A Simple Plan (1998)

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Wikidata Q564958, film, IMDb tt0120324, TMDB 10223: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Sam Raimi as director (The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’).

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Who talked about it

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The Big Picture

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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.

Gone Girl: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation model): A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so). Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it.
    “And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Gone Girl: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation model): A Simple Plan → Gone Girl. Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it.
    “And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sam Raimi: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → A Simple Plan. Raimi repeatedly makes characters' own choices, not the system, the cause of their ruin, as in A Simple Plan.
    “Like in a simple plan, he does this.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:55:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (heist gone wrong): The Killing → A Simple Plan. Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan.
    “Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → A Simple Plan. Raimi repeatedly makes characters' own choices, not the system, the cause of their ruin, as in A Simple Plan.
    “Like in a simple plan, he does this.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:55:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (adaptation model): A Simple Plan → Gone Girl. Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it.
    “And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (heist gone wrong): The Killing → A Simple Plan. Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan.
    “Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

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