Cameron Crowe

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q318287: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Jerry Maguire, which The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame credits them on.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Say Anything... (1989); Singles (1992); Jerry Maguire (1996); Almost Famous (2000); Vanilla Sky (2001); Elizabethtown (2005); Aloha (2015); (rom-com filmmakers). Count them as writer (5 films), producer (1 film) 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.

Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes): 3 lines

lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they directed: 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)
lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they directed: 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)
lineage (lineage) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they directed: 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)

Billy Wilder: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Billy Wilder ⇒ Cameron Crowe (the host's read). Crowe worships Billy Wilder, whose versatility Brooks also has.
“Cameron Crowe worships at the feet of Billy Wilder, of course”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Elvis Presley: 1 line

theme (theme) · them, directly: Elvis Presley ⇒ Cameron Crowe (the maker said so: an interview with Cameron Crowe). Crowe was obsessed with Elvis's line about being the loneliest person in a room where everyone knows you.
“he said he was really obsessed with the quote that Elvis presently had about feeling like the loneliest person in a room where everyone knows who you are.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

James L. Brooks: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · them, directly: James L. Brooks ⇒ Cameron Crowe (the host's read). Crowe is described as Brooks's protégé, and the two share a tone.
“And Cameron Crowe was like his protégé.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Open Your Eyes (1997): 1 line

lineage (remake) · through Vanilla Sky (2001), which they directed: 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

lineage (lineage) · through Almost Famous (2000), which they directed: 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)

The Lego Batman Movie (2017): 1 line

theme (theme) · through Jerry Maguire (1996), which they directed: Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read). Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke.
“just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career): Penelope Cruz → Cameron Crowe. Cruz's picks track directors coming off Oscars: Crowe after Maguire and Almost Famous, Madden after Shakespeare in Love, Thornton after Sling Blade.
“That is crazy that she does like the crow after like Maguire slash almost famous.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:16:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Cameron Crowe → Elizabethtown. Elizabethtown is Crowe doubling down on pure Cameron Crowe after this film failed to expand him.
“Elizabethtown is him being like, I'm going to write the most Cameron Crowe movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

industry (industry): Cameron Crowe → Wes Anderson. Crowe was the music guy until Wes Anderson took the crown.
“And then Wes Anderson came and took that crown away from her.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:05:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

lineage (lineage): James L. Brooks → Cameron Crowe. Crowe is described as Brooks's protégé, and the two share a tone.
“And Cameron Crowe was like his protégé.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Cameron Crowe → Billy Wilder. Crowe worships Billy Wilder, whose versatility Brooks also has.
“Cameron Crowe worships at the feet of Billy Wilder, of course”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:14:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

people (collaboration): Vanilla Sky → Cameron Crowe. They wish Cruise and Cameron Crowe had continued to work together.
“It's disappointing that he and Cameron Crowe did not continue to work together.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

theme (theme): Cameron Crowe → Elvis Presley. Crowe was obsessed with Elvis's line about being the loneliest person in a room where everyone knows you.
“he said he was really obsessed with the quote that Elvis presently had about feeling like the loneliest person in a room where everyone knows who you are.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

unmapped (script advice): Cameron Crowe → Fight Club. Fincher asked Crowe about Tyler Durden and was told to make him more unknowable.
“make him more inscrutable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Cameron Crowe: Crowe's advice on how to write Tyler Durden.
“make him more inscrutable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)