Local Hero (1983)

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Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

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Led to

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Connected to

Bill Forsyth: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Bill Forsyth → Local Hero. Forsyth gives a classic 80s comedy setup sweetness and specificity about the Highlands people.
    “Forsyth has this sweetness to him.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:46:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Burt Lancaster: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Burt Lancaster → Local Hero. Lancaster's batty oil billionaire is a great late-career performance.
    “Also doing one of like the great late stage performances of his career.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Danny DeVito/Michael Keaton comedies: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Local Hero → Danny DeVito/Michael Keaton comedies. The oil-company setup sounds like a classic 80s DeVito or Keaton comedy.
    “It sounds like it could be like a Danny DeVito movie or a Michael Keaton movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:46:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Dave: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Local Hero → Dave. They propose a Dave and Local Hero double feature for the apocalypse.
    “So when the apocalypse comes, we can do a Dave and local hero double feature.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Peter Capaldi: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Peter Capaldi → Local Hero. Capaldi is in Local Hero; speaker also notes In the Loop.
    “including Peter Capaldi, of in the loop fame.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Burt Lancaster → Local Hero. Lancaster's batty oil billionaire is a great late-career performance.
    “Also doing one of like the great late stage performances of his career.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Bill Forsyth → Local Hero. Forsyth gives a classic 80s comedy setup sweetness and specificity about the Highlands people.
    “Forsyth has this sweetness to him.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:46:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Local Hero → Danny DeVito/Michael Keaton comedies. The oil-company setup sounds like a classic 80s DeVito or Keaton comedy.
    “It sounds like it could be like a Danny DeVito movie or a Michael Keaton movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:46:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Peter Capaldi → Local Hero. Capaldi is in Local Hero; speaker also notes In the Loop.
    “including Peter Capaldi, of in the loop fame.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Local Hero → Dave. They propose a Dave and Local Hero double feature for the apocalypse.
    “So when the apocalypse comes, we can do a Dave and local hero double feature.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Local Hero: Burt Lancaster plays a Bezos/Musk type batty oil billionaire.
    “Burt Lancaster plays like a kind of like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk before they were Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk type type character.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Local Hero: Speaker watched it in month three or four of quarantine and felt better when hard to feel good.
    “I just felt better at a time when it was hard to feel good about very much.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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