Bring It On (2000)

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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.

Jessica Bendinger: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. theme (theme): Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show). Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists.
    “Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

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

Donnie Darko: 7 lines contrast ×4 theme ×2 verdict ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart.
    “Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Gabrielle Union: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (people): Gabrielle Union → Bring It On. Union plays Isis, leader of the Clovers.
    “Clovers are led by a cheerleader named ISIS, who's played by Gabrielle Union and who issues a fierce challenge to the competition.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Jessica Bendinger: 2 lines theme ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career): Jessica Bendinger → Bring It On. Bendinger wrote it as Cheer Fever after pitching it around Hollywood nearly 30 times.
    “Bendinger pitched her cheerleading idea around Hollywood nearly 30 times.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:14:43 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

American Pie: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Bring It On → American Pie. It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That.
    “It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Aqua: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Aqua → Bring It On. The studio's marketing team set the Bring It On trailer to the Aqua song 'Happy Boys and Girls'.
    “the studio made a lively, colorful trailer, set to the Aqua song Happy Boys and Girls.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:46 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Erin Brockovich: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Bring It On → Erin Brockovich. Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie.
    “which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Ian Roberts: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Ian Roberts → Bring It On. Roberts plays choreographer Sparky who teaches spirit fingers.
    “The Toros hire a famous cheer choreographer named Sparky Palastry, played by comedian Ian Roberts.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:51 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Kirsten Dunst: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Kirsten Dunst → Bring It On. Dunst was cast as Torrance, leader of the San Diego team.
    “Kirsten Dunst was cast as Torrance, the leader of the San Diego team.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Peyton Reed: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Peyton Reed → Bring It On. Universal bought Bendinger's script and hired Reed to direct.
    “Universal Bot bending your script, and hired future Ant-Man guy, Peyton Reed, to direct.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:17:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

She's All That: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Bring It On → She's All That. Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life.
    “Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Bring It On → The Breakfast Club. Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism.
    “it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85 sure it was them)

Universal Pictures: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Bring It On → Universal Pictures. Universal could afford to bankroll a risk like Bring It On because 2000 was a boom year.
    “And major studios like Universal could afford to take a risk by bankrolling a movie like Bring It On.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:17:24 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Jessica Bendinger → Bring It On. Bendinger wrote it as Cheer Fever after pitching it around Hollywood nearly 30 times.
    “Bendinger pitched her cheerleading idea around Hollywood nearly 30 times.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:14:43 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart.
    “Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. One captures post-Y2K euphoria, the other a new age of dread.
    “One takes place during that brief peak of post Y2K euphoria.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:10 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Together they are the before and after of the early 21st century.
    “You can think of bringing on in Donny Darko as the how it started, how it's going of the early 21st century.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:40 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Their best-known songs show how bleak Donnie Darko is by comparison.
    “Well, for comparison, here's the most popular song from Bring It On.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:29 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Aqua → Bring It On. The studio's marketing team set the Bring It On trailer to the Aqua song 'Happy Boys and Girls'.
    “the studio made a lively, colorful trailer, set to the Aqua song Happy Boys and Girls.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:46 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Bring It On → Universal Pictures. Universal could afford to bankroll a risk like Bring It On because 2000 was a boom year.
    “And major studios like Universal could afford to take a risk by bankrolling a movie like Bring It On.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:17:24 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Bring It On → American Pie. It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That.
    “It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (people): Bring It On → Gabrielle Union. Shea wants a 2000 Gabrielle Union teen movie after Bring It On; she also appears in 10 Things and She's All That.
    “I would like to see that 2000 Gabrielle Union teen teen movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:21:55 · Shea Serrano (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Peyton Reed → Bring It On. Universal bought Bendinger's script and hired Reed to direct.
    “Universal Bot bending your script, and hired future Ant-Man guy, Peyton Reed, to direct.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:17:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Kirsten Dunst → Bring It On. Dunst was cast as Torrance, leader of the San Diego team.
    “Kirsten Dunst was cast as Torrance, the leader of the San Diego team.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Gabrielle Union → Bring It On. Union plays Isis, leader of the Clovers.
    “Clovers are led by a cheerleader named ISIS, who's played by Gabrielle Union and who issues a fierce challenge to the competition.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Ian Roberts → Bring It On. Roberts plays choreographer Sparky who teaches spirit fingers.
    “The Toros hire a famous cheer choreographer named Sparky Palastry, played by comedian Ian Roberts.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:18:51 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (theme): Bring It On → Erin Brockovich. Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie.
    “which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Donnie Darko → Bring It On. Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence.
    “Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Bring It On → The Breakfast Club. Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism.
    “it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Jessica Bendinger → Bring It On. Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists.
    “Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Bring It On → She's All That. Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life.
    “Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear.
    “Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Donnie Darko → Bring It On. Darko became the first midnight movie of the 2000s.
    “As a result, Donny Darko had become the first midnight movie of the 2000s.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Bring It On: A studio exec told Bendinger the reason for 30 rejections of her pitch.
    “Girls don't go to movies.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:42 · Jessica Bendinger (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Bring It On: Made for just $11 million; expected to recoup on DVD, then opened number one for three weeks.
    “The film's budget was pretty low.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:17:52 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Bring It On: Sparky teaches the Toros spirit fingers; Bendinger says real cheer camps teach it.
    “These are spirit fingers.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:04 · Archival clip (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Bring It On: Original title Cheer Fever; Universal's study found most teens thought cheerleading uncool, so it became Made You Look, then Bring It On.
    “According to a study commissioned by the studio, 59% of teenagers considered cheerleading, quote, uncool.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:29 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Bring It On: Nobody expected a hit; at the premiere a Universal exec practically stepped backwards to avoid blame.
    “It was like, no, like he practically stepped backwards, which I think I've given him shit about subsequently.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:27 · Jessica Bendinger (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Bring It On: August release, a studio dumping month, yet it opened at number one.
    “But bring it on opened at number one and stayed there for 3 weeks.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:35 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.