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career (career):
Diane Keaton → Father of the Bride.
Keaton is in her 1990s comedy zone here, as in Father of the Bride and First Wives Club.
“is doing in like father of the bride and um, uh, 1st wives club and whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:30:33 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Britt Leach → Father of the Bride.
Gary's dad actor is the grocery store manager in Father of the Bride and in The Great Outdoors.
“He's in, he has a scene in Father of the Bride when George Banks crashes out, as they say, at the hot dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:18:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The War of the Roses → Father of the Bride.
Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house.
“This is not even a top 20 movie house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Nancy Meyers → Father of the Bride.
Nancy Meyers is the goat of picking houses; Father of the Bride is the best to live in of all her houses.
“she was the goat of picking house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (remake):
Father of the Bride → Father of the Bride.
The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time.
“there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (remake-distance analogy):
Father of the Bride → Blade Runner.
A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on.
“think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (dad-persona precursor):
Father of the Bride → Parenthood.
Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it.
“he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
contrast (tonal opposite):
Father of the Bride → Rachel Getting Married.
Rachel Getting Married is the dysfunctional, intense wedding movie; Father of the Bride is the gentle one where everyone ends up loving each other.
“the bizarre version of this is Rachel's getting married.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:09:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
people (dad performance):
Father of the Bride → Rachel Getting Married.
The dad in Rachel Getting Married, and the kitchen meltdown scene, is amazing but intense in the opposite way.
“the dad is amazing in that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
unmapped (earlier edgier Martin):
Father of the Bride → Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Three Amigos show a Martin edgier than the dad persona, like discovering your dad was cool in his 20s.
“you go back and you see 3 of me, it goes, and you see dirty rotten scoundrels.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:14:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (creative lineage):
Father of the Bride → Baby Boom.
Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in.
“I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Baby Boom → Father of the Bride.
The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride.
“Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
theme (recurring motif):
Father of the Bride → It's Complicated.
Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated.
“Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
people (same writer-director):
Father of the Bride → The Parent Trap.
Meyers directed Parent Trap after the split with Shyer; Dobbins calls it weirdly important and Lohan's double role one of the great kid performances.
“It's one of the great kid actor performances ever.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:23:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (remake-distance analogy):
Father of the Bride → Risky Business.
Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake.
“if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Father of the Bride:
The film's catchphrase-adjacent scene: the dad's opening monologue to camera. Dobbins hates talking to camera as a device but says it works here because the monologue is excellent, and it sets up voiceover narration that lets George say what he cannot say to the family.
“It works in this one because the monologue's really good and he's really good in it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
unmapped (narration that works):
Father of the Bride → Goodfellas.
Narration is usually a crutch, but it works in Goodfellas and here because the monologue is good and the narration lets George say what he cannot say.
“Narration is usually a crutch and you really, like Goodfellas is a good example of like, narration totally worked.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Father of the Bride:
Steve Martin's dinner list of consolations: Paul Simon tickets at the Forum, a Lakers game, and 'independent communications consultant' as code for unemployed. Dobbins used the line on her in-laws.
“Independent communications consultant is still...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:33:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them) -
people (actor follow-up):
Father of the Bride → Indian Summer (Big Show ripoff, per speaker).
Kimberly Williams's next notable role was Indian Summer, a Big Show ripoff, and she never broke out.
“she was in Indian summer, which was one of the many terrible big show ripoffs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:40 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them) -
unmapped (basketball scene scale):
Father of the Bride → Teen Wolf.
Teen Wolf has the worst basketball scene ever; Father of the Bride's father-daughter scene rates about an eight against its one.
“The worst, the worst basketball scene ever in a movie is in Teen Wolf.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:42:02 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them) -
lineage (physical comedy callback):
Parenthood → Father of the Bride.
Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself.
“Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (sequel):
Father of the Bride → Father of the Bride Part II.
Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget.
“I'm okay with Father of the Bride too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them) -
lineage (pandemic sequel):
Father of the Bride → Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion).
The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic.
“The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
unmapped (built around star):
Father of the Bride → Steve Martin.
Martin was cast before the screenplay was written; the movie was built around him.
“Steve Martin cast before they wrote the screenplay.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:35 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
what-if (casting what-if):
Phoebe Cates → Father of the Bride.
Cates was offered Annie Banks but turned it down because she was pregnant.
“Phoebe Cates. Offered the role of Annie Banks. had to turn it down because she was pregnant.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:56 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
what-if (casting what-if):
George Clooney → Father of the Bride.
Recasting Brian with 1991 Facts of Life-era Clooney would have made him more of a threat and pulled the focus.
“I'm thinking Moet, Facts of Life, George Clooney, where it's like, he's still boyish.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:59:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
career (career pivot):
Father of the Bride → Steve Martin.
The film cements Martin's shift from wild-and-crazy comic to America's dad and starts mainstream Steve Martin (Oscars host, etc.).
“I don't think he like hosts the Oscars or does any of his sort of just kind of America's dad stuff without this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:01:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (tonal opposite):
Father of the Bride → Rachel Getting Married.
Apex pick: Father of the Bride is the happy wedding movie, not the one with complete dysfunction.
“not Rachel's getting married where it's just complete dysfunction and people fucking in the basement.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
people (wedding movie exclusion / actor redemption):
Father of the Bride → The Godfather.
Simmons does not count The Godfather as a wedding movie, and says Keaton's performance here makes up for Kay Corleone.
“I don't count the godfather as a wedding movie, even though the wedding is important.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:21 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre influence):
Father of the Bride → Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Father of the Bride starts the 90s wedding-movie explosion that includes Four Weddings, Wedding Planner and Wedding Singer.
“This like really starts the 90s explosion of everything from 4 weddings and a funeral to wedding planner and wedding singer and you name it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (shared wedding-movie trope):
Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding.
Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life.
“By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (revival analogy):
Father of the Bride → Sex and the City.
Dobbins would watch a Father of the Bride series even if it betrays the original, like she watches the Sex and the City revival.
“there's a new Sex in the City remake episode to watch, you know, even though it's like one of, it's, it's not really working”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:15:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (best-Martin-movie rival):
The Jerk → Father of the Bride.
The Jerk would have been the pick for a while but has not got the legs.
“I think the jerk would have been there for a while, but I just don't think it's gotten the legs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (best-Martin-movie rival):
Roxanne → Father of the Bride.
Roxanne was a massive movie that people feared he could not pull off, but this is still his best.
“Roxanne was a massive movie. And was a movie that people were not were worried that he was going to pull it off and they did, and it's really good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
verdict (best-Martin-movie rival):
Parenthood → Father of the Bride.
Some would pick Parenthood as his best because it tried this type of movie first and spun off into a TV show.
“Some people might say parenthood actually, because it's the 1st type of movie that tried to do the stuff they did.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:51 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
unmapped (ending alternative):
Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding.
A last-minute run back for a hug would echo My Best Friend's Wedding and The Graduate.
“It's like sort of like a reverse to the graduate. Or my best friend's wedding when he pops up at the end”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:23:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)