Sally Field

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q187033: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Absence of Malice, which ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Smokey and the Bandit (1977); Absence of Malice (1981); Forrest Gump (1994).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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.

Starman (1984): 1 line

  1. people (performance lineage) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: Starman ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read). Bridges' hat, check shirt, strange speech and not-quite-a-person quality read as a proto-Forrest Gump.
    “there's like a proto-Forrest Gump vibe in this performance in the hat and in the check shirt”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:57:23 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

earlier Vietnam films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read). Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor.
    “A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (anti-Gump answer) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: Forrest Gump ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). Griffin reads Benjamin Button as a pointed answer to Gump, showing the death behind the Americana.
    “But I think it's almost like pointedly an anti-gump.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:22:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: Forrest Gump ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). The speaker says the cultural narrative is that Benjamin Button is Fincher trying to do Gump.
    “but I do think this is like the cultural narrative of this movie is he's trying to do Gump, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Big Fish (2003): 1 line

  1. unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: Forrest Gump ⇒ Big Fish (the host's read). Studios kept trying to replicate Gump; Big Fish was one attempt.
    “And Big Fish is an attempt at a gump.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013): 1 line

  1. unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through Forrest Gump (1994), which they acted in: Forrest Gump ⇒ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the host's read). Walter Mitty is another attempt at a Gump a couple of years after Button.
    “A couple years after this, Walter Middy's an attempt at a gump.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Olivia Colman → Sally Field. Best actress winners are expected to seem real and grateful, as in Sally Field's 'you like me' speech.
    “But the long history of Sally Field and that montage of you like me, you really like me, is it is straight out of that playbook.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:20:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Friday the 13th → Sally Field. They wanted Sally Field, could not get her, and so cast unknowns, which lets you kill anyone.
    “Because they wanted Sally Field and they could not get her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Twister → Sally Field. Casting a bigger actress for Aunt Meg is floated with Sally Field, Ellen Burstyn, Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger.
    “Who was available at? Ellen Bursten? Sally Field? Coming off Forrest Gump?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:21:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.