Monkeybone (2001)

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Wikidata Q1191928, film, IMDb tt0166276, TMDB 23685: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Came from

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No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Brendan Fraser: 2 lines career ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (makeup detail): Brendan Fraser → Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's end sequence Fraser is styled to look more monkey-like while fighting Chris Kattan holding balloon strings.
    “they start styling Frasier to look more like a monkey.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:14:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Wendell and Wild: 2 lines unmapped ×1 verdict ×1

  1. unmapped (protagonist note): Monkeybone → Wendell and Wild. Selick's pattern is to choose an adult / unconventional lead (retired pitchmen, a middle-aged nun) until a producer pushes for the kid.
    “Anyway, with monkey bone, I wanted every character to be a 60s, you know, retired pitch man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:02:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bill Mechanic: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (absent protector): Bill Mechanic → Monkeybone. Mechanic, who shielded Selick, was gone by Monkeybone, so it was chaos.
    “He had Bill Mechanic and the Bill Mechanic was gone.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:03:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Henry Selick: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Henry Selick → Monkeybone. Selick's blank check Monkeybone is the feature closest to his experimental shorts.
    “Monkey Bone, which is his biggest, like, blank check or whatever, is the one that's most like those short films”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:18:23 · Michael Rianda (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (comeback context): Monkeybone → Brendan Fraser. Monkeybone is the film being skipped in the Brendan Fraser comeback conversation.
    “It truly feels like the one that is being skipped.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 0:04:59 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Henry Selick → Monkeybone. Selick's blank check Monkeybone is the feature closest to his experimental shorts.
    “Monkey Bone, which is his biggest, like, blank check or whatever, is the one that's most like those short films”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:18:23 · Michael Rianda (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (90s aesthetic): Monkeybone → Monkeybone. Monkeybone is steeped in 90s swing revival, Smash Mouth and chain wallets.
    “Yeah, and it's chain wallets.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:13:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (protagonist note): Monkeybone → Wendell and Wild. Selick's pattern is to choose an adult / unconventional lead (retired pitchmen, a middle-aged nun) until a producer pushes for the kid.
    “Anyway, with monkey bone, I wanted every character to be a 60s, you know, retired pitch man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:02:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (absent protector): Bill Mechanic → Monkeybone. Mechanic, who shielded Selick, was gone by Monkeybone, so it was chaos.
    “He had Bill Mechanic and the Bill Mechanic was gone.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 1:03:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (makeup detail): Brendan Fraser → Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's end sequence Fraser is styled to look more monkey-like while fighting Chris Kattan holding balloon strings.
    “they start styling Frasier to look more like a monkey.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:14:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (ranking): Wendell and Wild → Monkeybone. Wendell & Wild is 4th and Monkeybone 5th in both hosts' Selick rankings.
    “Wendell Waldus 4th, monkey bonus 5th.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:11:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Monkeybone: Bit about Monkeybone's final sequence: it looks like rear projection, and Brendan Fraser is made up more monkeylike with a unibrow, bigger teeth and organs falling out.
    “It looks like deliberately artificially like they're just in front of a screen kind of shit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:14:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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