Blank Check — Patreon: The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free)

Published 2022-08-14; 1:44:03 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley (producer, in the room). Guests: Patton Oswalt.

Subject films: The Killing (1956).

On the transcript: The transcript has no speaker labels and several lines run speakers together, so Griffin and David are often hard to tell apart. The first 90 seconds are a film clip and cold open mangled by the transcriber.

Films that came up

subject (1)

The Killing

passing (50)

Ed Wood films (Tor Johnson) · Ratatouille · I Love My Dad · Clean Break (novel) · The Evil Dead · Following · I Wake Up Screaming · Kiss of Death · Johnny Guitar · Top Gun · Eyes Wide Shut · Dr. Strangelove · The Shining · The New World · Blue Valentine · The Godfather · East of Eden · Minnie and Moskowitz · Head · Chock Treatment (as transcribed) · Chesty Anderson, USN · Francis the Talking Mule movies · The Maltese Falcon · Ocean's 8 · The Devil's Brigade · Blazing Saddles · Bonnie and Clyde · Medium Cool · Paint Your Wagon · Friendly Persuasion · La Strada · The Ladykillers · The Bold and the Brave · Dances with Wolves · Raising Arizona · Blue Collar · Punch-Drunk Love · Big Daddy · White Heat · Lust for Life · Baby Doll · Written on the Wind · Men (2022) · Night of the Living Dead · The Candidate · Vertigo · Psycho · Disney nature documentary shorts · The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit · Silver Screen Fiend (book)

anecdote (15)

Bed of Fear (working title) · Deathbed: The Bed That Eats · The Killer Inside Me (1976) · The Killer Inside Me (2010) · Dirty Harry (as Dead Right) · Die Hard · The Detective · Tweets, Ladies of Pasadena (TV) · The Godfather Part II · D.C. Cab · The Red Balloon · Goodfellas · Modern Romance · The Jerk · Laverne & Shirley (TV)

compared (19)

Fear and Desire · Killer's Kiss · Paths of Glory · Crime Wave · Marty · Day of the Fight · Charley Varrick · The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) · The Taking of Pelham 123 (Tony Scott remake) · Magnolia · Network · Taxi Driver · Bandido · The Dark Knight · A Simple Plan · The Searchers · Bhowani Junction · The 7 Wonders of the World · Oklahoma!

recommended (2)

Murder by Contract · Anything for Jackson

dismissed (5)

Around the World in 80 Days · The King and I · The Ten Commandments · Giant · The Man Who Knew Too Much

Claims (56)

  1. unmapped (look-alike): Kola Kwariani → Ed Wood films (Tor Johnson). The bald wrestler is likened to Tor Johnson in Ed Wood's films.
    “I also think of the Ed Wood guy with Tor Johnson, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:01:19 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation): Clean Break (novel) → The Killing. The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break.
    “Clean Break was the name of the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (title bit): The Killing → Deathbed: The Bed That Eats. Bed of Fear leads to Patton's Deathbed riff and the title debate.
    “one of my favorite routines of yours of all time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (title): The Killing → Evil Dead. The Killing as a title is like The Evil Dead; obvious words on a poster.
    “what we talked about with the evil dead”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (drew on his chess life): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (first real film): Fear and Desire → The Killing. Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects.
    “this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (does not disown early work): Christopher Nolan → Following. Nolan, unlike Kubrick, does not disown his rough-draft first feature.
    “Christopher Nolan doesn't disown following”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:10:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (introduction): Alexander Singer → Stanley Kubrick. Singer introduced Harris to Kubrick.
    “Alexander Singer is a guy he knows who introduces him to Stanley Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (source novel): The Killer Inside Me → Jim Thompson. Kubrick had loved Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, which is why he brought him the Clean Break book.
    “Kubrick, I guess, had loved um, the killer inside me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. people (shared writer): Jim Thompson → Paths of Glory. Thompson also wrote Paths of Glory and is a big early Kubrick guy.
    “Jim Thompson writes paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:12:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (two adaptations): The Killer Inside Me → The Killer Inside Me. The Thompson novel has two film versions, the Stacy Keach and the Casey Affleck.
    “There's the Stacy Keach version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:12:39 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. what-if (what-if casting): Frank Sinatra → The Killing. Sinatra was negotiating for the book rights, so this was almost a Sinatra picture.
    “So this was almost a Sinatra picture.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:13:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. what-if (what-if casting): Frank Sinatra → Dirty Harry (as Dead Right). Dirty Harry was offered to Sinatra as Dead Right with him as Harry Callahan.
    “They did offer Dirty Harry to Sinatra when it was called Dead Right.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:14:18 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (legal sequel): The Detective → Die Hard. Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him.
    “something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  15. people (shared cast): The Killing → Crime Wave. Hayden and Carey both appear in Crime Wave and The Killing.
    “he's in crime wave, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (set the template): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. industry (studio comparison): The Killing → Marty. United Artists compared the film to Marty as a low-budget A picture.
    “United Artists sort of compares it to Marty”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:18:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. craft (documentary style): The Killing → Day of the Fight. The racetrack footage reminds the speaker of Day of the Fight and Kubrick's Look magazine work.
    “It reminds me of, you know, a lot of Kubrick stuff like Day of the Fight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:19:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. craft (documentary style): The Killing → Fear and Desire. The Killing's documentary feel recalls Fear and Desire and Kubrick's earlier work.
    “Fear and desire feels very documentary-esque.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (trajectory): The Killing → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut.
    “by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. people (collaboration conflict): Stanley Kubrick → Lucien Ballard. Kubrick and Ballard fought over lenses and the racetrack footage; Kubrick won the wide lens fight.
    “so much of the stuff from the set of this movie is him fighting with Lucien Ballard over lens sizes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. people (actors walking out): Harvey Keitel → Christopher Plummer. Keitel's Eyes Wide Shut walkout is paired with Plummer's rant about Malick.
    “it's like that incredible clip of Christopher Plummer talking about working with Malik on the new world”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. people (method vs auteur): Daniel Day-Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Patton sets nice Day-Lewis against Kubrick as the two examples people over-imitate.
    “Kubrick and Daniel De Lewis loom too large as those 2 examples.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Klaus Kinski. Carey is called the American Klaus Kinski.
    “But American Klaus Kinsky, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. people (shared actor): Sterling Hayden → The Godfather. The speakers cite how Coppola uses Hayden in The Godfather.
    “how Coppola uses Sterling Hayden”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. what-if (what-if casting): Timothy Carey → Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola wanted Carey for Luca Brasi in The Godfather.
    “He wanted Timothy Carey to play Luca Brasi in The Godfather”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Cage. Cage is offered as a comparison for Carey's expressionistic acting.
    “But Cage is a good comparison too”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:43 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  28. people (shared actor): Timothy Carey → Paths of Glory. Carey was crazy on Paths of Glory too and Kubrick eventually fired him.
    “he was crazy when they made paths of glory as well, and eventually Kubrick fired him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  29. people (typecasting): Elisha Cook Jr. → The Maltese Falcon. Since The Maltese Falcon Cook played psychos; here he is sad and pathetic.
    “Like post-maltese falcon, he would play psychos, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:37:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. theme (comparison): Marie Windsor → Illeana Douglas. Windsor is called an early Illeana Douglas.
    “it's like an early Iliana Douglas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:37:44 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)
  31. craft (tone comparison): Marie Windsor → Safdie Brothers. The Windsor and Cook marriage scenes are like the Safdies adapting the Lockhorns.
    “if the Softy Brothers adapted the Lockhorns comic into a movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:37:58 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (same dream): The Killing → Charley Varrick. Johnny Clay wants to vanish and live quietly on the money, like Matthau in Charley Varrick, though Matthau seems to want a nap.
    “He has the same dreams as like as Walter Mathow and Charlie Varick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · Patton Oswalt (0.45 sure it was them)
  33. lineage (remake): The Taking of Pelham 123 → The Taking of Pelham 123 (Tony Scott remake). Patton's contrast: the remake needs Denzel Washington, the original has Matthau eating a stale hot dog.
    “you look at the Tony Scott remake, and the guy has to be Denzel Washington”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:42:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Magnolia. The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia.
    “it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Network. The narrator's too-slick, removed vibe recalls the narrator in Network.
    “I forget who does the narration in network, but he has that same sort of vibe”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:47:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. lineage (influence): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver.
    “very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  37. people (shared actor): Vince Edwards → Murder by Contract. Val Cannon's actor Vince Edwards also led Murder by Contract.
    “very well-known for murder by contract”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (scene resemblance): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle.
    “that's all Travis Bickle”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (modern noir): The Killing → Taxi Driver. Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs.
    “this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (expectation): Kola Kwariani → Blazing Saddles. On paper the wrestler's monologues should go like Mongo in Blazing Saddles, but he nails it.
    “You imagine it will come off like blazing saddles with like Mongo”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:01:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (led to): The Killing → Paths of Glory. Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (double bill): The Killing → Bandido. UA released The Killing on a double bill with Bandido.
    “they put it on a double bill with Bandido”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. contrast (awards-year contrast): The Killing → Giant. The Killing's little low-budget kind stands against the bloated epics (Giant, King and I, Ten Commandments) of the era.
    “all the great movies from this era are these little low budget”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:08:38 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. unmapped (early reader): Michael Powell → Goodfellas. Powell read the Goodfellas script and wrote Scorsese a letter praising it.
    “he sent the script to Michael Powell of Powell and Pressberger to get his thoughts”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (documentary realism): Goodfellas → The Killing. Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick.
    “directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. unmapped (admired): Albert Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wanted Brooks's notes on Modern Romance, which captured jealousy.
    “I need you Albert Brooks to give me Stanley Kubrick notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. unmapped (admired): Steve Martin → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wrote Steve Martin asking for notes on The Jerk.
    “Kubrick was like sending letters to Steve Martin about the jerk”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:49 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. unmapped (cruel humor): Coen Brothers → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's humor and the Coens' are both cruel to their characters.
    “they are very cruel to their protagonists in their films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:17:26 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. unmapped (comic playing the problem): Punch-Drunk Love → Blue Collar. Pryor in Blue Collar and Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love play what's wrong rather than the hero.
    “Even early Richard Pryor was in Blue Collar, was so good at playing what the problem was rather than the hero.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:18:09 · Patton Oswalt (0.45 sure it was them)
  50. theme (same character): Punch-Drunk Love → Big Daddy. The McDonald's scene in Big Daddy is not far from Punch-Drunk Love freak-outs.
    “Is not that far from like Punch Drug Club, like from his weird little freak outs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:19:45 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  51. unmapped (professional-first filmmakers): Night of the Living Dead → Anything for Jackson. The Anything for Jackson makers, like Romero, were working filmmakers who then made a genre film.
    “it's the same George Romero thing of, I'm just an industrial filmmaker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. lineage (homage): The Killing → The Dark Knight. The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight.
    “Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  53. people (possible cameo): Rodney Dangerfield → The Killing. IMDb lists Dangerfield as an uncredited onlooker; the speakers doubt it.
    “He is currently on IMDb.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:54 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  54. unmapped (heist gone wrong): The Killing → A Simple Plan. Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan.
    “Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. industry (box office week): The Killing → The Searchers. The Searchers topped the box office the week of release, a hit with a Dell comics tie-in.
    “it was a big hit and it like had like a Dell comics tie in”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:31:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  56. craft (bloated musical): Oklahoma! → Bob Fosse. Oklahoma! stands for the bloated Hollywood musical the Fosse generation rebelled against.
    “the stuff that Fosse was rebelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:34:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

  1. fun, about The Killing: A working title for the film was Bed of Fear, which sets Patton off on his Deathbed routine.
    “But one of the titles, one of the working titles that apparently was close to happening for this movie, I don't know if you know this, was bed of fear.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Deathbed: The Bed That Eats: Patton's bit is awe that someone finished a movie about a bed that eats people while his own projects die.
    “That one made it all the way through.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:06:41 · Patton Oswalt (0.75 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Die Hard: Sinatra's Detective rights gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Fox had to offer Die Hard to him first; the speaker pictures the call.
    “I just like imagining whoever the Fox exec was who was like, hey, Frank, I'm just calling so you can tell me to fuck off.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:15:04 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about The Killing: The racetrack documentary footage was shot behind cinematographer Ballard's back.
    “He went behind his back.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:19:53 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Lucien Ballard: Kubrick's ultimatum over the 25mm lens: move the camera or leave the set; silence, then Ballard moved it.
    “you either move that camera and put it where it has to be to use a 25 millimeter or you get off the set and you never come back”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:22:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Harvey Keitel: Keitel supposedly told Kubrick to go fuck himself on Eyes Wide Shut after 27 takes of walking through a door.
    “Kubrick made him walk through a door 27 times”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:20 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Timothy Carey: Carey reportedly showed up to a Godfather Part II meeting with a bakery box holding a blank-filled gun and shot it at the ceiling.
    “I brought cannoli for everybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:32:55 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Timothy Carey: His post-credits bit in D.C. Cab: he gets in a cab and says he's the angel of death and to take him to hell.
    “I'm the angel of death.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Timothy Carey: His performance clenches the jaw like a living corpse; the speakers love how strange and huge he is on screen.
    “I'm already dead, and I'm going to play this with a rictus because I'm going to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Timothy Carey: His image from The Killing turns up on the Sgt. Pepper outtake photos behind George Harrison, though the speaker concedes it may not be the final cover.
    “Sag had no cause projection, but apparently he's also in his image from the killing is on the Sergeant Pepper cover behind George Harrison.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about The Taking of Pelham 123: Why Matthau works: the original's one man who can handle it is hung over, ill-fitting suit, stale hot dog.
    “he's hung over in an ill-fitting suit eating a stale hot dog”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:42:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Sterling Hayden: Stated line on his character: not smart enough to pull it off, too smart to be happy if he did.
    “he's he's not smart enough to pull off a con of this size, but he's too smart to ever be happy if he were to pull it off”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:43:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Killing: In the airport scene the baggage staff are the only two people in the film who don't know it's a noir.
    “those 2 actors are the only 2 people in this entire film who don't know they're in an AWAR film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:50:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Killing: Audiences hated the studio-demanded chronological cut even more, so the jumbled timeline went back in.
    “They test screen it and the audiences hate it even more when it's in the right order.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:52:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Kola Kwariani (Nick the Wrestler): A former wrestler Kubrick met through chess circles, he died at 77 after fighting five teenagers outside his chess club.
    “He was 76 years old and he was leaving his regular chess club where he played and he was jumped by 5 teenagers”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:01:40 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about The Killing: UA's Max Youngstein ranked Kubrick and Harris 'not far from the bottom' of their producer-filmmaker teams.
    “And Max said, not far from the bottom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about The Killing: Time predicted it would 'make a killing at the cash booth'; Wikipedia's next line is a loss of $130,000.
    “going to make a killing at the cash booth”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:06:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about The Red Balloon: In 1956 a 35-minute short won best original screenplay over The Ladykillers and La Strada.
    “The red balloon winning best screenplay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:10:53 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Goodfellas: Powell's letter to Scorsese: a stunning script, a wonderful film and a priceless social document.
    “dear Marty, it is a stunning script and we'll make a wonderful film and a priceless social document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Goodfellas: The wig-shop commercial in Goodfellas was shot and cut by the real wig shop owner.
    “That is shot, that footage was shot and cut by the guy who owned that wig shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:15:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about The Killing: The clown mask that Johnny puts on looks basically the same as the Joker one, and Griffin loves that it also looks foolish.
    “Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Rodney Dangerfield: Frame freeze in the fight scene: a man looks like Rodney Dangerfield, IMDb lists him uncredited, the speakers doubt it but want it to be him.
    “I would love it to be Rodney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about The Killing: Ben texts that if he were in a heist movie where people fuck it up, he would have pulled it off and ended on a tropical island.
    “Anytime Ben watches a heist movie in which people fuck it up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about The Searchers: It was a big hit in 1956 with a Dell comics adaptation.
    “kids were fucking buying the comic adaptation of the searchers, this movie about loneliness.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:31:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Timothy Carey: He was cast as Squiggy's dad on Laverne & Shirley and fired the first day for his philosophy of immediate flatulence.
    “Timothy Carey was originally cast on Laverne and Shirley as Squiggy's dad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:37:33 · Patton Oswalt (0.80 sure it was them)

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