Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Made films the shows talk about.

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: Delicatessen (1991); The City of Lost Children (1995); Alien Resurrection (1997); Amélie (2001); A Very Long Engagement (2004).

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.

Alien 3 (1992): 2 lines

  1. lineage (sequel undoes ending) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they directed: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death.
    “My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they directed: Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died.
    “As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Goldfinger: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they directed: Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read). The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad.
    “it's the goldfinger ending.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Heavy Metal: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Heavy Metal ⇒ Jean-Pierre Jeunet (the host's read). Jeunet comes out of the grimy dystopian French sci-fi comic aesthetic of the 70s through 90s.
    “And this is very much the aesthetic that Jhené is coming out of.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:14:07 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Firefly (TV): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they directed: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read). The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show.
    “I mean, some proto firefly stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien Resurrection (1997), which they directed: Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read). Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs.
    “the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (10) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Delicatessen. Griffin was shown Delicatessen and City of Lost Children by his French mother before Resurrection let him down.
    “She had absolutely made me watch, uh, Delicatessen and City of Lost Children at this point”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Delicatessen. Jeunet's own early films are inventive, dystopian comedy.
    “You know, he makes delicatessen, which is a really good movie and really invented little, you know, sort of dystopian comedy movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:05:38 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Amélie. After Resurrection flopped, Jeunet went back to Paris and made Amélie, which took over culture.
    “I'm going to just go off back to fucking Paris and make a movie about a nice fucking lady who lives in Paris and makes bread and shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:06:06 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → A Very Long Engagement. Jeunet's only other Hollywood-financed film was A Very Long Engagement, a Hollywood production made in France on his terms.
    “Very long engagement's a Hollywood production, but in France on his own terms.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:59:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Amélie. Jeunet went from bleak and misanthropic work to the most whimsical film imaginable.
    “And then after this, he makes the most whimsical manic pixie dream girl.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:13:27 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → The City of Lost Children. Big industrial sets and neon are Jeunet's signature; that is what City of Lost Children is all about.
    “that's what City Lost Children's all about.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:43:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (studio hiring pattern): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Vincent Ward. Fox later hired Jeunet for Resurrection the same way it hired Ward: a unique artistic vision, just have a meeting.
    “which is clearly what they did with Jhene later too, where they're just sort of like, well, this guy has a unique artistic vision.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:57:44 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Alien → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The Alien series was already a franchise for early-career filmmakers.
    “Alien was one of the few franchises that already kind of functioned like that, where it was a franchise for early filmmakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:12:56 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Heavy Metal. Jeunet comes out of the grimy dystopian French sci-fi comic aesthetic of the 70s through 90s.
    “And this is very much the aesthetic that Jhené is coming out of.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:14:07 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (people): Joss Whedon → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. A Whedon script was handed to a distinctive French auteur, a bad pairing.
    “It's a terrible match.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:11:43 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dominique Pinon → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Pinon is part of Jeunet's regular company of actors.
    “He's a Jhené company player.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:18:43 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Pitof → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Pitof, the Resurrection VFX supervisor and later Catwoman director, is Jeunet's French VFX guy.
    “He's Jhene's guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:19:38 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Darius Khondji → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Jeunet brought his own French collaborators, cinematographer Darius Khondji and VFX man Pitof, plus his production crew, onto Alien: Resurrection.
    “he brings all of his French people, right? Like he brings Darius Kanji, and he brings Pitoff, and he brings like his sort of, um, uh, production crew who all speak the same language as him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:58:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → Alien Resurrection. Jeunet brought his French crew and could not talk to the writers, producers or actors; the film is cohesive visually.
    “And this movie is very cohesive visually.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:58:55 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → A Very Long Engagement. Jeunet feels like a director to put in a future bracket.
    “he certainly feels like someone we should throw on a bracket at some point.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:59:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (hiring pattern): Jean-Pierre Jeunet → James Cameron. Jeunet was the Cameron-style pick of a director fresh off a breakout, unlike Scott or Fincher.
    “Janae is like the Cameron pick of like someone who just had a major breakout movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:24 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

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