Christopher Plummer

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: The Sound of Music (1965); The Insider (1999); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009); The Last Station (2009); Up (2009); Beginners (2010); Priest (2011); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011); Danny Collins (2015); All the Money in the World (2017); Knives Out (2019); Barrymore (filmed one-man show); The New World.

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.

All the President's Men (1976): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Insider (1999), which they acted in: All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read). The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did.
    “they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Blue Velvet (1986): 1 line

  1. unmapped (quoted line) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet.
    “Hopper says that in blue velvet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Insider (1999), which they acted in: Mike Wallace Is Here ⇒ The Insider (the host's read). The documentary on Wallace informs the Plummer scenes.
    “And I think it actually informs this scene a lot”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)

Stieg Larsson: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major.
    “I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sven Nykvist: 1 line

  1. craft (visual reference) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so). Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms.
    “I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried.
    “Everyone who loves film will go see the original.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Social Network (2010): 1 line

  1. people (casting led to) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander.
    “Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. people (casting approach) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience.
    “that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Searchers (1956): 1 line

  1. lineage (loose remake) · through Priest (2011), which they acted in: Priest ⇒ The Searchers (the host's read). Priest is a loose remake of The Searchers.
    “It's a loose remake of the searchers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (18) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Christopher Plummer → The Sound of Music. Plummer was the star of The Sound of Music, which they pick as his Apex Mountain.
    “He was the star of the sound of music.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:00 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Christopher Plummer → Beginners. Plummer won his Oscar late for Beginners, given because of his long career.
    “Christopher Plummer got that later on in his career for beginners.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career run): Christopher Plummer → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. His 80s run: Beginners, Knives Out, Dragon Tattoo, All the Money in the World.
    “I think if you just say his 80s contains beginners, knives out, girl with the dragon tattoo, all the money in the world.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:30:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (early career): Christopher Plummer → The Sound of Music. Plummer was in The Sound of Music.
    “Friend, did you know that he was in the sound of music?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:31:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (performance): Christopher Plummer → Beginners. Plummer plays a father who comes out in his 80s in Beginners.
    “He's Ewan McGregor's dad, who comes out in his 80s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (actors walking out): Harvey Keitel → Christopher Plummer. Keitel's Eyes Wide Shut walkout is paired with Plummer's rant about Malick.
    “it's like that incredible clip of Christopher Plummer talking about working with Malik on the new world”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Christopher Plummer: Plummer plays Mike Wallace not as an impression but as Plummer interpreting Wallace, with the pointing fingers and no prosthetics.
    “he is just doing Christopher Plummer interpreting Mike Wallace.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Christopher Plummer: Plummer sips from a CBS Sports mug as a detail in the Wallace scene.
    “he just like sits back and takes a sip out of a CBS sports mug.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:33 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Christopher Plummer: Plummer was born in 1929, nearly 70 in this movie, and won his Oscar at about 83 for Beginners.
    “Christopher Plummer, never nominated for an Oscar before 2010.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Christopher Plummer: David's hot take: the best 80s of any actor.
    “Best 80s of any actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:27:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)