Big (1988)

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Wikidata Q858467, film, IMDb tt0094737, TMDB 2280: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Penny Marshall as director (The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie); 4 more episodes agree.

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

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

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.

Shazam!: 2 lines the maker said so ×1 the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch). Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers.
    “it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)

Connected to

Shazam!: 2 lines lineage ×2

  1. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers.
    “it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Big. Time-loop and magic movies like Big refuse to explain the magic (a fortune-teller machine); Edge justifies its premise.
    “Usually it's better to not explain these things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Masters of the Universe: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (unexplained-setup contrast): Masters of the Universe → Big. Big reaches its magic machine in under ten minutes with no backstory, which the movie should have emulated instead of over-explaining.
    “And there is no backstory of who made the machine or why or why it's possessed with a ghost or why it works or how to undo it.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:05:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Penny Marshall: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (director's cut): Big → Penny Marshall. A 30-minute Marshall cut restores the father and more Elizabeth Perkins.
    “There's a penny marshall cut that's 30 minutes longer that mostly adds in more Elizabeth Perkins”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:16:32 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Tom Hanks: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Tom Hanks → Big. Hanks is the lord of the feel-good field.
    “He is really truly the lord of the feel-good fan.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:40:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (unexplained-setup contrast): Masters of the Universe → Big. Big reaches its magic machine in under ten minutes with no backstory, which the movie should have emulated instead of over-explaining.
    “And there is no backstory of who made the machine or why or why it's possessed with a ghost or why it works or how to undo it.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:05:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Edge of Tomorrow → Big. Time-loop and magic movies like Big refuse to explain the magic (a fortune-teller machine); Edge justifies its premise.
    “Usually it's better to not explain these things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie.
    “the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers.
    “it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (director's cut): Big → Penny Marshall. A 30-minute Marshall cut restores the father and more Elizabeth Perkins.
    “There's a penny marshall cut that's 30 minutes longer that mostly adds in more Elizabeth Perkins”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:16:32 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Tom Hanks → Big. Hanks is the lord of the feel-good field.
    “He is really truly the lord of the feel-good fan.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:40:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Big → Big. Speaker says the premise with Noah Centineo today would not work for them.
    “if a movie with this premise starring Noah Santineo came out today, I would not enjoy it”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:40:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Big → Big. Speaker calls Big perfect and cannot articulate why; feel-good depends on when you saw it.
    “it's, it's perfect.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:41:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Big: A 30-minute Penny Marshall cut restores a father character she cut out in the theatrical version.
    “makes her seem far less demented, but also at the same time, adds back in the father.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:16:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Big: Rewatching Big, the fortune-teller machine arrives within ten minutes with zero backstory, the model for how fantasy used to skip setup.
    “And he gets to the fortune teller machine within less than 10 minutes.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:05:11 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Big: Speaker's mall memory of FAO Schwartz giant piano, referencing the movie's piano scene.
    “There was like a FAO Schwartz at the mall.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:42:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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