1941 (1979)

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Wikidata Q207482, film, IMDb tt0078723, TMDB 11519: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Steven Spielberg as director (The Color of Money with Chris Ryan); 2 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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.

Chuck Jones: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (craft): Chuck Jones ⇒ 1941 (the host's read). 1941 is Chuck Jones trying to come to life; Raiders uses the same storytelling with narrative discipline.
    “that is a Chuck Jones cartoon trying to come to life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:36:24 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them)

Led to

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

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Chuck Jones: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): 1941 → Chuck Jones. 1941 is Chuck Jones trying to come to life; Raiders uses the same storytelling with narrative discipline.
    “that is a Chuck Jones cartoon trying to come to life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:36:24 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them)

Empire of the Sun: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (technique contrast): Empire of the Sun → 1941. After 1941's show-off scale, Empire is the first time Spielberg orchestrates huge long takes without them feeling like playing with toys.
    “it is the 1st time in his career, he can orchestrate something like that and not make it feel like he's playing with toys”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Finding Nemo: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): 1941 → Finding Nemo. Eisner betting Pixar would flop is compared to the industry hoping 1941 would flop to rein in Spielberg.
    “I think the industry probably was excited for 1941 to not work because it's like maybe this guy's come down to Earth.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:00:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (comedy attempts): Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade → 1941. Last Crusade is his one fully successful comedy; his clean comedies like 1941 and The Terminal are among his worst.
    “basically, all of his worst movies are his cleanest attempts at comedies, like, 1941, the terminal, arguably all these.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:21:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

John Williams: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): John Williams → 1941. 1941's score is argued to be among Williams' very best.
    “you can argue 1941 is among his very, very best”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:38:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Color of Money: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career-arc analogue): The Color of Money → 1941. Spielberg's lean style forged by 1941 failure is compared with Scorsese compressing his shoot to regain trust.
    “That's always been a famous, uh, Spielberg thing, that he's so forged in the failure of 1941 that he adopts that style for Raiders”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:22:10 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career-arc analogue): The Color of Money → 1941. Spielberg's lean style forged by 1941 failure is compared with Scorsese compressing his shoot to regain trust.
    “That's always been a famous, uh, Spielberg thing, that he's so forged in the failure of 1941 that he adopts that style for Raiders”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:22:10 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (technique contrast): Empire of the Sun → 1941. After 1941's show-off scale, Empire is the first time Spielberg orchestrates huge long takes without them feeling like playing with toys.
    “it is the 1st time in his career, he can orchestrate something like that and not make it feel like he's playing with toys”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): 1941 → Chuck Jones. 1941 is Chuck Jones trying to come to life; Raiders uses the same storytelling with narrative discipline.
    “that is a Chuck Jones cartoon trying to come to life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:36:24 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): John Williams → 1941. 1941's score is argued to be among Williams' very best.
    “you can argue 1941 is among his very, very best”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:38:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): 1941 → Finding Nemo. Eisner betting Pixar would flop is compared to the industry hoping 1941 would flop to rein in Spielberg.
    “I think the industry probably was excited for 1941 to not work because it's like maybe this guy's come down to Earth.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:00:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (comedy attempts): Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade → 1941. Last Crusade is his one fully successful comedy; his clean comedies like 1941 and The Terminal are among his worst.
    “basically, all of his worst movies are his cleanest attempts at comedies, like, 1941, the terminal, arguably all these.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:21:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

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