Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)

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In the store as #556, Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019).

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

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.

Mike Nichols: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Mike Nichols ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: on the show, Colaizzo describing his own influences). Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet.
    “Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:08 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

The Big Sick: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. industry (distribution model): The Big Sick ⇒ Brittany Runs a Marathon (the maker said so: Colaizzo on why he chose Amazon). Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility.
    “I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:21:29 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 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

Mike Nichols: 2 lines lineage ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet.
    “Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:08 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

22 Jump Street: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting origin): Brittany Runs a Marathon → 22 Jump Street. Walking out of 22 Jump Street he wondered if Jillian Bell might someday be Brittany.
    “I remember walking out of 22 Jump Street, just sort of like flippantly thinking, I wonder if that'll be Britney someday.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:10:17 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Amazon: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Amazon. Amazon won the Sundance bidding by bringing 14 people to the meeting, one for each million.
    “They brought 14 people into the meeting and one for each million.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:22:14 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Carnal Knowledge: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structure): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Carnal Knowledge. Carnal Knowledge starts one way and ends another, which is what Sean meant about the Nichols shift; it is also shot theatrically.
    “Wait, it starts one way and it ends another way. That is fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:25:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Jillian Bell: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Jillian Bell. Jillian Bell lost the exact weight the character loses, 29 pounds before and 11 during filming.
    “So she lost £29 while we were before we started filming in the last £11 while we were filming.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:12:07 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

John Cooper: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (premiere): Brittany Runs a Marathon → John Cooper. Sundance head John Cooper introduced the premiere, where the room was laughing so loud audio had to be turned up.
    “I knew it was going well in the 1st 3 minutes because we had to turn up the audio because people were laughing so loudly they couldn't hear the lines.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:18:35 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Michaela Watkins: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Michaela Watkins. Watkins plays Catherine, the calm, motherly woman upstairs, a subtle performance.
    “Michaela Watkins plays Catherine, the woman upstairs, uh, who Britney thinks has everything going for her.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:15:27 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

The Big Sick: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (distribution model): Brittany Runs a Marathon → The Big Sick. Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility.
    “I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:21:29 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Thornton Wilder: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme quote): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Thornton Wilder. He cites a Wilder line, film is the story of them and theater the story of us, and tries to do the story of us on film.
    “film is the story of them and theater is the story of us.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:09:42 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Tobey Maguire: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (producer): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Tobey Maguire. Tobey Maguire and Matt Plouffe's company bought the script off the log line and developed it for 2.5 years.
    “it was really Toby McGuire and Matt Pluffet material.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:03:09 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (structure): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Carnal Knowledge. Carnal Knowledge starts one way and ends another, which is what Sean meant about the Nichols shift; it is also shot theatrically.
    “Wait, it starts one way and it ends another way. That is fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:25:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (distribution model): Brittany Runs a Marathon → The Big Sick. Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility.
    “I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:21:29 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Amazon. Amazon won the Sundance bidding by bringing 14 people to the meeting, one for each million.
    “They brought 14 people into the meeting and one for each million.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:22:14 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (influence): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet.
    “Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:08 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (producer): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Tobey Maguire. Tobey Maguire and Matt Plouffe's company bought the script off the log line and developed it for 2.5 years.
    “it was really Toby McGuire and Matt Pluffet material.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:03:09 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting origin): Brittany Runs a Marathon → 22 Jump Street. Walking out of 22 Jump Street he wondered if Jillian Bell might someday be Brittany.
    “I remember walking out of 22 Jump Street, just sort of like flippantly thinking, I wonder if that'll be Britney someday.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:10:17 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Jillian Bell. Jillian Bell lost the exact weight the character loses, 29 pounds before and 11 during filming.
    “So she lost £29 while we were before we started filming in the last £11 while we were filming.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:12:07 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Michaela Watkins. Watkins plays Catherine, the calm, motherly woman upstairs, a subtle performance.
    “Michaela Watkins plays Catherine, the woman upstairs, uh, who Britney thinks has everything going for her.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:15:27 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme quote): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Thornton Wilder. He cites a Wilder line, film is the story of them and theater the story of us, and tries to do the story of us on film.
    “film is the story of them and theater is the story of us.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:09:42 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (tonal subversion): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Brittany Runs a Marathon. The trailer promises a zippy comedy but the film slowly exposes deeper levels, taking a comedy seriously like a drama.
    “you take something you think you understand, which is, uh, which has promised to be fun and funny and engaging and enjoyable and unthreatening, and you slowly and and with detail and precision expose deeper levels as it goes on.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:07:21 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tonal shift): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Sean sees a Nichols-like pattern of starting one way and shifting into a different movie.
    “I feel like a lot of his movies start one way with a certain tonality and then they make a shift and then all of a sudden you're in a different movie”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:08:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (premiere): Brittany Runs a Marathon → John Cooper. Sundance head John Cooper introduced the premiere, where the room was laughing so loud audio had to be turned up.
    “I knew it was going well in the 1st 3 minutes because we had to turn up the audio because people were laughing so loudly they couldn't hear the lines.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:18:35 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo had the idea for the film around 2011 while living with his best friend, who went on her first run and inspired the outline; her life began to mimic the outline.
    “And then I told her some things that happened in the movie and her life started to mimic the outline.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:56:55 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo and his roommate stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed, where the film's pipe dream was written.
    “we stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed and that was our couch.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:58:03 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo wrote every element as character, with pages on the character of the lighting, camera movements and costume design.
    “I made pages on the character of the lighting, the character of the camera movements, uh, the costume design”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:01:52 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo says on set he is sent to the extras table at craft services every time, so he goes and has those eggs.
    “they always say to me, extras eat over there.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:13:54 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: At the Sundance premiere Colaizzo secretly opened doors to cool the theater because cold rooms make people laugh more.
    “I was just like secretly opening all of these doors to the outside to make sure that cold air would pour into this theater.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:17:44 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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