The Fighter (2010)

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Wikidata Q323472, film, IMDb tt0964517, TMDB 45317: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits David O. Russell as director (The Color of Money with Chris Ryan); 1 more episode agrees.

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

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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.

Fighting with My Family: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Fighter ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Connected to

Fighting with My Family: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → The Fighter. Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

Silver Linings Playbook: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (David O. Russell decline arc): Silver Linings Playbook → The Fighter. The Fighter holds up while the subsequent Russell films get worse, ending in Joy where it fell apart.
    “All 3 of those worked for me until Joy, where it fell apart so hard, and I have not rewatched any of them.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:36:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Fighting with My Family → The Fighter. Merchant borrowed The Fighter's low-budget trick of using HBO boxing cameramen so the wrestling would look like a real broadcast.
    “They used HBO boxing cameramen to shoot a lot of their fight scenes.”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:41:16 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (David O. Russell decline arc): Silver Linings Playbook → The Fighter. The Fighter holds up while the subsequent Russell films get worse, ending in Joy where it fell apart.
    “All 3 of those worked for me until Joy, where it fell apart so hard, and I have not rewatched any of them.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:36:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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