Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
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Wikidata Q106577763, film, IMDb tt11703710, TMDB 820446: 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
The Big Picture
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.
Singin' in the Rain: 1 line the host's read ×1
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theme (plot borrowing):
Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Downton Abbey: A New Era (the host's read).
The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain.
“it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (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
Babylon: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (shared theme):
Downton Abbey: A New Era → Babylon.
Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies.
“this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
Singin' in the Rain: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (plot borrowing):
Downton Abbey: A New Era → Singin' in the Rain.
The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain.
“it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- recommended in The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft, first at 0:54:14, 5 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free), first at 1:17:38, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
theme (2)
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theme (plot borrowing):
Downton Abbey: A New Era → Singin' in the Rain.
The Downton film's film-within-a-film plot, with Lady Mary dubbing a silent star, is a pure crib from Singin' in the Rain.
“it's just pure crib from singing in the rain, but it starts as a silent film and then, you know, they go to see uh, the jazz singer”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them) -
theme (shared theme):
Downton Abbey: A New Era → Babylon.
Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies.
“this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Downton Abbey: A New Era:
Amanda pitches it as Singin' in the Rain: Lady Mary dubs a silent star, and Lady Violet inherits a French Riviera house from a torrid affair.
“Lady Violet, a.k.a. the dowager countess, like had a torrid love affair, and she got left a house.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:56:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Hugh Dancy: actor (film producer) (The Big Picture, The 2022 Movie Draft)
- Dominic West: actor (Errol Flynn type) (The Big Picture, The 2022 Movie Draft)
- Tuppence Middleton: actor (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))