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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008); This Is the End (2013). Count them as director (2 films), 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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: 2 lines

lineage (adaptation) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). The film is adapted from Fitzgerald's short story, though the speakers say it shares little with it.
“It's quite, it's, it doesn't have too much in common with the film, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (adaptation distance) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). By the time Roth finished, the film resembles the story in name only.
“By the time he's done with it, the movie has no resemblance to Benjamin Button apart from, it's called Benjamin Button.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Forrest Gump (1994): 2 lines

unmapped (anti-Gump answer) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: Forrest Gump ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). Griffin reads Benjamin Button as a pointed answer to Gump, showing the death behind the Americana.
“But I think it's almost like pointedly an anti-gump.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:22:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (attempt at a Gump) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: Forrest Gump ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). The speaker says the cultural narrative is that Benjamin Button is Fincher trying to do Gump.
“but I do think this is like the cultural narrative of this movie is he's trying to do Gump, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Charlie Kaufman: 1 line, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through This Is the End (2013), which they were tied to as influence cited by Goldberg: 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)

Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through This Is the End (2013), which they were tied to as influence cited by Goldberg: Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read). The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made.
“It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse.”
The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Love Is Strong (Rolling Stones video): 1 line

lineage (technique precursor) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: Love Is Strong (Rolling Stones video) ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read). A host guesses the Stones' giant-scale effects helped Fincher on Benjamin Button.
“Well, and I bet this helped for Benjamin Button eventually.”
Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Orville Redenbacher commercial (Fincher, Digital Domain): 1 line

unmapped (proof of concept) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: Orville Redenbacher commercial (Fincher, Digital Domain) ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the maker said so). Fincher used a Redenbacher commercial to test whether the film was makeable.
“I'm basically stealing money from Orvell Redbocker to figure out whether this film is makeable or not.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:52:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Pineapple Express (2008): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through This Is the End (2013), which they were tied to as influence cited by Goldberg: Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read). A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick.
“this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway.”
The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Evan Goldberg: 1 line

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)

House of Cards (TV series): 1 line

career (career step) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⇒ House of Cards (TV series) (the host's read). Fincher moved Mahershala Ali from Button into House of Cards.
“But I mean, look, Fincher puts him from this into House of Cards, which is one of the things that definitely levels him up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:05:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013): 1 line

unmapped (parody) · through The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which they were tied to as supposed rewrite of an earlier draft: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⇒ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the host's read). The speaker says Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, as if to say Button got the Gump wrong.
“And Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, almost as if to say, they fucked up.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:10:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

This Is the End (2013): 1 line, within their own work

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

What was said about them, by kind

lineage (2)

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)
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)

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)
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)

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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