Billy Wilder

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q51547: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The Lost Weekend (1945); Witness for the Prosecution (1957); The Apartment (1960); Buddy Buddy; The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes; no film named. Count them as writer (3 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.

Agatha Christie: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Witness for the Prosecution (1957), which they directed: Agatha Christie ⇒ Witness for the Prosecution (the host's read). Adapted from a Christie short story then play; its formula made the twist guessable.
    “adapted from an Agatha Christie play”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:52 · Amanda Dobbins (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.

Cameron Crowe: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Billy Wilder ⇒ Cameron Crowe (the host's read). Crowe worships Billy Wilder, whose versatility Brooks also has.
    “Cameron Crowe worships at the feet of Billy Wilder, of course”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mank (2020): 1 line

  1. craft (visual echo) · through The Lost Weekend (1945), which they directed: The Lost Weekend ⇒ Mank (the host's read). The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend.
    “almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Quentin Tarantino: 1 line

  1. unmapped (reason to retire) · through Buddy Buddy, which they directed: Buddy Buddy ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the maker said so: every interview). Tarantino says in interviews he is retiring so as not to make a Buddy Buddy.
    “I was like, don't want to make buddy buddy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (8) everyone in directing

Other (4) everyone in other

Writing (3) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Billy Wilder. Brody's 'wrath of God' warning is a promise to the audience of a payoff by Billy Wilder's rules.
    “by Billy Wilder rules, you are promising that we're going to see some wrath of God at the end of this movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:18:08 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Cameron Crowe → Billy Wilder. Crowe worships Billy Wilder, whose versatility Brooks also has.
    “Cameron Crowe worships at the feet of Billy Wilder, of course”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Witness for the Prosecution → Billy Wilder. Written and directed by Wilder, in the middle of his great run.
    “Written and directed by the great Billy Wilder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Ball of Fire → Billy Wilder. Ball of Fire was written by Billy Wilder and directed by Howard Hawks, with Barbara Stanwyck.
    “by Billy Wilder, uh, and uh, directed by Howard Hawkes”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Billy Wilder → Witness for the Prosecution. Box office number three is Wilder's courtroom drama with Charles Laughton as the prosecutor.
    “it's a Billy Wilder film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:49:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (praise): Billy Wilder → Full Metal Jacket. Wilder is quoted calling the first 45 minutes the best movie ever made.
    “I found some quote that like Billy Wilder said that he thought the 1st 45 minutes were the best movie ever made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:20:09 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Schindler's List → Billy Wilder. Wilder reportedly asked Spielberg to let him make Schindler's List as his last film, and Spielberg said no.
    “Billy Wilder learned that Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to Schindler's list, and he came to Steven before he made the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Billy Wilder: A staggering decade: Sunset Boulevard through The Apartment.
    “that's just obscene on how many great films that is”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:39:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)