James Caan

Made films the shows talk about.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (11 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.

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

Drawn on by

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

Mark Wahlberg: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: James Caan ⇒ Mark Wahlberg (the host's read). Wahlberg wanted to be Caan but is only half there, and remade The Gambler.
    “Wahlberg probably wanted to be James Khan, but he's 50% there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (16) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): James Caan → Sonny Corleone. Caan's Sonny Corleone manic energy argued by Goldman as the reason confinement worked.
    “he had this manic energy to him, and Sonny Corleone, and just bouncing around.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:33:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): James Caan → Rollerball. Simmons is a James Caan fan and wants to do Rollerball as an episode.
    “the podcast you and I promised to do 5 years ago, I think, is rollerball”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:33:41 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): James Caan → Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg wanted to be Caan but is only half there, and remade The Gambler.
    “Wahlberg probably wanted to be James Khan, but he's 50% there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): James Caan → Willie Nelson. Caan and Nelson were the two draws in 1981.
    “It was James Conn and Willie Nelson were like the 2 draws.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): James Caan → Michael Mann. The two difficult talents made one film and never again.
    “made one movie together and decided, yeah, we're good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:17:11 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Thief → James Caan. Caan is one of Chris's five favorite actors and suits the machismo of Mann's leads.
    “James Kahn is one of my 5 favorite actors”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:29 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Rocky → James Caan. What would Rocky be with James Caan as Rocky and Harvey Keitel as Paulie, or John Cazale as Paulie?
    “What is this movie if it's James Conn is Rocky and Harvey Keitel is Polly?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:19:47 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): James Caan → Denzel Washington. Denzel is the only other person you could imagine in the part.
    “Denzel's the only person you could ever imagine”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:34:07 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): James Caan → Mark Wahlberg. Caan today would have gravitated to Tarantino, not Bourne sequels.
    “He probably would have loved to work with Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about James Caan: Caan once showed up hungover; Reiner claimed a lab problem and reshot, then docked his pay.
    “apparently once he showed to the set, hungover, all his scenes, he shot that they were unusable.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:07:26 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about James Caan: Doctor in the Willie Nelson death scene genuinely scared by Caan's stare.
    “the actor who played the doctor actually got scared.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:18:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about James Caan: Caan turned down Kramer vs. Kramer, Apocalypse Now, Superman, MASH, Cuckoo's Nest.
    “He turned all of those down.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about James Caan: Caan on his marriages.
    “I used to say marriages were like tornadoes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)