Valkyrie (2008)

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Wikidata Q159054, film, IMDb tt0985699, TMDB 2253: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Tom Wilkinson as actor (The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame); 1 more episode agrees.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

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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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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

Christopher McQuarrie: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. career (career step): Valkyrie ⇒ Christopher McQuarrie (the host's read). Valkyrie set up Tom Cruise's redemption by teaming him with McQuarrie.
    “Weirdly, the movie that then, like, sets up Tom Cruise's Redemption Arc by finally teaming him up with Macquarie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Christopher McQuarrie: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career step): Valkyrie → Christopher McQuarrie. Valkyrie set up Tom Cruise's redemption by teaming him with McQuarrie.
    “Weirdly, the movie that then, like, sets up Tom Cruise's Redemption Arc by finally teaming him up with Macquarie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Paths of Glory: 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)

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

  1. unmapped (joke): Valkyrie → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Button also killed some Nazis, unlike Cruise's Valkyrie.
    “Benjamin Button also killed some Nazis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:15:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Last Samurai: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Valkyrie → The Last Samurai. Both are dismissed as strange or slogging Cruise period pieces, Valkyrie red and Last Samurai a slog.
    “Valkyrie is not yellow.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career step): Valkyrie → Christopher McQuarrie. Valkyrie set up Tom Cruise's redemption by teaming him with McQuarrie.
    “Weirdly, the movie that then, like, sets up Tom Cruise's Redemption Arc by finally teaming him up with Macquarie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (joke): Valkyrie → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Button also killed some Nazis, unlike Cruise's Valkyrie.
    “Benjamin Button also killed some Nazis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:15:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (ranking): Valkyrie → The Last Samurai. Both are dismissed as strange or slogging Cruise period pieces, Valkyrie red and Last Samurai a slog.
    “Valkyrie is not yellow.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Valkyrie: Tom Cruise told the director not to cut back to Hitler so the audience stays in the tension of the plot seeming to succeed.
    “And Cruz said, don't cut back to Hitler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:16:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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