Helen Mirren

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: Caligula (1979); The Long Good Friday (1980); Excalibur (1981); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989); Prime Suspect (1991); The Prince of Egypt (1998); The Last Station (2009); The Fate of the Furious (2017); F9 (2021).

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.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 5 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
    “Obviously, the sequel exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas.
    “it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to.
    “Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (sequel) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout.
    “And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (borrowed music) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end.
    “Yeah, is the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

2010: Odyssey Two (novel) (1982): 3 lines

  1. unmapped (changes from the book) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Hyams demanded changes to play up US-Soviet politics, which the novel does not treat as a source of tension.
    “Two, there's changes I want to make to play up the politics of the movie because in the novel, the U.S. Soviet thing is not like a source of tension.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (changed character nationality) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the maker said so). Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; the film made him American, per Balaban.
    “Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (adaptation) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel.
    “Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tip of the hat) · through 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), which they acted in: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). Casting Balaban reads as a nod to Close Encounters; the speaker finds 2010 more in its shadow than 2001's.
    “And the Balaban casting feels like a real tip of the hat to that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Furious 7 (2015): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Fate of the Furious (2017), 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)

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through F9 (2021), which they acted in: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read). F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han.
    “it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (people): The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover → Helen Mirren. Mirren, Michael Gambon and a young Tim Roth lead the cast.
    “Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, a very young Tim Roth”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:23:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Helen Mirren: A running bit that Mirren was an atomic-level babe of her generation, with international treaties about it.
    “Like, there are treaties around what a babe she is that are like internationally negotiated because she might be too hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:33:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)