Burt Reynolds

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q202148: 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: Smokey and the Bandit (1977); City Heat (1984); The Player (1992); Boogie Nights (1997); Driven; Starting Over; none; unnamed Turner film.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mean Streets (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Boogie Nights (1997), which they acted in: Mean Streets ⇒ Boogie Nights (the maker said so: the Boogie Nights commentary track). Per the commentary track, Anderson lifted images from Mean Streets, Goodfellas and other Scorsese films for Boogie Nights.
    “Paul Thomas Anderson explained how he just ripped off images he saw in Mean Streets or in Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:24:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Michael De Luca: 1 line

  1. unmapped (gave break) · through Boogie Nights (1997), which they acted in: Michael De Luca ⇒ Boogie Nights (the host's read). De Luca ran New Line and gave PTA his break with Boogie Nights; now runs Warner's films division.
    “gave PTA his big break with Boogie Nights.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Hal Needham: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · them, directly: Burt Reynolds ⇒ Hal Needham (the host's read). Rick and Cliff's relationship is based on Burt Reynolds and his stunt double Hal Needham.
    “Alton's relationship with Cliff is based on Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, his longtime stunt double”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Knocked Up (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Starting Over, which they acted in: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): John Travolta → Burt Reynolds. Simmons argues Travolta was a bigger star than Burt Reynolds because of better movies.
    “Burt Reynolds also felt huge.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:18:24 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Burt Reynolds. Seventies action stars like Burt Reynolds and Dirty Harry never showed vulnerability; Indy licks his wounds on camera.
    “Dirty Harry's never going to show fucking vulnerability.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:56:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Zoe Saldana → Burt Reynolds. Saldana, like Burt Reynolds, is a great physical performer who understands her body as an instrument.
    “But Zoe Saldana is very similarly, a great physical performer, an athletic performance.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:11:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (real-life model): Burt Reynolds → Hal Needham. Rick and Cliff's relationship is based on Burt Reynolds and his stunt double Hal Needham.
    “Alton's relationship with Cliff is based on Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham, his longtime stunt double”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Burt Reynolds: Burt Reynolds improvised his bit knowing nothing about Griffin and still played the asshole; assholes identify assholes.
    “Reynolds improvised the scene and knew nothing about Griffin, but still managed to improvise that he was an asshole.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:22:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)