The Straight Story (1999)
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Wikidata Q1139454, film, IMDb tt0166896, TMDB 404: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Griffin Newman: 1 line in Dune with John Hodgman
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
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
Dune: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
Dune → The Straight Story.
Elephant Man and The Straight Story are Lynch's two most conventional narratives.
“And his 2 most quote unquote conventional sort of straightforward narrative films are the straight story and elephant man”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:51:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Tender Mercies: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (lineage):
Tender Mercies → The Straight Story.
Tender Mercies was a quiet drama offered to Lynch, a sensibility that foreshadows The Straight Story.
“but somebody like the straight story speaks to him.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman, first at 0:51:41, 4 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free), first at 2:28:53, 2 times
What was said about it, by kind
career (1)
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career (career):
Dune → The Straight Story.
Elephant Man and The Straight Story are Lynch's two most conventional narratives.
“And his 2 most quote unquote conventional sort of straightforward narrative films are the straight story and elephant man”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:51:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (1)
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lineage (lineage):
Tender Mercies → The Straight Story.
Tender Mercies was a quiet drama offered to Lynch, a sensibility that foreshadows The Straight Story.
“but somebody like the straight story speaks to him.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- David Lynch: director (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Dune with John Hodgman)