Ryan Gosling

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q193815: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Fletch (1985); Miracle (2004); The Departed (2006); The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade). Count them as director (1 film), actor (9 films) instead.

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.

Gregory McDonald: 1 line

lineage (source material) · through Fletch (1985), which they were tied to as Chris's ideal modern Fletch: Gregory McDonald ⇒ Fletch (the host's read). Fletch adapts the McDonald novels; the noir voiceover feels like the book, the ad-libbed scenes deviate.
“So it's a Gregory McDonald novel”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Infernal Affairs (2002): 1 line

lineage (remake source) · through The Departed (2006), which they were tied to as hypothetical casting for Leo's killer: Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter.
“It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Scarface (1983): 1 line

lineage (homage) · through The Departed (2006), which they were tied to as hypothetical casting for Leo's killer: Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche.
“there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Confess, Fletch (2022): 1 line

unmapped (reboot) · through Fletch (1985), which they were tied to as Chris's ideal modern Fletch: Fletch ⇒ Confess, Fletch (the host's read). Chris describes it as a riff on the long-promised Fletch franchise reboot, with Jon Hamm taking the role Chevy Chase made iconic.
“Chevy Chase did an iconic turn as a Fletch character, a journalist come detective in Los Angeles.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:08:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Ryan Reynolds: 1 line

theme (persona successor) · through Fletch (1985), which they were tied to as Chris's ideal modern Fletch: Fletch ⇒ Ryan Reynolds (the host's read). Reynolds stole the Chevy Chase playbook; Deadpool is Fletch.
“Deadpool is Fletch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

career (career): Ryan Gosling → La La Land. Gosling had The Nice Guys and La La Land in the same year, an MVP-year argument.
“And Gosling was in that and La La Land same year”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ryan Gosling → Michael Douglas. Barbie made the speaker wonder whether Gosling might have a weird 2020s Michael Douglas career.
“if he could have just had this weird 2020s version of a Michael Douglas career as he hit his 40s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:38:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Murder by Numbers → Ryan Gosling. Gosling plays a serial killer in Murder by Numbers.
“murder by Numbers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:34:19 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (MTV Movie Awards moment): Rachel McAdams → Ryan Gosling. The Notebook pair's MTV Movie Awards stage appearance was a landmark for college women.
“Very important to generation of women.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

people (people): Andrew Garfield → Ryan Gosling. Acting opposite Gosling in a Kavalier & Clay screen test taught Garfield what screen acting is.
“going, oh, fuck, that's what that's what screen acting is.”
The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:39:10 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (theme): Ryan Gosling → LeBron James. Gosling hosting SNL is likened to LeBron entering the dunk contest; the hosts call Gosling the best SNL host of the last ten years.
“I do think he's the best right now.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:51:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

what-if (what-if): Ryan Gosling → Emma Stone. Gosling and Stone could have had a Douglas-and-Turner-style run of movies.
“Do this particular, it would be just have a run where they do like 7 movies together?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:36:29 · unknown (0.20 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Richard Gere → Ryan Gosling. Gosling is the one current actor who could be a Peck if he wanted.
“Gosling, if Gosling wanted to be, Gosling could be.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:48 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Ryan Gosling → Chevy Chase. Chris would cast Gosling as 2020 Fletch because his talk-show humor is close to Chase's.
“he's actually way closer to like Chevy Chase's sense of humor in his talk show appearances than he is in the movies that he's in.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:13 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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