes agree.

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In the store as #559, Boogie Nights (1997).

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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.

Mean Streets: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Mean Streets ⇒ Boogie Nights (the maker said so: the Boogie Nights commentary track). Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights.
    “Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Michael De Luca: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (gave break): Michael De Luca ⇒ Boogie Nights (the host's read). De Luca ran New Line and gave PTA his break with Boogie Nights; now runs Warner's films division.
    “gave PTA his big break with Boogie Nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 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

Hard Eight (Sydney): 2 lines career ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights is about being young, Hard Eight about getting older, so it was the harder first film to see.
    “Boogie Nights is about being young and heart 8 is about getting older”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:59:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

After Hours: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (directing method): After Hours → Boogie Nights. Scorsese startled Dunn with glass-dropping like the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights.
    “It's like I'm that part of boogie nights where they're lighting off the...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 2:16:06 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)

Alfred Molina: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Alfred Molina → Boogie Nights. Molina's IMDb runs from Species straight into Boogie Nights two years later.
    “And then our guy Alfred Molina, who's 2 years later throwing firecrackers in Dirk Digler and Reed Rothschild.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Boogie Nights. Graham's 1999 run (Boogie Nights, Bowfinger, Austin Powers) is her peak.
    “She is at the peak of her powers in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Babylon: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): Babylon → Boogie Nights. Sean says the Boogie Nights comparison for Babylon is apt, though he thinks the characterization is weaker.
    “The Boogie Nights comparison has been made frequently.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Damien Chazelle: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence-wearing): Damien Chazelle → Boogie Nights. A speaker likens Chazelle's visible influences to Paul Thomas Anderson openly ripping off Scorsese in Boogie Nights.
    “when I watched the commentary track for boogie nights, and Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas or in all the Scorsese movies.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Dan Harmon: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Dan Harmon → Boogie Nights. The unmade Lego Super Friends script was reported to resemble Boogie Nights and cast Lex Luthor as the villain.
    “He says the script resembles boogie nights.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fargo: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (favorite pairing): Fargo → Boogie Nights. Zach's favorite-movie coin toss is Fargo versus Boogie Nights, a year apart, from his formative film-buff years.
    “It would be like a coin toss between this and boogie nights.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:14:31 · Zach Cregger (0.90 sure it was them)

Julianne Moore: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career timing): Julianne Moore → Boogie Nights. She came to the blockbuster from art-house work like Short Cuts and just before her first Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights.
    “Boogie Nights was going to get the Oscar nomination this year.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Leonardo DiCaprio: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (long-running want): Leonardo DiCaprio → Boogie Nights. PTA wanted DiCaprio for Boogie Nights and has been trying to cast him since.
    “PTA wanted Leo for boogie nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:08:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Mean Streets: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Boogie Nights → Mean Streets. Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights.
    “Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Michael De Luca: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (gave break): Michael De Luca → Boogie Nights. De Luca ran New Line and gave PTA his break with Boogie Nights; now runs Warner's films division.
    “gave PTA his big break with Boogie Nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Philip Baker Hall: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Philip Baker Hall → Boogie Nights. Hall's run from 89 to 99 includes Midnight Run, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight and Seinfeld.
    “Yeah, boogie nights?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

Philip Seymour Hoffman: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Boogie Nights. Craig's contrarian take: Hoffman is the same weird, goofy loner supporting guy in Boogie Nights and Twister, though he excepts The Master and Ripley.
    “I could see the Boogie Knights Twister. That connection...”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:52:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)

Resident Evil: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
    “most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Robert Ridgely: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (later role): Robert Ridgely → Boogie Nights. Ridgely, who plays Lutz's boss, is the colonel in Boogie Nights.
    “He's he's uh, that's the colonel. That's right. In Boogie Nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:48:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Star 80: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (scene echo): Star 80 → Boogie Nights. Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights.
    “Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Boogie Nights. The Playgirl photo-shoot gag prompts Boogie Nights.
    “It's called boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:58:11 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)

The Big Chill: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Big Chill → Boogie Nights. The Big Chill is like Boogie Nights: a movie where the song list in order basically plays like a jukebox.
    “This is a movie where you can make a Spotify playlist of all the songs in order of when they're in the movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Departed: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career peak): The Departed → Boogie Nights. 1997 was a better year for Leo, Damon, Nicholson and Wahlberg than 2006: Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, As Good as It Gets.
    “Wahlberg had boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Ice Storm: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Boogie Nights. The key party built hype like Boogie Nights' reveal, the thing the audience waits for.
    “boogie nights is the same year and that had a whole thing about he's got a huge slong”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Boogie Nights. Grouped with Goodfellas as a needle-drop landmark.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Thief → Boogie Nights. Caan's collapse-into-tears move recalls Wahlberg breaking down in Boogie Nights.
    “Wahlberg and Boogie Nights, like when he breaks down in the bedroom with his mom.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Victor Miller: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Victor Miller → Boogie Nights. A joke that Miller wrote a Halloween ripoff, not Boogie Nights, so he should settle down about Jason being the killer.
    “You didn't just write boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:27:32 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

William H. Macy: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (actor's run of losers): William H. Macy → Boogie Nights. Macy played pathetic men in Fargo and the Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
    “He really was on such a run of losers, right, between this and the PTA movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:18:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career timing): Julianne Moore → Boogie Nights. She came to the blockbuster from art-house work like Short Cuts and just before her first Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights.
    “Boogie Nights was going to get the Oscar nomination this year.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Alfred Molina → Boogie Nights. Molina's IMDb runs from Species straight into Boogie Nights two years later.
    “And then our guy Alfred Molina, who's 2 years later throwing firecrackers in Dirk Digler and Reed Rothschild.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Boogie Nights. Graham's 1999 run (Boogie Nights, Bowfinger, Austin Powers) is her peak.
    “She is at the peak of her powers in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Philip Baker Hall → Boogie Nights. Hall's run from 89 to 99 includes Midnight Run, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight and Seinfeld.
    “Yeah, boogie nights?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. career (career peak): The Departed → Boogie Nights. 1997 was a better year for Leo, Damon, Nicholson and Wahlberg than 2006: Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, As Good as It Gets.
    “Wahlberg had boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Boogie Nights. Seeing Hard Eight after Boogie Nights was like a first album that got bigger distribution once the second took off.
    “It was a little bit of a like 1st album, 2nd album thing”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:59:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Boogie Nights. The key party built hype like Boogie Nights' reveal, the thing the audience waits for.
    “boogie nights is the same year and that had a whole thing about he's got a huge slong”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights is about being young, Hard Eight about getting older, so it was the harder first film to see.
    “Boogie Nights is about being young and heart 8 is about getting older”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:59:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): The Big Chill → Boogie Nights. The Big Chill is like Boogie Nights: a movie where the song list in order basically plays like a jukebox.
    “This is a movie where you can make a Spotify playlist of all the songs in order of when they're in the movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Thief → Boogie Nights. Caan's collapse-into-tears move recalls Wahlberg breaking down in Boogie Nights.
    “Wahlberg and Boogie Nights, like when he breaks down in the bedroom with his mom.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (influence): Boogie Nights → Mean Streets. Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights.
    “Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (influence-wearing): Damien Chazelle → Boogie Nights. A speaker likens Chazelle's visible influences to Paul Thomas Anderson openly ripping off Scorsese in Boogie Nights.
    “when I watched the commentary track for boogie nights, and Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas or in all the Scorsese movies.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (actor's run of losers): William H. Macy → Boogie Nights. Macy played pathetic men in Fargo and the Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
    “He really was on such a run of losers, right, between this and the PTA movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:18:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Victor Miller → Boogie Nights. A joke that Miller wrote a Halloween ripoff, not Boogie Nights, so he should settle down about Jason being the killer.
    “You didn't just write boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:27:32 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (scene echo): Star 80 → Boogie Nights. Star 80 produces the same turn-it-off discomfort as the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights.
    “Combined with the firework, the firecracker scene in boogie nights.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Babylon → Boogie Nights. Sean says the Boogie Nights comparison for Babylon is apt, though he thinks the characterization is weaker.
    “The Boogie Nights comparison has been made frequently.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (7)

  1. unmapped (directing method): After Hours → Boogie Nights. Scorsese startled Dunn with glass-dropping like the firecracker scene in Boogie Nights.
    “It's like I'm that part of boogie nights where they're lighting off the...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 2:16:06 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Boogie Nights. The Playgirl photo-shoot gag prompts Boogie Nights.
    “It's called boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:58:11 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (later role): Robert Ridgely → Boogie Nights. Ridgely, who plays Lutz's boss, is the colonel in Boogie Nights.
    “He's he's uh, that's the colonel. That's right. In Boogie Nights.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:48:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Boogie Nights. Grouped with Goodfellas as a needle-drop landmark.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
    “most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (long-running want): Leonardo DiCaprio → Boogie Nights. PTA wanted DiCaprio for Boogie Nights and has been trying to cast him since.
    “PTA wanted Leo for boogie nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:08:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (gave break): Michael De Luca → Boogie Nights. De Luca ran New Line and gave PTA his break with Boogie Nights; now runs Warner's films division.
    “gave PTA his big break with Boogie Nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (favorite pairing): Fargo → Boogie Nights. Zach's favorite-movie coin toss is Fargo versus Boogie Nights, a year apart, from his formative film-buff years.
    “It would be like a coin toss between this and boogie nights.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:14:31 · Zach Cregger (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Boogie Nights. Craig's contrarian take: Hoffman is the same weird, goofy loner supporting guy in Boogie Nights and Twister, though he excepts The Master and Ripley.
    “I could see the Boogie Knights Twister. That connection...”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:52:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Dan Harmon → Boogie Nights. The unmade Lego Super Friends script was reported to resemble Boogie Nights and cast Lex Luthor as the villain.
    “He says the script resembles boogie nights.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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