Magnolia (1999)

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Wikidata Q588420, film, IMDb tt0175880, TMDB 334: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 8 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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The Big Picture

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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.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Eyes Wide Shut: 3 lines career ×1 verdict ×1 people ×1

  1. career (career arc): Magnolia → Eyes Wide Shut. Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999.
    “puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Tom Cruise: 3 lines career ×2 what-if ×1

  1. career (career): Tom Cruise → Magnolia. Before Edge, Magnolia would have been his best performance, a post-modern text analyzing his persona.
    “Magnolia is his best performance because it's like the post-modern text analyzing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (style-criterion-MTV): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste.
    “it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Eddington: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Eddington → Magnolia. Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
    “strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Magnolia. Asked directly whether he likes Fallout more than Magnolia, Chris says no.
    “Do you like Mission Impossible Fallout more than Magnolia?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Paul Thomas Anderson: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (auteur credit): Magnolia → Paul Thomas Anderson. Magnolia works because PTA loves Cruise and plays with the idea of Tom Cruise.
    “Paul Thomas I understand who like loves Tom Cruise as much as we do”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Philip Baker Hall: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Philip Baker Hall → Magnolia. Hall's 1999 includes Magnolia alongside this film.
    “How about just his 99?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:14 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): Magnolia → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness.
    “This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Magnolia. The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia.
    “it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

William H. Macy: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (actor's run of losers): William H. Macy → Magnolia. Donnie Smith in Magnolia is a harder watch than Jerry.
    “Jerry is tough is a tough hang.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:18:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Philip Baker Hall → Magnolia. Hall's 1999 includes Magnolia alongside this film.
    “How about just his 99?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:14 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career-parallel): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Each is its director's third film, where they hit both their emotional-trauma vein and big Hollywood budgets; both blessed by Scorsese.
    “Magnolia and Tenna bombs were each of their 3rd films.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:21:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career arc): Magnolia → Eyes Wide Shut. Both are directors riffing on Cruise's fame and persona, and are his big acting-year pair in 1999.
    “puts him in a position to do all of that and also comment on it and play with the idea of Tom Cruise.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Tom Cruise → Magnolia. Before Edge, Magnolia would have been his best performance, a post-modern text analyzing his persona.
    “Magnolia is his best performance because it's like the post-modern text analyzing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Tom Cruise → Magnolia. Magnolia, MI2 and Vanilla Sky are three consecutive long-haired movies.
    “Magnolia, Mission Impossible 2, and this are all long hair, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:54:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (style-criterion-MTV): The Royal Tenenbaums → Magnolia. Both blend European-cinema love with music-video sensibility and lead with musical taste.
    “it's basically like criterion MTV. They have the sensibility and the style of music videos”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:22:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Eddington → Magnolia. Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
    “strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (actor's run of losers): William H. Macy → Magnolia. Donnie Smith in Magnolia is a harder watch than Jerry.
    “Jerry is tough is a tough hang.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:18:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (auteur credit): Magnolia → Paul Thomas Anderson. Magnolia works because PTA loves Cruise and plays with the idea of Tom Cruise.
    “Paul Thomas I understand who like loves Tom Cruise as much as we do”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:28:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (shared lead performance): Eyes Wide Shut → Magnolia. The speaker says Magnolia is the only other Cruise movie where reality distorts around him while he clutches at control.
    “The only other movie that fits that description for Cruz is Magnolia, which he was filmed right after.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:21:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (comparison): Magnolia → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness.
    “This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Magnolia. The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia.
    “it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (ranking): Eyes Wide Shut → Magnolia. Forced to cut between them, one host expects Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia choice but both stay.
    “You're going to make me choose between eyes wet shut and magnolia then.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Magnolia. Asked directly whether he likes Fallout more than Magnolia, Chris says no.
    “Do you like Mission Impossible Fallout more than Magnolia?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Magnolia. As a cameo, Cruise could be one of Sil's pickups: Cocktail Cruise or Magnolia Cruise.
    “Literally, one of the guys she picks up is cocktail cruise. or Magnolia Cruise?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:29 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

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