Dennis Franz

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q435271: 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: Dressed to Kill (1980); Blowout (1981); Hill Street Blues (1981); Body Double (1984); Die Hard 2 (1990); NYPD Blue (1993); Beverly Hills Buntz.

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.

58 Minutes (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read). The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot.
    “Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Manuel Noriega: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-world inspiration) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it). The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega.
    “there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

American Psycho (2000): 1 line

  1. lineage (satire lineage) · through Body Double (1984), which they acted in: Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read). American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Hill Street Blues (1981), which they acted in: Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read). Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard.
    “try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Positive K: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Die Hard 2 (1990), which they acted in: Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read). Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind.
    “And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career setup): Dennis Franz → NYPD Blue. Franz's cop role here sets up NYPD Blue a few years later.
    “there's no doubt that, I mean, NYPD Blue is, what, 3 or 4 years later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (prior casting): Dennis Franz → Brian De Palma. Franz had been playing cops in De Palma movies in the 80s and this role riffs on that.
    “he had been playing cops into Palma movies in the 80s, and it's kind of a riff on that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance influence): Dennis Franz → Heat. Simmons jokes Pacino might have studied Franz to prepare for Vincent Hanna.
    “I almost wonder if Pacino watched France in this movie studying to get ready to play Vincent Hanna.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:17 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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