Terrence Malick

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q215478: 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: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974); The Thin Red Line (1998). Count them as director (13 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.

Ed Gein: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-life source) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read). The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood.
    “it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

Night of the Living Dead (1968): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read). Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America.
    “Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they were tied to as collaborator of Jack Fisk: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read). Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others.
    “It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Friday the 13th (1980): 4 lines

  1. unmapped (template) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The imposing masked killer and the final girl in Chainsaw became the slasher template Friday the 13th and Halloween used.
    “We have that, that ends up in Halloween, Friday the 13th, everything else.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:04:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (final girl prototype) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Sally is the ground-zero prototype final girl later ripped off in every Friday the 13th and most Halloween movies.
    “she's the prototype ground 0 final girl that then gets ripped off.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:06:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (rip-off) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The final girl running to Jason's mom for help copies Sally running to the gas station guy.
    “Friday the 13th rips it off.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:41:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up.
    “a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Halloween (1978): 2 lines

  1. lineage (ancestor) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero.
    “whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (double feature) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read). Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw.
    “I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Alien (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read). Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien.
    “Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
    “Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Paranormal Activity (2007): 1 line

  1. unmapped (indie legacy) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Paranormal Activity (the host's read). Chainsaw invented the no-money, unknown-actors, one-idea indie horror run that Halloween, Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity followed.
    “This, Halloween, Blur Witch, paranormal activity. We have no money. You don't know these actors.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:02:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pearl Harbor (2001): 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they were tied to as collaborator of Jack Fisk: The Thin Red Line ⇒ Pearl Harbor (the host's read). Disney used the Thin Red Line score in the Pearl Harbor trailer without permission, and Malick later cashed that in.
    “Disney uses the score for the thin red line, um, when they, uh, when they do the Pearl Harbor trailer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:40:07 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80 sure it was them)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022, Netflix): 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022, Netflix) (the host's read). The Netflix legacy sequel replaces the original's horror with influencers and a DEI angle.
    “It was like a DEI, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:28:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

The Blair Witch Project (1999): 1 line

  1. industry (marketing precedent) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ The Blair Witch Project (the host's read). The 'based on true events' opening was smart and was ripped off by Blair Witch in 1999, pre-internet.
    “We didn't know any better in 1999.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2: 1 line

  1. contrast (contrast) · through The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which they were tied to as visual comparison for the Leatherface-in-the-field shot: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 (the host's read). Part 2 reuses the framework but changes the tone to slapstick comedy.
    “Texas Chainsaw Messker 2 is basically a slapstick comedy.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:27:15 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (18) everyone in directing

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Terrence Malick. Mendelsohn worked long and prosperously before, including in Terrence Malick and Baz Luhrmann movies.
    “he had appearing Terrence Malik movies and Baz Luhrmann movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:36:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): A Hidden Life (said only as 'the Malik') → Terrence Malick. Speaker is a huge Malick fan hoping for a full comeback; liked a lot but never crossed over into love since The New World.
    “I just kind of wanted to be knocked back in a way I haven't been since New World.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:13:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (inverse sequence): Terrence Malick → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Malick's raptor scene in Tree of Life does a 2001-style sequence but as the first act of mercy rather than violence.
    “Malik always described that as like the 1st act of kindness or the 1st act of mercy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Terrence Malick → Hans Zimmer. Malick scored The Thin Red Line, then recut it and placed pieces of Zimmer's score where they were not written.
    “it's the classic Malic thing where it was like scored and then he recut it and put pieces where they weren't written.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:39:43 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (visual comp): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Terrence Malick. Leatherface in the field with lens flare looks like a Malick movie, accidental poetry loaded with dread.
    “there's the shot in that movie of leatherface in the field with the sort of lens flare in the sun where suddenly it feels like you're watching like a Terrence Malik movie”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:20:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (collaborator): Jack Fisk → Terrence Malick. Fisk production designed all of Malick's movies and was first-timer with Scorsese here.
    “Jack Fisk, who doesn't really work that much anymore, who's production designed, all of Terrence Malik's movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jack Fisk → Terrence Malick. Fisk, who plays in Eraserhead, worked with Malick, who was friends with a man Lynch showed footage to.
    “Obviously, Jack Fisk has worked with Terrence Malik.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:51:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (feel): An Angel at My Table → Terrence Malick. The childhood section, with sparse dialogue and a baby's-eye first shot, recalls Malick.
    “Yes, in in a way that almost at moments recalls Terrence Malik.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:30:52 · Dana Stevens (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (feel): An Angel at My Table → Terrence Malick. The train-and-asylum moment is called a Malick-like glimpse of a child sensing something wrong in the world.
    “that's a really powerful, again, sort of Malikian moment, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:45:30 · Dana Stevens (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Orson Welles → Terrence Malick. Welles beat Malick.
    “Wells beat Malik.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Martin Brest → Terrence Malick. Sweet 16 matchup; speakers hope Brest takes it though Malick is easier to talk about.
    “I think breast takes that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:06:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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