Brad Pitt

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q35332: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Seven, which ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More credits them on.

Counted as producer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: The Departed (2006); Babylon (2022); 12 Years a Slave; The Lost City of Z. Count them as actor (35 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.

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 5 lines

craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Babylon's walk-on bar scene mirrors the flashback that opens Singin' in the Rain, where Don Lockwood gets a walk-on.
“Um, Don Lockwood gets a walk on part in a bar in that like in that flashback to start the movie.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:48:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'.
“Again, like a very, very direct homage.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (echo) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The silent-to-sound struggle scene in Babylon echoes Singin' in the Rain, down to the actress who cannot find the microphone.
“And that is a huge echo of singing in the rain.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). A Babylon moment is said to echo Don and Kathy Selden from Singin' in the Rain.
“Also, echoes of Don and Kathy Selden.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:44:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (homage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose.
“But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

John Gilbert: 2 lines

unmapped (real-life basis) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: John Gilbert ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). Brad Pitt's character in Babylon is obviously based on John Gilbert.
“John Gilbert, who Brad Pitt's character in Babylon, is very obviously based on”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 2:09:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (character model) · them, directly: John Gilbert ⇒ Brad Pitt (the host's read). Pitt's Babylon character is said to mirror silent-era star John Gilbert.
“John Gilbert is a big influence.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

David Lean: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Lost City of Z, which they produced: David Lean ⇒ The Lost City of Z (the maker said so: Gray, the director, speaking on the show). Gray wanted an old-fashioned English-language epic in the style of David Lean or Coppola.
“a movie in the style almost of like David Lean or Francis Ford Coppola or something like that”
The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:24:31 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)

Douglas Fairbanks: 1 line

theme (character model) · them, directly: Douglas Fairbanks ⇒ Brad Pitt (the host's read). Douglas Fairbanks is named as another model for Pitt's character.
“Douglas Fairbanks, for sure.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Infernal Affairs (2002): 1 line

lineage (remake source) · through The Departed (2006), which they produced: Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter.
“It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

La La Land (2016): 1 line

craft (score reuse) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
“This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Rudolph Valentino: 1 line

theme (character model) · them, directly: Rudolph Valentino ⇒ Brad Pitt (the host's read). Valentino is named as the other big influence on the writing of Pitt's character.
“Yeah, so I think Rudolph Valentino is the other one that is was a big influence on the writing of this character.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Scarface (1983): 1 line

lineage (homage) · through The Departed (2006), which they produced: Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read). The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche.
“there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier'): 1 line

craft (scene mirror) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: The Dancing Cavalier (film-within-Singin' in the Rain; heard also as 'link cavalier') ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The audience in Babylon's screening laughs at the same dialogue ('I love you') as in Singin' in the Rain's screening of The Dancing Cavalier.
“They're literally laughing at the exact same dialogue in the screening that they do of the link cavalier.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:56:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021): 1 line

lineage (series lineage) · through Babylon (2022), which they produced: Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show). The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one.
“The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · 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.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (15)

career (career): Brad Pitt → Paul Newman. Late-career Pitt resembles Paul Newman in The Color of Money, embracing the twilight phase.
“Paul Newman, color of money era, like maybe a little younger than Paul Newman was at that point”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:19:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Tom Cruise. Cruise embodied hyper celebrity while Pitt just did whatever interested him.
“Tom Cruise embodied, not just the movie star, but the hyper celebrity.”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:19:30 · Van Lathan (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Leonardo DiCaprio. Pitt never aligned with a single auteur the way DiCaprio did.
“So in the way that Leo said, you know what?”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:20:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Angelina Jolie. Brangelina swallowed Pitt's career into a long period of lesser movies.
“That Brangelina thing became so big.”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Matt Damon. The group debates whether Damon's best seven films can match Pitt's.
“So the question for me is, could Matt Damon top that with his best seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:24:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → True Romance. Pitt had earlier iconic small turns like Floyd in True Romance, covered on a previous Rewatchables.
“True romance, iconic performances, Floyd.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Interview with the Vampire. Pitt's pre-Se7en run had flops and weird roles, including the homoerotic vampire movie he did with Cruise.
“Crew said blonde hair, super homerotic.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:33 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Legends of the Fall. Pitt fought the changed ending of Legends of the Fall and vowed not to do that again, then made Se7en and 12 Monkeys.
“Legends of the Fall, which some people like, but they changed the ending.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brad Pitt → Inglourious Basterds. Pitt does better work once writers like Tarantino give him funnier material that suits his twitchiness.
“I think later on when Pitt starts working with writers who are a little bit funnier, he does better work in some ways”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career comparison): Brad Pitt → Newitski. Simmons compares the role's effect on Pitt to a title lifting an already Hall of Fame player (the transcript renders it 'Newitski', a mangled Dirk Nowitzki).
“I compared it to when Newitski, when the title in 2011, where Newitski was a Hall of Famer anyway”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:28 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career stepping stone): Brad Pitt → Moneyball. Moneyball showed shades of the performance Pitt reaches here.
“You see shades of it and moneyball, yeah.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career arc): Brad Pitt → Paul Newman. Pitt's path from heartthrob to weathered roles mirrors Newman's from Hud to The Verdict.
“he always reminds me of Newman, where it's like there's this really, really like heart throb beginning”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career contrast): Brad Pitt → Tom Cruise. Cruise plays variations of himself and may lack a Cliff Booth role.
“He's basically playing variations of Tom Cruise in these different movies, but I don't know if he had a Cliff Booth part, did he?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:09 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (upcoming project): Brad Pitt → Joseph Kosinski. Pitt's fast-cars movie is Kosinski's F1 film, said to have script troubles.
“The Kaczinski F1 movie?”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:13:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career pivot): Brad Pitt → Ocean's Eleven. Ocean's Eleven is where Pitt's persona crystallizes after Fight Club.
“Ocean's 11 is the one where he crystallizes who Brad Pitt.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (2)

industry (Oscar loss): Brad Pitt → The Artist. Pitt lost Best Actor for Moneyball to Jean Dujardin in The Artist, which they attribute to Weinstein.
“I do understand what happened there. Harvey Weinstein happened.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:27:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar consolation): Brad Pitt → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Pitt eventually won Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but not for the right role.
“Pitt, of course, 8 years later, we'll eventually win best supporting actor for once upon a time in Hollywood.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:27:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

lineage (ad-lib source): Brad Pitt → True Romance. Pitt's ad-libbed line was based on an actor who told him the same in the early 90s; they guess True Romance's Michael Rapaport/Saul Rubinek.
“You're Rick fucking Dalton, don't you forget it?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:16 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

people (6)

people (people): Gwyneth Paltrow → Brad Pitt. They became a couple off screen, got engaged, and later Pitt moved on to Aniston and Angelina.
“they start dating in real life.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (cameo exception): Brad Pitt → True Romance. The one character-actor exception to Pitt's perfect-Brad-Pitt roles is his Floyd cameo in True Romance.
“Like, with the exception of like cameos like Floyd and true Romance and stuff like that.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (performance): Ad Astra → Brad Pitt. The movie can't be saved, but the scene where Pitt records a message to his father is Pitt having therapy on screen.
“Brad Pitt's having his therapy on the screen and someone filmed it and let me watch it.”
The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:13:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
people (performance): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Brad Pitt. Pitt's responsiveness and presence is a rare form of acting, making the lead-versus-supporting call hard.
“I just think like responsiveness is a form of acting as well. And he is the person who's reflecting a lot of Leo back.”
The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:23:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Brad Pitt → The Lost City of Z. Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, the producers, sent Gray the book though nothing in his work suggested jungle fit.
“Brad Pitt and DD Guard and Jeremy Kleiner, who are the producers of the movie, why they sent it to me”
The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:01:21 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
people (casting): Brad Pitt → Tilda Swinton. Pitt recommended Tilda Swinton for the role.
“Pitt recommended Tilda, although I think because of post-production, this must have been shot before burn after reading”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:25:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (2)

programming (foil pairing): Jonah Hill → Brad Pitt. Hill supplies comic timing for restrained Pitt to bounce off.
“Pitt really needs a foil because he's so restrained in his performance, except when he's throwing things”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (unrealized pairing): Brad Pitt → Cate Blanchett. They were supposed to do The Fountain together, which Button realized.
“I mean, he and Blanchard were supposed to do the fountain together.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (7)

theme (character model): Brad Pitt → John Gilbert. Pitt's Babylon character is said to mirror silent-era star John Gilbert.
“John Gilbert is a big influence.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (character model): Brad Pitt → Douglas Fairbanks. Douglas Fairbanks is named as another model for Pitt's character.
“Douglas Fairbanks, for sure.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (character model): Brad Pitt → Rudolph Valentino. Valentino is named as the other big influence on the writing of Pitt's character.
“Yeah, so I think Rudolph Valentino is the other one that is was a big influence on the writing of this character.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:14:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (persona use): Brad Pitt → Babylon. Babylon is called a smart use of Brad Pitt's skills, with the movie-star persona built in.
“This is a very smart utilization of Brad Pitt's skills.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (persona): Brad Pitt → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Pitt's Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is said to cement his iconography and may make it harder for him to transform.
“Like, I think him winning an Academy Award for once upon a time in Hollywood, oddly, may work against him because it is such a strong utilization of his iconography.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (comparison): Tom Cruise → Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt negates his charm in roles; Cruise stays utterly himself.
“Brad Pitt in the way that Brad Pitt has chosen to navigate his career”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:26:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (look comparison): Brad Pitt → Barry Levinson. On the commentary Fincher said Pitt's tugboat look resembles Barry Levinson.
“And the commentary, Fincher referred to him as looking like Barry Levinson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (9)

unmapped (reviver of stars): Quentin Tarantino → Brad Pitt. Tarantino revives superstars; Brad and Leo got best performances from Basterds, Django and this.
“He likes to revive superstars and he's the fixer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (passed the part): Brad Pitt → Matt Damon. Pitt dropped out of the Damon role and produced; Damon later passed Manchester by the Sea to Casey Affleck in a similar gesture.
“Matt Damon later paying it forward in that same way, giving Casey Affleck, Manchester.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
unmapped (anti-chemistry): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Brad Pitt. Hoffman is not intimidated by Pitt, giving their scenes of open contempt a rare tension.
“film Seymour Hoffman is not afraid of Brad Pitt.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:15:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
unmapped (critical reading): Manohla Dargis → Brad Pitt. Dargis wrote about Pitt's power as a movie star filtering Robert Redford-type strong, silent figures.
“Manola wrote at length about the kind of use of Pitt's power and what he kind of brings as a movie star type”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
unmapped (taste): Brad Pitt → Moneyball. A speaker prefers Pitt in perfect-Brad-Pitt roles such as Ocean's 11, Moneyball and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
“Like, the ones I like are his performances in Ocean's 11 and Moneyball and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:16:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (physique): Gene Kelly → Brad Pitt. A speaker says Gene Kelly and Pitt share an ideal male form, in a riff on Babylon's wardrobe.
“I mean, he and Brad Pitt share a ideal male format.”
The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:45:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (category fraud): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt is the star of Hollywood, so putting him in supporting is a rigged category.
“He is the star of that movie and F everybody for saying otherwise.”
The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:05:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared people): Brad Pitt → Jackass. Pitt shows up on Jackass in one of its best moments, a crossover with his Fight Club role.
“The big, I mean, of course, there's the crossover of Brad Pitt being on jackass and one of the best jackass moments.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:47:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (star power): Brad Pitt → Seven. Pitt's wish to make Se7en bumped it ahead of The Game.
“Brad Pitt's like, I want to make seven, and so seven like happens, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:47:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

verdict (apex): Brad Pitt → Ocean's Eleven. Pitt's apex is judged Ocean's Eleven or Fight Club at the time he dated Aniston.
“It's Fight Club or Ocean's 11, yeah.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Brad Pitt → Mr. & Mrs. Smith. One host finds Pitt very disengaged in Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
“I just, I find Pitt very disengaged in it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:43:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Brad Pitt → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Pitt is supporting (never lead) in OUATIH, 'the picture of being a good supporter'.
“He was always supporting and I just caught him because he's getting he's getting his moment.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:37:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Brad Pitt → Edge of Tomorrow. Pitt was Liman's first choice for the lead and dropped out; the hosts think Cruise is better.
“I mean, like, I think cruise is better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:45:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt's six stages across four decades, with the Brangelina era and Once Upon a Time as the icon turn.
“The 4 decades of Brad Pitt, as a leading man in all the arcs, where the 6 stages”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt got $30 million for F1, and the hosts credit him for people taking it seriously.
“He got $30000000 for this movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt's seven longest-tail movies: Seven, Fight Club, Ocean's 11, Basterds, Moneyball, Once Upon a Time, F1.
“Seven, Fight Club, Ocean's 11, Bastards, Moneyball, once upon a time, an F1.”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:24:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt is a terrible runner, less than Cruise.
“Brad Pitt is a terrible runner.”
The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:30 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt put his arm through the windshield during the chase, severed tendons, and the cast was written into the rest of the movie.
“Pitt actually gets hurt in real life, puts his arm through the windshield”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:05 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: His best performance: it does not ask him to speak much and he is great at looking pissed or regretful, unless eating a Twinkie.
“I think it's his best performance.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:12:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Opening of the film: old playoff footage, then Pitt alone in a stadium turning a radio on and off. Riveting because he holds the frame.
“him sitting alone in a stadium just turning a radio on and on. And it is riveting.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:12:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Lost the Oscar to Jean Dujardin for The Artist; audience groaned, Weinstein blamed.
“I do understand what happened there. Harvey Weinstein happened.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:27:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt wanted to play as much of Benjamin as he could himself, not hand it off to doubles.
“Pitt's other huge thing is I want to play as much of this person as I can.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Fincher says Pitt turned up at his door minutes after the casting call.
“I hung up the phone after offering it to him and he was knocking on my door like 4 minutes later.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:19:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Fincher on how Pitt's clout won arguments with the studio.
“the power of being blonde is astonishing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:51:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Brad Pitt: Pitt really broke his arm in the rain chase, and they wrote it into the movie.
“Genuinely broke his arm.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:57:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)