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  1. programming (pairing): The Game → The Player. Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design.
    “In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): The Player → The Larry Sanders Show. Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): The Player → Singin' in the Rain. Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): The Player → Wayne's World. Wesley pairs the two 1992 releases as opposite poles of fourth-wall-breaking commentary on the thing you are watching.
    “this is the same year that Wayne's world came out.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:48 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): The Player → Short Cuts. The Player put Altman back among world-class directors: a best director nomination here and another the next year for Short Cuts.
    “he gets nominated for best director here and then gets nominated the following year for his next film, Shortcuts”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:09:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): The Player → Nashville. Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (verdict): The Player → The Bonfire of the Vanities. The quoted review calls The Player the movie Bonfire of the Vanities wanted to be, and the hosts agree; Wesley followed the Bonfire saga before seeing it.
    “The bonfire of the vanities wanted to be.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:32:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): The Player → Touch of Evil. The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): The Player → Freaks. Wesley notes Griffin knows his movies, citing him talking Freaks with Lyle Lovett's detective.
    “he's like conversant in freaks enough to like, you know, talk to Freaky Lyle Lovett.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:37:01 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): The Player → The Larry Sanders Show. Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors.
    “So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): The Player → Bicycle Thieves. Griffin and the screenwriter end up at a screening of Bicycle Thieves, where the murder is set up.
    “Griffin Huntsdown, Vincent DiNaprio's character at the old movie theater, um, bicycle thieves”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:44:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): The Player → Pretty Woman. The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag.
    “How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Player: The throwaway Pasadena line is called iconic.
    “Come to think of it, Pasadena is as good a place to die as anywhere is just iconic.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Player: Every time Griffin Mill enters a bar, restaurant or party he is served a different brand of bottled water.
    “every time Griffin Mill enters a bar restaurant or party, he orders or is served a different brand of bottled water.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): The Player → Alfred Hitchcock. Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (contrast): The Player → Presumed Innocent. Bill finds Greta Scacchi much more compelling in Presumed Innocent than in The Player.
    “The player, I don't think she's that good in the player.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (lineage): The Player → The Long Goodbye. Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. theme (theme): Greta Scacchi → The Player. Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists.
    “But that character is soon going to be like in movies.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. what-if (what-if): Chevy Chase → The Player. Chevy Chase wanted the Griffin Mill part but Warner Brothers said no.
    “Chevy Chase wanted to play Griffin Mill.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  20. what-if (what-if): Robert De Niro → The Player. Bill proposes De Niro in the Fred Ward part, overqualified, as the right-era move after Goodfellas and Cape Fear.
    “Could he have just played the Fred Ward part for like 4 scenes.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:19:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  21. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Jason Lee → The Player. Bill says the Bonnie part, instead of Cynthia Stevenson, has Jennifer Jason Lee written all over it; the others disagree.
    “it just has Jennifer Jason Lee crying all over it.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:19:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. people (people): The Player → Presumed Innocent. Bill's memory of falling for Greta Scacchi in Presumed Innocent frames why he finds her Player character underwritten; Scacchi refused nudity after Presumed Innocent.
    “Skocky's like, I fucking went to town on Harrison Ford and presumed innocent.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. theme (theme): The Player → Jean-Luc Godard. Wesley says withholding the nudity you paid to see is a Godardian frustration of the male gaze.
    “it's very Godartian, that, that kind of frustration of the, of, I mean, let's just go there for 12nd.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:24:23 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  24. lineage (lineage): The Player → Network. In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic.
    “But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. craft (craft): The Player → Brian De Palma. The through-the-window phone call scene is called an Altman dunk on De Palma.
    “It's it's like, it's a, it's a total dunk on diploma.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:33:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about The Player: Nitpick: the LA Times has suspects and evidence of the Kahane murder by morning, only hours later; Even Tokyo Vice does not work that fast.
    “Even Tokyo Vice doesn't work this fast.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:34:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. contrast (contrast): The Player → Super Pumped. Bill jokes a ten-episode Netflix Player would be Super Pumped; the others say the mystery element makes binging work.
    “But isn't this just called super pumped.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:37:49 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. people (self-aware cameo): Bruce Willis → The Player. He played himself in The Player 30 years before Ocean's 12.
    “he did the same thing 30 years before that in the player.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)