Mean Streets (1973)

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Wikidata Q841335, film, IMDb tt0070379, TMDB 203: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Martin Scorsese as director (The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along); 7 more episodes agree.

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The Big Picture

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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.

Boogie Nights: 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)

Connected to

Saturday Night Fever: 2 lines theme ×1 lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Saturday Night Fever → Mean Streets. Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out.
    “it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Amy Robinson: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (credit): Amy Robinson → Mean Streets. Robinson, After Hours co-producer, was the female lead in Mean Streets; that's how she knew Scorsese.
    “His producing partner is Amy Robinson, who was the female lead in Mean Streets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:14:53 · unknown host (0.40 sure it was them)

Beverly Hills Cop: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Mean Streets. The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters.
    “I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Boogie Nights: 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)

Look Who's Talking: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (aspiration): Look Who's Talking → Mean Streets. Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie.
    “I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:41:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Raging Bull: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (director in love with a star): Raging Bull → Mean Streets. Mean Streets feels like a director falling in love with De Niro, which carries through to this film.
    “Well, you watch Mean Streets and it feels like watching a director fall in love.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:56:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rocky: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Rocky → Mean Streets. Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets.
    “It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The Last Temptation of Christ: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career thread): The Last Temptation of Christ → Mean Streets. The Jesus figure runs through Scorsese's whole filmography back to Mean Streets.
    “But what's like this Jesus is as central of this guy's entire filmography as anything?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:18:50 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40 sure it was them)

Verna Bloom: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (behind the scenes): Verna Bloom → Mean Streets. Bloom helped get Mean Streets made; she was married to Jay Cocks.
    “For getting Mean Streets made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 2:01:17 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)

Where it came up

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career (1)

  1. career (career thread): The Last Temptation of Christ → Mean Streets. The Jesus figure runs through Scorsese's whole filmography back to Mean Streets.
    “But what's like this Jesus is as central of this guy's entire filmography as anything?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:18:50 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (4)

  1. lineage (lineage): Rocky → Mean Streets. Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets.
    “It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Saturday Night Fever → Mean Streets. Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out.
    “it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Mean Streets. The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters.
    “I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. 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)

people (1)

  1. people (director in love with a star): Raging Bull → Mean Streets. Mean Streets feels like a director falling in love with De Niro, which carries through to this film.
    “Well, you watch Mean Streets and it feels like watching a director fall in love.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:56:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Mean Streets. 70s and 80s films tried to capture a city or group; Scorsese did it in Mean Streets with people who are not great either.
    “like, you know, mean streets, Scorsese does that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:10:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (credit): Amy Robinson → Mean Streets. Robinson, After Hours co-producer, was the female lead in Mean Streets; that's how she knew Scorsese.
    “His producing partner is Amy Robinson, who was the female lead in Mean Streets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:14:53 · unknown host (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (behind the scenes): Verna Bloom → Mean Streets. Bloom helped get Mean Streets made; she was married to Jay Cocks.
    “For getting Mean Streets made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 2:01:17 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (aspiration): Look Who's Talking → Mean Streets. Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie.
    “I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:41:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Mean Streets: Found a copy of Mean Streets for $4 at a pawn shop on a vacation in Maine.
    “I found a copy of Mean Streets for $4.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:24:40 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)

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