Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

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In the store as #536, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

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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.

1980s bully movies: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness.
    “the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

Drunken Master 2: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (craft): Drunken Master 2 ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Jason says Matthew Patel's leg-gyrating move echoes a Ken Lo move in Drunken Master 2.
    “Matthew Patel even does some of the moves that Ken Lo, as Johnny does in Drunken Master 2”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

Five Deadly Venoms: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Five Deadly Venoms ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Edgar says that before shooting he watched Shaw Brothers mystical kung fu like Five Deadly Venoms to get in the mood.
    “Shaw Brothers type movies like, um, um, 5 deadly venoms”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Jackie Chan: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Jackie Chan ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Edgar says he was a huge Jackie Chan fan going in.
    “I was a huge Jackie Chan fan.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:20 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

King Boxer: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): King Boxer ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Also on Edgar's pre-production kung fu watch list.
    “5 fingers of death”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Phantom of the Paradise: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

The Matrix: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read). Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

The One-Armed Boxer: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The One-Armed Boxer ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the maker said so: Edgar, on the show). Part of the same Shaw Brothers viewing list Edgar did before the shoot.
    “one arm boxer”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Led to

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

Baby Driver: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read). Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
    “there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Deadpool: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read). Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Lego Movie: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read). Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Connected to

Michael Cera: 3 lines career ×2 people ×1

  1. people (people): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Michael Cera. Edgar says Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong were in nearly every scene and were most exhausted by the shoot.
    “for like Michael Sarah and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in particular because they were in the entire thing.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:09:53 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Baby Driver: 2 lines lineage ×2

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Baby Driver. Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
    “there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Brian De Palma: 2 lines craft ×1 contrast ×1

  1. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Brian De Palma. Sean describes the film's editing as De Palma turned up to eleven.
    “it's edited and cut like a Brian de Palma movie on crack.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Iron Man: 2 lines industry ×1 contrast ×1

  1. industry (industry): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Iron Man. Sean says two years earlier audiences were stunned that a comic hero could be sarcastic, and Scott Pilgrim is self-aware and glib in a way Watchmen, Batman and Superman were not.
    “only 2 years before that, people were blown away that Iron Man was kind of a dick with a sarcastic attitude.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jackie Chan: 2 lines craft ×1 lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Jackie Chan. Edgar says he was a huge Jackie Chan fan going in.
    “I was a huge Jackie Chan fan.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:20 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Nigel Godrich: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. career (career): Nigel Godrich → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Wright asked his friend Godrich, a producer who had never scored a film, to do the music so the songs would sound authentic.
    “he'd never done a score before and I asked him if he wanted to do the music for Scott Pilgrim”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:19:38 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

1980s bully movies: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → 1980s bully movies. Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness.
    “the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

Beck: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Beck. The Sex Bob-omb songs are Beck's demos, cut with Brian LeBarton in his garage, the opening theme in a single take, and used as-is.
    “Beck and Brian LeBarton thrashing out one take of that jam.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:23:48 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Blade Runner: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Blade Runner. Edgar says he grew up loving films now called ahead of their time, such as Blade Runner and John Carter, without knowing they had flopped, so the cult-flop reputation does not bother him.
    “I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:48:02 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Brad Allen: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Brad Allen → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Edgar credits stunt coordinator Brad Allen with making the fights ten times more spectacular, so much that Edgar had to cut a seven-minute concept to three and a half.
    “he'll sort of take something on the page and make it like sort of 10 times more spectacular and complicated”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:17:41 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Bright: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (audience): Bright → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Van says Bright split his friends the same way over whether the world needed explaining.
    “remember when Bright came out on Netflix?”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:20:54 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

Chris Evans: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Chris Evans. Sean says the cast now reads like the greatest hits of Marvel, DC, Disney and HBO, and the movie seems to wink at their future work.
    “This movie's linup now looks like the greatest hits of the MCU, DCEU, Disney and HBO lineups.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Christopher Nolan's Batman films: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Christopher Nolan's Batman films → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Jason says Nolan's decade of heavy-origin, grounded superhero films were really psychological thrillers, the opposite of Scott Pilgrim's approach.
    “They're really psychological thrillers with Batman in them.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:20:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75 sure it was them)

Deadpool: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Deadpool. Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Drunken Master 2: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Drunken Master 2. Jason says Matthew Patel's leg-gyrating move echoes a Ken Lo move in Drunken Master 2.
    “Matthew Patel even does some of the moves that Ken Lo, as Johnny does in Drunken Master 2”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

Ellen Wong: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Ellen Wong. Sean and Jason suggest a sequel would have to decenter Scott and follow Knives and Ramona.
    “Maybe that's the way to do the sequel is to make it the knives movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:25:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Five Deadly Venoms: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Five Deadly Venoms. Edgar says that before shooting he watched Shaw Brothers mystical kung fu like Five Deadly Venoms to get in the mood.
    “Shaw Brothers type movies like, um, um, 5 deadly venoms”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Hot Fuzz: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Hot Fuzz. Edgar says the film cost about four times what Hot Fuzz did, which made Universal nervous.
    “It was like costing like, you know, 4 times what hot 1st cost.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:00:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

John Carter: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → John Carter. Same remark: John Carter is cited alongside Blade Runner as a flop he loved without knowing it.
    “I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:48:02 · Edgar Wright (0.90 sure it was them)

John Hughes: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → John Hughes. Same pitch: the film sits between John Hughes teen comedy and Kill Bill action.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Kill Bill: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Kill Bill. Marc Platt's producers pitched the comic to Edgar as John Hughes meets Kill Bill.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

King Boxer: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → King Boxer. Also on Edgar's pre-production kung fu watch list.
    “5 fingers of death”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Last Night in Soho: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Last Night in Soho. Sean notes Scott Pilgrim is an outlier because Wright mostly makes original stories, and that Last Night in Soho, his horror film, was bumped to next year.
    “we were supposed to get last night in Soho in September and it got bumped to next year, his next movie, which is a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:42:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Marie Antoinette: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Marie Antoinette. Van links the Jason Schwartzman fight to meeting Schwartzman and arguing about Marie Antoinette.
    “I even told him I didn't like Marie Antoinette.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:27:11 · Van Lathan (0.75 sure it was them)

Metric: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Metric. Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto.
    “metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Phantom of the Paradise: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Phantom of the Paradise. Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Shaun of the Dead: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Shaun of the Dead. Edgar says after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, returning to the magical realism of Spaced appealed to him.
    “having done showing the dead and then after doing hot fuzz, the idea of returning to this sort of magical realism that had been in space a little bit was really appealing to me.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:52:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Spaced: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Spaced. Edgar says the books reminded him of Spaced: young people told in the style of the media they consume.
    “It reminded me of the TV show. I done called Spaced, um, with Simon Pegg and Jessica Hines”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:52:01 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Homecoming: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Spider-Man: Homecoming → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Van says audiences are now so saturated with origin stories that Homecoming can skip Uncle Ben, which wasn't possible when Scott Pilgrim came out.
    “Spider-Man Homecoming doesn't even touch on Uncle Ben.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:19:54 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Goonies: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Goonies. Van wants a sequel the way he wants a Goonies sequel, for selfish reasons, even though the original should be left alone.
    “I call this Goonies disease.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:43:37 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them)

The Graduate: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Graduate. Edgar says Scott and Benjamin Braddock are equally flawed young men, and the poster misleads you into expecting a Luke Skywalker hero.
    “I don't think anybody would talk about Scott Pilgrim and the graduate.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:05:31 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

The Lego Movie: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Lego Movie. Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Matrix: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Matrix. Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

The One-Armed Boxer: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The One-Armed Boxer. Part of the same Shaw Brothers viewing list Edgar did before the shoot.
    “one arm boxer”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Watchmen: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Watchmen. Jason says Snyder's Watchmen lifts panels straight off the page and loses the magic, while Scott Pilgrim translates the feel of a comic into film.
    “There's a, there's many, many scenes in Zack Snyder's Watchmen that are ripped directly from the pages of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:11:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

Zack Snyder: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Zack Snyder. Jason frames the Watchmen adaptation (Snyder) as the literal-panel approach to comics that Scott Pilgrim avoids.
    “loses the magic of the of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:12:04 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Michael Cera → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Cera vanished until Molly's Game after Scott Pilgrim and Arrested Development.
    “I feel like he kind of vanished until like Molly's game.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:24:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Chris Evans. Sean says the cast now reads like the greatest hits of Marvel, DC, Disney and HBO, and the movie seems to wink at their future work.
    “This movie's linup now looks like the greatest hits of the MCU, DCEU, Disney and HBO lineups.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Last Night in Soho. Sean notes Scott Pilgrim is an outlier because Wright mostly makes original stories, and that Last Night in Soho, his horror film, was bumped to next year.
    “we were supposed to get last night in Soho in September and it got bumped to next year, his next movie, which is a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:42:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Shaun of the Dead. Edgar says after Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, returning to the magical realism of Spaced appealed to him.
    “having done showing the dead and then after doing hot fuzz, the idea of returning to this sort of magical realism that had been in space a little bit was really appealing to me.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:52:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Nigel Godrich → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Wright asked his friend Godrich, a producer who had never scored a film, to do the music so the songs would sound authentic.
    “he'd never done a score before and I asked him if he wanted to do the music for Scott Pilgrim”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:19:38 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Michael Cera → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. With his post-fame leverage Cera made Scott Pilgrim, Youth in Revolt and Nick and Norah, hand-picking filmmakers and cast.
    “I want to make Scott Pilgrim, I want to make you some revolt.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:32:24 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

contrast (5)

  1. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Watchmen. Jason says Snyder's Watchmen lifts panels straight off the page and loses the magic, while Scott Pilgrim translates the feel of a comic into film.
    “There's a, there's many, many scenes in Zack Snyder's Watchmen that are ripped directly from the pages of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:11:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Zack Snyder. Jason frames the Watchmen adaptation (Snyder) as the literal-panel approach to comics that Scott Pilgrim avoids.
    “loses the magic of the of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:12:04 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Brian De Palma. Jason says De Palma's split screen announces itself, while Scott Pilgrim's split screens feel like comic panels you are inside.
    “if you're watching like a Brian DePalma movie and he does split screen, he's trying to draw attention to the fact that this is a split screen.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:13:01 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Iron Man. Jason says Iron Man and Watchmen spend time on origin and world setup, while Scott Pilgrim drops you in the middle with no explanation.
    “Scott Pilgrim just drops you into it.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:18:38 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Christopher Nolan's Batman films → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Jason says Nolan's decade of heavy-origin, grounded superhero films were really psychological thrillers, the opposite of Scott Pilgrim's approach.
    “They're really psychological thrillers with Batman in them.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:20:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Brian De Palma. Sean describes the film's editing as De Palma turned up to eleven.
    “it's edited and cut like a Brian de Palma movie on crack.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Jackie Chan. Jason says the fights used some of Jackie Chan's choreography people.
    “So they used some of Jackie Chan's choreography people for these fights.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:51 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Drunken Master 2. Jason says Matthew Patel's leg-gyrating move echoes a Ken Lo move in Drunken Master 2.
    “Matthew Patel even does some of the moves that Ken Lo, as Johnny does in Drunken Master 2”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Brad Allen → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Edgar credits stunt coordinator Brad Allen with making the fights ten times more spectacular, so much that Edgar had to cut a seven-minute concept to three and a half.
    “he'll sort of take something on the page and make it like sort of 10 times more spectacular and complicated”
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  5. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Nigel Godrich. Edgar says Nigel proposed having different artists play different bands so the songs have no single house style.
    “get the find different artists to play the different bands”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:19:58 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Beck. The Sex Bob-omb songs are Beck's demos, cut with Brian LeBarton in his garage, the opening theme in a single take, and used as-is.
    “Beck and Brian LeBarton thrashing out one take of that jam.”
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industry (3)

  1. industry (industry): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Iron Man. Sean says two years earlier audiences were stunned that a comic hero could be sarcastic, and Scott Pilgrim is self-aware and glib in a way Watchmen, Batman and Superman were not.
    “only 2 years before that, people were blown away that Iron Man was kind of a dick with a sarcastic attitude.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Spider-Man: Homecoming → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Van says audiences are now so saturated with origin stories that Homecoming can skip Uncle Ben, which wasn't possible when Scott Pilgrim came out.
    “Spider-Man Homecoming doesn't even touch on Uncle Ben.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:19:54 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Hot Fuzz. Edgar says the film cost about four times what Hot Fuzz did, which made Universal nervous.
    “It was like costing like, you know, 4 times what hot 1st cost.”
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lineage (15)

  1. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Baby Driver. Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim.
    “The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Matrix. Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Phantom of the Paradise. Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
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  4. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Deadpool. Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Lego Movie. Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → 1980s bully movies. Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness.
    “the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Baby Driver. Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
    “there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Kill Bill. Marc Platt's producers pitched the comic to Edgar as John Hughes meets Kill Bill.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → John Hughes. Same pitch: the film sits between John Hughes teen comedy and Kill Bill action.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Spaced. Edgar says the books reminded him of Spaced: young people told in the style of the media they consume.
    “It reminded me of the TV show. I done called Spaced, um, with Simon Pegg and Jessica Hines”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:52:01 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Jackie Chan. Edgar says he was a huge Jackie Chan fan going in.
    “I was a huge Jackie Chan fan.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:20 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Five Deadly Venoms. Edgar says that before shooting he watched Shaw Brothers mystical kung fu like Five Deadly Venoms to get in the mood.
    “Shaw Brothers type movies like, um, um, 5 deadly venoms”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The One-Armed Boxer. Part of the same Shaw Brothers viewing list Edgar did before the shoot.
    “one arm boxer”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:07:37 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → King Boxer. Also on Edgar's pre-production kung fu watch list.
    “5 fingers of death”
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people (2)

  1. people (people): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Marie Antoinette. Van links the Jason Schwartzman fight to meeting Schwartzman and arguing about Marie Antoinette.
    “I even told him I didn't like Marie Antoinette.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:27:11 · Van Lathan (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Michael Cera. Edgar says Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong were in nearly every scene and were most exhausted by the shoot.
    “for like Michael Sarah and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in particular because they were in the entire thing.”
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programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Metric. Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto.
    “metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto.”
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theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Graduate. Edgar says Scott and Benjamin Braddock are equally flawed young men, and the poster misleads you into expecting a Luke Skywalker hero.
    “I don't think anybody would talk about Scott Pilgrim and the graduate.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:05:31 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (audience): Bright → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Van says Bright split his friends the same way over whether the world needed explaining.
    “remember when Bright came out on Netflix?”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:20:54 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Blade Runner. Edgar says he grew up loving films now called ahead of their time, such as Blade Runner and John Carter, without knowing they had flopped, so the cult-flop reputation does not bother him.
    “I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:48:02 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → John Carter. Same remark: John Carter is cited alongside Blade Runner as a flop he loved without knowing it.
    “I knew that the John Cum, the thing was a flop or Blade Runner, like sort of you consume it in the same way”
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what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Ellen Wong. Sean and Jason suggest a sequel would have to decenter Scott and follow Knives and Ramona.
    “Maybe that's the way to do the sequel is to make it the knives movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:25:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Goonies. Van wants a sequel the way he wants a Goonies sequel, for selfish reasons, even though the original should be left alone.
    “I call this Goonies disease.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:43:37 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Jason was angered that someone made the movie he felt he was supposed to make, and the opening credits sold him.
    “I was just absolutely dumbstruck by it and angered to this day angered by it.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:08:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Van looped the DVD so much that his girlfriend hated the movie and begged him to stop rewinding the bread line.
    “stop rewinding it if you want me to love the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:36:59 · Van Lathan (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Edgar says the film was a miracle for a major studio and that today it just would not get made.
    “I just don't think that film will get made at all now.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:50:00 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Edgar says the original pitch from Marc Platt's producers was John Hughes meets Kill Bill, made after a Shaun of the Dead screening in 2004.
    “they said, it's like John Hughes meets Kill Bill.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:51:06 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The final fight's Gideon was boarded as a giant Toho-style Mecha Gideon that Scott and Knives would dismantle, but they never shot it.
    “Gideon's final form was going to be like a robot”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:18:44 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The opening-credits Sex Bob-omb theme is Beck and Brian LeBarton improvising one take in Beck's garage, and there was no second take.
    “there was no like sort of 2nd take of that.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 1:24:10 · Edgar Wright (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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