Fighting with My Family (2019)

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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.

Rocky: 2 lines the maker said so ×2

  1. craft (craft): Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
    “make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

42nd Street: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): 42nd Street ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street.
    “those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

8 Mile: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): 8 Mile ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it.
    “The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

A Star Is Born: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): A Star Is Born ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Batman (Tim Burton): 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): Batman (Tim Burton) ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines.
    “the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Billy Elliot: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. theme (theme): Billy Elliot ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet.
    “I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Dwayne Johnson: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. people (people): Dwayne Johnson ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

The Fighter: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 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

Rocky: 3 lines craft ×2 lineage ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Rocky. Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
    “make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Leave No Trace: 2 lines programming ×1 contrast ×1

  1. programming (programming): Leave No Trace → Fighting with My Family. Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family.
    “That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)

Ready to Rumble: 2 lines industry ×1 contrast ×1

  1. industry (industry): Fighting with My Family → Ready to Rumble. Fennessey frames Fighting with My Family as the first stroke of a more refined version of the movie-wrestling crossover that Ready to Rumble attempted.
    “fighting with my family feels like the 1st stroke of maybe a slightly more refined vision of how movies and the pro wrestling world intersect.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

The Office (TV series): 2 lines career ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Office (TV series) → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says there is always a coming-of-age element in his work, whether the Office or this film.
    “whether it's the office or any of the other things are done, there's always a sort of coming of age element to it”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:29:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

42nd Street: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → 42nd Street. Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street.
    “those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

8 Mile: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → 8 Mile. Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it.
    “The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

A Star Is Born: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → A Star Is Born. Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Batman (Tim Burton): 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Batman (Tim Burton). Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines.
    “the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Billy Elliot: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Fighting with My Family → Billy Elliot. Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet.
    “I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Dwayne Johnson: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Dwayne Johnson → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Film4: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Film4 → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says he developed the project from the ground up with Dwayne Johnson and Film4.
    “I developed it with Dwayne and with film 4”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:43:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Hello Ladies (TV series): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hello Ladies (TV series) → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says his Hello Ladies character, like Paige and Brent, finally stops trying so hard.
    “true of my Hello Lady's character”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:30:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.90 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Saturday Night Fever. Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

The Fighter: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → The Fighter. Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Fighting with My Family → The Office (TV series). Fennessey says Paige is positioned not far from David Brent or Merchant's Hello Ladies character, with a presumed sense of accomplishment.
    “not so far from David Brent or your character in Hello Ladies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:28:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Ready to Rumble → Fighting with My Family. Shoemaker says the Ready to Rumble/Arquette attempt failed because a wrestling movie must strike exactly the right tone, the test Fighting with My Family now faces.
    “there's a reason why they're ready to rumble David Arquette thing was a failure, because you have to, you have to strike the exact right tone.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:13:24 · David Shoemaker (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Fighting with My Family → Leave No Trace. Merchant says Leave No Trace is heavy and Fighting with My Family could be the antidote or sorbet.
    “There's a heaviness to leave no trace that perhaps we could be an antidote.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:53:41 · Stephen Merchant (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (5)

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Batman (Tim Burton). Merchant says his furious teenage reaction to Burton's Joker change taught him that a 90-minute movie must simplify its source, as he did with wrestling storylines.
    “the more that Tim Burton's decision to do that makes perfect sense to me as a 90 minute movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:35:54 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → The Fighter. Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Rocky. Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
    “make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Rocky → Fighting with My Family. Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied.
    “a template in the sense that it really beds in character”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → Saturday Night Fever. Merchant treats the wrestling matches like the dance numbers in Saturday Night Fever, each with different moves building to a big finale.
    “the way that the wrestling sequences are almost little dance numbers.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:47:51 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Fighting with My Family → Ready to Rumble. Fennessey frames Fighting with My Family as the first stroke of a more refined version of the movie-wrestling crossover that Ready to Rumble attempted.
    “fighting with my family feels like the 1st stroke of maybe a slightly more refined vision of how movies and the pro wrestling world intersect.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Film4 → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says he developed the project from the ground up with Dwayne Johnson and Film4.
    “I developed it with Dwayne and with film 4”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:43:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

lineage (4)

  1. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → Rocky. Merchant says the documentary had a Rocky style underdog story at its core.
    “there was a sort of rocky style underdog story at the core of it”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:24:09 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → 42nd Street. Merchant says he saw the film as about becoming a star and entertainer, like old backstage musicals such as 42nd Street.
    “those old kind of um, musical, like 42nd Street, right?”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:31 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → A Star Is Born. Merchant says he thought about A Star Is Born, the rags to riches story, as much as the sports side.
    “I was thinking as much about films like, you know, like a Star is Born”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:27:47 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Fighting with My Family → 8 Mile. Merchant lists 8 Mile among films he thought about while making it.
    “The other things I thought about are 8 mile, the Eminem film.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:49 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Dwayne Johnson → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says his friend Dwayne Johnson sent him the documentary that became the film.
    “my dear friend Dwayne The Rock Johnson sent me this documentary about a family of British wrestlers”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:34 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Leave No Trace → Fighting with My Family. Fennessey proposes Leave No Trace as an unlikely but reasonable double feature with Fighting with My Family.
    “That would make an unlikely but not unreasonable double feature with fighting with my family.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:53:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): The Office (TV series) → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says there is always a coming-of-age element in his work, whether the Office or this film.
    “whether it's the office or any of the other things are done, there's always a sort of coming of age element to it”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:29:44 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Hello Ladies (TV series) → Fighting with My Family. Merchant says his Hello Ladies character, like Paige and Brent, finally stops trying so hard.
    “true of my Hello Lady's character”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:30:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Fighting with My Family → Billy Elliot. Merchant wanted a film that works for non-fans, as Billy Elliot makes you root for a ballet dancer despite no interest in ballet.
    “I kept thinking about movies like Billy Elliott.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:33:50 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Fighting with My Family: Merchant's only wrestling exposure growing up was fat British wrestlers like Giant Haystacks.
    “There was a guy called Giant Haystacks.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:22:19 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Fighting with My Family: Wrestling summed up as soap opera in spandex, the line that made it click for Merchant.
    “Someone described it as soap opera in spandex.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:25:10 · Stephen Merchant (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Fighting with My Family: Merchant says WWE let him in like magicians: you have to win their trust.
    “It was a little bit like I imagine if you spend time with magicians.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:26:22 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Fighting with My Family: WWE rule Merchant learned: say WWE, not the WWE.
    “you should refer to it as WWE and not the WWE.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:26:37 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Fighting with My Family: The Staples Center scene was shot on day four with 20,000 fans after a Raw taping, with one hour allowed by WWE.
    “The WWE had allowed us one hour to shoot a scene.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:39:15 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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