Eric Roth

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as producer. The films the hosts said they produced, which the two lists below run through too: Mank (2020). Count them as writer (6 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

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Mank (2020), which they produced: 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)
  2. lineage (subject / source) · through Mank (2020), which they produced: 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: 2 lines

  1. lineage (script origin) · through Mank (2020), which they produced: 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)
  2. unmapped (script rewrite) · them, directly: Jack Fincher ⇒ Eric Roth (the host's read). The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Robin Swicord: 1 line

  1. unmapped (rewrite) · them, directly: Robin Swicord ⇒ Eric Roth (the host's read). Roth was the first to start over after Swicord's draft; everyone else built on it.
    “Eric Roth is the 1st person post-Swyker to do like a full page one, go back to the adaptation start over, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Lost Weekend (1945): 1 line

  1. craft (visual echo) · through Mank (2020), which they produced: 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.

The Great Gatsby (2013): 1 line

  1. unmapped (tribute) · them, directly: Eric Roth ⇒ The Great Gatsby (the host's read). Roth named the love interest Daisy as a tribute to Gatsby.
    “He calls the love interest daisy as a tribute to the Great Gatsby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (9) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (people): Eric Roth → Forrest Gump. Roth is famed for clarifying a movie's problem inside one scene, as in Forrest Gump.
    “Eric Roth, who is a co-writer of this movie, is famed for his ability to clarify the problem of a movie inside of one scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (script rewritten by the director): Eric Roth → Killers of the Flower Moon. Roth's strict adaptation was torn up and rewritten by Scorsese himself, which Griffin compares to Mank.
    “It's like Scorsese Adam come in, he writes this script.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (script rewrite): Jack Fincher → Eric Roth. The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (rewrite): Robin Swicord → Eric Roth. Roth was the first to start over after Swicord's draft; everyone else built on it.
    “Eric Roth is the 1st person post-Swyker to do like a full page one, go back to the adaptation start over, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (tribute): Eric Roth → The Great Gatsby. Roth named the love interest Daisy as a tribute to Gatsby.
    “He calls the love interest daisy as a tribute to the Great Gatsby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): The Butterfly Effect → Eric Roth. Eric Roth writing it would make it a mainstream crowd-pleasing sci-fi movie.
    “what if Eric Roth wrote this movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Eric Roth: Running joke: a man arrives every five minutes with a bag of Gump money for Eric Roth.
    “Every 5 minutes in Eric's Roth life, and a man appears with a bag filled with gump money and just hands it over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eric Roth: A running joke: Roth should open a soup restaurant called Eric Broth.
    “Eric Roth should open a soup restaurant called Eric Broth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:26:53 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)