George C. Scott

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q182450: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Anatomy of a Murder (1959); The Hustler (1961); Dr. Strangelove (1964); Patton (1970); Hardcore (1979); Changeling (1980); Firestarter (1984); Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990); The Exorcist III (1990); Malice (1993); Angus (1995); Gloria (remake) (1999); Doctor Strangelove; The Hospital.

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.

The Exorcist: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Exorcist III (1990), which they acted in: The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read). Blatty directed Exorcist III after the horror show of Exorcist II.
    “after the horror show that happened with Exorcist II, directed Exorcist 3”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:00 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Exorcist III (1990), which they acted in: The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read). Blatty returned to the world of The Exorcist thirteen years after the second film, with the original's evil.
    “William Peter Blatties, you know, returned to the World of the Exorcist with a lot of the original kind of evil of the 1st one.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:25:38 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Adlai Stevenson: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Adlai Stevenson ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Speaker says Peter Sellers modeled the President (Muffley) on Adlai Stevenson.
    “He modeled it on Adlai Stevenson.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:27:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Bob Newhart: 1 line

  1. lineage (comedic influence) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier.
    “I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Curtis LeMay: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Curtis LeMay ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Jack D. Ripper is said to be very obviously based on Air Force chief Curtis LeMay.
    “Jack D. Ripper also is very obviously based on Curtis LeMay, who, uh, was the head of the Air Force at the time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:00:51 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Red Alert (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert.
    “so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

The Color of Money (1986): 7 lines

  1. lineage (callback) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road.
    “that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel/continuation) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it.
    “the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). The Color of Money revisits Eddie Felson years later, with Paul Newman in his twilight and a new protege.
    “Now we find Paul Newman bringing up like a new protégé.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:47:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (callback) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident.
    “it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (source material) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). The film is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to The Hustler but has almost nothing to do with it; Minnesota Fats was in the novel.
    “this is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to the Hustler, but the movie has almost nothing to do with the novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (continuing tragedy) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). The Color of Money carries the original film's tragedy as backstory without explaining it in a monologue.
    “And that's all the backstory for this movie, which is so interesting that he doesn't give the big monologue explaining what happened in the 1st film.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:12:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (sequel) · through The Hustler (1961), which they acted in: The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read). The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel.
    “Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

8mm (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (rip-off) · through Hardcore (1979), which they acted in: Hardcore ⇒ 8mm (the host's read). Says 8mm directly rips off Hardcore, in the style of Se7en.
    “It's ripping off hardcore in the style of seven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:42:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Adam McKay: 1 line

  1. unmapped (aspirational template) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Adam McKay (the host's read). Speaker says Strangelove is probably McKay's north star, the thing he strives toward.
    “But I think you're right, though, that McKay is this is probably his north star, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:05:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Roger Moore Bond films: 1 line

  1. craft (set design template) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Roger Moore Bond films (the host's read). Speaker says hiring a Bond designer for the war room changed how such rooms look on screen forever, and the Bond movies being covered have war-room sets.
    “It is funny how this movie, this hiring a James Bond guy to design the war room, uh, changes the way you're allowed to put these things on screen forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. people (casting persona) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ The Long Goodbye (the host's read). Speaker says Strangelove was the first time Hayden's personal struggles were put on screen, and later filmmakers used that persona going forward (Godfather, Long Goodbye).
    “This is the 1st time when like his personal struggles, like were actualized in a movie, and then I felt like filmmakers only used this in movies going forward”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:55:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Zucker Brothers: 1 line

  1. lineage (comedic influence) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they acted in: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read). Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams.
    “I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (24) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): George C. Scott → Doctor Strangelove. Scott looks wily in his Strangelove era.
    “very looking very wily in his sort of Doctor Strangelove era”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:47:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (refused award): George C. Scott → Patton. Scott refused the Hustler nomination and refused the Patton Oscar, which the Academy gave him anyway.
    “They gave it to him the one time for Patton where they're like, look, you're one of the greatest actors ever, and you just were in this movie that's winning best picture”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:05:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Firestarter → George C. Scott. George C. Scott's Firestarter performance is the weirdest, maybe dead or drunk.
    “which has the weirdest George C. Scott performance ever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Anatomy of a Murder → George C. Scott. Scott plays the out-of-town prosecutor and echoes the checklist's big-shot opponent.
    “He's the out of town prosecutor that you were mentioning earlier”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (performance comparison): George C. Scott → Robert Duvall. Scott is likened to Duvall in Network for walking a line of overacting with a foot in reality.
    “He's kind of the Deval of this movie where he's like, he's towing a really fine line of like overacting, but with like a foot in reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue → George C. Scott. The sentient cloud of drug smoke in the anti-drug cartoon special is voiced by George C. Scott.
    “He's played by George C. Scott.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott was federally barred from pool halls in the joke; the Academy gave him Patton anyway after he refused; he refused the Hustler nomination too.
    “He was like, I call bullshit on your whole thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott did over-the-top warm-up takes Kubrick had assured him he would not use, then Kubrick used them. Scott did not like that.
    “Kubrick was supposedly assuring him, like, we won't use these.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:35:48 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott and Kubrick played chess constantly; Scott respected that Kubrick annihilated him.
    “they would play chess all the time because I guess George C. Scott fancying himself a chess man and he respected that Stanley Kubrick like annihilated him at chess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:36:11 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about George C. Scott: Kubrick reversed his 100-takes system for Scott: he told him a take was only a rehearsal, then used it.
    “Kubrick actually reverses his own system on this movie and is like, to get one good take out of a notoriously self-serious actor. I need to tell him it's a rehearsal and it doesn't count.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott refused his Patton nomination; the producer accepted the Oscar and returned it the next day. The next year Scott was nominated again.
    “the following year after refusing the Academy Award, he was nominated again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott voiced Smoke, a sentient cloud of drugs, in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, at full intensity.
    “he also voiced smoke and cartoon all-stars to the rescue.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:41:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)