Jake Gyllenhaal

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

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Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Avatar (2009); Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Count them as actor (11 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.

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage.
    “In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies.
    “It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic (1997): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar could only be made because Titanic gave Cameron the clout.
    “I'd never have gotten to make it if he hadn't made Titanic.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:09:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: Titanic ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Titanic made Cameron so successful that Hollywood let him do anything.
    “needed to have this extraordinary amount of success over these decades to conceive an execute of something so crazy as Avatar.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: Aliens ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Making Aliens (a voiceless monster) is what let Cameron individualize the humans there and flip that in Avatar.
    “I wonder if he hadn't made aliens if he could have arrived at that.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Apocalypse Now (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting.
    “He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so). Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery.
    “Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Edgar Rice Burroughs: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment). Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard.
    “drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

John Carter of Mars: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story.
    “Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

John Ford: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read). Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies.
    “lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Lee Van Cleef: 1 line

  1. lineage (source of a detail) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it). The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting.
    “that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

The Hateful Eight (2015): 1 line

  1. theme (opening echo) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: The Hateful Eight ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The slow pan out to the painting of Rick echoes the slow pan out to the Jesus statue in Hateful Eight.
    “It's very similar to the beginning of Hateful 8, where there's this very slow panout and it's like a Jesus Christ statue.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
    “Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958): 1 line

  1. lineage (based on) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they were tied to as joke casting alternative: Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive.
    “Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:14 · 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.

RoboCop (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avatar (2009), which they were tied to as considered for Jake Sully: Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (15) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Jake Gyllenhaal → Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal, a former child actor, signed on wanting an anti-teen movie.
    “He was interested in making what he called an anti-teen movie.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:14 · Brian Raftery (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Amy Adams → Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal gets a pass for fooling around in Nocturnal Animals while Adams gets criticized.
    “Jake Gyllenhaal can have a little fun and fuck around in nocturnal animals and everyone's fine with it”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:36:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Jake Gyllenhaal → Donnie Darko. Archival Gyllenhaal: Darko is about adolescent psychology, unlike party-and-pies teen movies.
    “That was a movie that was sort of more about the psychological journey of, like, of adolescence and the confusion of all of it.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:38 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Avatar → Jake Gyllenhaal. Other movie-star options for Jake Sully were considered after Damon said no.
    “is it a Gyllenhaal, do you get someone who's at that level, there were a couple people in the mix”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jake Gyllenhaal: Zodiac shot through the Brokeback Mountain awards season, and Fincher would not release him for events; Fincher says he was distracted.
    “And Fincher will not release him to do shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:59:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jake Gyllenhaal: Fincher's dossier line on how scattered Gyllenhaal was on set during his campaign.
    “He was being nibbled to death by ducks and not particularly smart ducks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:00:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jake Gyllenhaal: On the making-of, Gyllenhaal asks Fincher to confirm he is good at inserts after dozens of takes of his hands scribbling; Fincher teases, then agrees.
    “no, no, no, you are, you are good at inserts.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:02:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)