Jack Fincher

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q6112472: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Mank, which Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture credits them on.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Mank (2020).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Citizen Kane (1941): 2 lines

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Mank (2020), which they wrote: Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt). Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir.
    “He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (subject / source) · through Mank (2020), which they wrote: Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read). Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane.
    “it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Jack Fincher: 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (script origin) · through Mank (2020), which they wrote: Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)). Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later.
    “I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

The Lost Weekend (1945): 1 line

  1. craft (visual echo) · through Mank (2020), which they wrote: The Lost Weekend ⇒ Mank (the host's read). The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend.
    “almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Eric Roth: 1 line

  1. unmapped (script rewrite) · them, directly: Jack Fincher ⇒ Eric Roth (the host's read). The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Mank (2020): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (script origin) · them, directly: Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)). Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later.
    “I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (3) everyone in writing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (script origin): Jack Fincher → Mank. Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later.
    “I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (family / writing credit): Mank → Jack Fincher. The Mank script was written by Fincher's father, a marketable sentimental angle.
    “which was written by David Da Fincher's father before he passed away.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (script rewrite): Jack Fincher → Eric Roth. The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jack Fincher: Rock Hudson was once interested in a spec script Jack Fincher wrote in the 60s.
    “apparently Rock Hudson was interested once in a spec script he wrote, but it fizzled out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:45:27 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)