One Battle After Another (2025)

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Wikidata Q117085614, film, IMDb tt30144839, TMDB 1054867: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 4 more episodes agree.

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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.

The Wolf of Wall Street: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence / humor): The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read). Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA.
    “Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

The Wolf of Wall Street: 3 lines unmapped ×1 lineage ×1 people ×1

  1. lineage (influence / humor): The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another. Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA.
    “Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

A Minecraft Movie: 2 lines unmapped ×2

  1. unmapped (subsidy): A Minecraft Movie → One Battle After Another. Minecraft's money effectively pays for Paul Thomas Anderson-style adult movies.
    “Minecraft success pays for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Benicio del Toro: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Benicio del Toro → One Battle After Another. Del Toro asked to avoid picking up Leo's live-wire energy and stay calm, which is hard for actors.
    “He asked that just make sure I don't pick up anyone else's energy.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:14:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Gangs of New York: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (passion-project parallel): Gangs of New York → One Battle After Another. PTA has been trying to get One Battle off the ground for ten years as Scorsese did with Gangs for decades.
    “I mean, PCA has been trying to get one battle off the ground for 10 years.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Terminator 2: Judgment Day → One Battle After Another. The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another.
    “that was also great prep for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): The Royal Tenenbaums → One Battle After Another. Speakers frame the Oscar race around PTA's film versus Hamnet.
    “it's one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:39:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Tony Goldwyn: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Tony Goldwyn → One Battle After Another. The Ghost villain actor appears not to be a nice man in One Battle After Another.
    “He appears to be not a very nice man in one battle after another, actually.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

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What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (passion-project parallel): Gangs of New York → One Battle After Another. PTA has been trying to get One Battle off the ground for ten years as Scorsese did with Gangs for decades.
    “I mean, PCA has been trying to get one battle off the ground for 10 years.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:26:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Benicio del Toro → One Battle After Another. Del Toro asked to avoid picking up Leo's live-wire energy and stay calm, which is hard for actors.
    “He asked that just make sure I don't pick up anyone else's energy.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:14:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Tony Goldwyn → One Battle After Another. The Ghost villain actor appears not to be a nice man in One Battle After Another.
    “He appears to be not a very nice man in one battle after another, actually.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): The Royal Tenenbaums → One Battle After Another. Speakers frame the Oscar race around PTA's film versus Hamnet.
    “it's one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:39:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (influence / humor): The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another. Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA.
    “Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance register): The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another. Leo is loose and funny in both, and in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “He's very loose in one battle after another. He's very loose in once upon a time in Hollywood, and he's very loose in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Terminator 2: Judgment Day → One Battle After Another. The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another.
    “that was also great prep for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (shared star / timing): The Wolf of Wall Street → One Battle After Another. Wolf is a perfectly timed pick going into One Battle After Another because of the Leo of it all.
    “we've been talking a lot about what perfect timing this is going into one battle after another. And obviously a lot of that is to do with the Leo of it all.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (subsidy): A Minecraft Movie → One Battle After Another. Minecraft's money effectively pays for Paul Thomas Anderson-style adult movies.
    “Minecraft success pays for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (Warner slate): A Minecraft Movie → One Battle After Another. Warner's slate (horror, One Battle After Another) may overperform too.
    “and then one battle after another, which I think might actually overperform a little bit too.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:18:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

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