Ben Stiller

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q47100: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Reality Bites (1994); Heat Vision and Jack (1999); Tropic Thunder (2008); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); Escape at Dannemora (TV). Count them as writer (1 film), actor (7 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.

Empire of the Sun (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Tropic Thunder (2008), which they directed: Empire of the Sun ⇒ Tropic Thunder (the host's read). Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later.
    “Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Forrest Gump (1994): 1 line

  1. unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), which they directed: 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)

The Big Chill (1983): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through Reality Bites (1994), which they directed: The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read). Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody) · through The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), which they directed: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⇒ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the host's read). The speaker says Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, as if to say Button got the Gump wrong.
    “And Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, almost as if to say, they fucked up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (6) everyone in directing

Acting (8) everyone in acting

Writing (1) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Ben Stiller → The Cable Guy. After Reality Bites, Stiller's career took off and he became the biggest star of the five.
    “Then he ended up, I think he did cable guy, and then his own career took off, and he ended up becoming the biggest star of the 5 of them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:01 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance-lineage): Ben Stiller → The Meyerowitz Stories. Stiller built on Chas in later dramatic work like Meyerowitz.
    “in the Meyerwitz Chronicles or something, you can see traces of Chaz.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:01:02 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Ben Stiller: The whole movie exists for 'I've had a rough year, Dad' and Royal's 'I know you have, Chaz'; Andy calls it one of the most devastating line readings of his adult film life.
    “the entire movie exists for the moment when Ben Stiller says, I've had a tough year, dad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:00:03 · Andy Greenwald (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Ben Stiller: Vincent Hanna overacting award goes to Stiller, pitched at a different frequency than everyone else; Paltrow floated too.
    “He's pitched at a different frequency than everyone else in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:10:49 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)