Charlie Kaufman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q312751: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020); Synecdoche, New York. Count them as writer (2 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.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

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

Evan Goldberg: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Charlie Kaufman ⇒ Evan Goldberg (the maker said so: came up in the research). Goldberg is cited as the source of the Kaufman remark.
    “Evan Goldberg, who was the guy who directed this with Rogan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

This Is the End (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research). Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman.
    “He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (3) everyone in directing

Writing (2) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Evan Goldberg → Charlie Kaufman. Goldberg is cited as the source of the Kaufman remark.
    “Evan Goldberg, who was the guy who directed this with Rogan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): This Is the End → Charlie Kaufman. Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman.
    “He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Being John Malkovich → Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman's script is the star, but Jonze deserves credit for recognizing it and realizing it on screen.
    “You got to credit Spike for for recognizing it and actualizing it.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:51:42 · Brian Koppelman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Being John Malkovich → Charlie Kaufman. Sean sees Jonze and Kaufman as two artists who needed each other; Jonze made Kaufman's abstract ideas literal.
    “Spike really was able to visualize and literalize a lot of Charlie's ideas, which are so abstract”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:52:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (uncredited rewrite): Charlie Kaufman → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Kaufman supposedly rewrote the script at one point.
    “Charlie Kaufman supposedly rewrote the script at one point.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:40:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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