Donnie Darko (2001)

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El Mariachi: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): El Mariachi ⇒ Donnie Darko (the host's read). The 90s indie boom of low-budget hits like sex, lies and El Mariachi made Darko-type bets possible.
    “Thanks to a series of low budget hits, like sex lies and videotape and El Mariachi.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:27:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Led to

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

Zodiac: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. people (casting): Donnie Darko ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read). Fincher liked Donnie Darko and had Gyllenhaal pegged for a while.
    “unsurprisingly, Fincher liked Donny Darko”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Bring It On: 7 lines contrast ×4 theme ×2 verdict ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart.
    “Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Jake Gyllenhaal: 2 lines career ×1 contrast ×1

  1. career (career): Jake Gyllenhaal → Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal, a former child actor, signed on wanting an anti-teen movie.
    “He was interested in making what he called an anti-teen movie.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:14 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Richard Kelly: 2 lines career ×1 theme ×1

  1. career (career): Richard Kelly → Donnie Darko. Kelly was a young film grad who had never made a feature and wanted to direct his own script.
    “The guy who'd written the screenplay, Richard Kelly, was a 20 something film grad who'd never made a feature before, and he wanted to direct Donny Darko.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

25th Hour: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): 25th Hour → Donnie Darko. 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films.
    “Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Adam Fields: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Adam Fields → Donnie Darko. Fields, an indie producer, got the script and thought he could get it made.
    “I think I can get this made.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:27 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy → Donnie Darko. Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s.
    “Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Corky Romano: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Donnie Darko → Corky Romano. Joke: the troubled young man audiences chose was Corky Romano.
    “If they were going to watch a movie about a troubled young man, it was going to be this guy.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:22 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Drew Barrymore: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Drew Barrymore → Donnie Darko. Barrymore financed, co-produced and took a small role.
    “Eventually, the Donny Darko team got financing from Drew Barrymore, who agreed to co produce the movie and to play a small supporting role.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:59 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

El Mariachi: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Donnie Darko → El Mariachi. The 90s indie boom of low-budget hits like sex, lies and El Mariachi made Darko-type bets possible.
    “Thanks to a series of low budget hits, like sex lies and videotape and El Mariachi.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:27:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Jena Malone: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jena Malone → Donnie Darko. Malone plays Gretchen, who plants the go-back-in-time idea.
    “Donnie starts studying time travel, and begins dating a new student named Gretchen, played by Jenna Malone.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:58 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Pi: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Donnie Darko → Pi. Sundance birthed 90s indies like Pi, Clerks and Welcome to the Dollhouse; Darko premiered there.
    “Sundance had given birth to several hit indie films, crucial 90s movies like Pie, Clerks, and Welcome to the Dollhouse.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:06 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Donnie Darko → The Breakfast Club. Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club.
    “It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

The Twilight Zone (TV): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Donnie Darko → The Twilight Zone (TV). The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone.
    “The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Zodiac: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting): Donnie Darko → Zodiac. Fincher liked Donnie Darko and had Gyllenhaal pegged for a while.
    “unsurprisingly, Fincher liked Donny Darko”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Zoolander: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Donnie Darko → Zoolander. In fall 2001 audiences wanted breezy comedies like Zoolander and Serendipity, not Darko.
    “And besides, moviegoers mostly wanted breezy comedies and romances, like Zoolander and Serendipity.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Richard Kelly → Donnie Darko. Kelly was a young film grad who had never made a feature and wanted to direct his own script.
    “The guy who'd written the screenplay, Richard Kelly, was a 20 something film grad who'd never made a feature before, and he wanted to direct Donny Darko.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jake Gyllenhaal → Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal, a former child actor, signed on wanting an anti-teen movie.
    “He was interested in making what he called an anti-teen movie.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:14 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (7)

  1. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart.
    “Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. One captures post-Y2K euphoria, the other a new age of dread.
    “One takes place during that brief peak of post Y2K euphoria.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:10 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Together they are the before and after of the early 21st century.
    “You can think of bringing on in Donny Darko as the how it started, how it's going of the early 21st century.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:40 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Jake Gyllenhaal → Donnie Darko. Archival Gyllenhaal: Darko is about adolescent psychology, unlike party-and-pies teen movies.
    “That was a movie that was sort of more about the psychological journey of, like, of adolescence and the confusion of all of it.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:38 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Their best-known songs show how bleak Donnie Darko is by comparison.
    “Well, for comparison, here's the most popular song from Bring It On.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:29 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Donnie Darko → Zoolander. In fall 2001 audiences wanted breezy comedies like Zoolander and Serendipity, not Darko.
    “And besides, moviegoers mostly wanted breezy comedies and romances, like Zoolander and Serendipity.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Donnie Darko → Corky Romano. Joke: the troubled young man audiences chose was Corky Romano.
    “If they were going to watch a movie about a troubled young man, it was going to be this guy.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:22 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Donnie Darko → The Breakfast Club. Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club.
    “It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Donnie Darko → El Mariachi. The 90s indie boom of low-budget hits like sex, lies and El Mariachi made Darko-type bets possible.
    “Thanks to a series of low budget hits, like sex lies and videotape and El Mariachi.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:27:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Donnie Darko → Pi. Sundance birthed 90s indies like Pi, Clerks and Welcome to the Dollhouse; Darko premiered there.
    “Sundance had given birth to several hit indie films, crucial 90s movies like Pie, Clerks, and Welcome to the Dollhouse.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:06 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Donnie Darko → The Twilight Zone (TV). The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone.
    “The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Adam Fields → Donnie Darko. Fields, an indie producer, got the script and thought he could get it made.
    “I think I can get this made.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:27 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Drew Barrymore → Donnie Darko. Barrymore financed, co-produced and took a small role.
    “Eventually, the Donny Darko team got financing from Drew Barrymore, who agreed to co produce the movie and to play a small supporting role.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:59 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Jena Malone → Donnie Darko. Malone plays Gretchen, who plants the go-back-in-time idea.
    “Donnie starts studying time travel, and begins dating a new student named Gretchen, played by Jenna Malone.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:58 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. people (casting): Donnie Darko → Zodiac. Fincher liked Donnie Darko and had Gyllenhaal pegged for a while.
    “unsurprisingly, Fincher liked Donny Darko”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (5)

  1. theme (theme): 25th Hour → Donnie Darko. 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films.
    “Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy → Donnie Darko. Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s.
    “Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Donnie Darko → Bring It On. Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence.
    “Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Richard Kelly → Donnie Darko. Kelly says cinema can undo tragedy, unlike life: movies as time machines.
    “We can undo tragedy in cinema, but, sadly, in life, we don't have those tools.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:08 · Richard Kelly (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Bring It On → Donnie Darko. Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear.
    “Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Donnie Darko → Donnie Darko. Called the first film to embody the post-9/11 mood even though shot before.
    “Donnie Darko was the 1st movie to really embody the post 911 mood.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:40:49 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Donnie Darko → Bring It On. Darko became the first midnight movie of the 2000s.
    “As a result, Donny Darko had become the first midnight movie of the 2000s.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Donnie Darko: The script circulated so long it arrived with food stains.
    “So they literally sent me a script that had food stains on a bunch of the pages.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:25:16 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Donnie Darko: Fields planted a trades story claiming filming would start that summer; it was invented and it worked.
    “The producer planted a story in the Hollywood trades, announcing they were gonna start filming that summer.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Donnie Darko: Fields confirms the trades story was fake, but agents began calling.
    “It was total bullshit.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:42 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Donnie Darko: Gyllenhaal wanted an anti-teen movie, not parties and pies.
    “parties and sticking things into pies.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:22 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Donnie Darko: Subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion that Raftery skips.
    “and a whole subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Donnie Darko: Cost $4.5 million and shot in 28 days, the same as the countdown, a coincidence.
    “Donnie Darko cost just $4.5 million, and wound up being filmed in just 28 days.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:32:07 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Donnie Darko: During the shoot a Boeing 747 hit a bird and rained engine parts on a nearby beach.
    “According to one newspaper account, a Boeing 747 hit a bird and began raining down engine parts on a beach not far from where the movie was filming.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:32:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Donnie Darko: Fields on Sundance: open late, after people have seen bad movies; after the premiere no studio bought it.
    “You never want to open Sundance.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:22 · Adam Fields (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Donnie Darko: Raftery says the eeriest scene is kids hearing a plane overhead and looking to the sky.
    “The scene that always gets me is one in which Donny and a bunch of school kids are standing outside.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:38:21 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Donnie Darko: Grossed barely half a million dollars, then became the first midnight movie of the 2000s.
    “Donnie Darko wound up grossing barely half a million dollars in the US.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:34 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Donnie Darko: Called a prime example of subreddit cinema.
    “Donny Darko would become a prime example of subreddit cinema.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:42:12 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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