William Hurt

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q105825: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Incredible Hulk, which The Incredible Hulk credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Eyewitness (1981); The Big Chill (1983); Broadcast News (1987); The Village (2004); The Incredible Hulk (2008).

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.

Hulk (2003): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read). Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening.
    “And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

Return of the Secaucus 7: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: Return of the Secaucus 7 ⇒ The Big Chill (the host's read). Called a precursor to The Big Chill.
    “precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Incredible Hulk (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read). A speaker says the film reuses the old TV show's score, the sad-guitar cue from Bixby walking away, even though Craig Armstrong scored it.
    “They used the score from the Incredible Hulk at some point in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:47:14 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (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.

The Avengers (2012): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it.
    “That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out.
    “The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)

10 Years: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ 10 Years (the host's read). Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill.
    “I kind of like 10 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Beautiful Girls (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read). Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex.
    “I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Bill Clinton: 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Bill Clinton (the host's read). EW's 15th anniversary review blamed The Big Chill for soundtrack albums, 30-something, and Bill Clinton.
    “Hell, blame the big show for Bill Quinton.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America (First Avenger / MCU): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read). The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America.
    “And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

Hometown (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Hometown (TV series) (the host's read). The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986.
    “As the short-lived series hometown?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reality Bites (1994): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read). Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Intervention: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Big Chill (1983), which they acted in: The Big Chill ⇒ The Intervention (the host's read). Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex.
    “There was a movie called The Intervention.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (6) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (people): William Hurt → Sam Elliott. Hurt took over Thunderbolt Ross but Elliott in Ang Lee's movie made the role impossible to imagine otherwise.
    “To me, once they had cast Sam Elliott, it was impossible to imagine anyone else in the role, which sounds ridiculous, but it's true.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): William Hurt → The Avengers. Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk.
    “The only kind of thread they keep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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