Body Double (1984)

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Wikidata Q1197501, film, IMDb tt0086984, TMDB 11507: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Melanie Griffith as actress (Star 80 with Julie Klausner); 2 more episodes agree.

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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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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

American Psycho: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (satire lineage): Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read). American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Star 80: 2 lines unmapped ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): Star 80 → Body Double. Body Double is pulp that deals with similar Hollywood grime and is fun, whereas Fosse could not treat it as pulp.
    “But like, I mean, fossi, for better or worse, I don't think could view things as pulp.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:44:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

American Psycho: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (satire lineage): American Psycho → Body Double. American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

Melanie Griffith: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Body Double. Body Double was the first time a real director saw something more in Griffith.
    “That's the 1st time, like a real director is like, no, no, there's something more here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (same director, different register): Mission: Impossible → Body Double. Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience.
    “body double is, like, right on the surface.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Melanie Griffith → Body Double. Body Double was the first time a real director saw something more in Griffith.
    “That's the 1st time, like a real director is like, no, no, there's something more here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): Star 80 → Body Double. Body Double is pulp that deals with similar Hollywood grime and is fun, whereas Fosse could not treat it as pulp.
    “But like, I mean, fossi, for better or worse, I don't think could view things as pulp.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:44:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (satire lineage): American Psycho → Body Double. American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (same director, different register): Mission: Impossible → Body Double. Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience.
    “body double is, like, right on the surface.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (timeline): Star 80 → Body Double. Melanie Griffith was Fosse's first choice; Body Double (her comeback) came right after.
    “Bob Fossey wants Melanie Griffith.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:44:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

None.

Who the speakers said made it

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