Dwight Yoakam

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Sling Blade (1996); Panic Room (2002); Hollywood Homicide (2003); Wedding Crashers (2005); Logan Lucky (2017); Cry Macho (2021); Crank; Four Christmases; The Minus Man; The Newton Boys; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Count them as composer (0 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.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. career (career) · them, directly: Sling Blade ⇒ Dwight Yoakam (the maker said so: Fincher said, as the host recalls). Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
    “I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
    “But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
    “Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (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.

Dwight Yoakam: 1 line, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Sling Blade (1996), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Dwight Yoakam (the maker said so: Fincher said, as the host recalls). Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
    “I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Flight Plan: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Panic Room (2002): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (led to casting) · through Sling Blade (1996), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
    “But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Music (1) everyone in music

Acting (14) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Dwight Yoakam → Sling Blade. Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
    “I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (recurring collaborator): Dwight Yoakam → Vince Vaughn. Yoakam becomes Vince Vaughn's guy who pops up in his movies.
    “Dwight Yoakam becomes like his guy, who always has pop-up in the movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Dwight Yoakam → Maynard. Maynard was first choice for Raoul; Fincher had just directed his band's Judith video. Yoakam was number two.
    “Fincher had just directed the video for Perfect Circles Judith, which is an awesome song and an awesome video.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Dwight Yoakam → Clint Howard. Joke evolutionary chart: Clint Howard, then Yoakam, then Maynard, ending with Billy Bob Thornton.
    “I think it starts with Clint Howard, and then it goes to Dwight Yoakam and then it goes up to Maynard.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Dwight Yoakam: Casting what-if: Maynard from Tool was first choice for Raoul, the greatest what-if in Rewatchables history; Yoakam was number two.
    “Yokam number 2 choice.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)