Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
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Wikidata Q963045, film, IMDb tt0047849, TMDB 14554: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the best known by that title (35 Wikipedias; the next, 1).
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
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.
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
Nightmare Alley: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (resentment theme (via Trump)):
Bad Day at Black Rock → Nightmare Alley.
A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film.
“I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy”
The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- recommended in The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt!, first at 0:57:07, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
theme (1)
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theme (resentment theme (via Trump)):
Bad Day at Black Rock → Nightmare Alley.
A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film.
“I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy”
The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 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.
- No one.