Angelina Jolie

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q13909: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Sling Blade (1996); Panic Room (2002); Cleopatra (unmade Fincher project); Cleopatra (unmade). Count them as actor (20 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.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
    “But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
    “Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (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.

Dwight Yoakam: 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Sling Blade (1996), which they were tied to as dated Billy Bob Thornton: Sling Blade ⇒ Dwight Yoakam (the maker said so: Fincher said, as the host recalls). Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
    “I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Flight Plan: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Panic Room (2002): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (led to casting) · through Sling Blade (1996), which they were tied to as dated Billy Bob Thornton: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as casting what-if / considered: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
    “But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (25) everyone in acting

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Brad Pitt → Angelina Jolie. Brangelina swallowed Pitt's career into a long period of lesser movies.
    “That Brangelina thing became so big.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Angelina Jolie → Salt. Jolie's face alone on the poster of Wanted or Salt was the movie.
    “You could put just her on the poster of wanted or salt, and then that's your movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:21:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Angelina Jolie → Maria. Jolie's recent awards-race film Maria was liked by the speaker and no one else.
    “which is a movie that I liked and apparently nobody else did, the Pablo the Rain movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Angelina Jolie → George Clooney. Both are stars who keep trying and it keeps going wrong.
    “she's sort of a Clooney as well.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:25:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Angelina Jolie → Tomb Raider. Lara Croft keeps being cast right after an Oscar win.
    “I love that apparently Laura Croft can only be played by people who just won an Oscar.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:52:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (casting): Eternals → Angelina Jolie. The Eternals cast is very starry, naming Jolie, Hayek, Henry, Chan and Nanjiani.
    “You've got Angelina Jolie, you've got Salma Hayek, you've got Brian Tyree Henry.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Angelina Jolie. The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.
    “It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Angelina Jolie: Salt was a $110 million movie that grossed $300 million, and nobody can name its director.
    “If I paid you a million dollars, could you tell me who directed salt?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:22:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Angelina Jolie: One of the most famous people in the world makes zero good movies.
    “How often? Those one of the most famous people in the world makes 0 good movies.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:26:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)