David Fincher

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q184903: 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: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983); The NeverEnding Story (1984); Twice Upon a Time. Count them as director (53 films), producer (4 films), cinematographer (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.

Alfred Hitchcock: 3 lines

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so). Fincher obviously cites Hitchcock (the speaker adds so do many people).
    “he obviously cites Hitchcock, so massively”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:14:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (heir) · them, directly: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ David Fincher (the host's read). Sean says Fincher has been a reasonable heir to Hitchcock, so a Hitchcock remake bores him.
    “he's been doing a great job of being a reasonable heir to Hitchcock”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (influence) · them, directly: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ David Fincher (the host's read). Fincher loves Hitchcock, who made conventionally entertaining movies carrying deep, confused emotional themes, the dual-entertainment mode Fincher pursues.
    “he also knows that he loves Alfred Hitchcock, and what does Alfred Hitchcock do? He makes conventionally entertaining movies that have deep, confused, emotional themes”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:12:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

All That Jazz (1979): 2 lines

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: All That Jazz ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so). The speaker says Fincher loves Fosse and always cites All That Jazz.
    “All that jazz is like a recurring influence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:53:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (screened for crew) · them, directly: All That Jazz ⇒ David Fincher (the host's read). A host read somewhere that All That Jazz was the movie Fincher screened for his crew as the style to match.
    “I was just reading somewhere about like all that jazz being the movie that he screened for his crew a bunch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 1 line

  1. unmapped (early commercial reference) · them, directly: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ David Fincher (the host's read). At 24 Fincher used a baby smoking, a 2001 reference, in an American Cancer Society ad.
    “a baby smoking a cigarette as a, as a, as a reference to 2001 is incredibly powerful iconography”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:17:15 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Bob Fosse: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: Bob Fosse ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so). Fincher loves Fosse.
    “Well, he loves Fosse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:53:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Casablanca (1942): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca.
    “The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mary Poppins (1964): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: Mary Poppins ⇒ David Fincher (the maker said so: curated a series of his influences at MOMA). Fincher cites Mary Poppins as a humongous movie for him, when he curated his influences at MOMA.
    “he cites Mary Poppins as like a humongous movie for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Revenge of the Sith ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Lucas added a 'No' to Vader's turn in Jedi that matches Revenge of the Sith.
    “same fucking no from the end of Avenge of the Sith.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:13:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars (A New Hope): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars (A New Hope) ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Leia pulls the Chewbacca-in-manacles disguise trick from A New Hope when infiltrating Jabba's palace.
    “pulling the same trick that they pulled in New Hope, that like Chewbacca in Manacles trick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first.
    “We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Strangers on a Train (Fincher/Flynn remake, unmade): 1 line

  1. lineage (unmade remake) · them, directly: Strangers on a Train (Fincher/Flynn remake, unmade) ⇒ David Fincher (the host's read). Fincher and Gillian Flynn were going to remake Strangers on a Train as a loose springboard.
    “He and Jillian Flynn were going to remake strangers on a train.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:02 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Sydney Greenstreet: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet.
    “He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

The Phantom Menace (1999): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Sees seeds planted in Jedi that bloom in the prequels.
    “you see the things, the mechanations starting to come into place a little bit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:08:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). The Obi-Wan log scene starts the over-explanation that typifies the prequels.
    “tiptoe towards the problems of the Phantom Madness trilogy, whereas, like, where it's all explained out loud.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:58:53 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Ewok guerrilla tactics echo the Gungan thing in Phantom Menace, though that one is far worse.
    “And it just sort of reminds you of the Gungen thing, which is way worse, but is in the same, like, ballpark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:08:02 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: 1 line

  1. lineage (early inspiration) · them, directly: David Fincher ⇒ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the host's read). A televised making-of documentary about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blew young Fincher's mind about how movies are made.
    “the film that inspired young Fincher most”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Lego Star Wars: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Lego Star Wars (the host's read). Lego game levels from Jedi are always fun; the prequels' plot-heavy levels play less well.
    “weirdly, like Return of the Jedi levels are always really fun to play.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:31:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Netflix: 1 line

  1. craft (house style) · them, directly: David Fincher ⇒ Netflix (the host's read). The speaker says Netflix shows now look like a watered-down Fincher because he established the look of Netflix.
    “we're kind of living in a world where everything is forced to look like a bad Fincher project because he established the look of Netflix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Revenge of the Sith (the host's read). The Emperor in Jedi sits in a chair saying roughly the same things as in the identical-chair scene in Revenge of the Sith.
    “he's basically saying most of the same thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:11:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

The Incredibles (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they worked on as worked on (said: 'previously worked on Return of the Jedi'): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Incredibles (the host's read). The speeder bike forest chase is a clear inspiration for the Incredibles chase.
    “This is such a big inspiration too, clearly, on the Incredibles chase sequence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:02:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (200) everyone in directing

Other (52) everyone in other

Producing (5) everyone in producing

Craft (3) everyone in craft

Photography (2) everyone in photography

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): David Fincher → House of Cards. Fincher's eight-year run includes the first two episodes and pilot of House of Cards.
    “House of Cards creates the 1st 2 episodes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): David Fincher → Conrad Hall. Fincher and Hall, the cinematographer who replaced Khondji, have not worked together since Panic Room.
    “this is the guy who shot seven, you know, is one of the most accomplished cinematographers and they haven't worked together since, obviously.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): David Fincher → Alien 3. Fincher fought the studio on Alien 3 in press coverage, with Sigourney Weaver backing him, then seemed unlikely to direct again.
    “And Sigourney Weaver stuck up for him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:29 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Mank → David Fincher. Mank is Fincher looking at something that is not about murder and death.
    “finally, you know, David Fincher looks at something that isn't about murder and death”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (tonal contrast): David Fincher → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Even his ostensibly sentimental film is strange, so Mank is unlikely to be warm.
    “David Fincher has just never made a warm movie. Even Benjamin Button, which is ostensibly very sentimental, is like just a very strange film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): David Fincher → Aaron Sorkin. Fincher's technical precision is set against Sorkin's play-it-fast-and-loose habits.
    “Fincher's technical precision, very difficult, uh, very different from Sorkin's hole, play fast and loose.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:46:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (10)

  1. craft (craft): David Fincher → Jared Leto. Fincher likes to riff on movie-star personas, beating up the pretty boy (Leto) on screen.
    “let me see how many times I can beat up this pretty boy on screen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): David Fincher → Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh warned Fincher that his operator-less camera plan would drive him insane, and he was right.
    “Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): David Fincher → Kristen Stewart. Fincher noted Foster was so much more advanced a screen actor that Stewart needed more takes.
    “he noted that they needed to shoot more takes with her and foster because Foster was so much more advanced as a screen actor”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:42 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. craft (music video peers): David Fincher → Mark Romanek. Fincher gave a mercenary jukebox quote about Propaganda Films in an interview alongside Romanek.
    “Fincher likened it to a jukebox. Right? He's like, you put your quarter in one end and something comes out the other.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:53:20 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Aaron Sorkin → David Fincher. Sorkin excels when meeting a dark-hearted collaborator such as Fincher.
    “I think that when he meets very darkhearted figures, either in the characters he's creating or in his counterparts creatively, like David Fincher, that's when he excels.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:22:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): The Social Network → David Fincher. Sorkin excels when paired with a dark-hearted counterpart like Fincher; the sum is greater than the parts.
    “the magic in this is what happens when you put together like a just fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:13:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Mank → David Fincher. Fincher shot and cut Mank to look like a 1940s film.
    “he has shot this film to look like a film from the 1940s and the trailer has been cut to look like a film from the 1940s”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. craft (house style): David Fincher → Netflix. The speaker says Netflix shows now look like a watered-down Fincher because he established the look of Netflix.
    “we're kind of living in a world where everything is forced to look like a bad Fincher project because he established the look of Netflix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. craft (early scores): Howard Shore → David Fincher. Shore does all of Fincher's early scores.
    “He does all of Fincher's early scores and they're so good.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:08:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → David Fincher. Her perfectionism is compared to Fincher and Kubrick.
    “it's in it, like, to a David Fincher Kubrick degree.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (10)

  1. lineage (origin wound): David Fincher → Alien 3. Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman.
    “there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (influence): David Fincher → Alfred Hitchcock. Fincher loves Hitchcock, who made conventionally entertaining movies carrying deep, confused emotional themes, the dual-entertainment mode Fincher pursues.
    “he also knows that he loves Alfred Hitchcock, and what does Alfred Hitchcock do? He makes conventionally entertaining movies that have deep, confused, emotional themes”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:12:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (unmade remake): Strangers on a Train (Fincher/Flynn remake, unmade) → David Fincher. Fincher and Gillian Flynn were going to remake Strangers on a Train as a loose springboard.
    “He and Jillian Flynn were going to remake strangers on a train.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:02 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (influence): Bob Fosse → David Fincher. Fincher loves Fosse.
    “Well, he loves Fosse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:53:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (influence): All That Jazz → David Fincher. The speaker says Fincher loves Fosse and always cites All That Jazz.
    “All that jazz is like a recurring influence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:53:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (influence): Alfred Hitchcock → David Fincher. Fincher obviously cites Hitchcock (the speaker adds so do many people).
    “he obviously cites Hitchcock, so massively”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:14:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (early inspiration): David Fincher → Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. A televised making-of documentary about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blew young Fincher's mind about how movies are made.
    “the film that inspired young Fincher most”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (influence): Mary Poppins → David Fincher. Fincher cites Mary Poppins as a humongous movie for him, when he curated his influences at MOMA.
    “he cites Mary Poppins as like a humongous movie for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (unmade adaptation): David Fincher → Rendezvous with Rama (unmade film). Fincher tried for about 20 years to make Rendezvous with Rama.
    “Fincher tried to make for like 20 years.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:27:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (parallel origin story): James Cameron → David Fincher. Both lost control of a first film and reacted by vowing never to lose again; Cameron became a tyrant, Fincher says he will quit.
    “He like, I'm never fucking losing an argument ever again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:28:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (23)

  1. people (near-miss director): David Fincher → Madonna: Truth or Dare. Speaker believes Fincher was supposed to make the film.
    “I think Fincher was supposed to make this movie, in fact.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:39:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (director count): Tony Scott → David Fincher. Tony Scott may be approaching Fincher territory for number of Rewatchables episodes.
    “This now might be Tony's getting into the Fincher zone, I think, with how many rewatchables we've done with Tony Scott now?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:02:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (director of follow-up): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (and the planned Fincher follow-up) → David Fincher. Fincher is making the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up for Netflix.
    “if not for Netflix, this movie would not be getting made, because Fincher is the kind of person who can get it made”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:26:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): David Fincher → Kirk Baxter. Baxter, with Messerschmidt and Walker, is credited as essential to what Fincher's movies are.
    “these movies are not what they are without Kirk Baxter and and Eric Mezerschmidt and Andrew Kevin Walker”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): David Fincher → Erik Messerschmidt. Messerschmidt, with Baxter and Walker, is credited as essential to what Fincher's movies are.
    “these movies are not what they are without Kirk Baxter and and Eric Mezerschmidt and Andrew Kevin Walker”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): The Game → David Fincher. Sean identifies The Game as the Fincher movie.
    “The Fincher movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. people (shared crew): Erik Messerschmidt → David Fincher. Messerschmidt shot Mindhunter and then Mank, his first Fincher feature.
    “It's the 1st time he's working with Venture film wise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:12:44 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. people (replaced as director): McG → David Fincher. Fincher took over 20,000 Leagues from Disney's first choice, McG.
    “taking over from their 1st choice, McGee.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:21:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. people (replaced as director): Paul Greengrass → David Fincher. Fincher took over Cleopatra from Greengrass, and it began as a James Cameron project.
    “Taking over from Paul Greengrass that was originally a James Cameron project.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:24:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. people (casting rationale): David Fincher → Stellan Skarsgard. Fincher cast Skarsgard as the villain because he is the most relaxed, comfortable man, which makes viewers rethink evil.
    “Stone Scarsgard is the most relaxed person on earth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:06:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. people (casting rationale): David Fincher → Rooney Mara. Fincher wanted someone who cannot be discouraged, the last puppy in the window.
    “I want the last puppy in the window.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:57:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. people (casting rationale): David Fincher → Scarlett Johansson. Fincher reportedly said Johansson could not be cast without being titillating.
    “there is no way to not make Scarlett Johansson titillating.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. people (later collaboration): David Fincher → Gary Oldman. Fincher eventually worked with Oldman and admires him.
    “I mean, obviously, Fincher eventually worked with Oldman and really admires Oldman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 1:49:29 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  14. people (collaborator): David Fincher → Trent Reznor. The speaker traces Reznor's place in Fincher's work back through a Nine Inch Nails video and Seven, and calls bringing him on board hugely influential.
    “Trent Rezner. through doing a night jail. Music video, obviously. with him on seven. Bringing him on board is maybe the most influential thing in the movie business that he did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. people (recurring actor): Zach Grenier → David Fincher. Grenier is an A-plus Fincher freak, usually cast as a freak.
    “Zach Rennier, who's, you know, A plus Fincher freak.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:48:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (screened for crew): All That Jazz → David Fincher. A host read somewhere that All That Jazz was the movie Fincher screened for his crew as the style to match.
    “I was just reading somewhere about like all that jazz being the movie that he screened for his crew a bunch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:14:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. people (prior collaborator): Darius Khondji → David Fincher. Fincher had worked with Khondji before, and Khondji never works with him again.
    “who Fincher had worked with.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:32:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. people (recurring composers): David Fincher → Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. With The Social Network Fincher found composers he would keep using.
    “But then like when he gets Rezner and Ross for social network, it's kind of the 1st time he's like, okay, I've found like my composers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. people (composer brief): Elliot Goldenthal → David Fincher. Goldenthal says Fincher wanted the audience to feel completely fucked within five minutes with no hope.
    “Fincher told him he wanted him, you to feel, you the audience, to feel you were completely fucked within 5 minutes and that there is no hope completely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 2:00:36 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. people (casting philosophy): David Fincher → Barry Lyndon. Fincher's reported rule of casting for the core quality (Rooney Mara) is compared to Kubrick casting O'Neal.
    “And it's like that's the Ryan O'Neill casting here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:33:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. people (collaborator warmth): Stanley Kubrick → David Fincher. Speaker says the warmth of Kubrick's collaborators reminds him of Fincher's collaborators.
    “And it really does remind me of Fincher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:07:10 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. people (later collaborator): Trent Reznor → David Fincher. Reznor later scored Fincher's movies.
    “And of course, the Trent Rezner eventually does music for adventure movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:15:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. people (repeat casting): David Fincher → Holt McCallany. Fincher cast McCallany in Alien 3 and 25 years later starred him in his Netflix cop show.
    “Fincher's like, hey, Holt, I'm doing a cop show for Netflix, like, you should be the star.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (7)

  1. theme (anecdote parallel): Steven Soderbergh → David Fincher. Soderbergh's story of Fincher's hyper-precise color notes is used to explain a protagonist who cannot turn off noticing.
    “I cannot imagine the curse of being able to notice that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:43:03 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (Kubrick comparison): David Fincher → Room 237. Fincher, like Kubrick, is a filmmaker whose myth invites assuming every detail is intentional.
    “you look at a movie like Room 237, that movie could only be made about Stanley Kubrick because people assume everything has intention.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:10:18 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (quote echoed in film): David Fincher → The Killer. Fincher's two-places-for-the-camera line is the film's inciting incident: the shot is wrong.
    “inciting incident is the shot's wrong, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:25:32 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. theme (analogy): Vincente Minnelli → David Fincher. Fincher getting a murder basement is like giving a basketball to Michael Jordan, or Minnelli letting Gene Kelly dance.
    “Concinte Manelli being like, and Gene Kelly, I now just let you dance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 2:23:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. theme (technology comparison): David Fincher → Peter Jackson. Fincher did not usually pioneer technology for the next generation the way Zemeckis or Jackson did.
    “But I do think in that way that's more often the, like, the Zameckis, Peter Jackson”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:54:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. theme (long-time team comparison): David Fincher → Wes Anderson. Like Wes Anderson and Spielberg, Fincher's strength comes from a loyal team that finishes his sentences.
    “filmmakers like Wes Anderson, like Spielberg and whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:41:36 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → David Fincher. Speakers compare Kubrick and Fincher on set intensity and discipline.
    “I think it's sort of similar, though, with Kubrick and Fincher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:37:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (26)

  1. unmapped (next series): David Fincher → The Killer. The next miniseries is Fincher timed to his fall release The Killer, with Brendan Hines to guest.
    “We are doing the films of David Fincher, who has a new movie coming out this fall and we want to sync up with that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:10:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (semiotic control): The Social Network → David Fincher. A half-second poster in a party montage shows Fincher fusses over every detail, so every sign is assumed meaningful.
    “in the social network, there's like that half 2nd shot during one of the party montages. There's a poster on the wall that's like boobs versus brains”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:10:50 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (early commercial reference): David Fincher → 2001: A Space Odyssey. At 24 Fincher used a baby smoking, a 2001 reference, in an American Cancer Society ad.
    “a baby smoking a cigarette as a, as a, as a reference to 2001 is incredibly powerful iconography”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:17:15 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (autobiographical reading): David Fincher → The Killer. The killer's mantras are how Fincher talks to himself on set.
    “I do think to some degree, this is how Fincher talks to himself on set.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:23:48 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (heir): Alfred Hitchcock → David Fincher. Sean says Fincher has been a reasonable heir to Hitchcock, so a Hitchcock remake bores him.
    “he's been doing a great job of being a reasonable heir to Hitchcock”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (Netflix as MGM): Mank → David Fincher. Fincher thinks of Netflix as rebels throwing stones at the old castle, then peak MGM; Mayer's line about selling what we own fits.
    “And he thinks that Netflix are like the rebels throwing stones at the old castle, and then within 10 years, it's like, oh, Netflix is now peak MGM.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:50:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (rumor): David Fincher → Pawn Sacrifice. Fincher was rumored to direct Pawn Sacrifice but says he only consulted on the script.
    “he was briefly rumored to be directing pawn sacrifice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:43:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (title sequences): Tim Miller → David Fincher. Miller worked with Fincher a lot and did many of his title sequences.
    “Tim Miller, who eventually makes the Deadpool movie, but worked with Fincher a lot and did a lot of his title sequences and such.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:20:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (protege): David Fincher → Tim Miller. Fincher kept generating projects to boost Tim Miller from animatics and titles to filmmaker.
    “it felt like he kept on trying to generate projects for Tim Miller, and Heavy Metal was one of those to sort of boost Tim Miller”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:20:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (many takes): David Fincher → Stanley Kubrick. Fincher's 100 takes are compared to Kubrick as a search for something that surprises the director, not a fixed target.
    “It's sort of, much like we talked about, Kubrick, where it's like, he's not doing 100 takes looking for them to achieve a thing he's waiting for.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:35:26 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (technology spectacle): David Fincher → Robert Zemeckis. Button was Fincher's version of a Zemeckis project, going back to the Gump comparison.
    “But this was his kind of Zamecasi going back to the Forrest Gump thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:52:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (paired episodes): David Fincher → Martin Brest. The show pairs every Fincher record with a Martin Brest record, starting with Meet Joe Black.
    “We're doing every one of our Fincher records paired as a back-to-back with a breast record.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:26:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (courtship): Tom Cruise → David Fincher. Cruise passed on Fincher for The Last Samurai, then offered him MI3 with a Robert Towne script.
    “Cruz considered Furdig, decided to do last samurai instead, but then was like, here's a Robert Towns script for MI3.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:39:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (attached then replaced): David Fincher → The Black Dahlia. Fincher was attached and pitched a miniseries; the project became a film De Palma made.
    “that turns into a movie that De Palma makes a flawed, but interesting film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:45:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (next wave): David Fincher → Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Hammer & Tongs. After the Madonna peak, Gondry, Jonze and Hammer & Tongs made more experimental, less star-driven videos.
    “Gondry and Jones and Hammer and Tongs and all those people, start doing things that were more experimental and that were less star vehicles for the actual musical artists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:29:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (company): David Fincher → Reset Content. Fincher has a commercial production company, Reset Content, that represents directors including himself.
    “he has his own commercial production company called reset content.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 2:19:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (friendship): Fred Durst → David Fincher. Durst is described as a close friend of Fincher.
    “Now, Fred Durst, famously close friends with David Fincher.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:01:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (company): David Fincher → Propaganda Films. Propaganda was Fincher's music video company.
    “David Fincher's music video companies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:42:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (similar): Phil Joanou → David Fincher. Joanou was a hotshot director similar to Fincher.
    “who was similar to Fincher”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:27:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (creative alignment): Harris Savides → David Fincher. Fincher, by the host's account, trusts Savides to light without micromanaging.
    “Harris Savita's instincts and styles are so aligned with my own”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:28:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (strong concepts): David Fincher → Milos Forman. Douglas said only Forman and Verhoeven rival Fincher for strong concepts.
    “have such strong concepts as David, and that is Milish Foreman”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:58:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (strong concepts): David Fincher → Paul Verhoeven. Douglas said only Forman and Verhoeven rival Fincher for strong concepts.
    “and Paul Verhoven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:58:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (many takes): David Fincher → Stanley Kubrick. Fincher describes his many takes as getting preconceptions out of the actors, as speakers compare to Kubrick.
    “That's the way Fincher talks about it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:12:09 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (rights holder brought him in): Morgan Freeman → David Fincher. Freeman held the Rama rights and got Fincher involved.
    “Freeman had the rights got Fincher involved.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:27:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (shared people): David Fincher → Nine Inch Nails. Fincher directed many Nine Inch Nails videos before Alien 3.
    “This is Fincher making his 1st movie after being king of the music video, including doing a lot of Niners Nails video.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:15:15 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (shared DP): Jeff Cronenweth → David Fincher. Jeff worked the camera team on Fincher's videos and became DP on Fight Club.
    “But then he takes he becomes DP on Fight Club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:06:32 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (4)

  1. verdict (verdict): David Fincher → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dragon Tattoo has become Fincher's most underrated film.
    “which is Girl with a Dragon tattoo.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:24:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): David Fincher → Alien 3. There is no bad Fincher movie, Alien 3 included.
    “Alien 3 is good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:24:57 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): David Fincher → Seven. The group answers Who won the movie with Fincher, with Freeman nearly sharing it.
    “I say Fincher.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:25:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (favorite filmmaker): Bob Fosse → David Fincher. A host believes All That Jazz is one of Fincher's favorite films and Fosse a favorite filmmaker.
    “I believe one of David Fincher's favorite movies or Fosse's one of his favorite filmmakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:12:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (6)

  1. what-if (what-if): David Fincher → Rocky. Fincher, joked about as moving curtains in Panic Room, is invited to fix the Rocky crowd.
    “Fincher is like moving curtains in panic room.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:13:47 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (unmade Fincher film) → David Fincher. A Fincher 20,000 Leagues could have been a signature event film of the 21st century.
    “could have been one of the signature event films of the 21st century”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:45:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): I Love Trouble → David Fincher. I Love Trouble is a murder-mystery quest that needs Fincher's obsessive attention to detail.
    “what it needs is that obsessive, artful attention to detail”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): The Intern → David Fincher. Fincher could find the darkness at the edge of The Intern.
    “I sense a darkness at the edge of, um, that movie, uh, that I feel that he could explore”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (swapped projects): Jeremiah Chechik → David Fincher. Chechik was first choice on Se7en and made The Avengers instead; Fincher was attached to The Avengers and made Se7en.
    “But they did a full swap years apart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:33:59 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if casting): David Fincher → Richard E. Grant. Fincher wanted Grant, fresh off Withnail and I, for the Dance role.
    “Fincher wanted Richard E. Grant coming off of Whitnail and I for this for the Charles dance role”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:38:31 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about David Fincher: Next miniseries: Fincher, with The Curious Cast of Benjamin Buttcast as the title; a Reddit user had guessed it a day before.
    “And then someone yesterday on Reddit fucking said they're probably going to call it the curious pot of Benjamin Butt cast, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:11:47 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher's lessons from Panic Room: don't shoot 100 days in one place; he ended up two years in thinking nothing was worth it.
    “And then you end up 2 years into the challenge.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about David Fincher: Steven Soderbergh warned him the camera plan would drive him insane; Fincher showed it to him and Soderbergh was right.
    “Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about David Fincher: The Q&A team (Klyce, Messerschmidt, Baxter) answered every question with 'that was David's idea.' Walker said Fincher walked him through the whole movie when pitching it.
    “every time they got asked a question, they would be like, that's David.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about David Fincher: Early career: Fincher compared Propaganda Films to a jukebox, put a quarter in one end and a product comes out, a mercenary quote underlying an artist.
    “Fincher likened it to a jukebox.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:53:26 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about David Fincher: On Alien 3, a producer reportedly said 'you sell shoes, shut up' on conference calls; the chip on his shoulder never left.
    “one of the producers of alien was like, you sell shoes, like, shut up”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:00:09 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about David Fincher: Rumor: Fincher is considering a movie about cancel culture.
    “there's rumors that Fincher wants to make a movie about cancel culture.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:04:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about David Fincher: At the Academy Museum Q&A, an audience member asked how to make iconic movies in the age of TikTok. Fincher sighed and said he never thinks 'how can I make this more iconic' when setting up a shot.
    “when I set up a shot, I don't think, dude, how can I make this more iconic?”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:16:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about David Fincher: Netflix is betting on a black-and-white, no-movie-star historical drama because studios have not funded Fincher in 7 or 8 years.
    “studios haven't been giving David Fincher money to make movies for the last 7 or 8 years for a reason.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:38:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about David Fincher: Griffin's Letterboxd one-liner: the film is Fincher's nightmare of being allowed only one take, and the missed shot is the nightmare.
    “a psychological horror film about David Fincher imagining a reality where he's only allowed one take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about David Fincher: A Fincher line the host paraphrases: only two places to put the camera, and one of them is wrong.
    “I think there are only 2 places to put the camera and one of them is wrong.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:25:28 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about David Fincher: His 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ended up a search for 'which 3 names you could rub together to make platinum'; his plan made Nemo a Middle Eastern prince.
    “it became this bizarre endeavor to find which 3 names you could rub together to make platinum.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:22:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about David Fincher: His dialogue rule: people use words to lie, so dialogue should not reveal truth; truth comes through behavior.
    “I think people use words to lie. Dialogue should not be like revealing truth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:06:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher consulted everyone he knew who had survived abuse to get the assault scenes right.
    “canvassed, everyone in his life who he knew who had experienced some sort of traumatic abuse”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:40:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher resented being told whom to cast, and nearly cast someone else out of spite until he watched Eisenberg's tape.
    “Fincher said interviews like, I hate when people tell me who to cast, especially the public.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:54:46 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about David Fincher: Why a hundred takes: Fincher says the surprising little things only come out after the lines are routine; the Erica line appeared in a single take.
    “And Fincher's like, that's like the kind of fucking moment I'm looking for, which he only does on one take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:35:47 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about David Fincher: On the last shooting day Fincher handed Sorkin the third insert shot to direct.
    “I'm going to do the 1st two. I'm going to get in the car, you direct the 3rd one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:36:23 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about David Fincher: Studio asked for 200 grand and Fincher said he needed 40 million; he argues he never rents gear he will not use.
    “I know also when he signed on to do this movie, I think Pascal was like, we have this budget for $200000 and Fincher was like, I need 40.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:43:59 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher on his style for this film.
    “Fincher said, my style in this was trying to have no style.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 2:44:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about David Fincher: On the commentary Fincher said Benjamin's behavior is largely modeled after his own father, who died shortly before.
    “He said that Benjamin Button behavior is largely modeled after his father”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about David Fincher: The hosts invent a Fincher production credit: from the desk of the Finchman.
    “From the desk of the Finchman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:50:35 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher's stated goal for Zodiac: a serial-killer movie the killers could not enjoy.
    “I wanted to make a movie that serial killers couldn't masturbate to.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:31:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about David Fincher: A host says Fincher thinks the death of the music video cost a generation of visually distinctive filmmakers their training ground.
    “the death of the music video has really been at the expense of a new generation of visually distinctive filmmakers coming up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:32:11 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher is the most nominated and most winning director at the VMAs; his last video, Suit & Tie, was his final win.
    “Did you know that David Fincher is the most nominated and most winningest VMA for best direction director ever?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:05:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about David Fincher: How Fincher's agent pitched the book so he would read it in one night.
    “there's a guy in it who pisses in soup and splices porn into family films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:54:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about David Fincher: Alex's take that Fincher built his own perfectionist myth.
    “I just think he created this myth of himself, rather than it being kind of created despite himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:50:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about David Fincher: Twenty years later Fincher on that attack.
    “My dad probably liked Fight Club less than Paul did, which I think is a funny line.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:10:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher on his daughter at nine meeting a fan of the film.
    “I took her aside and said, you are no longer to hang out with Max.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:11:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about David Fincher: A speaker calls Fincher an unreliable narrator of his own artistry: the rain was practical, and also a choice.
    “Fincher is actually an unreliable narrator in a way because he will often downplay, I think, his own artistry.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher on his crew once the shoot began.
    “because now I have to get what's in my head out to all of you Cretans.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:03:32 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about David Fincher: Reading a 2009 Fincher interview: you don't need to see it, imagination does the work.
    “the imagination, if properly primed, can do more than any army of makeup artists, that was always my thing, get people to fear, get them to see it in their heads.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 2:13:32 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about David Fincher: As a boy he asked for a BB gun, was refused, and asked for a movie camera instead, on the theory that it cost far more.
    “he asked his mother for a BB gun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:43:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about David Fincher: The anti-smoking ad that launched his music-video career: a fetus smoking in utero.
    “a fetus is smoking a cigarette in utero as an anti-cancer ad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about David Fincher: Told by the Paramount president that nobody would give him $400,000 for a first picture, Fincher answered with a joke about a 40-minute movie.
    “Why would I do a 40 minute movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:49:13 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about David Fincher: His original Alien 3 pitch, in his own words, had multiple Lance Henriksens and 3,000 stormtroopers.
    “There were 3 Lance Henrikssons running around.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher says he tried to quit on day one; his agent said he could never work in town again.
    “Fincher says he tried to quit on day one and his agent was like, you can't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:14 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about David Fincher: In a behind-the-scenes clip on the Panic Room DVD, Fincher gives notes over the previs in real time, never waiting for it to finish.
    “he is nonstop just going like, that needs to be 2 inches lower.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:54:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)