Blank Check — Patreon: Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free)

Published 2023-10-01; 3:28:00 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Alex Ross Perry.

Subject films: Fight Club (1999).

On the transcript: Unlabeled speakers; four voices (Griffin, David, Ben, Alex), so most attributions are low-confidence. The transcript is heavily garbled in places and about half the episode is bits, tangents, and ad-read gags.

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unmapped (formative pick): Alex Ross Perry → Fight Club. Perry's last three picks are called the building blocks of his entire personality, Fight Club among them.
“It's a new trilogy of movies that basically are the building blocks of your entire personality.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:06:04 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (shared theme): Jackass → Fight Club. A speaker says the urge Fight Club is getting at reaches its peak form in Jackass.
“I do find like the expression of what this movie is sort of getting at for me reaches its peak form in jackass.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:46:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40 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 (brought the book): Joshua Donen → Fight Club. Donen recorded a reading of the novel and sent it to Fox 2000.
“loves the twist of the book, the iconic twist at the end,”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (champion): Raymond Bongiovanni → Fight Club. A Fox executive's obituary said bringing Fight Club to the screen was his dying wish.
“his his obituary claimed that bringing Fight Club to the screen was his dying wish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:52:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (passed on directing): David O. Russell → Fight Club. Fox first handed the book to David O. Russell, who says he did not understand it.
“David O. Russell says he did not understand the book.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:53:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison (Fincher's own)): The Graduate → Fight Club. Reading the dossier, the speaker says Fincher's big comparison for Fight Club was The Graduate: coming of age, but in your 30s.
“His big comparison, which I do think is very interesting, is he's like, this is the graduate, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:55:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (studio history): Alien 3 → Fight Club. Fincher's bad time at Fox on Alien 3 is why he did not want Fox to have Fight Club.
“he had obviously had a terrible experience with Fox, doing Alien three.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:55:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (Fincher filmography order): Seven → The Game. Alex long believed the order was Seven then Fight Club, not realizing The Game came between.
“I always was like, it must go 7 and then Fight Club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:56:09 · Alex Ross Perry (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Seven → Fight Club. Seven was fucked up in a way entirely different from Fight Club, yet studios treated Fincher as the fucked-up guy.
“it's fucked up in a way that's entirely different from this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:58:26 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
unmapped (generational time capsule): Easy Rider → Fight Club. Alex says a young viewer today would find Fight Club the way he found Easy Rider: he can see what it meant but it does not connect.
“this is like kids watching this now, I think, would be like when I watched Easy Rider.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:02:47 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (declined to write): Buck Henry → Fight Club. Fincher approached Buck Henry to write, who found nothing funny in it.
“but Buck Henry's response was, I don't think there's anything funny about it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:12:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation): Chuck Palahniuk → Fight Club. The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book.
“obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script polish): Andrew Kevin Walker → Fight Club. Walker polished the script, as he did with The Game.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, polish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script polish): Andrew Kevin Walker → The Game. Walker's polish pass on Fight Club is compared to the polish he did on The Game.
“As he did with the game.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (script advice): Cameron Crowe → Fight Club. Fincher asked Crowe about Tyler Durden and was told to make him more unknowable.
“make him more inscrutable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (self-positioning): Edward Norton → Robert De Niro. Norton was positioning himself as the new De Niro in the late 90s.
“positioning himself as like, I'm the new De Niro.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (casting): The People vs. Larry Flynt → Fight Club. Fincher cast Norton off his work in Larry Flynt, which had the same vibe.
“But Fincher casts him in this off of people versus Larry Flynn, which is very much the same vibe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career reclaim): Wes Anderson → Edward Norton. Norton's wilderness period ends when Wes Anderson reclaims him as goofy.
“that he isn't really pulled out of until Wes Anderson reclaims him and is like, you are goofy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (comparison (Fincher's commentary)): Edward Norton → Buster Keaton. On the commentary Fincher keeps comparing Norton's funny-to-watch-get-punched quality to Keaton.
“He kept saying he's like Buster Keaton.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:18:27 · unknown (0.40 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)
theme (mirror image): The Matrix → Fight Club. Norton's cubicle drone is called the mirror image of Keanu's in The Matrix.
“He is the mirror image of Keanu in the Matrix, the same mirror, the, you know, the cubicle guy with the fucking, you know, ill-fitting white shirt”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:31:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (business trade): The Italian Job → Fight Club. Paramount let Norton do Fight Club on condition he do The Italian Job.
“He gets permission to appear in this movie with Italian job as the price,”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:37:50 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (release context): The Matrix → Fight Club. The Matrix got tagged with the Columbine fallout because the two films opened so close together.
“The Matrix has gotten tagged so much with the columbine shit because they were so close together.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:39:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (co-stars): Courtney Love → Edward Norton. Love and Norton had been in Larry Flynt together, feeding a story that Norton wanted her as Marla.
“they had been in people versus Larry Flynn together.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:40:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (casting): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Fincher also passed on Witherspoon for Gone Girl, as he had for Fight Club.
“And then, of course, he fucks her out of gone girl as well.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:42:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (marketing parallel): Eyes Wide Shut → Fight Club. Entertainment Tonight did an exclusive trailer premiere for both Eyes Wide Shut and Fight Club.
“do the exclusive premiere of the trailer, which they also did for Eyes Wide Shut”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:56:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke template): Fight Club → Deadpool 2. A joke that Fight Club is the template Deadpool perfected.
“I walked so that Deadpool could run.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (literary lineage): Douglas Coupland → Fight Club. The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing.
“It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (twist pairing): The Sixth Sense → Fight Club. Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal.
“That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)
people (performance contrast): 12 Monkeys → Fight Club. Pitt in 12 Monkeys now looks like trying too hard compared with his ease in Fight Club.
“I watch that movie, that performance now, and I'm like, he's trying so hard.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:09:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (declined score): Thom Yorke → Fight Club. Yorke was Fincher's first choice to score Fight Club and says he regrets saying no.
“His 1st choice to score this film was Tom York.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:22:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (composer): Dust Brothers → Fight Club. After the first choice declined, Fincher gave the score to the Dust Brothers.
“So instead he throws it to the Dust Brothers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:22:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (composer): David Shire → Zodiac. The Zodiac score is praised among Fincher's early good music.
“Zodiac Score is so good, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (composer): Howard Shore → Panic Room. A speaker loves the Panic Room score by Shore.
“I love the Howard Shore panic room score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (recurring composers): David Fincher → Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. With The Social Network Fincher found composers he would keep using.
“But then like when he gets Rezner and Ross for social network, it's kind of the 1st time he's like, okay, I've found like my composers.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (generational pairing): A Clockwork Orange → Fight Club. Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick.
“This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (misread satire): American Psycho → Fight Club. Both films are satire that fans take at face value.
“If you take this at face value, you are a fool and you are missing the point.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:44:58 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (thematic echo): Feels Good Man → Fight Club. A documentary on Pepe the Frog is cited for how online nihilism turned political.
“Feels good, man, which I think is an excellent documentary about the whole weird life cycle of Pepe the Frog,”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:53:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (generational pairing): Slacker → Fight Club. Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film.
“either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Bonnie and Clyde → Fight Club. Fight Club was not the first film of its decade the way Bonnie and Clyde was for the 70s.
“It's not like, oh, funny and Clyde, 1st movie of the 70s.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:58:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (friendship): Fred Durst → David Fincher. Durst is described as a close friend of Fincher.
“Now, Fred Durst, famously close friends with David Fincher.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:01:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (27)

fun, about Fight Club DVD: The Fox executive's quote about the brown-paper-bag DVD packaging, and the room's reaction.
“Julie Markel, 20th Century Fox's senior vice president of Creative Development said the DVD packaging complemented Fincher's vision.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:14:15 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club DVD: Entertainment Weekly's 2001 essential-DVD cover story put Fight Club at number one.
“but they put their fight club at number one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:16:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club DVD: The shot of Norton flapping his arms in front of the car is in every Fox Power of DVD pre-roll.
“that was in like every fox power of DVD pre-roll.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:34:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Raymond Bongiovanni: A Fox executive's obituary named Fight Club as his dying wish.
“his his obituary claimed that bringing Fight Club to the screen was his dying wish.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:52:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: How Fincher's agent pitched the book so he would read it in one night.
“there's a guy in it who pisses in soup and splices porn into family films.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:54:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club DVD: When Deadpool 2 came out Fox reissued old titles with Deadpool on the cover, including Fight Club holding the soap.
“there's an additional Fight Club you can buy that is Deadpool holding up the soap.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jim Uhls: Fincher's chair metaphor for Uhls's script and his own polish.
“Jimmy's made an amazing chair and I came in and I sanded some of the edges and put the little things that protect the floor on the bottom.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: The three detectives are named for the polish writer Andrew Kevin Walker, split across scenes.
“The 3 detectives in this movie are named Detective Andrew, Detective Kevin Deveca Walker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Cameron Crowe: Crowe's advice on how to write Tyler Durden.
“make him more inscrutable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:15 · unknown (0.40 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 (episode): The no-ads gag: the sponsor fake-out.
“Our sponsor for this week's episode is fuck you.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:33:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Edward Norton: The Pitt and Norton handshake deal on weight: Norton lived on vitamins for six months.
“Norton was like, I basically was on a diet of vitamins for 6 months.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:36:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Edward Norton: Norton got permission to do Fight Club by agreeing to The Italian Job, which he then complained about on the press tour.
“He gets permission to appear in this movie with Italian job as the price,”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:37:50 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: Fox gave Fincher about $750,000 and six more weeks, which also moved the release to fall.
“they gave him like $750,000, another 6 weeks to refine it and push it back because of that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:39:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Courtney Love: Love's version of why she was not cast: Pitt wanted her Kurt Cobain life rights.
“She says that it's because Pitt wanted their life rights to Kurt Cobain and she wouldn't give them.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:41:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Alex's take that Fincher built his own perfectionist myth.
“I just think he created this myth of himself, rather than it being kind of created despite himself.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:50:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: In China the release added a tacked-on text ending where the police stop everything.
“It ends with a note to viewers that says, through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals successfully preventing the bomb from exploding.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:01:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Meat Loaf: Meat Loaf was trying to start a second act as a pure character actor.
“This was when he was really trying to like start a 2nd act as like a pure character actor and not as like kind of a gimmicky cameo guy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:15:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: Timing the Dust Brothers-adjacent song MMMBop to the car crash scene.
“If you actually, if you time Mbop with that scene in Fight Club, it works out perfectly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:23:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Dust Brothers: Fincher's brief to the Dust Brothers for the score.
“David said he wanted music that sounded like it was from white guys who thought they were funky but really weren't.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:23:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: The key father-talk scene was reshot on a playground under a rusty swing after Fincher thought it sucked.
“They shot that scene on like a children's playground underneath like a rusty swing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:32:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Alex Ross Perry: He kept a 7-foot Blockbuster cardboard display and a four-panel window poster in his basement.
“I got the 7 foot tall cardboard display from Blockbuster, 4 fight club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:59:37 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club video game: The final unlockable character in the fighting game is Fred Durst, via his music-licensing contract.
“The ultimate unlocked character in the game is Fred Durst.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:01:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: At the Venice premiere the film was booed while Pitt grinned.
“Brad Pitt turns to him with like a huge smile on his face being like, this is the best movie I've ever been in.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:08:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Paul Thomas Anderson: PTA's famous attack on the film after his father died of cancer.
“I wish David Fincher testicular cancer for all his jokes about it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:10:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Twenty years later Fincher on that attack.
“My dad probably liked Fight Club less than Paul did, which I think is a funny line.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:10:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Fincher on his daughter at nine meeting a fan of the film.
“I took her aside and said, you are no longer to hang out with Max.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:11:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Alex Ross Perry (guest): Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first.
Griffin Newman (host): Is a movie-tie-in collector who grew up in Britain, did not see Fight Club until later, and was never the target of it. Loves a deep tie-in and a rights-clearing bit. Thinks the film is fine but not his formative one.
David Sims (host): Loves the film's ending and admires the look; finds the last hour tiring and the philosophy trite on rewatch. Loves Limp Bizkit without irony, worked in video stores, and defends Fincher's craft.
Ben Hosley (host): The producer in the room. A true believer who rewatched the film hundreds of times, shoplifted the DVD as a kid, loved the vandalism over the fighting, and prefers the Chemical Brothers to the Dust Brothers. Gets drawn into the anarchy bit.

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Palanuk / Polonik / Ponuk / Palinek → Chuck Palahniuk
Jim Yule / Yules / Mules → Jim Uhls
Joshua Donan / Stanley Donan → Joshua Donen / Stanley Donen
Raymond Bon Giovanni → Raymond Bongiovanni
Helena Bottom Carner / Bottom Carter / Bottom Card → Helena Bonham Carter
Holt McAlainey → Holt McCallany
Jonathan Price / Bryce → Jonathan Pryce
Tom York → Thom Yorke
Rezner and Ross → Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
David Shires → David Shire
Don King (self-corrected) → John King of the Dust Brothers
Strader / Trader → Paul Schrader
Milo Schwarman / Foreman → Milos Forman
Ryan Johnson → Rian Johnson
Jared Later → Jared Leto; Jyllen Holland -> Jake Gyllenhaal
Olympiscuit / Limp Biscuit → Limp Bizkit; Fort Chan -> 4chan; Immortal Kombat -> Mortal Kombat
Chuck Closerman → Chuck Klosterman; Brian Rafferty -> Brian Raftery (guess)
Julie Markel → Julie Markell (spelling uncertain)
Roma, Mafia → Roma Maffia; Beth Gish -> Annabeth Gish; Spencer Tree, Clark -> Spencer Treat Clark
Aaron Brockovich → Erin Brockovich; Sixth cents -> The Sixth Sense; Wizard Boss -> The Wizard of Oz
Terry Gillium → Terry Gilliam; Intensions -> Cruel Intentions; California -> Kalifornia
Lord Miller → Phil Lord and Christopher Miller; funny and Clyde -> Bonnie and Clyde; last stool -> The Last Duel
the opening 'Blackjack' → Blank Check; Flight Club / Bike Club -> Fight Club; Million 3 -> Alien 3
real.com → reel.com (the DVD-selling site)

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