Anthony Michael Hall

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q361215: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983); Sixteen Candles (1984); The Breakfast Club (1985); Weird Science (1985); Johnny B. Good.

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.

Mad Max 2 (1981): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Al Feldstein: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein.
    “this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

John Hughes: 1 line

  1. career (creator self-projection) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they acted in: John Hughes ⇒ The Breakfast Club (the host's read). Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys.
    “my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club (1985): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Alan Ruck: 1 line

  1. lineage (character lineage) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they acted in: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read). Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
    “Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

John Hughes: 1 line

  1. people (falling out) · them, directly: Anthony Michael Hall ⇒ John Hughes (the maker said so: Vanity Fair). Hall says Hughes wrote Ducky, Ferris and other roles for him, then they split after Weird Science.
    “he believes Hughes wrote the roles of Ducky and Pretty and Pink and Ferris Bueller for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Oingo Boingo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Weird Science ⇒ Oingo Boingo (the host's read). The speaker imagines the title song was written after the band was told the plot and shown the film, Frankenstein vibe included.
    “I'm making this movie. It's about these 15 year old kids that create basically like the perfect woman and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they acted in: Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Weird Science (1985): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Breakfast Club (1985), which they acted in: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (8) everyone in acting

Other (5) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Anthony Michael Hall → Sixteen Candles. Ebert wrote that Hall was the geek in 16 Candles and the intellectual in The Breakfast Club.
    “he wrote that Hall was the geek in 16 candles in the intellectual Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Anthony Michael Hall → Johnny B. Good. Trying to escape the dork typecast, Hall became the jock in Johnny B. Good, which the speaker finds boring.
    “he becomes the jock in Johnny B. Good”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Hall was sweet where the later horny-guy leads, like Hill, are angry yellers.
    “Anthony Michael Hall was sweet, and I think a lot of the guys who wanted to get laid in the later movies are angry.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:23:42 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Anthony Michael Hall → Richard Pryor. Hall does a Richard Pryor impression in the Chet-stairs scene; Hughes and Hall both loved Pryor.
    “He's basically doing a richer Pryor impersonation”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:16 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Jonah Hill's Superbad character is very similar to Anthony Michael Hall's character, almost his son.
    “Jonah Hill's character is very similar to the Anthony Michael Hall character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:04 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes loved Hall and pitched the next movie on the Breakfast Club set.
    “He wants to make every movie with him and he's like, I got our next movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:54 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes saw Hall as his proxy, Scorsese to De Niro.
    “This is like, I'm Scorsese and you're De Niro, basically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:27 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. people (falling out): Anthony Michael Hall → John Hughes. Hall says Hughes wrote Ducky, Ferris and other roles for him, then they split after Weird Science.
    “he believes Hughes wrote the roles of Ducky and Pretty and Pink and Ferris Bueller for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:55 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (casting first choice): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Michael Hall. Kubrick wanted Hall for Joker after seeing Sixteen Candles; eight months of talks broke down.
    “He saw 16 candles. He was like this guy's an incredible actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:44:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall turned down Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller; Ferris would have been the move away from the dork side.
    “And He turned down both roles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:30 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick, a Hughes fan, wanted Hall as Joker and negotiated for over half a year.
    “decided he wanted Anthony Michael Hall in full metal jacket.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:57 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → National Lampoon's European Vacation. Hall had a choice between European Vacation and Weird Science and chose wisely.
    “Anthony Michael Hall had a choice of doing National Lampoon's European vacation or this movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:17:56 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Anthony Michael Hall: Stanley Kubrick negotiated with Hall for Joker in Full Metal Jacket for more than half a year before it fell through.
    “They negotiated for over half a year.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:22:11 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Anthony Michael Hall: Hall's stunned double take is held three or four seconds.
    “the Anthony Michael Hall stunned double take.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:55:04 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Anthony Michael Hall: Kubrick's first choice for Joker; eight months of talks collapsed for reasons Hall keeps vague.
    “he really wanted Anthony Michael Hall to play Joker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:43:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)