Blade (1998)

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Wikidata Q3429263, film, IMDb tt0120611, TMDB 36647: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the best known by that title (50 Wikipedias; the next, 13).

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Who talked about it

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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.

X-Men: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade ⇒ X-Men (the host's read). Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)

Connected to

Alien 3: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (crew who became directors): Alien 3 → Blade. Effects-team members on Alien 3 (Norrington, Cunningham) went on to direct.
    “A lot of guys who later go on to become directors were in the effects team on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:47:32 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)

Blade: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Blade → Blade. Fantasy of 70s Blade in a 70s Avengers.
    “How great would it be if they were blade back into the MCU, but it was like 70s blade exclusively?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:45:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Iron Man: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Blade → Iron Man. Blade came ten years before Iron Man, the first Marvel property to follow.
    “And this is 10 full years before Iron Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:02:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The New Mutants: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Blade → The New Mutants. The New Mutants being a horror movie recalls Blade's feeling of a pure genre film wearing superhero clothes.
    “hearkens back to that blade feeling where it's just a genre movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

X-Men: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade → X-Men. Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Blade → Iron Man. Blade came ten years before Iron Man, the first Marvel property to follow.
    “And this is 10 full years before Iron Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:02:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade → X-Men. Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (crew who became directors): Alien 3 → Blade. Effects-team members on Alien 3 (Norrington, Cunningham) went on to direct.
    “A lot of guys who later go on to become directors were in the effects team on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:47:32 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Blade → The New Mutants. The New Mutants being a horror movie recalls Blade's feeling of a pure genre film wearing superhero clothes.
    “hearkens back to that blade feeling where it's just a genre movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Blade → Blade. Fantasy of 70s Blade in a 70s Avengers.
    “How great would it be if they were blade back into the MCU, but it was like 70s blade exclusively?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:45:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Blade: Blade grossed about $131 million on a $45 million budget in 1998.
    “$131.200000 on a $45000000 budget in 1998.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:03:21 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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