Pete Postlethwaite

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q217137: 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: Alien 3 (1992); In the Name of the Father (1993); James and the Giant Peach (1996); Romeo + Juliet (1996); Amistad (1997); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); Inception (2010); Killing Bono; Scaramouche Jones (stage play); The Town.

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.

Sigourney Weaver: 3 lines

  1. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the maker said so). Weaver's top input was no guns, in reaction to the gun focus of Aliens.
    “She was like, Hollywood's 2 gun obsessed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:07:21 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver insisted on the queen-embryo-inside-her angle.
    “It's a decision that Rip Weaver basically insisted on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (creative input) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Sigourney Weaver ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Weaver would only do the movie if Ripley died.
    “She would only do the movie if she got to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:05:45 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Alien (1979): 2 lines

  1. lineage (callback) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene.
    “And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (callback) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film.
    “You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 2 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens.
    “Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills.
    “you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40 sure it was them)

Vincent Ward: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (unused draft) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Vincent Ward ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Elements of Ward's wooden-planet monks draft survive in the finished film.
    “But that's where that's the 1st iteration that's that's still represented in there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:25:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (concept merged in) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Vincent Ward ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). The film is built from Ward's monk concept pushed together with the prison planet; his only surviving credit is story.
    “they mishing up the monks with the prison planet, they turn the monks into prisoners, but they're kind of religious.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:01:11 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Alien 3 (work print cut): 1 line

  1. industry (changed by studio) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 (work print cut) ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Fox pushed the ox-like creature to become a dog.
    “And yeah, the studio was like, it'll be better if it's a dog”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:43:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

David Twohy: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of the prison planet) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development.
    “Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Godzilla (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (intent) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending.
    “I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line

  1. craft (design contribution) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: H.R. Giger ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Giger's design work was mostly discarded; the Bambi Burster rod puppet was the main thing of his that ended up in the film.
    “that was apparently the main thing that he had an influence on that actually ended up in the film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:21:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

King Kong (2005): 1 line

  1. theme (plot trope) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move.
    “We've all seen King Kong.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lane Smith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through James and the Giant Peach (1996), which they acted in: Lane Smith ⇒ James and the Giant Peach (the host's read). Selick brought Lane Smith's artwork to life as the look of James and the Giant Peach.
    “James and the Giant Peachy got Lane Smith.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:37 · unclear (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40 sure it was them)

Psycho (1960): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage (scene)) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read). Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's.
    “Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35 sure it was them)

The Lost World (1912): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs.
    “the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through James and the Giant Peach (1996), which they acted in: The Nightmare Before Christmas ⇒ James and the Giant Peach (the host's read). The film's long tail made Disney try stop motion again, back to back with Peach, before Laika and others.
    “James and the Giant Peach is almost made like right back to back with this movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:40:45 · Michael Rianda (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.

Alien Resurrection (1997): 2 lines

  1. lineage (sequel undoes ending) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Alien 3 (1992), which they acted in: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (late career): Pete Postlethwaite → Inception. Hosts say he was good in Inception and The Town near the end of his career, after being wasted in the post-90s years.
    “And he is good in inception in the town right at the very end there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (praise): Pete Postlethwaite → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg reportedly called Postlethwaite one of the best actors he had worked with; they also worked together on Amistad.
    “Spielberg said after, I guess, during the making of this film, Pipostle Fate was one of, if not the best actors he'd ever worked with.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:56:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (childhood memory): Pete Postlethwaite → James and the Giant Peach. A host remembers him as the man who gives James the bag of magic worms and narrates the film.
    “He's the guy who gives James, the bag of magic worms, and James and the giant P.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (only arc): Pete Postlethwaite → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Tembo's turn from hunter to awed protector is the only character arc in the film and suggests the poachers' viewpoint as a better sequel angle.
    “If this movie has any arc at all. it's his”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (praise): Pete Postlethwaite → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg reportedly called Postlethwaite the best actor in the world around The Lost World and Amistad.
    “Spielberg called Postlethwaite, the best actor working”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:52:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Actors on AV Club roles features said he understood the camera so well that what felt too big in the scene looked perfectly measured on screen.
    “So thoroughly understood the camera and the actor's relationship to the camera”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:57:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Joke that he should have had a Liam Neeson-style action comeback with the tagline The Apostle.
    “I always wanted him to do like a Liam Neeson, like action movie comeback and the tagline could be the apostle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Spielberg reportedly called him the best actor in the world.
    “I believe he called him the best actor on the planet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:53:00 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)