Witness (1985)

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Wikidata Q488041, film, IMDb tt0090329, TMDB 9281: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Peter Weir as director (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman); 5 more episodes agree.

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

In the store as #604, Witness (1985).

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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.

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Led to

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No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Harrison Ford: 3 lines career ×3

  1. career (career): Harrison Ford → Witness. Mallory Rubin thinks Witness is the most attractive Ford has ever been.
    “Her, she thinks the most attractive Harrison Ford has ever been is in Witness canonically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:30:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fearless: 2 lines industry ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. industry (marketing): Fearless → Witness. The poster leads with the director of Witness and Dead Poets Society.
    “the top thing of the poster is from the director of Witness and Dead Poets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:31:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

After Hours: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (alternate assignment): Witness → After Hours. Scorsese was also offered Witness and refused to go to Pennsylvania/Amish country.
    “And Marty was kind of like, I'm not going to Pennsylvania.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:50:09 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Witness. Same patience; the slow burn pays off in action.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Year of Living Dangerously: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career guarantor): The Year of Living Dangerously → Witness. Year of Living Dangerously got Weir into Hollywood; Witness is the guarantor of his Hollywood run.
    “I think witness is the guarantor for the next... for the Hollywood story.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:35:51 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Working Girl: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Working Girl → Witness. Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford.
    “There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

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career (4)

  1. career (career guarantor): The Year of Living Dangerously → Witness. Year of Living Dangerously got Weir into Hollywood; Witness is the guarantor of his Hollywood run.
    “I think witness is the guarantor for the next... for the Hollywood story.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:35:51 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Harrison Ford → Witness. Witness, Working Girl, Jack Ryan and The Fugitive are Ford films that work within his persona.
    “witness, working girl, and then the Jack Ryan movies”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:27:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Harrison Ford → Witness. Mallory Rubin thinks Witness is the most attractive Ford has ever been.
    “Her, she thinks the most attractive Harrison Ford has ever been is in Witness canonically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:30:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Harrison Ford → Witness. The year after Jedi Ford made Witness and got his first Oscar nomination.
    “The year after this, he makes witness, gets his 1st Oscar nomination.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:22:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (marketing): Fearless → Witness. The poster leads with the director of Witness and Dead Poets Society.
    “the top thing of the poster is from the director of Witness and Dead Poets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:31:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Working Girl → Witness. Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford.
    “There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (weir-patience): Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Witness. Same patience; the slow burn pays off in action.
    “there are definitely moments in witness, certainly in hanging rock”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 2:45:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (look): Witness → Fearless. After the Witness episode, Bridges' Fearless look is judged possibly the top screen look ever, more attainable than Ford's.
    “I'm like, this might actually be the number one look a guy has ever had on screen.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:56:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (alternate assignment): Witness → After Hours. Scorsese was also offered Witness and refused to go to Pennsylvania/Amish country.
    “And Marty was kind of like, I'm not going to Pennsylvania.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:50:09 · unknown host (0.35 sure it was them)

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