Spartacus (1960)

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Who talked about it

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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.

Steven Spielberg: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (led to restoration): Steven Spielberg ⇒ Spartacus (the host's read). Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
    “and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Led to

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

Gladiator: 3 lines the host's read ×3

  1. lineage (riff / imitation): Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
    “this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Airplane!: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Clueless: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Dell Comics: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation): Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read). Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
    “that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Gladiator: 4 lines unmapped ×2 lineage ×1 people ×1

  1. lineage (riff / imitation): Spartacus → Gladiator. Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
    “this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Paths of Glory: 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)

2001: A Space Odyssey: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (intermission): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Spartacus. The third intermission movie covered that year, after Spartacus and Sweet Charity.
    “this is now the 3rd movie we've covered with an intermission this year”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:38:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

300: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (shared audience appeal): Spartacus → 300. 300 came out and overperformed with an underserved gay audience, like Spartacus decades earlier.
    “when 300 came out and made so much fucking money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Airplane!: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Airplane!. The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Anthony Hopkins: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (voice replacement): Anthony Hopkins → Spartacus. Olivier was dead for the restoration, so Hopkins impersonated him for the recovered dialogue.
    “Anthony Hopkins impersonated him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ben-Hur: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (response to): Ben-Hur → Spartacus. After losing Ben-Hur, speaker says Spartacus is drafting off Douglas's dark man.
    “Yeah. This is drafting off of Kirk Douglas's dark man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Cleopatra: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre escalation): Spartacus → Cleopatra. Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much.
    “Cleopatra was like the end of an error”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Clueless: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Clueless. Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Dell Comics: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation): Spartacus → Dell Comics. Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
    “that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Hail, Caesar!: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (parody of the epic genre): Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus. Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to.
    “Hail Caesar, which is mocking that”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jeanne Moreau: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Jeanne Moreau → Spartacus. Kubrick wanted Jeanne Moreau for Varinia.
    “He wanted John Moreau to do it, which would have been fascinating.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:53:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Lolita: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career context): Spartacus → Lolita. Spartacus, Kubrick's biggest hit, is offered as one reason he got to make Lolita.
    “So that's one reason he probably gets to make a lead.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:11:47 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Sergei Prokofiev: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (music on set): Sergei Prokofiev → Spartacus. Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him.
    “The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (led to restoration): Steven Spielberg → Spartacus. Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
    “and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Alamo: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (Oscar competition): The Alamo → Spartacus. The Alamo, which John Wayne directed, got the Best Picture slot Spartacus missed.
    “Um, because that's the one John Wayne directed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:22:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career context): Spartacus → Lolita. Spartacus, Kubrick's biggest hit, is offered as one reason he got to make Lolita.
    “So that's one reason he probably gets to make a lead.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:11:47 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (music on set): Sergei Prokofiev → Spartacus. Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him.
    “The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. 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)

industry (1)

  1. industry (Oscar competition): The Alamo → Spartacus. The Alamo, which John Wayne directed, got the Best Picture slot Spartacus missed.
    “Um, because that's the one John Wayne directed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:22:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (riff / imitation): Spartacus → Gladiator. Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
    “this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation): Spartacus → Dell Comics. Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
    “that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. 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 (1)

  1. people (casting approach): Spartacus → Gladiator. Gladiator, like Spartacus, is loaded with supporting actors who are thespian gems, which the speaker says Scott recognized.
    “as Ridley Scott recognized about this movie, is like loaded up with supporting actors who are like just thespian gems.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (genre escalation): Spartacus → Cleopatra. Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much.
    “Cleopatra was like the end of an error”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (parody of the epic genre): Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus. Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to.
    “Hail Caesar, which is mocking that”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (9)

  1. unmapped (intermission): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Spartacus. The third intermission movie covered that year, after Spartacus and Sweet Charity.
    “this is now the 3rd movie we've covered with an intermission this year”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:38:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (response to): Ben-Hur → Spartacus. After losing Ben-Hur, speaker says Spartacus is drafting off Douglas's dark man.
    “Yeah. This is drafting off of Kirk Douglas's dark man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (scene reused): Spartacus → Gladiator. The trident thrown into the stands in Spartacus is in Gladiator too, with Russell Crowe doing it.
    “that's literally in Gladiator.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (compared endings): Spartacus → Gladiator. Spartacus does not Hollywoodize its ending; Gladiator at least lets its hero go to heaven.
    “Because, I mean, like Gladiator at least sort of lets him go to heaven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Clueless. Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (reference): Spartacus → Airplane!. The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (shared audience appeal): Spartacus → 300. 300 came out and overperformed with an underserved gay audience, like Spartacus decades earlier.
    “when 300 came out and made so much fucking money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (voice replacement): Anthony Hopkins → Spartacus. Olivier was dead for the restoration, so Hopkins impersonated him for the recovered dialogue.
    “Anthony Hopkins impersonated him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (led to restoration): Steven Spielberg → Spartacus. Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
    “and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Jeanne Moreau → Spartacus. Kubrick wanted Jeanne Moreau for Varinia.
    “He wanted John Moreau to do it, which would have been fascinating.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:53:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Spartacus: Douglas announced Spartacus in Variety to beat Yul Brynner's rival Gladiators project, one dollar-ish over the same budget.
    “we are going ahead with the gladiators, starring Eul Brenner, a budget of 5.5 million dollars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:47:55 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Spartacus: The film cost $12 million, roughly $110 million today.
    “It costs $12 million, which is like the equivalent of like $110 million now”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Spartacus: The film is a Clueless cameo, a Community joke, and the Airplane punchline long before people see it.
    “I mean, there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Spartacus: The restored bath scene's dialogue: Curtis rerecorded his in his 60s; Anthony Hopkins stood in for the dead Olivier.
    “Tony Curtis rerecorded the dialogue, even though he was in his 60s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Spartacus: The long-circulated Blu-ray was notoriously bad; the 4K fixes it.
    “This looks like a VHS put on a disc.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:02:32 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.