Charlton Heston

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q80739: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Ten Commandments (1923); Ben-Hur (1959); Khartoum (1966); Planet of the Apes (1968); Tombstone (1993); Wayne's World 2 (1993); Planet of the Apes (2001).

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.

Planet of the Apes (1968): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. contrast (inversion) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they acted in: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). The remake opens on a loud, leafy backlot set while the original opens in an empty desert with no apes for a long stretch.
    “They totally invert the original movie where the original movie starts in the middle of nowhere.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:53:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they acted in: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original.
    “Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

The Godfather (1972): 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · through Tombstone (1993), which they acted in: The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview). Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant.
    “Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Tombstone (1993), which they acted in: The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read). The Oriental faro takeover shows the Godfather-like business side Russell wanted.
    “You could see the godfather thing that Russell's talking about when he moves into Tombstone and immediately takes over the Faro game at the Oriental.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Dogville shorts (1930s-40s live-action dog shorts): 1 line

  1. industry (studio instinct) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they acted in: Dogville shorts (1930s-40s live-action dog shorts) ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). Fox just wanted apes doing human things, like the old Dogville shorts with dogs at restaurant tables.
    “And it feels like Fox just wanted to make that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:12:43 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)

John Ford: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Tombstone (1993), which they acted in: John Ford ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read). Contrast: Ford Westerns vs gnarly, vulgar Tombstone.
    “bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Three Amigos (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Tombstone (1993), which they acted in: Three Amigos ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read). The wedding-execution opening resembles the Three Amigos setup.
    “this movie's after the 3 amigos, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:23 · Chris Ryan (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.

Planet of the Apes (2001): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. contrast (inversion) · through Planet of the Apes (1968), which they acted in: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). The remake opens on a loud, leafy backlot set while the original opens in an empty desert with no apes for a long stretch.
    “They totally invert the original movie where the original movie starts in the middle of nowhere.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:53:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Planet of the Apes (1968), which they acted in: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read). Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original.
    “Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

Bear City (SNL digital short): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody) · through Planet of the Apes (2001), which they acted in: Planet of the Apes ⇒ Bear City (SNL digital short) (the host's read). An SNL short riffs on Apes with bears who just wear human clothes and mimic humans, like the apes keeping the Lincoln Memorial.
    “they were riff on Plan of the Apes, where the bears got smart and they decided to kill all the humans.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:24:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Deadwood (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Tombstone (1993), which they acted in: Tombstone ⇒ Deadwood (the host's read). Tombstone as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood.
    “I tend to think of this movie as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Mark Wahlberg: 1 line

  1. theme (character mold) · them, directly: Charlton Heston ⇒ Mark Wahlberg (the host's read). Wahlberg's Leo Davidson is written like Heston's angry, arrogant astronaut, but without the reason behind the rage.
    “The thing is, to me, the character is clearly written sort of in the Heston character mold.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:34:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988): 1 line

  1. unmapped (accent convention) · through Ben-Hur (1959), which they acted in: Ben-Hur ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read). Scorsese made the Romans British, as in Ben-Hur, with everyone else American.
    “He said the big thing was to give let the Romans be British.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 1:02:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (star-lineage): Russell Crowe → Charlton Heston. At his peak Crowe is like Mel Gibson, Gregory Peck, and Charlton Heston at the same time.
    “This guy's like Mel Gibson and Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston at the same time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:13:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (character mold): Mark Wahlberg → Charlton Heston. Wahlberg's Leo Davidson is written like Heston's angry, arrogant astronaut, but without the reason behind the rage.
    “The thing is, to me, the character is clearly written sort of in the Heston character mold.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:34:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Kirk Douglas → Charlton Heston. Douglas could easily have just been Heston.
    “He so easily could have just been Heston.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:19:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Charlton Heston: The gun scene: Heston, a gun advocate, plays a dying ape giving an anti-gun speech; Tim Roth read it as pro-gun. A gun sits inside a vase that couldn't physically hold it.
    “They literally had to make the vase around that gun to get it inside it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:06:44 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)