Paths of Glory (1957)

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Humphrey Cobb: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (led to): The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

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What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

David Simon: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Wire: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Die Hard: 2 lines theme ×1 contrast ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Die Hard. The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals.
    “the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)

Dr. Strangelove: 2 lines theme ×1 lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → Dr. Strangelove. Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity.
    “the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Full Metal Jacket: 2 lines theme ×2

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart.
    “the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85 sure it was them)

Jim Thompson: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (people): Jim Thompson → Paths of Glory. Thompson, who wrote The Killing, was brought back to adapt Paths of Glory.
    “They bring in Jim Thompson, who writes, you know, who wrote uh, wait, what did he write?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:34:31 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan: 2 lines theme ×1 contrast ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means.
    “Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)

Spartacus: 2 lines craft ×1 lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → Spartacus. Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money.
    “Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

The Killing: 2 lines craft ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → The Killing. The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing.
    “that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

1917: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → 1917. The single whistle-blowing sequence in Paths of Glory is more harrowing than all of 1917's unrelenting one-shot.
    “the one whistleblowing sequence with Douglas for me is so much more harrowing and tense than anything in 1917”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:47:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Alexander: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Alexander. Oliver Stone's Alexander is the weirdest accent solution: Macedonians in Irish accents.
    “The weirdest approach, of course, is what Oliver Stone did with Alexander, where he was like, the Macedonians will speak in Irish accents.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

All Quiet on the Western Front: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → All Quiet on the Western Front. The only plausible rival as the great World War I film; All Quiet is a pre-code, unsanitized, unjingoistic picture.
    “It's not jingoistic or sanded down.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:46:26 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Barry Lyndon: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Barry Lyndon. Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch.
    “I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)

Bicycle Thieves: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Bicycle Thieves. A joke that Paths of Glory is as big a bummer as Bicycle Thieves, which is why nobody wanted to fund it.
    “up there with bicycle thieves.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:34:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Blackadder (TV): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Blackadder (TV) → Paths of Glory. Growing up on Blackadder, the speaker finds some childlike charm in trench life and felt guilty thinking it during Paths of Glory.
    “I was kind of thinking that while watching this, which immediately was a thought I felt very guilty for.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:04:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Born on the Fourth of July: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Born on the Fourth of July. The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality.
    “the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Christiane Harlan: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Christiane Harlan → Paths of Glory. Kubrick's future wife sings the folk song at the inn that ends the film.
    “the scene at the inn with Kubrick's future wife singing this folk song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:30:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

David Simon: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): David Simon → Paths of Glory. The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Deep Blue Sea: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Deep Blue Sea → Paths of Glory. Renny Harlin movies include a character saying I don't want to die, as Carey does in the Paths of Glory death scene.
    “Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger, where someone who's about to die horribly says, I don't want to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:20:56 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)

Highlander: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Highlander. A pan-European accent like Christopher Lambert's in Highlander is worse than generic American speech.
    “A pan-European accent sounding like Christopher Lambert and Highlander.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:57:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Humphrey Cobb: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Humphrey Cobb → Paths of Glory. Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Inglourious Basterds: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → Inglourious Basterds. There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here.
    “There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mark Wahlberg: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Mark Wahlberg → Paths of Glory. A Paths of Glory remake would have every other actor doing a reverse Wahlberg accent.
    “You remake paths of glory with Mark Wahlberg and everyone else has to do a reverse Wahlberg reverse engineered Wahlberg accent.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:00:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Paths of Glory → National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. A Christmas Vacation-style rescue ending is imagined where Brian Doyle-Murray sorts everything out.
    “we need to do the National Lampoon Christmas vacation ending where Brian Doyle Murray shows up”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:44:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Predator: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Predator. Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing.
    “it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)

Rashomon: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Paths of Glory → Rashomon. Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies.
    “Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Stand by Me: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Stand by Me. Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters.
    “I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85 sure it was them)

Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine (TV): 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine (TV). The Cardassian trial episode, where guilt is decided before the trial starts, is likened to the courtroom in Paths of Glory.
    “In our in our legal system, the trial is just an arena for us to yell at you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:27:28 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

The Bridge on the River Kwai: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Paths of Glory → The Bridge on the River Kwai. Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide.
    “number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75 sure it was them)

The Wire: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → The Wire. David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Timothy Carey: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (shared actor): Timothy Carey → Paths of Glory. Carey was crazy on Paths of Glory too and Kubrick eventually fired him.
    “he was crazy when they made paths of glory as well, and eventually Kubrick fired him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Titanic: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Titanic → Paths of Glory. The Titanic legend of Cameron refusing studio cuts is told as a parallel to Douglas and Kubrick fighting over the ending.
    “This reminds me of a story I love from the production of Titanic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:36 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)

Valkyrie: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Valkyrie. Valkyrie mixes an American lead with British cast, which is the accent problem Paths of Glory sidesteps.
    “it's the huge problem with Valkyrie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (8)

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Barry Lyndon. Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch.
    “I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Die Hard. Die Hard asks how much good one good guy can do and answers all of it; Paths of Glory answers none of it.
    “the whole premise of Die Hard is like, how much good can like one good guy manage to get done?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:31:40 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → All Quiet on the Western Front. The only plausible rival as the great World War I film; All Quiet is a pre-code, unsanitized, unjingoistic picture.
    “It's not jingoistic or sanded down.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:46:26 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → 1917. The single whistle-blowing sequence in Paths of Glory is more harrowing than all of 1917's unrelenting one-shot.
    “the one whistleblowing sequence with Douglas for me is so much more harrowing and tense than anything in 1917”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:47:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Highlander. A pan-European accent like Christopher Lambert's in Highlander is worse than generic American speech.
    “A pan-European accent sounding like Christopher Lambert and Highlander.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:57:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Valkyrie. Valkyrie mixes an American lead with British cast, which is the accent problem Paths of Glory sidesteps.
    “it's the huge problem with Valkyrie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Alexander. Oliver Stone's Alexander is the weirdest accent solution: Macedonians in Irish accents.
    “The weirdest approach, of course, is what Oliver Stone did with Alexander, where he was like, the Macedonians will speak in Irish accents.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. They are inverse movies: Ryan follows through for a symbolic victory and micro empathy, Paths of Glory is about covering for the boss.
    “they're kind of inverse movies because saving Private Ryan is like, we need to follow through on this mission.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:23:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → Spartacus. The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied.
    “similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → The Killing. The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing.
    “that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Paths of Glory → Inglourious Basterds. There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here.
    “There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Titanic → Paths of Glory. The Titanic legend of Cameron refusing studio cuts is told as a parallel to Douglas and Kubrick fighting over the ending.
    “This reminds me of a story I love from the production of Titanic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:36 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (5)

  1. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → Dr. Strangelove. Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity.
    “the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → The Wire. David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): David Simon → Paths of Glory. The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Humphrey Cobb → Paths of Glory. Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Paths of Glory → Spartacus. Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money.
    “Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Jim Thompson → Paths of Glory. Thompson, who wrote The Killing, was brought back to adapt Paths of Glory.
    “They bring in Jim Thompson, who writes, you know, who wrote uh, wait, what did he write?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:34:31 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Christiane Harlan → Paths of Glory. Kubrick's future wife sings the folk song at the inn that ends the film.
    “the scene at the inn with Kubrick's future wife singing this folk song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:30:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (shared writer): Jim Thompson → Paths of Glory. Thompson also wrote Paths of Glory and is a big early Kubrick guy.
    “Jim Thompson writes paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:12:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (shared actor): Timothy Carey → Paths of Glory. Carey was crazy on Paths of Glory too and Kubrick eventually fired him.
    “he was crazy when they made paths of glory as well, and eventually Kubrick fired him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): Paths of Glory → Rashomon. Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies.
    “Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Paths of Glory → The Bridge on the River Kwai. Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide.
    “number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75 sure it was them)

theme (12)

  1. theme (theme: killing at a distance): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances.
    “Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Blackadder (TV) → Paths of Glory. Growing up on Blackadder, the speaker finds some childlike charm in trench life and felt guilty thinking it during Paths of Glory.
    “I was kind of thinking that while watching this, which immediately was a thought I felt very guilty for.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:04:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Dr. Strangelove. Strangelove pushes the same absurdity far enough for jokes, so the two films are more closely linked than the speaker had thought.
    “Like Doctor Strangelove pushes it into a level of absurdity where you can actually have jokes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:12:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine (TV). The Cardassian trial episode, where guilt is decided before the trial starts, is likened to the courtroom in Paths of Glory.
    “In our in our legal system, the trial is just an arena for us to yell at you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:27:28 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Die Hard. The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals.
    “the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Bicycle Thieves. A joke that Paths of Glory is as big a bummer as Bicycle Thieves, which is why nobody wanted to fund it.
    “up there with bicycle thieves.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:34:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Born on the Fourth of July. The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality.
    “the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart.
    “the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Predator. Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing.
    “it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Deep Blue Sea → Paths of Glory. Renny Harlin movies include a character saying I don't want to die, as Carey does in the Paths of Glory death scene.
    “Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger, where someone who's about to die horribly says, I don't want to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:20:56 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means.
    “Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Stand by Me. Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters.
    “I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (led to): The Killing → Paths of Glory. Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Mark Wahlberg → Paths of Glory. A Paths of Glory remake would have every other actor doing a reverse Wahlberg accent.
    “You remake paths of glory with Mark Wahlberg and everyone else has to do a reverse Wahlberg reverse engineered Wahlberg accent.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:00:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Paths of Glory → National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. A Christmas Vacation-style rescue ending is imagined where Brian Doyle-Murray sorts everything out.
    “we need to do the National Lampoon Christmas vacation ending where Brian Doyle Murray shows up”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:44:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Paths of Glory: The poster and tagline sell a Kirk Douglas action epic in the trenches; the film is fascinatingly not that.
    “It makes it feel like this whole movie is going to be him in the fucking trenches wrestling people to the ground.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:00:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Paths of Glory: Harris-Kubrick got an MGM deal to write, produce and direct in 40 weeks for $75,000.
    “they get a deal at MGM to write, produce, and direct a film in 40 weeks for a fee of $75,000”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:32:31 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Paths of Glory: Kirk Douglas's name alone got a $1 million budget, and he took $300,000 of it.
    “$1000000 budget based on Kirk Douglas's name, $300,000 goes to Kirk Douglas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:35:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Paths of Glory: Watch the opening: offices are wide, deep focus and silent; the trenches are claustrophobic noise.
    “Kubrick's doing what later kind of becomes his definitive style of this sort of icy remove, super wide shot, deep focus, focusing on the silence”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Paths of Glory: The jail cell is shot like a general's office because it is safer than the front.
    “even something like the jail cell where they're being kept before the execution, he shoots more like one of the general's offices”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:09:41 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Paths of Glory: The most legally accurate moment in any movie: the lawyer cannot say anything relevant and is waved off.
    “That's like the most legally accurate moment in any movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:07 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Paths of Glory: See the line about keeping a condemned man conscious for the firing squad.
    “If he's still alive in the morning, pinch his cheeks a couple of times, the general wants him to be conscious.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:28:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Paths of Glory: Kubrick was embarrassed to end the film on his future wife's song and promised it was not just a crush.
    “I'm not putting her at the end just because I like her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:30:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Paths of Glory: Not shown to the French censors and pulled from Berlin because of protest.
    “It was apparently not even shown to the French censorship board because they knew there was no chance that France would allow it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:43:31 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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