Noah Taylor

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: Almost Famous (2000); Vanilla Sky (2001); Edge of Tomorrow (2014).

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.

Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they acted in: Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read). Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg.
    “So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they acted in: Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read). The ending follows the original beat for beat, down to the jump and the 'open your eyes' last line.
    “Yeah, again, it's how Abri Lo Sojos works to a T down to him jumping and open your eyes, like being on last lines.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:38:09 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they acted in: Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read). The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it.
    “But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Groundhog Day (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they acted in: Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read). The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
    “Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Open Your Eyes (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they acted in: Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read). Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today.
    “adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (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.

Garden State (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Almost Famous (2000), which they acted in: Almost Famous ⇒ Garden State (the host's read). Almost Famous, more than Vanilla Sky, gave birth to the Garden State style.
    “Well, probably almost famous gave birth to garden state more than this did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:18:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which they acted in: Edge of Tomorrow ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Noah Taylor: Taylor and Brendan Gleeson never leave their one set, avoid the suits and stunts, and get mini arcs; the hosts call it a princess part, a theater term for one big featured number.
    “Those 2 guys never leave their one set.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:33:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)