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theme (theme):
A Bronx Tale → Boyz n the Hood.
Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies.
“Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
A Bronx Tale → He Got Game.
Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite.
“He got game is my favorite father-son movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Catch Me If You Can → A Bronx Tale.
Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film.
“I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (rewatchables cross-reference):
A Bronx Tale → The Godfather.
Godfather scene (Vito: whoever comes to you is the traitor) is Simmons' favorite and is referenced as covered in the Godfather pod.
“my favorite scene the Godfather is when Vito's getting old.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:03:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
At Close Range → A Bronx Tale.
At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals.
“That's an amazing father-son movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade → A Bronx Tale.
Last Crusade is offered as a father-son film among filmmakers who rarely make them.
“Well, I guess last Crusade's a Father-son movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:47 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (canon):
A Bronx Tale → The Godfather.
Simmons lists Bronx Tale in the iconic Italian-American pop canon with Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Sopranos, and My Cousin Vinny.
“Godfather one and two, Goodfellas, Bronx Tale, Sopranos.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:18:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (era):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino.
“this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (era):
A Bronx Tale → Casino.
Casino is described as coming, though less of an Italian movie.
“casinos coming, even though, you know, that's a little less of an Italian movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (character echo):
A Bronx Tale → The Godfather.
Sonny is said to be more like Vito than Sonny Corleone: guns bring heat, so keep them out of the neighborhood.
“I think Sunny is more like Vito Corleone than he is like Sonny Corleone”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:20:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (genre neighbor):
A Bronx Tale → Saturday Night Fever.
Speaker puts Saturday Night Fever in the same Italian-movie situation.
“Oddly enough, I put Saturday Night Fever in that Italian movie situation”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
The Pauly-to-Jimmy shift in Goodfellas parallels the old-neighborhood-boss versus cocaine-and-silencers mafia, which this movie sits on the nostalgic side of.
“Pauly is like, we all sit around and and eat sausage and and like, we fix the neighborhood and keep it safe”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:22:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (influence):
A Bronx Tale → The Sopranos.
Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood.
“I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (character echo):
A Bronx Tale → The Sopranos.
Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny.
“So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (Sonny/Robert ref):
A Bronx Tale → Casino.
The 'wasted talent' idea sits with Leotta in Goodfellas: a new actor to root for, as with Brancato.
“it was the same as Leota and Goodfellas, it's like, that guy's going to be a guy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:29:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (life imitates film):
A Bronx Tale → Lillo Brancato Jr..
The film's best quote about wasted talent became Brancato's real life.
“somehow this guy ended up living the message of the movie in the worst possible way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:30:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (rewatchables cross-reference):
A Bronx Tale → Cape Fear.
Cape Fear and the 90-95 De Niro movies were done on Rewatchables.
“he's Cape Fear, which we've done on rewatchables”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:34:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (same year):
A Bronx Tale → This Boy's Life.
Both De Niro father-figure films came out in 1993; This Boy's Life is also chosen as the double-feature partner.
“It's amazing to think that this and this boy's life is the same year, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:35:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (De Niro persona):
A Bronx Tale → The Irishman.
De Niro's refusal to intellectualize acting is tied to his Irishman interviews where he just goes in on Trump.
“he'll be like an actor's round table for the Irishman”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:37:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (same year / slow burn):
A Bronx Tale → The Shawshank Redemption.
1993 was crowded, so films like Shawshank got lost and had a belated moment; this one did too.
“Shawshank got lost and then, you know, belatedly had a moment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:39:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
A Bronx Tale → The Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd is De Niro's only other directing credit.
“Good Shepherd is his only other movie, yeah.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:40:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (motif):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane.
“Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (episode format):
A Bronx Tale → The Shawshank Redemption.
The lessons-from-the-movie segment was done before only for Shawshank and maybe Goodfellas.
“I've only done this a couple times with the rewatchables when there's lessons from the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:42:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
The door test: Sonny's rule that if a girl does not reach over and unlock your car door, dump her fast. It now fails because there are no pull-up knobs, and the hosts also debate the Mario test.
“The door test is now defunct because we don't have buttons that you pull up and down?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
The $20 rule: Sonny's advice that you can buy off a pest for 20 bucks and never think about it again. Van calls it the truest thing in the movie because he lends money.
“That is by far. is the truest thing in this entire movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:50:58 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Three great women: Sonny says they come along like great fighters (Marciano, Sugar Ray, Joe Louis), yet he got all three at 16. The hosts love the unprovable theory.
“I just love crazy theories like that that can't be proven.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:52:03 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Lessons from the movie, the show's rare lessons segment: better to be feared than loved (Machiavelli in prison), trouble is a cancer, nobody cares, a rat is the lowest thing, and three great women. 'Nobody cares' voted best.
“I would say the best, greatest lesson from this movie is probably the nobody cares.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:54:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (borrowing):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
The bar-introduction scene of nicknamed mobsters is called a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.
“Meeting everyone in the bar, which is just a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:55:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (craps scene):
A Bronx Tale → Hard Eight.
The Bronx Tale craps scene is in the running for best movie craps scene alongside Hard Eight.
“I would dare say it's in the running for best movie crap scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:57:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (craps scene):
A Bronx Tale → Casino.
Craps is compared with the casino craps scene where she pulls checks out of a mustachioed man's pocket.
“She's playing with the guy with the mustache and she pulls the checks out of his pocket.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:59:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (borrowing rebuttal):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
The respect-and-food-gift moments were in the one-man play, which predates Goodfellas, so no one ripped anyone off.
“But here's the thing. It was all in the one man play, which was out before Goodfellas.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:03:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Rewatchable scenes: bar introductions of Eddie Mush, JoJo the Whale, Frankie Coffee Cake; craps; the Mush horse-track scene; the biker bar 'Now you can't leave'; De Niro 'stay away from my son'; Sonny's shooting; the funeral. Ryan names the biker bar; the others pick the crap scene.
“I actually have now you just can't leave.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:03:09 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (channel idea):
A Bronx Tale → The Color of Money.
A gambling-movie channel idea (FanDuel TV) would air films like The Color of Money and gambling scenes.
“So like the color of money.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:04:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (channel idea):
A Bronx Tale → The Shawshank Redemption.
Bars, an all-jail-movie channel idea, would run Shawshank, Escape from Alcatraz, Face/Off, and Oz.
“I always wanted an all-jail movie channel called Bars, B-A-R-Z.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:05:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Frank Sinatra → A Bronx Tale.
A speaker credits the film with Sinatra on its soundtrack as the way it signals how cool the era was.
“You know who was in this movie? Sinatra.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:07:45 · unattributed host (Simmons or Ryan) (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (TV channel joke):
A Bronx Tale → Ghost.
The Black Star channel's loose interpretation, playing Ghost, is raised while asking if Bronx Tale is on it.
“Is Bronxtail on Black Stars?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:10:51 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cast overlap):
A Bronx Tale → Belly.
Taral Hicks's career: she appeared in Belly, which may have been too much for her devout beliefs.
“And she appeared in the film Belly.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:11:24 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (comparison (editing/tone)):
A Bronx Tale → When Harry Met Sally.
C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally.
“I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
what-if (alternate title):
A Bronx Tale → Jungle Fever.
A better title for the movie would be Jungle Fever or Goodfellas 2.
“Goodfellas, Goodfellas 2.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Best quote: 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent', delivered by Coach Finstock-style line; it also resurfaces as the 'best quote' of the episode.
“Best quote, saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:18:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (Apex Mountain: crap scenes / Italian):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
Apex for crap scenes and for father-son: Goodfellas and Casino are the competition.
“I gotta go with the fellas, man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:26:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them) -
verdict (Apex Mountain: racists burned alive):
A Bronx Tale → Django Unchained.
Apex Mountain for racists getting burned alive: this or the end of Django Unchained.
“Isn't Django unchained, really more the, you know, the end of Django unchained?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (Apex Mountain: bus drivers):
A Bronx Tale → Speed.
Best movie bus drivers: this or Speed.
“It's just it's this or Annie and Speed.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:27:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (rewatchables-slate joke):
A Bronx Tale → Speed 2: Cruise Control.
Simmons and Ryan joke about doing Speed 2 and compare to the worst-rated Rewatchables, Black Hat and Country Strong.
“It's going to be between Black Cat and Country Strong for worst rated rewatching.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:28:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (homage question):
A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas.
Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident.
“I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them) -
verdict (Apex Mountain: Palminteri):
A Bronx Tale → The Usual Suspects.
Apex Mountain for Palminteri: A Bronx Tale or The Usual Suspects, with Suspects bigger but this his whole life.
“So suspects is definitely a bigger movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:33:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (casting what-if):
Frank Vincent → A Bronx Tale.
Frank Vincent was to appear as the boss but the scene was not filmed; later added to the 'is this movie better' category.
“I think it's time to add Frank Vincent.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:35:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Is this movie better: Bill adds Frank Vincent to the candidates list (Wayne Jenkins, Danny Trejo, Catherine Keener, Steve Buscemi, Sam Jackson, J.T. Walsh, Philip Baker Hall).
“I think it's time to add Frank Vincent.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:35:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (awards counterfactual):
A Bronx Tale → Unforgiven.
Palminteri could have snuck into the 1992 Best Supporting Actor field that Hackman won for Unforgiven.
“So you could argue Chaz could have snuck in there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:37:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (performance comparison):
A Bronx Tale → Stanley & Iris.
Asked if this was De Niro's only normal movie marriage, they cite Stanley and Iris with Jane Fonda as another functional one.
“Stanley and Iris?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:38:27 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
A Bronx Tale:
Nitpicks: the cops are at C's apartment seconds after the murder; 50 witnesses yet the nine-year-old is the star witness; C's mother and the baby sister vanish; why the Satan's Messengers are in the Bronx; who planted the car bomb.
“Who plants the car bomb?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (motif):
A Bronx Tale → The Godfather.
The 'thunderbolt' moment of instant love appears in Michael and Apollonia, in Goodfellas, and in this film's Jane.
“the best ones, Michael Corleone with Apollonia”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:41:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (double feature):
A Bronx Tale → This Boy's Life.
Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in.
“It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
programming (double feature):
A Bronx Tale → Rocco and His Brothers.
A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature.
“Give me some Visconti.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)