Rififi (1955)

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Wikidata Q1856418, film, IMDb tt0048021, TMDB 934: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Jules Dassin as director ('Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion).

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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.

Mission: Impossible: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (heist homage): Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound.
    “my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read). Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave.
    “in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Connected to

Mission: Impossible: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (heist homage): Mission: Impossible → Rififi. The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound.
    “my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Night and the City: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Night and the City → Rififi. Same sentence: Dassin made Night and the City between The Naked City and Rififi, the films that made him known as a crime-caper noir director.
    “made between the naked city and Rafifi”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:11:58 · David Shoemaker (0.80 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Thief → Rififi. Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave.
    “in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Night and the City → Rififi. Same sentence: Dassin made Night and the City between The Naked City and Rififi, the films that made him known as a crime-caper noir director.
    “made between the naked city and Rafifi”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:11:58 · David Shoemaker (0.80 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Thief → Rififi. Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave.
    “in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (heist homage): Mission: Impossible → Rififi. The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound.
    “my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

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