Ernest Dickerson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q1356510: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as cinematographer. The films the hosts said they shot, which the two lists below run through too: Do the Right Thing (1989). Count them as director (1 film) 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.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death: 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read). Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence.
    “Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Eleanor Bumpurs: 1 line

  1. lineage (real-events inspiration) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read). The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York.
    “It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

25th Hour (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read). 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness.
    “There's a 25th hour version of that too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Inside Man (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read). In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.
    “In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Jungle Fever (1991): 1 line

  1. theme (thematic follow-up) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Jungle Fever (the host's read). Jungle Fever explored the Bensonhurst setting a couple of years later, rehearsing part of that story.
    “which I think is explored in jungle fever a couple years later”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:14:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Quentin Tarantino: 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed line) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the host's read). Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
    “you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Red Hook Summer (2012): 1 line

  1. lineage (pseudo-sequel) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read). Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel.
    “he made a movie called Red Hook Summer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

True Romance (1993): 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed speech) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ True Romance (the host's read). The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
    “Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Wes Anderson: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Do the Right Thing (1989), which they shot: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read). Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all.
    “Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Photography (1) everyone in photography

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Ernest Dickerson → Surviving the Game. Dickerson had a run in the 90s including Surviving the Game.
    “He kind of had a little run there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Do the Right Thing → Ernest Dickerson. The speaker calls it one of the most beautifully shot films he has seen, crediting Dickerson's color, weather and tilted camera angles.
    “It's one of the most beautifully shot films I've ever seen. Ernest Dickerson.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:12:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (collaborator): Spike Lee → Ernest Dickerson. Dickerson, Spike's DP here, went on to be a filmmaker without a huge public profile; the two storyboarded the final sequence together.
    “him and Dickerson, storyboard, exactly what happens”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:44:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Richard Linklater → Ernest Dickerson. Ben dropped Linklater from his eight for being less Ben than DeVito, Spheeris, Dickerson.
    “DeVito and Sphereus, Dickerson, like all these people have to be represented by you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:23:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Guillermo del Toro → Ernest Dickerson. Del Toro beat the lesser-known Dickerson.
    “Del Toro beat, uh, uh, Dickerson.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:51:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Ernest Dickerson → Harmony Korine. Dickerson upset Korine 51-49 as voters discovered his 90s output.
    “Ernest Dickerson snuck out a 2% win over Harmony Korean, 51 to 49.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:20:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Ernest Dickerson: Directors needing an IMDb lookup tend to underperform in March Madness.
    “If they require, you have to go to IMDb”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)