Robbie Robertson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q117249: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Color of Money, which The Color of Money with Chris Ryan credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Raging Bull (1980). Count them as composer (4 films) instead.

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.

Annie Hall (1977): 1 line

  1. unmapped (zeitgeist precedent) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: Annie Hall ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read). Annie Hall established the late-70s map for human-frailty stories with comedy and fragile men, which Scorsese then exploited to horrify.
    “part of that map is is Annie Hall.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:32:35 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Italianamerican (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (dialogue rhythm source) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read). Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes.
    “And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

New York, New York (1977): 1 line

  1. career (career crisis) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: New York, New York ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read). New York, New York's failure and bad reviews, with drugs and a collapsing marriage, pushed Scorsese toward making Raging Bull as a lifeline.
    “New York, New York comes out to bad reviews.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

On the Waterfront (1954): 1 line

  1. unmapped (meta ending) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: On the Waterfront ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read). LaMotta recites the Waterfront monologue flat; the film swapped it in for Shakespeare, which Michael Powell vetoed.
    “So they they instead go for the on the waterfront because that's kind of like that's his iconography.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:55:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rocky (1976): 1 line

  1. theme (anti-genre) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so). Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both.
    “Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Band: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: The Band ⇒ Robbie Robertson (the host's read). The score blends his Indigenous roots and what he did with The Band into the film's sound.
    “Robbie Robertson has indigenous roots in Canada, and he understands that this music and kind of like blends what he did with the band, with this sound.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:30:19 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

The Rolling Stones: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: The Rolling Stones ⇒ Robbie Robertson (the host's read). The score's first hour plays like Rolling Stones rock transplanted to Oklahoma.
    “Even the Robbie Robertson score in the 1st hour is like, what if we were doing like Oklahoma Rolling Stones?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. people (origin of collaboration) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: Raging Bull ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). Newman watched Raging Bull on Ovitz's recommendation and wanted to work with Scorsese.
    “Paul Newman watches Raging Bull on, I guess Ovid's his recommendation and says, like, that's one of the best things I've ever seen.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:53:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The King of Comedy (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (spiritual sequel) · through Raging Bull (1980), which they were tied to as Scorsese's roommate during recovery: Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read). King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver.
    “There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Music (6) everyone in music

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Robbie Robertson → The Band. The score blends his Indigenous roots and what he did with The Band into the film's sound.
    “Robbie Robertson has indigenous roots in Canada, and he understands that this music and kind of like blends what he did with the band, with this sound.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:30:19 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Departed → Robbie Robertson. A host says that for the fee a name like Robertson commands, the Departed soundtrack should beat classic-radio picks like Gimme Shelter.
    “you could do better than every classic radio station in America”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:24:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (4)

  1. craft (craft): Robbie Robertson → The Color of Money. Robertson's early dub-style music work on the film is singled out as the fun part of the Werewolves of London sequence.
    “Early Robbie Robertson, like, dubmaster stuff going on here where... The Robbie stuff in this is so fun.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:13:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Robbie Robertson → The Color of Money. A host praises Robbie Robertson's score as excellent.
    “Robbie Robertson's score is excellent.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Martin Scorsese → Robbie Robertson. A host says Robbie Robertson mostly serves as music supervisor on Scorsese's soundtracks.
    “Robbie Robertson from the band for these soundtracks where Robbie will do a little bit of music, but for the most part, he's the music supervisor.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:24:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (music): The Wolf of Wall Street → Robbie Robertson. Scorsese and Robertson were obsessed with the hungry, lascivious blues records used in the soundtrack.
    “a kind of like, um, Hungry, lascivious quality to some of those blues records that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson were obsessed with”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Robbie Robertson → The Rolling Stones. The score's first hour plays like Rolling Stones rock transplanted to Oklahoma.
    “Even the Robbie Robertson score in the 1st hour is like, what if we were doing like Oklahoma Rolling Stones?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Robbie Robertson → Martin Scorsese. A joke pictures Scorsese and Robertson staying up all night watching horror movies while editing.
    “Scorsese and Robbie Robertson staying up all night watching horror movies when they're editing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:54:32 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Martin Scorsese → Robbie Robertson. The score is described as a culmination of Scorsese and Robertson's whole project together.
    “It's just, it's kind of like weirdly like a culmination of their whole project together”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:30:42 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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