William Friedkin

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q51582: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: The French Connection (1971); Sorcerer (1977); Cruising (1980); Deal of the Century (1983); Jade; Rules of Engagement; The Exorcist; The Exorcist: Believer; The Hunted.

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.

The Exorcist III (1990): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Exorcist, which they directed: The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read). Blatty directed Exorcist III after the horror show of Exorcist II.
    “after the horror show that happened with Exorcist II, directed Exorcist 3”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:00 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Exorcist, which they directed: The Exorcist ⇒ The Exorcist III (the host's read). Blatty returned to the world of The Exorcist thirteen years after the second film, with the original's evil.
    “William Peter Blatties, you know, returned to the World of the Exorcist with a lot of the original kind of evil of the 1st one.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:25:38 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The French Connection (1971), which they directed: The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read). Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
    “Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Seven (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so). Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops.
    “he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (10) everyone in directing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Rules of Engagement → William Friedkin. Had Eaters of the Dead succeeded, McTiernan could have followed a Friedkin-like path of pulpy scripts with great actors (Rules of Engagement, The Hunted).
    “both of those movies are him taking like a pulpy mediocre Hollywood script and doing some cool things with it with amazing actors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:06:23 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): William Friedkin → Francis Ford Coppola. Friedkin's 2000s run is likened to Coppola doing The Rainmaker: journeyman work after a long gap.
    “It's kind of like when Copola did the rainmaker and stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:07:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Seven → William Friedkin. Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops.
    “he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (director mismatch): Deal of the Century → William Friedkin. Friedkin directing a Chevy Chase arms-dealer comedy is an unlikely fit.
    “Not someone who screams Chevy Chase comedy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:45:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Cruising → William Friedkin. Cruising is directed by Friedkin.
    “Directed by the great Billy Friedkin.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (color fix): Sorcerer → William Friedkin. If Friedkin were alive and the technology could restore the red-shifted print to the other reels' look, the speaker would be fine with it.
    “I think I would be okay with that because if it is like, oh, this is because of the degradation”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:41:33 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): William Friedkin → Born on the Fourth of July. Friedkin was to direct the first version, which collapsed when Pacino shaved his mustache.
    “So the job of directing Born on the 4th of July went to William Friedkin”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:09:51 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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