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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Jaws (1975). Count them as actor (7 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.

Arachnophobia: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jaws (1975), which they were tied to as wanted to play Brody: Jaws ⇒ Arachnophobia (the host's read). Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders.
    “it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Empire of the Sun (1987): 1 line

  1. craft (shot design) · through Jaws (1975), which they were tied to as wanted to play Brody: Jaws ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read). Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot.
    “he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jaws (1975), which they were tied to as wanted to play Brody: Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see.
    “the Jaws music for the villain you can't see.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35 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)

Twister (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jaws (1975), which they were tied to as wanted to play Brody: Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 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)