Laurence Olivier

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q55245: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Clash of the Titans, which Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Hamlet (1948); Spartacus (1960); Khartoum (1966); Marathon Man (1976); Clash of the Titans (1981). Count them as director (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.

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to restoration) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Steven Spielberg ⇒ Spartacus (the host's read). Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
    “and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · 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.

Gladiator (2000): 3 lines

  1. lineage (riff / imitation) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
    “this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting approach) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). Gladiator, like Spartacus, is loaded with supporting actors who are thespian gems, which the speaker says Scott recognized.
    “as Ridley Scott recognized about this movie, is like loaded up with supporting actors who are like just thespian gems.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (scene reused) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). The trident thrown into the stands in Spartacus is in Gladiator too, with Russell Crowe doing it.
    “that's literally in Gladiator.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Airplane! (1980): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Clueless (1995): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Dell Comics: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Spartacus (1960), which they acted in: Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read). Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
    “that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (6) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Laurence Olivier → Khartoum. Olivier plays Muhammad Ahmed in brown makeup; Heston plays Gordon.
    “Lawrence Livia plays Muhammad Ahmed, and let us never speak of this again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (shared crew): Jean Simmons → Laurence Olivier. Simmons was in Hamlet with Olivier before Spartacus.
    “which she's in with Mr. Lawrence Olivier before this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (comparison): Laurence Olivier → Anthony Hopkins. Olivier playing Crassus feels like Hopkins's career phase; also Hopkins later impersonated him for the restoration.
    “oh, Olivier was in the Hopkins phase of his career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:00:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (worked together): Laurence Olivier → Stanley Kubrick. Olivier is the obvious Humbert choice, especially since Kubrick had just directed him in Spartacus.
    “I mean, especially just coming off of Spartacus and Kubrick getting that kind of performance out of him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:12:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Laurence Olivier: Laughton and Olivier reportedly dragged a three-line exchange to twenty minutes trying to one-up each other.
    “And they dragged it out for like 20 minutes because they were trying to one up each other.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)