Bill Murray

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q29250: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to What About Bob?, which An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Caddyshack (1980); Stripes (1981); Tootsie (1982); Ghostbusters (1984); Scrooged (1988); Ghostbusters II (1989); What About Bob? (1991); Groundhog Day (1993); Kingpin (1996); Rushmore (1998); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Lost in Translation (2003); Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021); Meatballs; Quick Change; The Razor's Edge.

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.

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Francois Truffaut: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: Francois Truffaut ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). French New Wave influence.
    “Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

French New Wave: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: French New Wave ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). Combines the emotionality and cutting style of French new wave with the rawness of 70s American cinema.
    “You've got 70s American cinema and you've also got 60s French new wave.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:06:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). The vibe of that kid-runaway book imbues the first 40 minutes, including the narration and child-genius portraiture.
    “the whole vibe of that book is imbued in the 1st 40 minutes of this movie, most of the narration, most of the young Tenenbaum's portraiture of these 3 child geniuses.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters (1984): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Harold and Maud: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: Harold and Maud ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). Off-kilter characterization, 70s feel, overcoats, and suicide attempts; in the bloodstream of Tenenbaums and Squid and the Whale.
    “Harold and Maud is very much in the bloodstream of, of, the Royal Ten of bombs and Squid and the whale.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jean-Luc Godard: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: Jean-Luc Godard ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the maker said so: Matt Zoller Seitz's book on the movie). The mosaic of book covers was inspired by a Godard movie doing something similar.
    “he was inspired by, I think it was a Godard movie that did something similar, of course.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:53:10 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

Louis Malle: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: Louis Malle ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). French New Wave directors listed among its influences.
    “some of the influences on this movie include films by Louis Maule. Um, uh, Francois Truffaux, Sholu Qadar, the French New Wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:15:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Ovitz: 1 line

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: The Catcher in the Rye / Franny and Zooey ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). Salinger's Glass-family stories are the key literary influence.
    “Zoe is like the key influence on this film”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:05:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: The Magnificent Ambersons ⇒ The Royal Tenenbaums (the host's read). Named as a huge influence; rewatching Ambersons shows how much of it is in Tenenbaums.
    “it's wild how much, uh, ten bombs or how much Amberson's is in ten bombs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 1:16:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Friday the 13th (1980): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Meatballs, which they acted in: Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was.
    “I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Meatballs, which they acted in: Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The pitch was Halloween crossed with the summer-camp comedy Meatballs.
    “And it was basically Halloween crossed meatballs, ends up getting the money”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Groundhog Day (1993), which they acted in: Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read). The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
    “Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels (2015): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tonal model) · through Ghostbusters (1984), which they acted in: Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): 1 line

  1. verdict (verdict) · through The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), which they acted in: The Royal Tenenbaums ⇒ The Grand Budapest Hotel (the host's read). Grand Budapest is the best alternative case for the Anderson slot, but it could not exist without Tenenbaums' blueprint.
    “Um, but Grand Budapest does not exist.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:38:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (23) everyone in acting

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Mike Myers → Bill Murray. Myers may have fancied himself a Bill Murray who could do both quick-change and Stripes.
    “he probably fancied himself a little bit more of a Bill Murray.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career phase): Bill Murray → Rushmore. Sean splits Murray's career into pre-Rushmore (1980-1995, star vehicles) and post-Rushmore (character actor).
    “So it's like pre-Rushmore post-Rushmore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:03:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career phase): Bill Murray → Groundhog Day. Bill's three-phase Murray: What About Bob?, Groundhog Day and Quick Change form the adult phase after Ghostbusters.
    “he has, what about Bob and Groundhog Day pretty close together? And quick change”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. career (career parallel): Chevy Chase → Bill Murray. Chase and Murray were the 70s guys who navigated into the Letterman sarcasm era; Chase was neck and neck with Murray in the mid 80s.
    “I think him and Bo Murray specifically were able to navigate what came next with the Letterman era, the sarcasm era, basically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Bill Murray → Ghostbusters. Murray refused a third Ghostbusters for 25 years and then came back for Afterlife.
    “Bill Murray for 25 years has declined to participate in a 3rd Ghostbusters film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Bill Murray. Murray is calculating about when to pull the rug out from scene partners; Eddie trusts his comedy and does not need to win every moment.
    “You can see Bill Murray calculating sometimes when he's gonna pull the rug out from under the people in the scene with him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Danny McBride → Bill Murray. McBride plays one blowhard type across roles like Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Ferrell.
    “he's also doing the thing that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase and Farrell do, which is like essentially playing the same guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (feud): Bill Murray → Richard Dreyfuss. Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss during What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (feud): Bill Murray → Chevy Chase. Compared to Murray calling Chase medium talent.
    “Wow. Which is up there with Bill Murray saying to Chevy Chase, calling him medium talent.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Bill Murray → Harold Ramis. Murray and Ramis did not speak for years after disagreeing over Groundhog Day's tone.
    “Murray was like, I want Groundhog Day to be more dramatic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:38:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (persona comparison): Vince Vaughn → Bill Murray. In his comedies Vaughn is basically playing himself as a smart-ass, like Bill Murray.
    “he's basically doing the Bill Murray thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (recurring bit): Bill Murray → Stripes. Murray's flirt-by-annoying persona goes back to SNL's Todd and Lisa Loopner sketches with Gilda Radner and Stripes, then becomes the whole premise of What About Bob?
    “He did it in stripes when he was trying, you know, his way of trying to like flirt with people would be to annoy them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:10:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (praise): Peter MacNicol → Bill Murray. Murray reportedly says MacNicol was the one good thing in Ghostbusters II.
    “Except for Peter McNichol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:19:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (underrated performance): Tootsie → Bill Murray. Murray is amazing in Tootsie though nobody thinks of it as a Murray film.
    “he's actually amazing in Tootsie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:06:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Bill Murray: Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss on the set of What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)