Edward Norton

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q125904: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Incredible Hulk, which Iron Man credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Primal Fear (1996); American History X (1998); Rounders (1998); Fight Club (1999); 25th Hour (2002); Death to Smoochy (2002); Frida (2002); Red Dragon (2002); The Italian Job (2003); Kingdom of Heaven (2005); The Incredible Hulk (2008); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); Birdman (2014); The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Sausage Party (2016); Isle of Dogs (2018); Alita: Battle Angel (2019); Motherless Brooklyn (2019); The French Dispatch (2021); Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022); Asteroid City (2023); The Invite (2026); Collateral Beauty; Down in the Valley; Everyone Says I Love You; Leaves of Grass; Pride and Glory; The Bourne Legacy; The Illusionist; The Painted Veil; The People vs. Larry Flynt; The Score. Count them as director (2 films), writer (1 film), producer (1 film) 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.

Seven (1995): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Without Se7en's power Fincher does not get to do The Game and Fight Club his way.
    “I think without this movie, he doesn't go on this run”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:27:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career lever) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Se7en's success is what let Fincher make the seemingly impossible Fight Club.
    “But the fight club is him more being like, okay, guys, I know this seems impossible, but I made seven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Chuck Palahniuk: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book.
    “obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Do the Right Thing (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback) · through 25th Hour (2002), which they acted in: Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read). 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness.
    “There's a 25th hour version of that too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Douglas Coupland: 1 line

  1. lineage (literary lineage) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing.
    “It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Gladiator (2000): 1 line

  1. unmapped (followed) · through Kingdom of Heaven (2005), which they acted in: Gladiator ⇒ Kingdom of Heaven (the host's read). Ridley tried to repeat Gladiator with Kingdom of Heaven and again later.
    “And even Ridley tried to do it. Kingdom of Heaven. Two more times.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Hulk (2003): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read). Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening.
    “And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

The Incredible Hulk (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read). A speaker says the film reuses the old TV show's score, the sad-guitar cue from Bixby walking away, even though Craig Armstrong scored it.
    “They used the score from the Incredible Hulk at some point in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:47:14 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Last of Sheila: 1 line

  1. lineage (character influence) · through Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), which they acted in: The Last of Sheila ⇒ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (the host's read). The Sue Mengers-type characterization in Last of Sheila influenced Kate Hudson's part in Glass Onion.
    “And she's that sort of characterization is very influential to the way that Kate Hudson plays her part in Glass Onion.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:03:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001): 1 line

  1. verdict (verdict) · through The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), which they acted in: The Royal Tenenbaums ⇒ The Grand Budapest Hotel (the host's read). Grand Budapest is the best alternative case for the Anderson slot, but it could not exist without Tenenbaums' blueprint.
    “Um, but Grand Budapest does not exist.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:38:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Panic Room (2002): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), 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 Fight Club (1999), 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 Fight Club (1999), 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)

The Avengers (2012): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it.
    “That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out.
    “The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25 sure it was them)

Captain America (First Avenger / MCU): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through The Incredible Hulk (2008), which they acted in: The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read). The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America.
    “And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

Deadpool 2 (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (joke template) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Deadpool 2 (the host's read). A joke that Fight Club is the template Deadpool perfected.
    “I walked so that Deadpool could run.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (4) everyone in directing

Acting (52) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career reclaim): Wes Anderson → Edward Norton. Norton's wilderness period ends when Wes Anderson reclaims him as goofy.
    “that he isn't really pulled out of until Wes Anderson reclaims him and is like, you are goofy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Edward Norton → Frida. Norton did uncredited rewrites and edits on Frida to try to save it, a pattern with his rewriting reputation.
    “He did like uncredited rewrites and edits on free to try to save the movie because Weinstein wanted to be in business with him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:10:52 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Wes Anderson → Edward Norton. Anderson is the only director using Norton well post-Hulk, against type as a weak Poindexter.
    “Right, at this point, it's like Wes Anderson's the only guy who's using him well, and he's using him against the type of everything he had done in the 1st 10 years of his career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:15:09 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Birdman → Edward Norton. Norton's Birdman role satirizes his own reputation as a controlling actor.
    “Feels like he satirizes himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:15:36 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Edward Norton. Norton made you want the Hulk out already; Ruffalo makes you feel for Banner.
    “Whereas like with Norton you're like, turn into the Hulk already.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:33:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Edward Norton → The Incredible Hulk. Norton rewrote Zak Penn's script, cut Rick Jones and more S.H.I.E.L.D., added the flower scene, and lobbied the WGA.
    “Norton takes Rick Jones out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:18:18 · Griffin or David (0.35 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (comparison (Fincher's commentary)): Edward Norton → Buster Keaton. On the commentary Fincher keeps comparing Norton's funny-to-watch-get-punched quality to Keaton.
    “He kept saying he's like Buster Keaton.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:18:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (self-positioning): Edward Norton → Robert De Niro. Norton was positioning himself as the new De Niro in the late 90s.
    “positioning himself as like, I'm the new De Niro.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (co-stars): Courtney Love → Edward Norton. Love and Norton had been in Larry Flynt together, feeding a story that Norton wanted her as Marla.
    “they had been in people versus Larry Flynn together.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:40:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Edward Norton: The Pitt and Norton handshake deal on weight: Norton lived on vitamins for six months.
    “Norton was like, I basically was on a diet of vitamins for 6 months.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:36:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Edward Norton: Norton got permission to do Fight Club by agreeing to The Italian Job, which he then complained about on the press tour.
    “He gets permission to appear in this movie with Italian job as the price,”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:37:50 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Edward Norton: Norton reportedly said his good cut ran 2 hours 15 minutes, but the hosts say nothing in the film would be improved by more character material.
    “Norton said the good cut of the movie is like 2 hours and 15 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:19:08 · Griffin or David (0.30 sure it was them)