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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Lolita (1962); Lady in the Water (2006). Count them as director (1 film), actor (5 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.

Lolita (1955 novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Lolita (1962), which they were tied to as considered for Humbert; his agents said no: Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read). The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot.
    “They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Lolita (1962), which they were tied to as considered for Humbert; his agents said no: Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary). On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris.
    “Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30 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)