This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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Wikidata Q7810384, film, IMDb tt0088258, TMDB 11031: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Big Picture
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
Rob Reiner: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Rob Reiner → This Is Spinal Tap.
After All in the Family nobody could see Reiner doing anything else, but he directed Spinal Tap.
“he does this as Spinal Tap directs it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:14:07 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (spiritual kin):
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → This Is Spinal Tap.
Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity.
“connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman, first at 0:14:07, 1 time
- compared in The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics, first at 0:30:45, 4 times
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Rob Reiner → This Is Spinal Tap.
After All in the Family nobody could see Reiner doing anything else, but he directed Spinal Tap.
“he does this as Spinal Tap directs it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:14:07 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
lineage (1)
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lineage (spiritual kin):
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story → This Is Spinal Tap.
Both lampoon rock-star mythology; Dewey is a Forrest Gump of popular music where Tap's band has no identity.
“connecting Walkhart to Spinal Tap, because I think there's a deep spiritual communion between these movies”
The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:58 · Adam Nayman (0.90 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.
- Rob Reiner: director (The Rewatchables, ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman)