Charlie Chaplin

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q882: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to One A.M., which Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: One A.M. (1916); Babylon (2022).

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.

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 5 lines

  1. craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on.
    “Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'.
    “Again, like a very, very direct homage.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. theme (echo) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone.
    “And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain.
    “Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose.
    “But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

John Gilbert: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life basis) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: John Gilbert ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Brad Pitt's character in Babylon is obviously based on John Gilbert.
    “John Gilbert, who Brad Pitt's character in Babylon, is very obviously based on”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 2:09:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

La La Land (2016): 1 line

  1. craft (score reuse) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
    “This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier'): 1 line

  1. craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier') ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The audience in Babylon's screening laughs at the same dialogue ('I love you') as in Singin' in the Rain's screening of The Dancing Cavalier.
    “They're literally laughing at the exact same dialogue in the screening that they do of the link cavalier.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:56:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021): 1 line

  1. lineage (series lineage) · through Babylon (2022), which they acted in: Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show). The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one.
    “The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30 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 (2) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (sentiment contrast): Buster Keaton → Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin can be accused of sentimentalizing and acting cute, which Keaton's understated style never does.
    “you can accuse Chaplain of sentimentalizing, a chaplain of sort of acting cute.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:39:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (temperament contrast): Buster Keaton → Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin is warm with emotions at the surface; Keaton is cool with emotions under the surface.
    “Chaplin is very, very warm.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:50:22 · James Urbaniak (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (character contrast): Buster Keaton → Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin's tramp would pocket the money or even lift the wallet, while Keaton is not a scoundrel.
    “which once again, Chaplin would not only not hesitate for a moment to pocket the money, he would pull the wallet out of the back pocket of someone.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:52:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (silent-comedy lineage): Resident Evil → Charlie Chaplin. The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well.
    “there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Buster Keaton → Charlie Chaplin. Keaton/Chaplin, Kubrick, Spielberg and Welles were assumed to be the four titans of the bracket.
    “I think we like the 4 obvious frontrunners in each quadrant felt like, uh, perhaps going in Keaton slash chaplain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:25:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (practical vs showy): Buster Keaton → Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin will make potatoes dance but Keaton's character is practical and just tries to solve the problem.
    “But Keith wouldn't do that because it's not practical.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:49:40 · James Urbaniak (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (best work): Charlie Chaplin → One A.M.. Griffin says Chaplin's one-man drunk-on-the-staircase short is the best thing Chaplin ever did, better than his features.
    “which, for my money, is still the best thing Chaplain ever did, over his features.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:58:42 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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