Bob Balaban

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q621490: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (4 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.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

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 (4) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (critic casting irony): Bob Balaban → M. Night Shyamalan. A filmmaker getting back at critics casts Balaban, the actor critics love as their on-screen surrogate.
    “Bob Bellaman is like the ultimate film critics actor.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:21:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (before the type): Midnight Cowboy → Bob Balaban. Balaban was in Midnight Cowboy before Close Encounters synthesized his 'guy who explains' type.
    “But it's before they figured out the type, the shorthand you can use Balaban for, where it's like, close encounters just like kind of synthesizes it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Bob Balaban: Balaban's film critic is called the least sympathetic character ever put on film, with Nazis portrayed more even-handedly.
    “I've seen Nazis who are portrayed on film in a more even-handed manner than this character.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 0:26:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Bob Balaban: Balaban's critic, the next victim, delivers a meta monologue noting that in a movie with no explicit content they will not actually show someone murdered on camera.
    “They will not actually let someone be murdered on camera.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson · 1:24:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Bob Balaban: Dr. Chandra is Indian in the book; Balaban says the filmmakers made him American to avoid a third nationality alongside the Russians and Americans.
    “Bob Balaban said they changed his nationalities from Indian to American because they thought it would be confusing to have another nationality who've got the Russians and the Americans up there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Bob Balaban: Balaban writes a middle-grade series about a bionic talking dog named McGrowl, with about seven books.
    “Not just a talking dog, often, but a bionic dog called McGrowl.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:32:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)