Jack Fisk

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q3805579: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as craft. The films the hosts said they worked on, which the two lists below run through too: Carrie (1976); Eraserhead (1977); The Thin Red Line (1998); There Will Be Blood (2007); The Revenant (2015); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); Days of Heaven; Terrence Malick films. 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.

Goodfellas (1990): 3 lines

  1. craft (opening style) · through Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), which they worked on as production designer (first time with Scorsese): Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read). The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode.
    “It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (inverts) · through Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), which they worked on as production designer (first time with Scorsese): Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read). Same crimes by white men but with no romance or good life, a deliberate answer to Goodfellas' seductiveness.
    “there's a romance to Goodfellas that does not exist here.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:28:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (narration trick) · through Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), which they worked on as production designer (first time with Scorsese): Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read). Molly's voiceover recalls Karen taking over narration in Goodfellas.
    “Goodfellas does this. There's a moment when Karen takes over the narration.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they worked on as production designer: 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)

Titanic (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), which they worked on as production designer (first time with Scorsese): Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read). The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback.
    “I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (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.

Alien (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read). The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Devo: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read). Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th (1980): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Carrie (1976), which they worked on as production designer: Carrie ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The final-scene jump scare is directly influenced by the hand coming out of the grave in Carrie.
    “it's directly like influenced by Carrie, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments). Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
    “H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Modest Mouse: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read). Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Pearl Harbor (2001): 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they worked on as production designer: 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)

The Meteors: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read). The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “The meteors would do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Pixies: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read). The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
    “Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Thing (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they worked on as production designer / plays the Man in the Planet: Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read). Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Craft (9) everyone in craft

Directing (2) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Jack Fisk → Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk's latest Oscar nomination was for building a town for Flower Moon, but he lost to Poor Things.
    “Which is he built a fucking town.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jack Fisk → The Thin Red Line. After years away, Terrence Malick brought Fisk back for The Thin Red Line.
    “And then it's like, he's gone until Malik resuscitates him for a thin red line.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:36:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Jack Fisk → Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk researched the period billiard scorekeeping mechanism so the built set would be right, per a New York Times Magazine piece.
    “Jack did the research and found out this is how they would have kept score.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:31 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

people (4)

  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 → Sissy Spacek. Fisk is introduced as the Malick production designer who is married to Spacek.
    “who's married to Sissy Spacek, who's one of the great, like, artists of the last 50 years of movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:34 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): David Lynch → Jack Fisk. Fisk, the production designer who plays the Man in the Planet, is the other big friend Lynch made in high school.
    “Uh, the other big uh, friend that he makes in high school. Jack Fisk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. 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)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jack Fisk: Per an NYT Magazine piece, Grann saw Fisk had researched how billiard halls kept score; Sean wants him to build a billiard-room barbershop for the Ringer.
    “every studio executive listening, you need to stop spending your $250 million on garbage VFX and you need to spend it on Jack Fisk, just building shit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jack Fisk: Fisk, Lynch's high school friend and production designer, plays the Man in the Planet in Eraserhead.
    “plays as we all know, plays the man in the planet in Eraserhead.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:48 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)