Adam Driver

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q4678990: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Midnight Special, which Starman with Katey Rich credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Heat (1995); n/a (transcript: "driver"). Count them as actor (10 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.

Thief (1981): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they were tied to as what-if casting for Heat 2: Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino). Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat.
    “All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Heat (1995), which they were tied to as what-if casting for Heat 2: Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read). The diner scene's wide shot echoes Heat's, which never shows both guys.
    “Wide shot, some heat DNA, although in heat, they don't have, you never see the 2 guys”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they were tied to as what-if casting for Heat 2: Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read). Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA.
    “the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · 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.

Ambulance (2022): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Heat (1995), which they were tied to as what-if casting for Heat 2: Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read). Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie.
    “The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Michael Mann: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Heat (1995), which they were tied to as what-if casting for Heat 2: Heat ⇒ Michael Mann (the maker said so: Mann publicly talking about it). Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.
    “he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (13) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Adam Driver → White Noise. Driver's resume is daring, but he sometimes makes a puzzling pick like White Noise.
    “white noise.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:29:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Adam Driver → 65. Driver took a weaker film in 65 while waiting for a good movie like Ferrari.
    “65 was pretty stupid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:29:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (actor comparison): Christian Bale → Adam Driver. Bale takes weird projects, even bad movies, a bit like Driver, but is more flexible.
    “He's almost like there's there's a bit of the Adam Driver thing going on with them.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:13:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Michael Mann → Adam Driver. Mann has begun a love affair with Driver like many auteurs in the last ten years.
    “He's obviously begun a love affair, like so many Otours in the last 10 years have with Adam Driver”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (role comparison): Charles Martin Smith → Adam Driver. Driver's benevolent-yet-menacing government agent in Midnight Special works better than Martin Smith's unfocused scientist in Starman.
    “works a lot better in that movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:02:37 · Katey Rich (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Adam Driver → Ferrari. Sean calls Driver's Ferrari the best performance he saw this year, a movie-star performance.
    “this is the best performance I saw this year”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:28:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Adam Driver → Marriage Story. Driver's performance tilts audience sympathy to him; Johansson good but not on his level.
    “I think she's good, but she's not on his level.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:58:10 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Adam Driver → Heat. A wish-list casting for Heat 2 is Driver and Isaac in the De Niro and Pacino roles.
    “well, you just do it with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:26:50 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

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