Fearless (1993)

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Wikidata Q255742, film, IMDb tt0106881, TMDB 10443: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Peter Weir as director (Fearless with Timothy Simons); 2 more episodes agree.

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In the store as #601, Fearless (1993).

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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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.

Rafael Yglesias: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (source): Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read). Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author.
    “He adapts his own unpublished book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Tron: Legacy: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (visual reference): Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read). The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy.
    “I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Allen Daviau: 2 lines people ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fearless → Allen Daviau. The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it.
    “this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Flight: 2 lines unmapped ×1 contrast ×1

  1. unmapped (plane crash): Fearless → Flight. Fearless is called the final boss of plane crash movies, ahead of Flight and Sully.
    “This is the final boss plane crash movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:36:04 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Henryk Gorecki: 2 lines craft ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Fearless → Henryk Gorecki. An original score could not have matched the borrowed Gorecki and U2 pieces cut to the crash, for how the music syncs and for the recognition of what is playing.
    “you couldn't actually write an original piece of score for this that would work as well as both the way the music syncs up and like the power you gain from the recognition of what's playing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:36:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Starman: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (performance): Fearless → Starman. Bridges plays a person one step removed from reality in both films.
    “both about people who are a little outside of reality, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:46:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Unbreakable: 2 lines theme ×1 contrast ×1

  1. theme (premise): Fearless → Unbreakable. Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready.
    “sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)

Witness: 2 lines industry ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. industry (marketing): Fearless → Witness. The poster leads with the director of Witness and Dead Poets Society.
    “the top thing of the poster is from the director of Witness and Dead Poets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:31:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Fearless. Fearless was marketed as another Chinese movie for people who liked CTHD.
    “which was sort of advertised as like, if you like Crashing Tiger, here's another Chinese movie for you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:36:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Hero: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (premise): Fearless → Hero. Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive.
    “What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Kickin' It Old Skool: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (joke parallel): Fearless → Kickin' It Old Skool. A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s.
    “kind of the fearless of the 2000s?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Maurice Jarre: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (music): Fearless → Maurice Jarre. Jarre scored it, but most of the music is classical pieces.
    “there's a Maurice Stray scored that's very good, but it's a lot of classical pieces.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Mrs. Doubtfire: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (coincidence): Fearless → Mrs. Doubtfire. Both 1993 films turn on strawberry allergies.
    “So there's 2 movies about strawberry allergies in 1993, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:18:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Peter Weir: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (recommendation): Peter Weir → Fearless. A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes.
    “the most intense plane crash scene in a movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Picnic at Hanging Rock: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (mood): Fearless → Picnic at Hanging Rock. Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does.
    “And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rafael Yglesias: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (source): Fearless → Rafael Yglesias. Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author.
    “He adapts his own unpublished book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Schindler's List: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (awards competition): Fearless → Schindler's List. Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive.
    “it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Sully: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structure): Fearless → Sully. Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless.
    “Sully does basically the same thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Tron: Legacy: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (visual reference): Fearless → Tron: Legacy. The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy.
    “I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)

U2: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (music): Fearless → U2. Using U2's Where the Streets Have No Name in an unhinged crash context opened up the band for the speaker.
    “using U2 in an unhinged context, it really like opened that band up in that that music for me in a new way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:34:42 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)

Winona Ryder: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (studio casting): Winona Ryder → Fearless. The studio wanted Ryder for the Perez role and an audition kiss; Bridges refused.
    “Winona Ryder.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:11:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Fearless → Flight. Both are post-crash aftermath movies, but Fearless is in conversation with the intangible while Flight resolves into two pre-set systems (sobriety and faith).
    “Whereas I'm like, this movie is spiritual because it's in conversation with the intangible.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:51:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Fearless → Unbreakable. Fearless is not Unbreakable because its protagonist is not literally invulnerable; the world helps him survive.
    “But you're like, it's not unbreakable where it's like he genuinely cannot be hard.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:51:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Fearless → Henryk Gorecki. An original score could not have matched the borrowed Gorecki and U2 pieces cut to the crash, for how the music syncs and for the recognition of what is playing.
    “you couldn't actually write an original piece of score for this that would work as well as both the way the music syncs up and like the power you gain from the recognition of what's playing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:36:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (7)

  1. craft (visual reference): Fearless → Tron: Legacy. The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy.
    “I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (mood): Fearless → Picnic at Hanging Rock. Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does.
    “And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (structure): Fearless → Sully. Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless.
    “Sully does basically the same thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Fearless → Allen Daviau. The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it.
    “this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (music): Fearless → U2. Using U2's Where the Streets Have No Name in an unhinged crash context opened up the band for the speaker.
    “using U2 in an unhinged context, it really like opened that band up in that that music for me in a new way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:34:42 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. craft (music): Fearless → Maurice Jarre. Jarre scored it, but most of the music is classical pieces.
    “there's a Maurice Stray scored that's very good, but it's a lot of classical pieces.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. craft (music): Fearless → Henryk Gorecki. Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 plays over the plane crash montage.
    “the big classical piece is the Henrik Gorecki Symphony 3 Symphony of Starhole songs, which is playing over the plane crash in Montage.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:35:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (3)

  1. industry (marketing): Fearless → Witness. The poster leads with the director of Witness and Dead Poets Society.
    “the top thing of the poster is from the director of Witness and Dead Poets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:31:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (awards competition): Fearless → Schindler's List. Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive.
    “it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Fearless. Fearless was marketed as another Chinese movie for people who liked CTHD.
    “which was sort of advertised as like, if you like Crashing Tiger, here's another Chinese movie for you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:36:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (source): Fearless → Rafael Yglesias. Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author.
    “He adapts his own unpublished book.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (performance): Fearless → Starman. Bridges plays a person one step removed from reality in both films.
    “both about people who are a little outside of reality, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:46:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance): Fearless → Starman. The first thirty minutes of Fearless feel like Starman.
    “He does feel like Starman.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:14:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (studio casting): Winona Ryder → Fearless. The studio wanted Ryder for the Perez role and an audition kiss; Bridges refused.
    “Winona Ryder.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:11:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (cinematography): Fearless → Allen Daviau. Daviau, fresh off Spielberg films, shot Fearless; the first American DP Blank Check covered with Weir.
    “Alan Davio shot this film, who, of course, the 1st American cinematographer that we had worked with.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:32:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (recommendation): Peter Weir → Fearless. A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes.
    “the most intense plane crash scene in a movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (premise): Fearless → Unbreakable. Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready.
    “sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. theme (premise): Fearless → Hero. Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive.
    “What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (joke parallel): Fearless → Kickin' It Old Skool. A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s.
    “kind of the fearless of the 2000s?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (look): Witness → Fearless. After the Witness episode, Bridges' Fearless look is judged possibly the top screen look ever, more attainable than Ford's.
    “I'm like, this might actually be the number one look a guy has ever had on screen.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:56:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (coincidence): Fearless → Mrs. Doubtfire. Both 1993 films turn on strawberry allergies.
    “So there's 2 movies about strawberry allergies in 1993, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:18:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (plane crash): Fearless → Flight. Fearless is called the final boss of plane crash movies, ahead of Flight and Sully.
    “This is the final boss plane crash movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:36:04 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

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