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 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.