Richard Gere

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q48410: 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: American Gigolo (1980); An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); The Cotton Club (1984); Internal Affairs (1990); Pretty Woman (1990); I'm Not There (2007); Breathless; The Jackal.

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.

Working Girl (1988): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
    “It openly steal shit from this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
    “It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (pastiche source) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they acted in: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Haynes styles one segment after Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and another after Pennebaker, so the film is also different period filmmaking.
    “he styles one whole segment after, you know, Pat Garrett and Noie the Kid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:13:32 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they acted in: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Deep Cover: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Internal Affairs (1990), which they acted in: Internal Affairs ⇒ Deep Cover (the host's read). Deep Cover was conceived as a sequel to Internal Affairs; Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean got involved in writing it.
    “Deep cover was conceived as a sequel to this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:29:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. industry (awards crossover) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes.
    “We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1988): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), which they acted in: An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read). The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage.
    “And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Richard Gere → An Officer and a Gentleman. Internal Affairs and An Officer and a Gentleman are probably the final two for Gere's best performance.
    “It's this and it's officer and a gentleman probably in the final two.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Richard Gere → American Gigolo. Some would say American Gigolo, but it is not a charisma movie.
    “Some would say Gigolo, but I don't think Gigolo is a charisma movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Richard Gere → King David. After An Officer and a Gentleman, Gere had an 8-year bender of bombs like King David.
    “And it's like King David and all these movies that just don't work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. 1990 was Gere's comeback year after nearly a decade of bombs: he was the eighth choice for everything.
    “He is like the 8th choice for every movie after the other 7 people have passed.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman is Gere's apex, and it comes the same year as Internal Affairs.
    “I mean, Pretty Woman is Richard Gears, Apex.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Richard Gere → Pretty Woman. Gere's comeback came with Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman the same year.
    “Richard Gere had 7 straight years of terrible movies and was dead and then Internal Affairs and Pretty Women completely arrived them”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:40:12 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Richard Gere → Tom Cruise. Leading men like Cruise would not cede sexual power to a Lothario co-star the way Garcia and Baldwin do here.
    “Cruz isn't signing up for this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:26 · Van Lathan (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Harrison Ford → Richard Gere. Like Gere in Pretty Woman, the rich rom-com guy's clothes have to work and fit.
    “Richard Gere and Pretty Woman also, great clothes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:09:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Richard Gere → Training Day. Peck's power-move needling about the wife echoes Alonzo's needling of Jake in Training Day.
    “You know how, like, in training day, like, when Alonso asked, what's Ethan?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:32:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Richard Gere → Bruce Willis. Leading men of the era did not play bad guys, unlike Gere here; Willis and Costner barely did.
    “Costner played 0 bad guys other than No Way Out, if you count that as a bad guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:31 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Richard Gere → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Gere's taco-stand scene wins a new award named for Rick Dalton for the best acting.
    “Rick Dalton Award for the best acting I've ever seen in my life and it's Richard Gere in this scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:31:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): Don Johnson → Richard Gere. Don Johnson is nearly as good a fit; he and Gere were in the same corner for a while.
    “Yeah, and gear were in the same kind of corner for a while there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:09:40 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. 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)
  3. what-if (what-if): Misery → Richard Gere. Goldman wrote that Richard Gere was perfect for Sheldon but was so dead nobody mentioned him.
    “Richard Gere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:39:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Richard Gere → Tombstone. Per Russell, Gere nearly played Wyatt Earp.
    “Kurt Russell said the film was nearly cast with Richard Gere as Wyatt Earp”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Richard Gere: Gere's best performance, with An Officer and a Gentleman; he is shown as a villain who is still charismatic enough to root for.
    “I think this is his best performance in a movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:09 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Richard Gere: The taco-stand scene wins the new Rick Dalton Award for best acting; the line is 'I'm married, you're married, we're married.'
    “I would like to introduce a new award to the rewatchables.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:31:33 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Richard Gere: His technique: he gets very close and holds eye contact; Garcia keeps looking away in the scene.
    “Gear does this move and he does it in other movies where he gets super close to who he's talking to, male or female and he keeps the eye contact all the time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:32:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Richard Gere: Van's mother and grandmother loved Richard Gere.
    “My mama loved Richard Gere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:16 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Richard Gere: He might be the apex of hot bad guy, and the hosts wished he had played more villains.
    “And I think gear might be the apex of like hot bad guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:10 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)