Chris Pratt

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Wikidata Q503706: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Mercy, which The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Lemon (2017). Count them as actor (17 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.

James Bond films (the franchise): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas). Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do.
    “I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). The Cairo plane fight with the burly Nazi is called a straight James Bond henchman scene.
    “that's that's a flat out James Bond jaw scene.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:50:56 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Raiders borrowed the Bond villain structure: a refined man in a lair with separate gimmicky henchmen to fight.
    “that's a clear thing they lifted from James Bond very wisely, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:50:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Chuck Jones: 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Chuck Jones ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Spielberg's staging has a Chuck Jones element, going back to Chuck Jones as a cartoon influence.
    “how important Chuck Jones was to Steven Spielberg at the time”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:36:15 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Chuck Jones ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). The wordless anticipation and subversion of Wile E. Coyote shows up in Indy's silent action beats.
    “the importance of anticipation, and how to visually, uh, sort of indicate to the audience, what the character thinks is going to happen”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:39:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Fabelmans (2022): 2 lines

  1. theme (theme) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans.
    “the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy.
    “it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Flash Gordon (Republic serial): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read). Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials.
    “let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Lemon (2017), which they were tied to as hypothetical studio-swap lead: New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel) ⇒ Lemon (the maker said so: Gelman, speaking as the filmmaker). A scene in Lemon is an homage to the commercial where the couple met.
    “the scene where he and me and me is sort of in homage to that place that we met”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:23 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The wrong lessons from Indiana Jones were taken by later action heroes like Pratt.
    “the lessons that we took from that character that like Chris Pratt took maybe from that character are not the ones that I think we should have been taking”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:09:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984): 2 lines

  1. contrast (contrast) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (the host's read). Willie Scott was built as the anti-Marion, which means doing the opposite of what works.
    “the anti-Marian means you're doing the opposite of what works.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:53:35 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (the host's read). Temple of Doom was a prequel partly to avoid doing the Nazis again.
    “part of the calculation of making a Temple of Doom, a prequel was that he didn't want to just do the Nazis again.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:59:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Chris Pratt: 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The wrong lessons from Indiana Jones were taken by later action heroes like Pratt.
    “the lessons that we took from that character that like Chris Pratt took maybe from that character are not the ones that I think we should have been taking”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:09:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Empire of the Sun (1987): 1 line

  1. craft (shot design) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read). Same slow reveal as Indiana Jones in pieces before the hero shot.
    “which similarly has the like Spielberg taking 5 minutes to show you Indiana Jones in pieces before you really get the hero shot”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Soderbergh's silent Raiders remix: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Soderbergh's silent Raiders remix (the host's read). Soderbergh re-cut Raiders silent, black and white, over The Social Network score.
    “It's basically his silent film remix of Raiders, black and white film with the social network score playing over it”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:10:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (camera-movement coverage) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule.
    “But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:21:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Horizon Experiment (comic): 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Horizon Experiment (comic) (the host's read). A current comic flips Indiana Jones into someone taking things out of museums back to adventure.
    “a comic book out right now called the Horizon experiment by the guys that did the good Asian”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:24:12 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80 sure it was them)

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024): 1 line

  1. craft (plot structure) · through Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which they were tied to as actor (Ready Player One era Indiana Jones heir): Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (the host's read). The film fails to tie its Indiana-Jones-style MacGuffin to the Wallace-Gromit relationship.
    “They fail to make the, um, the plot, the sort of like Indiana Jones-S McGuffin of what they're up against directly relate to Wallace and Gromit's relationship.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:11:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

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What was said about them, by kind

career (6)

  1. career (career): Chris Pratt → Harrison Ford. Pratt was expected to use B-minus Harrison Ford franchise roles to fund more interesting work.
    “he was going to take gigs as B minus Harrison Ford as Star Lord and the Guardians movies as the dinosaur tamer in Jurassic World.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:31:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Chris Pratt → Mike Schur. Sitcom pedigree under Mike Schur with Amy Poehler led them to expect an interesting film career.
    “he was on a sitcom that was run by Mike Shur starring Amy Poehler.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:32:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Chris Pratt → Jason Statham. Pratt's persona has narrowed to a solemn gun-holding savior, like Statham without martial arts.
    “only now wants to be like Jason Statham minus the martial arts.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:32:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): James McAvoy → Chris Pratt. McAvoy got swole and drifted toward psychopath action, like Pratt.
    “So he's another one where he's like Chris Pratt.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:19:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Chris Pratt → Jurassic World. Pratt's breakout year with Lego Movie and Guardians, plus Parks and Rec goodwill, made him a movie star everyone rooted for.
    “like, he had the 1st and 3rd highest grossing films of the year at that point.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:19:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Chris Pratt → Zero Dark Thirty. Before stardom he took small dramatic supporting parts in Zero Dark Thirty and Moneyball that made people think he could be a movie star.
    “And all those movies where he took the smaller, like, dramatic supporting roles, like, Zero, Dark 30, and...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:19:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Chris Pratt → Jurassic World. Pratt's act fails when he plays the serious, in-charge leader, as in Jurassic World.
    “Jurassic World is so bad”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:51:27 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Chris Pratt → Mark Wahlberg. Both succeed only as low-status guys nobody takes seriously who have to prove themselves.
    “Both Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt succeed when it is about people not taking them seriously and them having to prove to people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:51:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Chris Pratt → The Lego Movie. Pratt's key is being a little boy in a hunk's body, which is what works in The Lego Movie and Guardians.
    “The key to Pratt is that he's like a little boy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:07:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): The Super Mario Bros. Movie → Chris Pratt. The Mario trailer set off the argument over whether big-star casting matters in animation.
    “why does this need to be Chris Pratt?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:06:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Chris Pratt → Captain America: The First Avenger. The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Chris Pratt. The wrong lessons from Indiana Jones were taken by later action heroes like Pratt.
    “the lessons that we took from that character that like Chris Pratt took maybe from that character are not the ones that I think we should have been taking”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:09:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Chris Pratt → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Quill is the best Han Solo since Han Solo, because he is a likeable rogue inside an ensemble rather than its leader.
    “This is sort of the best anyone has done Han Solo since Han Solo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Chris Pratt → James Gunn. Star-Lord was a good fit for James Gunn's writing style.
    “He's a good fit for James Gunn's writing style.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:32:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting): Onward → Chris Pratt. Onward, the next Pixar film, stars Chris Pratt as one of two elf brothers.
    “Amanda, you left a helpful note here for Onward, which stars Chris Pratt, which is the next Pixar film”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Chris Pratt → Brendan Fraser. Miles dismisses Chris Pratt as a discount Brendan Fraser.
    “He's like a discount Brandon Frazier”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:12:06 · Miles Surrey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Emily VanCamp → Chris Pratt. VanCamp dated Pratt through Everwood, where they played siblings.
    “Yeah, they dated for almost the entirety of Everwood, in which they played. Brother and sister.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:38:10 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Chris Pratt → Jurassic World. Pratt works as a boyish goof in a big body (Lego Movie, this film) and is misused when asked to be serious, as in Jurassic World and Passengers.
    “Yeah, well, even Jurassic World is the huge mistake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Chris Pratt → Passengers. Passengers is fine when Pratt is just Pratt alone, but he is fundamentally miscast for the story.
    “But he's a fundamental miscasting for the story.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:08:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Chris Pratt: Hatteberg is invented as a softening character; a joke list of his later movies follows from the audience, ending on Bride Wars.
    “it invents the Hatteberg character written, played by Chris Pat in one of his best movie roles.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:18:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Chris Pratt: Pratt entered the long Star-Lord casting game late as a surprise, after Marvel kept testing and rejecting people.
    “And Chris Pratt, like, entered the game pretty late and then got the part.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:26:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)