JFK (1991)

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Wikidata Q741823, film, IMDb tt0102138, TMDB 820: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 1 more episode agrees.

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

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

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

Joe Pesci: 2 lines craft ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career): JFK → Joe Pesci. Pesci's JFK is not his best; the hair disqualifies it.
    “The hair alone disqualifies it”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

The Pelican Brief: 2 lines contrast ×2

  1. contrast (contrast): The Pelican Brief → JFK. The Pelican Brief is JFK Light, but JFK if it made sense.
    “JFK Light, sort of, but JFK if it made sense”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Hank Corwin: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Hank Corwin → JFK. Corwin's aggressive flash-cutting across film stocks, the Zapruder film and archival footage defines JFK's editing, and he later helped Adam McKay on Vice.
    “this incredible commercial influence flash cutting style that he does in this movie, which, you know, is liable to, you know, give you a seizure.”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Inherit the Wind: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Inherit the Wind → JFK. Inherit the Wind shows a trial becoming a social firestorm, unlike the insular courtroom movies.
    “so many of the movies on this list are really insular”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:55:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

John Williams: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): JFK → John Williams. Williams wrote six pieces without seeing the film and Stone cut to them.
    “Oliver Stone cut the movie to the music that John Williams provided”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

The Ice Storm: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → JFK. Ryan asks whether decades had to pass before America could tell the story, as Simmons said about Oliver Stone's JFK.
    “when we did the JFK pod, you talked a little bit about needing some time to go by for America to be ready to hear about that story”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Insider: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Insider → JFK. JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry.
    “This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

World Trade Center: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (against type): World Trade Center → JFK. Stone's reputation for conspiracy (JFK) fueled worries about WTC, which turned out straight-faced and apolitical.
    “In the movie JFK, Stone had unleashed multiple conspiracy theories about the president's assassination.”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:23:11 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): JFK → Joe Pesci. Pesci's JFK is not his best; the hair disqualifies it.
    “The hair alone disqualifies it”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Inherit the Wind → JFK. Inherit the Wind shows a trial becoming a social firestorm, unlike the insular courtroom movies.
    “so many of the movies on this list are really insular”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:55:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): JFK → The Pelican Brief. Conspiracy thrillers sharing DNA; JFK is the unhinged one.
    “speaking of conspiracies”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): The Pelican Brief → JFK. The Pelican Brief is JFK Light, but JFK if it made sense.
    “JFK Light, sort of, but JFK if it made sense”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:31:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Joe Pesci → JFK. Pesci will do anything asked, even in a bad wig, and that willingness makes it work.
    “the willingness to go as far out as he needs to to work somehow is that's a winning thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:28:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Hank Corwin → JFK. Corwin's aggressive flash-cutting across film stocks, the Zapruder film and archival footage defines JFK's editing, and he later helped Adam McKay on Vice.
    “this incredible commercial influence flash cutting style that he does in this movie, which, you know, is liable to, you know, give you a seizure.”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): JFK → John Williams. Williams wrote six pieces without seeing the film and Stone cut to them.
    “Oliver Stone cut the movie to the music that John Williams provided”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): The Insider → JFK. JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry.
    “This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → JFK. Ryan asks whether decades had to pass before America could tell the story, as Simmons said about Oliver Stone's JFK.
    “when we did the JFK pod, you talked a little bit about needing some time to go by for America to be ready to hear about that story”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (against type): World Trade Center → JFK. Stone's reputation for conspiracy (JFK) fueled worries about WTC, which turned out straight-faced and apolitical.
    “In the movie JFK, Stone had unleashed multiple conspiracy theories about the president's assassination.”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:23:11 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about JFK: Our brains are broken as a generation from seeing this young.
    “this is why our brains are broken as a generation”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about JFK: The bullet speech launched a thousand conspiracy blogs.
    “it launched a 1000 conspiracy blogs”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:16:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about JFK: John Williams wrote six pieces without seeing a frame; Stone cut to the music.
    “he composed 6 separate pieces for the movie without having seen a frame”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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