Vincent D'Onofrio

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q320052: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Adventures in Babysitting (1987); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Law & Order (1990); The Player (1992); Ed Wood (1994); Men in Black (1997); The Judge (2014).

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.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film): 1 line

  1. career (career sequence) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
    “it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lon Chaney: 1 line

  1. people (performance model) · them, directly: Lon Chaney ⇒ Vincent D'Onofrio (the host's read). D'Onofrio studied Lon Chaney throughout and built his performance on him.
    “Dnofrio was like studying Lon Channing the entire time, like that was the guy he was sort of trying to build his performance off of”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:31:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Man of Steel (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Judge (2014), which they acted in: Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

R. Lee Ermey: 1 line

  1. lineage (source of the dialogue) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

The Short-Timers (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure.
    “Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project): 1 line

  1. career (project that led to another) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material.
    “Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Dead Presidents (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes). Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
    “So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them)

Dolomite Is My Name (2019): 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Ed Wood (1994), which they acted in: Ed Wood ⇒ Dolomite Is My Name (the host's read). Eddie Murphy first met them reciting lines from Ed Wood, which led to the Rudy Ray Moore project.
    “Eddie started doing, um, uh, lines from Ed Wood.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:32:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Jarhead (2005): 1 line

  1. unmapped (generational template) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they acted in: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Jarhead (the host's read). Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation.
    “like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (performance model): Lon Chaney → Vincent D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio studied Lon Chaney throughout and built his performance on him.
    “Dnofrio was like studying Lon Channing the entire time, like that was the guy he was sort of trying to build his performance off of”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:31:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (Orson Welles portrayals): Vincent D'Onofrio → Ed Wood. D'Onofrio's Welles in Ed Wood is called the best Orson Welles.
    “I mean, to me, like, Vincent DiNofrio in Ed Wood with Pinky and the Brain Boys is the best Orson Wells.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (weight-gain record): Raging Bull → Vincent D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio's weight gain is claimed to top De Niro's in Raging Bull.
    “There was sort of the victory lap of like he gained 10 more pounds than De Niro in Raging Bull.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:21:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: A former Hard Rock Cafe bouncer who taped his own audition, mailed it to England and put on a record amount of weight.
    “Vincent DiNofrio, as we said, he was a bouncer, right, at the Hard Rock Cafe, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:20:28 · Jon Gabrus (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: Weight gain claimed to be a record, 10 more pounds than De Niro in Raging Bull.
    “it has long stood as like the claim of the most weight an actor has gained for a role.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:21:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: After the third take Kubrick gently rubbed his fist against D'Onofrio, an approval he never forgot.
    “after the 3rd take, Stanley took his fist and gently rubbed it against Vincent DiNofrio.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: He listened to No Woman No Cry between takes.
    “Dnofrio says he's listening to no woman, no cry a lot in between takes on his headphones”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:31:31 · Jon Gabrus (0.50 sure it was them)