Robert Redford

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q59215: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Rocky (1976); The Insider (1999). Count them as director (3 films), actor (12 films) 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.

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

lineage (lineage) · through The Insider (1999), which they were tied to as mentioned: 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)

Chuck Wepner: 1 line

people (people) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Chuck Wepner ⇒ Rocky (the host's read). Stallone watched Wepner take a beating from Ali for 15 rounds and was inspired to write Rocky in 3.5 days.
“He's watching Webner Ali in 75, which was the real life version of this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:19:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019): 1 line

industry (industry) · through The Insider (1999), which they were tied to as mentioned: 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)

Ted Williams: 1 line

craft (craft) · them, directly: Ted Williams ⇒ Robert Redford (the maker said so: Roger Angell's New Yorker piece). Redford's swing was modeled on Ted Williams, per a New Yorker piece.
“Great swing by Redford.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Longest Yard: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read). Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick.
“which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Three Days of the Condor (1975): 1 line

people (people) · them, directly: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Robert Redford (the maker said so). Casting Redford was a deliberate evocation of the Condor and gave the MCU a stamp of legitimacy because he never made movies like this.
“it felt like a secondary stamp of legitimacy because this is the type of actor who never did fucking movies like this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:17 · unknown (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.

Creed (2015): 2 lines

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read). Merchant says Creed repeated Rocky's trick of making you care about the character before the fighting.
“when they rebooted it with Creed, I think they did the same thing”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:07 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Creed (the host's read). Creed closely follows Rocky's structure, but opens with Creed obviously able to fight, unlike Rocky's grim opening bout.
“in Creed, which very closely follows some of the structures of rocky.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:38:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Fighting with My Family (2019): 2 lines

craft (craft) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant says you cannot make a sports movie without watching Rocky and all its sequels.
“make any kind of sports a movie without watching Rocky or indeed all of the Rockies”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:45:46 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)
craft (craft) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Fighting with My Family (the maker said so: Merchant in this interview). Merchant calls Rocky a template because it beds in character so you root for him before the fight, a lesson he applied.
“a template in the sense that it really beds in character”
The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:46:00 · Stephen Merchant (0.95 sure it was them)

(the modern sports movie): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read). Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog.
“created the sports movie prototype, like just period.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Bull Durham (1988): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Bull Durham (the host's read). Bull Durham took the Rocky motto a level further in how a sports movie is written.
“how can we take that rocky motto and actually go the next level with how we write a movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:25:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Cinderella Man (2005): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Cinderella Man (the host's read). Rocky set up the idea that a victory transforms the supporting cast too, as in Cinderella Man where he fights for Giamatti.
“by the time you get to like Cinderella man, you realize that he's not just fighting for him, he's fighting for Giamatti.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:28:11 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Raging Bull (1980): 1 line

theme (anti-genre) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so). Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both.
“Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rocky Balboa (2006): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ Rocky Balboa (the host's read). The little girl Marie from Rocky grows up to be the love interest in Rocky Balboa.
“she then becomes the Rocky Balboa love interest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:14:31 · Van Lathan (0.45 sure it was them)

The Karate Kid (1984): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Rocky (1976), which they were tied to as studio wanted: Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read). Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect.
“We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (9)

career (career): Robert Redford → Ordinary People. Redford won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People.
“he won an Oscar for ordinary people as director”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:54 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → All the President's Men. Redford's apex mountain was All the President's Men, when he had the juice to make and produce it.
“We did the other President's Men rewatchables and decided that actually was his Apex Mountain”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Spy Game. Redford in Spy Game, directed by Tony Scott, is liked by a host.
“I like him in spy game.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:45:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → The Devil's Own. Redford is paired with Pitt in a late-career film.
“Like devil's own.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:45:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Charlotte's Web. Redford voices Ike the horse; one host insists he is good in it.
“He's Ike the horse.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Sundance. Redford started the independent film festival out of disgust with the industry.
“He starts independent film festival because he's like, fuck this industry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:49:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → The Candidate. Redford was the summer soldier in The Candidate, a joke on the movie's title.
“Of course, the summer soldier was in the candidate.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:03 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Pete's Dragon. Redford is great in Pete's Dragon.
“He's great in Pete's Dragon.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → All Is Lost. Redford is the only actor, so nothing can shoot without him; he is idiosyncratic about his schedule.
“And he's the only actor in that movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

craft (craft): Robert Redford → Ted Williams. Redford's swing was modeled on Ted Williams, per a New Yorker piece.
“Great swing by Redford.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

lineage (lineage): Robert Redford → The Insider. The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene.
“That's the Redford, it's so good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Robert Redford → New Hollywood. Redford brings New Hollywood legitimacy to the MCU.
“A fucking great old oak tree of like New Hollywood, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:48:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

people (people): Robert Redford → Kevin Costner. It was crucial that Redford and Costner both looked like baseball players.
“So crucial that him and Costner both really looked like baseball players.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Robert Redford → Three Days of the Condor. Casting Redford was a deliberate evocation of the Condor and gave the MCU a stamp of legitimacy because he never made movies like this.
“it felt like a secondary stamp of legitimacy because this is the type of actor who never did fucking movies like this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Robert Redford → Sydney Pollack. Pollack was the one director who knew how to work with Redford, working with him many times.
“that's one guy who knows how to work with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:49:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Rocky → Robert Redford. United Artists wanted a well-established star, with Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and James Caan floated.
“United Artists wanted a well-established star.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Robert Redford: Casual reveal as villain; drinks milk.
“I love that he's drinking milk.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Redford: Imagining Redford shooting a scene with a robot man; waiting on his newspaper.
“It's just kind of funny to think that Robert Redford filmed this scene.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:31:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)