Popeye (1980)

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Wikidata Q941944, film, IMDb tt0081353, TMDB 11335: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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

Punch-Drunk Love: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Popeye ⇒ Punch-Drunk Love (the host's read). Wesley says PTA's debt to Altman runs deep, down to the Shelley Duvall Popeye song used in Punch-Drunk Love.
    “the way that that Shelley Duval song from Popeye functions in punch trunk love”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:58 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Connected to

Harry Nilsson: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Harry Nilsson → Popeye. Wesley marvels that one of the greatest pop musicians, Harry Nilsson, made the music for the live-action Popeye musical, a production the hosts describe as fueled by cocaine and craziness.
    “one of the greatest pop musicians ever is making the music for this, for this musical live action Popeye movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:14:42 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)

Paul Smith: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Paul Smith → Popeye. Paul Smith, Dune's Beast Rabban, played Bluto in Altman's Popeye.
    “who, of course, plays Pluto and Robert Altman's Popeye.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:52:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Punch-Drunk Love: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Popeye → Punch-Drunk Love. Wesley says PTA's debt to Altman runs deep, down to the Shelley Duvall Popeye song used in Punch-Drunk Love.
    “the way that that Shelley Duval song from Popeye functions in punch trunk love”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:58 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Robert Altman: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Robert Altman → Popeye. Sean wonders whether the Popeye flop triggered Altman's blue period in the 80s.
    “whether it triggers Altman's kind of like blue period in the 80s is kind of an interesting question”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:15:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Shelley Duvall: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting): Shelley Duvall → Popeye. Duvall was cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.
    “She's cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:26:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Vanilla Sky: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Vanilla Sky → Popeye. Most idiosyncratic directors who try genre end up like Altman's Popeye.
    “it's like Altman's Popeye, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Paul Smith → Popeye. Paul Smith, Dune's Beast Rabban, played Bluto in Altman's Popeye.
    “who, of course, plays Pluto and Robert Altman's Popeye.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:52:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Robert Altman → Popeye. Sean wonders whether the Popeye flop triggered Altman's blue period in the 80s.
    “whether it triggers Altman's kind of like blue period in the 80s is kind of an interesting question”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:15:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Vanilla Sky → Popeye. Most idiosyncratic directors who try genre end up like Altman's Popeye.
    “it's like Altman's Popeye, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Popeye → Punch-Drunk Love. Wesley says PTA's debt to Altman runs deep, down to the Shelley Duvall Popeye song used in Punch-Drunk Love.
    “the way that that Shelley Duval song from Popeye functions in punch trunk love”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:58 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Harry Nilsson → Popeye. Wesley marvels that one of the greatest pop musicians, Harry Nilsson, made the music for the live-action Popeye musical, a production the hosts describe as fueled by cocaine and craziness.
    “one of the greatest pop musicians ever is making the music for this, for this musical live action Popeye movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:14:42 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting): Shelley Duvall → Popeye. Duvall was cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.
    “She's cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:26:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Popeye: Bill's first Altman movie in a theater was Popeye with his dad; it fucking sucked and he never saw another after that.
    “But the 1st album movie I saw in the theater was Popeye.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Popeye: Wesley's first erotic movie memory is Popeye: the biceps, a real flesh-and-blood cartoon character, drunk and depressed cartoons somehow sexual.
    “I can remember that movie being like an erotic experience for me.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:13:25 · Wesley Morris (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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