Thomas Dolby

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q553790: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by of 2 people by that name, the one in film or television.

Counted as composer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they scored, which the two lists below run through too: Fletch (1985).

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.

Gregory McDonald: 1 line

  1. lineage (source material) · through Fletch (1985), which they scored: Gregory McDonald ⇒ Fletch (the host's read). Fletch adapts the McDonald novels; the noir voiceover feels like the book, the ad-libbed scenes deviate.
    “So it's a Gregory McDonald novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Confess, Fletch (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reboot) · through Fletch (1985), which they scored: Fletch ⇒ Confess, Fletch (the host's read). Chris describes it as a riff on the long-promised Fletch franchise reboot, with Jon Hamm taking the role Chevy Chase made iconic.
    “Chevy Chase did an iconic turn as a Fletch character, a journalist come detective in Los Angeles.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:08:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Harold Faltermeyer: 1 line

  1. lineage (sonic influence) · them, directly: Thomas Dolby ⇒ Harold Faltermeyer (the host's read). Faltermeyer's Fletch score starts one way then shows Thomas Dolby influence.
    “You can hear the Thomas Dolby influence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Ryan Reynolds: 1 line

  1. theme (persona successor) · through Fletch (1985), which they scored: Fletch ⇒ Ryan Reynolds (the host's read). Reynolds stole the Chevy Chase playbook; Deadpool is Fletch.
    “Deadpool is Fletch.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Music (2) everyone in music

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Thomas Dolby → Weird Science. Dolby is joked to be the biggest loser of the title-song debate because his own science song came two years later.
    “Thomas Dolby, who 2 years later did, she blinded me with science.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:52 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (sonic influence): Harold Faltermeyer → Thomas Dolby. Faltermeyer's Fletch score starts one way then shows Thomas Dolby influence.
    “You can hear the Thomas Dolby influence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.