Wolf Blitzer

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q49079: 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: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).

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.

Mission: Impossible (1996): 2 lines

  1. lineage (callback) · through Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), which they acted in: Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read). Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark.
    “I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (franchise template) · through Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), which they acted in: Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read). Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic.
    “they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): 1 line

  1. unmapped (enabling success) · through Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), which they acted in: Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (1) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (cameo): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer's cameo works because the movie turns it into Ethan Hunt rather than the real anchor.
    “In fallout, it's so effective because it's not actually Wolf Blitzer. It's Ethan Hunt.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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