Michelle Rodriguez

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Avatar (2009); Fast and Furious 6 (2013); Furious 7 (2015); Fast & Furious 9 (F9); Girlfight; The Fast and the Furious (franchise).

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.

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage.
    “In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies.
    “It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic (1997): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar could only be made because Titanic gave Cameron the clout.
    “I'd never have gotten to make it if he hadn't made Titanic.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:09:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Titanic made Cameron so successful that Hollywood let him do anything.
    “needed to have this extraordinary amount of success over these decades to conceive an execute of something so crazy as Avatar.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Making Aliens (a voiceless monster) is what let Cameron individualize the humans there and flip that in Avatar.
    “I wonder if he hadn't made aliens if he could have arrived at that.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Edgar Rice Burroughs: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment). Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard.
    “drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Fast Five (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Fast and Furious 6 (2013), which they acted in: Fast Five ⇒ Fast and Furious 6 (the host's read). Fast 6 plays post Fast Five with the cargo plane set piece.
    “That's when they do the whole thing with the cargo plane.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:38:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

John Carter of Mars: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story.
    “Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

John Ford: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies.
    “lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (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.

RoboCop (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they acted in: Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Fate of the Furious (2017): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Furious 7 (2015), which they acted in: Furious 7 ⇒ The Fate of the Furious (the host's read). Fate and F9 lean on Furious 7's ending in vain with passing references to Brian.
    “And they try and lean on it a little bit in the fate of the furious.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:17:53 · Shea Serrano (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (6) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (people): Avatar → Michelle Rodriguez. Rewatching, the whole Avatar cast is good, including Rodriguez and Joel David Moore.
    “When you rewatch it, you are like, everyone in this is good.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:14:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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