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Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Mank (2020). Count them as studio (4 films) instead.

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

lineage (visual influence) · through Mank (2020), which they were tied to as hypothetical distributor: 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)
lineage (subject / source) · through Mank (2020), which they were tied to as hypothetical distributor: 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

lineage (script origin) · through Mank (2020), which they were tied to as hypothetical distributor: 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

craft (visual echo) · through Mank (2020), which they were tied to as hypothetical distributor: 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.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Studio (4) everyone in studio

studio, The French Dispatch (The Big Picture, Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture)
studio (shouted at in Skin speech), Skin (The Big Picture, Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131))
studio, The Full Monty (Blank Check — Patreon, The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free))
distributor, The Ice Storm (Blank Check — Patreon, The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free))

Other (1) everyone in other

hypothetical distributor, Mank (Blank Check — Patreon, Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))

What was said about them, by kind

No claims join them to a film or another person.

Fun items about them

None.