Stanley Kubrick

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q2001: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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: Day of the Fight (1951); Flying Padre (1951); Fear and Desire (1953); The Seafarers (1953); Killer's Kiss (1955); The Killing (1956); Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus (1960); Lolita (1962); Dr. Strangelove (1964); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); A Clockwork Orange (1971); Barry Lyndon (1975); The Shining (1980); Full Metal Jacket (1987); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); All films (named by guest). Count them as writer (13 films), producer (2 films), cinematographer (5 films), craft (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.

Stephen King: 3 lines

  1. unmapped (blueprint) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the maker said so: Kubrick quotes in the research dossier). The speakers read Kubrick saying the novel's plot is a good blueprint for the movie he wanted to make.
    “I can make whatever movie I want with that as a blueprint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:04:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read). The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie.
    “This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast) · them, directly: Stephen King ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). King felt Kubrick's film ripped the guts out of his story; the speaker doesn't blame him though Kubrick's film is its own great thing.
    “that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. unmapped (self-reference) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (led to Kubrick mythology) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ The Shining (the host's read). 2001 is the reason for Kubrick's godlike mythology, without which people would invest less in The Shining.
    “I don't think people would invest as much into The Shining if this movie didn't exist.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Anthony Burgess: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (book vs film) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). Reading the novel again, the speaker finds it almost the same as the film, dialogue and all.
    “The dialogue is, it's just unbelievable how little he changed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:17:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little.
    “Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Arthur Schnitzler: 2 lines

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). Kubrick turned Schnitzler's Dream Story into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later (per the dossier).
    “the Arthur Schnitzler book that he's going to turn into Eyes Wide Shut 30 plus years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:40 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (source novella) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one.
    “And it is very similar to eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Day of the Fight (1951): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Killer's Kiss (1955), which they directed: Day of the Fight ⇒ Killer's Kiss (the host's read). The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss.
    “Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (led to) · through Flying Padre (1951), which they directed: Day of the Fight ⇒ Flying Padre (the host's read). RKO liked Day of the Fight and advanced money for Flying Padre.
    “And so RKO, happy with what he made, gives him $1,500 advance to make flying Padre”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:31:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Adlai Stevenson: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Adlai Stevenson ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Speaker says Peter Sellers modeled the President (Muffley) on Adlai Stevenson.
    “He modeled it on Adlai Stevenson.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:27:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Bob Newhart: 1 line

  1. lineage (comedic influence) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier.
    “I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Cabaret (1972): 1 line

  1. people (casting source) · through Barry Lyndon (1975), which they directed: Cabaret ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read). Kubrick cast Berenson after loving her in Cabaret.
    “Yeah, he loved her in cabaret.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:14:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Clean Break (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: Clean Break (novel) ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The film is the screen version of the novel Clean Break.
    “Clean Break was the name of the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Curtis LeMay: 1 line

  1. unmapped (real-life model) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Curtis LeMay ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). Jack D. Ripper is said to be very obviously based on Air Force chief Curtis LeMay.
    “Jack D. Ripper also is very obviously based on Curtis LeMay, who, uh, was the head of the Air Force at the time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:00:51 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Douglas Trumbull: 1 line

  1. craft (effects constraint led to music choice) · them, directly: Douglas Trumbull ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). Because Trumbull's effects needed slow movement, Kubrick fell for the waltz pace of The Blue Danube.
    “So that's why Stanley Kubrick starts falling in love with the blue Danube”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella.
    “It's not adapted from Schnitzler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film): 1 line

  1. career (career sequence) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: Holocaust movie (Kubrick's unmade film) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick failing to crack a Holocaust movie, as Barry Lyndon came out of Napoleon.
    “it does feel similar to Full Metal Jacket coming out of him trying to make a Holocaust movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:23:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Humphrey Cobb: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they directed: Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

James B. Harris: 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template) · them, directly: James B. Harris ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the host's read). Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Kirk Douglas: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of the project) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so). Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights.
    “Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lionel Trilling: 1 line

  1. lineage (critical source) · them, directly: Lionel Trilling ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the maker said so: Kubrick quotes read aloud from the host's dossier (interview not named)). Kubrick points to Trilling's piece calling Lolita the first great love story of the 20th century to explain his reading.
    “He points to a Lionel Trilling piece that called it the great 1st great love story of the 20th century”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lolita (1955 novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Lolita (1962), which they directed: Lolita (1955 novel) ⇒ Lolita (the host's read). The 1962 film is adapted from Nabokov's novel; the speaker reads Crowther's review saying the film keeps the names and a resemblance of plot.
    “They made a movie from a script in which the characters have the same name as the characters in the book, and the plot bears a resemblance to the original”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Lon Chaney: 1 line

  1. unmapped (direction note) · them, directly: Lon Chaney ⇒ Stanley Kubrick (the maker said so: a Vincent D'Onofrio quote the speaker reads). Kubrick told D'Onofrio before a scene to be Lon Chaney big, as relayed in a D'Onofrio quote.
    “Apparently, before one scene, Kubrick said, I want you to be big. Lon Cheney big.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Look magazine photo feature (Walter Cartier): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Day of the Fight (1951), which they directed: Look magazine photo feature (Walter Cartier) ⇒ Day of the Fight (the host's read). Day of the Fight was based on a photo feature Kubrick shot for Look.
    “it was based on a photo feature he'd shot for look”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:30:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Modern Romance: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Modern Romance ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so: Kubrick's call to Albert Brooks, 'that famous story'). Kubrick reached out to Albert Brooks after Modern Romance because he wanted to bottle that dynamic of men and women.
    “if you like reached out to Albert Brooks after seeing modern romance and said, like, Brit, and he was like, how did you do this?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

R. Lee Ermey: 1 line

  1. lineage (source of the dialogue) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed.
    “No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Red Alert (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read). The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert.
    “so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (drew on his chess life) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to restoration) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Steven Spielberg ⇒ Spartacus (the host's read). Spielberg talked Kubrick into letting the film be restored and re-released.
    “and Spielberg knew him then. and was like, well, they're, you know, the American cinema tech or whoever wants to do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 2:01:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Terry Southern: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of an idea) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Terry Southern ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). A conversation Southern had with Kubrick about an erotic film that looks like a film is called a kernel of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “he basically had a conversation at one point with Kubrick that is a kernel of eyes wide shut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:42 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

The March of Time: 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Day of the Fight (1951), which they directed: The March of Time ⇒ Day of the Fight (the host's read). Kubrick was inspired to make Day of the Fight cheaply after Singer worked on the costly March of Time short.
    “what he was inspired by was Alexander Singer had worked on another short, the March of Time, which apparently it's like, they'd spent $40,000 making”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:31:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Sentinel (short story): 1 line

  1. lineage (source story) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read). The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea.
    “So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Short-Timers (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure.
    “Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (title origin) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read). The speaker offers that the phrase 'eyes wide shut' may come from the le Carre novel.
    “It may have been inspired from Tinker Teal or Soldier Spy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project): 1 line

  1. career (project that led to another) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read). The speaker says Full Metal Jacket came out of Kubrick searching for the right Holocaust material.
    “Full Mal Jack comes out of him searching for the right Holocaust material.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:29:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

William Makepeace Thackeray: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Barry Lyndon (1975), which they directed: William Makepeace Thackeray ⇒ Barry Lyndon (the host's read). Kubrick adapted Thackeray's novel Barry Lyndon into the film.
    “versus just reading Barry Lindon once and then going, oh, I could just adapt this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:24:16 · 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.

Doctor Sleep (2019): 6 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
    “You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
    “Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
    “it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
    “It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
    “Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (sequel) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read). Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
    “There's also Doctor Sleep.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984): 5 lines

  1. lineage (sequel) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
    “Obviously, the sequel exists.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas.
    “it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to.
    “Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (sequel) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout.
    “And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (borrowed music) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read). The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end.
    “Yeah, is the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Gladiator (2000): 3 lines

  1. lineage (riff / imitation) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on.
    “this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting approach) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). Gladiator, like Spartacus, is loaded with supporting actors who are thespian gems, which the speaker says Scott recognized.
    “as Ridley Scott recognized about this movie, is like loaded up with supporting actors who are like just thespian gems.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:33:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (scene reused) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read). The trident thrown into the stands in Spartacus is in Gladiator too, with Russell Crowe doing it.
    “that's literally in Gladiator.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (inherited project) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jack Kirby: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (led to Fourth World) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read). Kirby's Fourth World is said to come out of his 2001 work.
    “Yeah, and I think like 4th world essentially comes out of it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (comic adaptation) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Jack Kirby (the host's read). Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way.
    “Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mike Flanagan: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (learned sustained tension) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the maker said so: a Flanagan quote the host reads from the research dossier). Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (style borrowed) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Mike Flanagan (the host's read). Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Ready Player One: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read). Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
    “Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Silent Running (1972): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read). 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running.
    “2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (wave of imitators) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read). After 2001 came a wave of slower sci-fi imitators, naming Silent Running and Capricorn One.
    “But it is funny, like after this, there's a wave of imitators, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Simpsons (TV): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (parody) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read). The Simpsons parodied the film; the speaker knew its elements from parodies first.
    “I feel like I'd seen so many parodies of different elements of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:35:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parodied) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read). The Simpsons reference this film a lot.
    “But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:29:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ 1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.) (the host's read). After The Shining and Carrie came the real 1980s wave of King adaptations.
    “the real 80s wave of like lots of king stuff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

2010 (1984): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read). Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books.
    “But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

2069: A Sex Odyssey: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read). The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001.
    “actually is actually very influenced by this film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30 sure it was them)

A Clockwork Orange (1971): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (self-reference) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read). The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)

Ad Astra (2019): 1 line

  1. unmapped (cribbing) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Ad Astra (the host's read). Ad Astra is called the one other film that feels realistic about space travel, and it cribs from 2001.
    “is cribbing from it so much where like the way at Astra depicts space travel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:41:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Adam McKay: 1 line

  1. unmapped (aspirational template) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Adam McKay (the host's read). Speaker says Strangelove is probably McKay's north star, the thing he strives toward.
    “But I think you're right, though, that McKay is this is probably his north star, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:05:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Airplane! (1980): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read). The Spartacus bath-scene joke is the joke in Airplane and it still works.
    “there's a reason that it's it's the fucking joke in airplane and that the joke still works so well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Babygirl (2024): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read). The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Being There (1979): 1 line

  1. theme (theme reused) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Being There (the host's read). Being There used a funky version of 2001's Zarathustra theme for its big moment.
    “they were going to play the also Sprack Zarathustra, but they did the funky version instead”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)

Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel): 1 line

  1. unmapped (roman a clef) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel) (the host's read). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
    “there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Bobby's World (TV): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read). The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining.
    “And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Clueless (1995): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

David Fincher: 1 line

  1. unmapped (early commercial reference) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 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)

David Simon: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they directed: Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Dead Presidents (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes). Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon.
    “So I watched Full Metal Jacket.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80 sure it was them)

Dell Comics: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Spartacus (1960), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read). Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era.
    “that this had a Dell comics color adaptation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Elvis Presley: 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Elvis Presley (the host's read). Elvis took the Zarathustra overture from the film almost immediately and opened his concerts with it.
    “Almost immediately after the movie took this took the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:38:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)

Flying Padre (1951): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Day of the Fight (1951), which they directed: Day of the Fight ⇒ Flying Padre (the host's read). RKO liked Day of the Fight and advanced money for Flying Padre.
    “And so RKO, happy with what he made, gives him $1,500 advance to make flying Padre”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:31:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. theme (character type (Desi)) · through Lolita (1962), which they directed: Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary). On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris.
    “Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Her Smell (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode). The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell.
    “This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)

History of the World, Part I (1981): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ History of the World, Part I (the host's read). Monty Python and History of the World Part I did 2001 parodies.
    “they did 2001 of Space Odyssey parodies. History of the World Part one.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:00 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)

Jarhead (2005): 1 line

  1. unmapped (generational template) · through Full Metal Jacket (1987), which they directed: Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Jarhead (the host's read). Jarhead is described as trying to be the Full Metal Jacket of the Iraq war generation.
    “like jarhead feels like it's very much trying to be the full metal jacket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (2016): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read). Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut.
    “this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85 sure it was them)

Killer's Kiss (1955): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (inspiration) · through Day of the Fight (1951), which they directed: Day of the Fight ⇒ Killer's Kiss (the host's read). The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss.
    “Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

One-Eyed Jacks (1961): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ One-Eyed Jacks (the host's read). Brando had seen The Killing and Paths of Glory and wanted Kubrick to direct his western.
    “Marlon Brando had seen the killing and had seen paths of glory and thought Kubrick was great.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:39:11 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Paths of Glory (1957): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

Phantom Thread (2017): 1 line

  1. unmapped (lesson learned) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they directed: Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read). The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads). Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
    “but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Roger Moore Bond films: 1 line

  1. craft (set design template) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Roger Moore Bond films (the host's read). Speaker says hiring a Bond designer for the war room changed how such rooms look on screen forever, and the Bond movies being covered have war-room sets.
    “It is funny how this movie, this hiring a James Bond guy to design the war room, uh, changes the way you're allowed to put these things on screen forever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries): 1 line

  1. unmapped (answered by) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries) (the host's read). King's own miniseries is described as him showing folks the real Shining, after his objections to the film.
    “okay, time to roll up my sleeves and show you folks the real shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:47:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line

  1. career (unmade project taken up) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Steven Spielberg (the host's read). Kubrick could not make A.I. because technology was not ready; Spielberg eventually did.
    “which obviously Steven Spielberg eventually makes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through A Clockwork Orange (1971), which they directed: A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs.
    “all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

The Dark Knight (2008): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Killing (1956), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read). The clown mask is said to look basically like the Joker mask Nolan pays homage to in The Dark Knight.
    “Nolan obviously pays homage to in the Dark Knight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (drew on his chess life) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ The Killing (the host's read). The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. people (casting persona) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ The Long Goodbye (the host's read). Speaker says Strangelove was the first time Hayden's personal struggles were put on screen, and later filmmakers used that persona going forward (Godfather, Long Goodbye).
    “This is the 1st time when like his personal struggles, like were actualized in a movie, and then I felt like filmmakers only used this in movies going forward”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:55:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Shining (1980): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (led to Kubrick mythology) · through 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which they directed: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ The Shining (the host's read). 2001 is the reason for Kubrick's godlike mythology, without which people would invest less in The Shining.
    “I don't think people would invest as much into The Shining if this movie didn't exist.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Wire (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they directed: Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Zodiac (2007): 1 line

  1. unmapped (stolen move) · through The Shining (1980), which they directed: The Shining ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read). Fincher steals the Steadicam move where the camera turns with the car and keeps it centered.
    “Fincher steals that move of like when the car turns a corner”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Zucker Brothers: 1 line

  1. lineage (comedic influence) · through Dr. Strangelove (1964), which they directed: Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read). Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams.
    “I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

blank check directors: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template) · them, directly: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ blank check directors (the host's read). Kubrick's genre-by-genre career is a template many Blank Check directors follow.
    “And it's also the thing that like he has this template that I think a lot of blank check directors follow”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:10:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (122) everyone in directing

Other (26) everyone in other

Writing (13) everyone in writing

Photography (6) everyone in photography

Craft (3) everyone in craft

Producing (2) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): The Killing → Stanley Kubrick. The Killing let Kubrick leap from B-picture craftsman to the most significant film artist of his time.
    “the movie that allowed Kubrick to take the leap from very crafty photographer trying to make his way doing B pictures”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): James Cameron → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick, Blank Check's current series, is most like Cameron in not missing when he gets going.
    “Who's more similar to Cameron and like when he gets going, he pretty much doesn't miss.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:06:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (inherited project): Stanley Kubrick → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (unmade project taken up): Stanley Kubrick → Steven Spielberg. Kubrick could not make A.I. because technology was not ready; Spielberg eventually did.
    “which obviously Steven Spielberg eventually makes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:35:14 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. career (offered a project): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Burgess. While working on this film Kubrick asked Burgess to take a swing at Napoleon.
    “He even like said to Anthony Burgess like, hey, do you want like to take a swing at Napoleon?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career parallel): John Frankenheimer → Stanley Kubrick. Frankenheimer's 1962 to 1966 run is compared to Kubrick trying a different genre each time.
    “this movie comes in the middle of the most underrated five-year run in any American filmmaker's history, which is John Frankenheimer from 1962 to 1966”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:02:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Kirk Douglas → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick assumed what a Kirk Douglas movie should be; Douglas wanted to use his stardom to make other kinds of movies.
    “And Kirk Douglas was like, I don't want to make Kirk Douglas movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): Stanley Kubrick → Eyes Wide Shut. Guerrilla street shooting in Killer's Kiss versus building his own New York for his last film.
    “just funny thing to contrast with his career ending with eyes wide shut where he's like, I'm going to fucking make my own New York City.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:04:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Mel Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Brooks and Kubrick are opposite in vibe, so Brooks may do better against Kubrick than Welles would.
    “Brooks and Kubrick will be at such opposite ends in terms of vibe, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Stephen King → Stanley Kubrick. King felt Kubrick's film ripped the guts out of his story; the speaker doesn't blame him though Kubrick's film is its own great thing.
    “that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (style comparison): Tár → Stanley Kubrick. Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office.
    “it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Full Metal Jacket → Stanley Kubrick. The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks.
    “that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. The set would mean a long shoot with a great filmmaker, two stars in an actual marriage and untold stories.
    “obviously you've got one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 2 of our favorite stars in the midst of a marriage and a film about the potential dissolution of a marriage”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:11:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (style borrowed): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan replicates the Kubrick style in Doctor Sleep without it feeling like pastiche.
    “He replicates the Kubrick style incredibly well in that movie without it feeling like force pastiche.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. craft (effects constraint led to music choice): Douglas Trumbull → Stanley Kubrick. Because Trumbull's effects needed slow movement, Kubrick fell for the waltz pace of The Blue Danube.
    “So that's why Stanley Kubrick starts falling in love with the blue Danube”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Stanley Kubrick. Same comparison: perfectionist takes.
    “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)

industry (5)

  1. industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → John Hughes. Kubrick loved John Hughes movies, which is why he wanted Hall.
    “So Stanley Kubrick, for some reason, love John Hughes movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:53 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Wes Anderson → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick never winning an Oscar is why not winning feels cool.
    “Stanley Kubrick never won.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:41:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (Oscar credit): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. The special-effects Oscar went to Kubrick rather than Trumbull.
    “The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:15:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. industry (business deal): Stanley Kubrick → Kirk Douglas. Kubrick had a five-picture deal with Kirk Douglas; only two got made before Douglas released him, largely because Douglas wanted nothing to do with Lolita.
    “He's also got this 5 picture deal with Kirk Douglas, 2 movies, end up getting done before Kirk Douglas releases him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:39:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → James Cameron. Kubrick, like Cameron, would rather lose a film than lose control of how he makes it.
    “It's it's sort of the Cameron thing of like, what's a worse fate for him than not being able to make a movie is not being able to make a movie the way he wants to.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (9)

  1. lineage (lineage): Ready Player One → Stanley Kubrick. The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part.
    “There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): James Gray → Stanley Kubrick. Gray says if Fellini and Kubrick got slaughtered for it, he must readjust his expectations.
    “well, if it happens to someone as great as Fellini or Stanley Kubrick,”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:17:33 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (unmade adaptation): Stanley Kubrick → Vanity Fair. Kubrick said he considered filming Vanity Fair but could not compress it, so he took Barry Lyndon.
    “He had said at one point he considered turning Vanity Fair into a film, but he couldn't figure out how to compress it into a feature length, because it's so sprawling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:22:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (admired source): Stanley Kubrick → Childhood's End (novel). Kubrick read and liked Clarke's Childhood's End but someone else had the rights.
    “he reads childhood's end, he likes it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (critical source): Lionel Trilling → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick points to Trilling's piece calling Lolita the first great love story of the 20th century to explain his reading.
    “He points to a Lionel Trilling piece that called it the great 1st great love story of the 20th century”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:40:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (romantic lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Lolita. Kubrick (per the dossier) places Lolita in the lineage of illicit love stories like Romeo and Juliet.
    “If you consider Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, the red and the black.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:41:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Fear and Desire. Kubrick's four explicit war movies are Strangelove, Fear and Desire, Full Metal Jacket and Paths of Glory.
    “This strange love, fear and desire, and full metal jacket.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:23:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Killer's Kiss. Early films like Killer's Kiss and Fear and Desire are seen as the developmental stage.
    “the sort of fear and desire, killer's kiss, the killing run feels like, well, that's the developmental.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:41:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The Killing is where Kubrick first has a real grasp of the language; Paths of Glory sits after it.
    “The killing is when he finally has sort of like a real grasp on the language.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:41:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (15)

  1. people (auteur credit): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. Eyes Wide Shut's success owes to it being a Kubrick film and playing with Cruise-Kidman.
    “such a huge part of that movie's success, in addition to it being a Kubrick film”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:31:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting first choice): Stanley Kubrick → Anthony Michael Hall. Kubrick wanted Hall for Joker after seeing Sixteen Candles; eight months of talks broke down.
    “He saw 16 candles. He was like this guy's an incredible actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:44:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (co-writer): Stanley Kubrick → Diane Johnson. Kubrick co-wrote the script with the novelist Diane Johnson.
    “obviously he co-wrote this movie with Diane Johnson”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (shared crew): John Alcott → Stanley Kubrick. Alcott shot The Shining and also worked on other Kubrick films.
    “John Alcott's the DP of this movie, but, um, who works on other cubrics.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (casting research): Stanley Kubrick → Stanley Donen. Kubrick phoned Donen, who knew Berenson, and quizzed him before offering her the part.
    “And he called Stanley Donan, I guess who knew her, and basically grilled Stanley Donan on everything about her.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. people (director asks about a shot): Stanley Kubrick → Outland. On his call with Hyams, Kubrick's first question was how Hyams did a certain shot in Outland.
    “and immediately asks him how he did a certain shot in Outland.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. people (solo writer-director): Steven Spielberg → Stanley Kubrick. Written and directed by is rare for Kubrick; A.I. was the same for Spielberg later.
    “It is, the rare written and directed by, yeah, much like AI later for Spielberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:23:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. people (collaboration): Stanley Kubrick → Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick opened by letter asking Clarke about doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie together.
    “His letter is, I've wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. people (collaborator): Peter Sellers → Stanley Kubrick. Sellers is called a Kubrick collaborator and tied to Being There.
    “Sellers, of course, has a tremendous Kuber connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:20 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. people (unrealized collaboration): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was one of only three people who met to direct Network, but he and Chayefsky never clicked.
    “Kubrick was like one of only 3 people who even met to direct that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:31:34 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  11. 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)
  12. people (director comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick is compared to Hitchcock on precision of vision, but Kubrick sought discovery while Hitchcock had the movie in his head.
    “he's compared so much to Hitchcock and the precision of the vision and everything like that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:08:28 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): Timothy Carey → Stanley Kubrick. Paths of Glory was Kubrick and Carey's second film together and their last.
    “this is Kubrick and Tim Carey's 2nd movie together and very much, uh, their last.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. people (collaboration conflict): Stanley Kubrick → Lucien Ballard. Kubrick and Ballard fought over lenses and the racetrack footage; Kubrick won the wide lens fight.
    “so much of the stuff from the set of this movie is him fighting with Lucien Ballard over lens sizes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:21:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. people (method vs auteur): Daniel Day-Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Patton sets nice Day-Lewis against Kubrick as the two examples people over-imitate.
    “Kubrick and Daniel De Lewis loom too large as those 2 examples.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Harold Becker → Stanley Kubrick. Becker now has as many movies on The Rewatchables as Stanley Kubrick.
    “Harold Becker now has the same number of movies on the rewatchables is Stanley Kubrick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (thematic): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. The speaker says Kubrick's films are all about the fight between humanity's consciousness and animal instinct, which Raging Bull also tackles.
    “which is the fight between the consciousness, uh, of humanity and the subconscious nature of animal instinct, and that that inherent battle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:30:14 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (same location instruction): Stanley Kubrick → Ken Adam. Kubrick told Ken Adam to find every location within 20 miles of his home, as on Barry Lyndon.
    “Which was basically the same thing he told him for Barry Lyndon”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:39:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Kubrick's chaotic dinner parties are contrasted with lavish Wes Anderson restaurant dinners.
    “but they weren't these like sort of lavish like Wes Anderson eating at the finest restaurant dinner parties.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. 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)
  5. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson offered as today's comparison for Kubrick's control and exactness.
    “you want to compare him to someone like Wes Anderson, who is certainly one of the most controlled directors working today.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:38:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick or Hitchcock as the most legendary director.
    “It's either him or Hitchcock is like the most sort of like legendary director of all time, I guess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:15:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (39)

  1. unmapped (technical rigor): Buster Keaton → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton is highly technical, mechanical and formal in framing, which makes him a little Kubrickian.
    “if you'll allow me, please, I think he's a little Kubrickian.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:50:07 · James Urbaniak (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (period-accuracy obsession): The General → Stanley Kubrick. Keaton's obsessive uniform and detail accuracy on The General was Kubrickian, a push as a director beyond comedy.
    “he was so obsessed with like fucking, you brought it up, James, but like Kubrickian, every fucking uniform has to be period accurate.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:59:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (slow vs fast): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. Hosts wish great directors like Scorsese and Coogler would bang out quick movies like Soderbergh; Kubrick is cited as another who took his time.
    “So Stan Kubrick is another one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (temperament): Yorgos Lanthimos → Stanley Kubrick. Sean calls Lanthimos a 'we are all alone' filmmaker in the Kubrick mold, at least until now.
    “he is like a Kubrickian, we are all alone kind of filmmaker.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:21:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  5. 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)
  6. unmapped (worked with): R. Lee Ermey → Stanley Kubrick. Ermey worked with Kubrick, even more famously exacting than Fincher, yet trashed Fincher as controlling.
    “But also he worked with Stanley Kubrick, who I consider even more famously exacting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 0:55:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (mentorship): Todd Field → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick saw Field's potential as a director and let him into the process more, per the speaker.
    “recognized that he had potential as a director that his interests are going that way and brought him into the process a little more”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:26:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (learned sustained tension): Stanley Kubrick → Mike Flanagan. Flanagan, quoted from the hosts' dossier, says he learned sustaining tension over jump scares from Kubrick.
    “I'm much more interested in sustaining tension, which I learned from Mr. Stanley Cooper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:13:41 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (wanted to adapt): Dispatches (book) → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick also wanted to adapt Herr's Dispatches, which has no narrative.
    “And that's like another thing that Kubrick wanted to adapt.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:37:34 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (assistant): Leon Vitali → Stanley Kubrick. Vitali, Barry Lyndon's stepson, gave up acting to be Kubrick's executive assistant.
    “Who plays like Barry Lyndon's stepson and was like a young actor who then gave up his entire acting career to be Stanley Kubrick's executive assistant for the rest of his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:51:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (direction note): Lon Chaney → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick told D'Onofrio before a scene to be Lon Chaney big, as relayed in a D'Onofrio quote.
    “Apparently, before one scene, Kubrick said, I want you to be big. Lon Cheney big.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (regular hairdresser): Leonard Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Leonard always did Kubrick's hair credits, which is why Hair by Leonard shows on many of his films.
    “His name is Leonard Lewis. He was the world's first celebrity hairdresser.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 2:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (talked out of it): Paddy Chayefsky → Stanley Kubrick. Chayefsky eventually told Kubrick he should not direct Network because they were both control freaks.
    “Cheevsky eventually is like, you shouldn't do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. 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)
  15. unmapped (friends): Stanley Kubrick → Steven Spielberg. Kubrick and Spielberg were very close.
    “obviously Kubrick and Spielberg very close”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:31 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (blessing and advice): Stanley Kubrick → Peter Hyams. Kubrick approved the sequel and told Hyams to make it his own film, not Kubrick's.
    “His big piece of advice was just make it your own film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (roman a clef): Stanley Kubrick → Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
    “there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (grudge): Anthony Burgess → Stanley Kubrick. Writers Kubrick adapted ended up enraged and obsessed with him, as Burgess did on stage.
    “whenever he adapted someone's work, they sort of were like simultaneously enraged and obsessed with him in the wake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (admired film): Stanley Kubrick → Ikarie XB-1. Kubrick admired the Czech film Ikarie XB-1 among the science fiction films he screened.
    “He admired the Czech film Ickery XB1, which people have got to see.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:51:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (hiring): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. Kubrick found Trumbull because of his work at the World's Fair.
    “And Kubrick found Trumbull, I believe, because he had done stuff at the World's Fair.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:16:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (producing partners): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris and Kubrick are named as a producing pair (transcribed as 'Harrison Kubrick').
    “Harrison Kubrick, speaking of all the adaptation stuff that you were talking about.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:58:56 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (worked together): Laurence Olivier → Stanley Kubrick. Olivier is the obvious Humbert choice, especially since Kubrick had just directed him in Spartacus.
    “I mean, especially just coming off of Spartacus and Kubrick getting that kind of performance out of him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:12:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (long takes): Stanley Kubrick → Alfred Hitchcock. Kubrick's ten-minute takes are tied to the early-60s moment when Hitchcock was pushing that too.
    “which I feel like is a thing in the early six, because that's when Hitchcock's fucking with that the most, too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:27:57 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (regret): Stanley Kubrick → Lolita. Kubrick later said that had he known how severe the limits would be he probably would not have made it.
    “Kubrick later finally just comes out and says it and says, if I'd realized how severe limitations would be, I probably just wouldn't have made it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (replaced by): Anthony Mann → Stanley Kubrick. Douglas brought in Kubrick after firing Anthony Mann.
    “Douglas brings him in after firing the original Anthony Mann or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:27:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay): Stanley Kubrick → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (drew on his chess life): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (introduction): Alexander Singer → Stanley Kubrick. Singer introduced Harris to Kubrick.
    “Alexander Singer is a guy he knows who introduces him to Stanley Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (set the template): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (admired): Albert Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wanted Brooks's notes on Modern Romance, which captured jealousy.
    “I need you Albert Brooks to give me Stanley Kubrick notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (admired): Steve Martin → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wrote Steve Martin asking for notes on The Jerk.
    “Kubrick was like sending letters to Steve Martin about the jerk”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:49 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (cruel humor): Coen Brothers → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's humor and the Coens' are both cruel to their characters.
    “they are very cruel to their protagonists in their films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:17:26 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. unmapped (template): Stanley Kubrick → blank check directors. Kubrick's genre-by-genre career is a template many Blank Check directors follow.
    “And it's also the thing that like he has this template that I think a lot of blank check directors follow”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:10:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (admired by): Stanley Kubrick → All That Jazz. Kubrick is said to have loved All That Jazz and Modern Romance.
    “Like, oh, he loved all that jazz and modern romance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:17:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. unmapped (married): Stanley Kubrick → Ruth Sobotka. Ruth Sobotka, a dancer, is Kubrick's second wife and appears in Killer's Kiss.
    “His 2nd wife is Ruth Sabatka, a dancer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:25:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (similar trajectory): Stanley Kubrick → Christopher Nolan. Self-taught path from watching movies to directing, as Nolan did.
    “Like, I mean, Nolan sort of has a similar trajectory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (devoted reader): Stanley Kubrick → Vsevolod Pudovkin. Kubrick obsessed over Eisenstein and Pudovkin, especially Pudovkin's book Film Technique.
    “He's obsessed with Sergei Eisenstein and Bezvelod Pudovkin, the 2nd Pudovkin, especially, who wrote a book called The Film Technique.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:28:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (disowned): Fear and Desire → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was embarrassed by the film; the host reads his quote.
    “It's not a film I remember with any pride, he says.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:44:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (color): The Seafarers → Stanley Kubrick. The Seafarers was Kubrick's first color work, not repeated until Spartacus.
    “It's also the 1st time he shoots in color for the 1st time and he won't do it again until Spartacus.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:04:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. A masterpiece, Kubrick's Christmas movie, and an automatic Hall of Fame inclusion.
    “Obviously, a masterpiece, Stanley Kubrick's Christmas movie”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Stanley Kubrick → Roger Ebert. Ebert argued Paths of Glory might be Kubrick's best film.
    “I think Ebert even argued it was perhaps his best film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:42:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Stanley Kubrick → Fritz Lang. The speaker predicts Kubrick will beat Lang despite Lang's run of surprises.
    “I think Kubrick probably bodies laying as much as Lang has surprised us every single matchup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:29:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (what-if): Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film) → Stanley Kubrick. Napoleon is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie; the book shows the work Kubrick put in.
    “Napoleon is like, is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie ever”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): A.I. Artificial Intelligence → Stanley Kubrick. A.I. would have been darker if it were a Kubrick film.
    “if it were a Kubrick movie, it would have been even more dark.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Stanley Kubrick → Network. Kubrick was approached to direct Network, which would have been an interesting what-if.
    “To direct network, which is an interesting what if?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:00:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if swap): Sidney Lumet → Stanley Kubrick. Speaker finds it fascinating to imagine Lumet directing Strangelove and Kubrick directing Fail-Safe.
    “it's really, really fascinating to imagine a world in which these 2 guys like flipped these movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:51:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): I Love Melvin → Stanley Kubrick. A Look photographer lead in I Love Melvin: the speaker imagines Kubrick seeing it.
    “I think Kubrick saw this and was like, excuse me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:02:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Gray opens with Kubrick's line that choosing a film is like asking why you married your wife.
    “it's a little bit like, you know, uh, asking why you married your wife”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:00:53 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick wouldn't get on a plane, so second-unit crews shot the New York establishing shots without him.
    “you guys go shoot 2nd unit establishing shots in New York City without me. I cannot be bothered to get on a plane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:25:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick was torturing himself over the shoes a character wears, which the speakers jokingly say makes him the inventor of Uggs.
    “You know that he was like torturing himself about the UGs and he made a conscious choice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:34:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick had his secretary bring him stacks of bestselling horror novels and she heard a book hit the wall every ten minutes until the day she heard nothing for two hours.
    “every 10 minutes she'd hear a book hit the wall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the phone, Kubrick told King the idea of a ghost is optimistic because it presupposes an afterlife, and answered King's question about hell with a flat denial.
    “I don't believe in hell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:45:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: To plan the costumes and sets Kubrick bought art books and tore pages out of them, feeling guilty about it.
    “He said that, quote, he had to very guiltily tear up a lot of beautiful art books.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:24:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's own casting justification for O'Neal is a backhanded compliment: he was confident O'Neal could act better than his earlier films let him.
    “Kubrick's Kubrick's quote here is he looked right and I was confident he possessed much greater acting ability than he'd been allowed to show in any of the films he'd previously done.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's first question to Hyams on the phone was how Hyams did a shot in Outland, an hour into movie talk before the sequel was even addressed.
    “and immediately asks him how he did a certain shot in Outland.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:21:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's advice to Hyams was to make it his own film.
    “His big piece of advice was just make it your own film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:22:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's box maker says he sent a 40-page document and months went into the micron of card for a perfect lid.
    “And he's just like, Stanley came to us with a 40 page document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:03:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In the Ciment book Kubrick says on the opening zoom: save cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the place.
    “It's important to save your cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the actual place you're going to film it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:32:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick shot the handheld shots himself in all his movies, which the speaker calls an underanalyzed strength.
    “That he did all the handheld stuff himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:57:52 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's daughter says her father wanted to be a short-order cook, which fits his chaotic hosted dinners.
    “I think my father always had this secret dream of being like a short order cook.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick on why he did not want drugs to be the source of the film, as read from the dossier.
    “I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:16:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick always said that if he had known how hard Lolita would be under the Hays Code he would not have made it.
    “Kubrick always said, if he knew how difficult it was going to be to make this movie under the Hayes code, he wouldn't have made it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:18:27 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Cinematographer kicks a light into the scene to ask if there is enough; Kubrick says now there is too much.
    “Kubrick looks at it and looks back at him and he says, now there's too much light.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:53:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the battlefield, extras playing dead were numbered, directed by number, and the numbers taken away before the shot.
    “he would call out like, hey, 76, like be more dead or whatever.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:01:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Universal asked for 30 camera setups a day; Kubrick offered two; they landed on eight.
    “And Kubrick was like, okay, I'm going to give you two.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In contemporary press Kubrick said shooting a movie is a terrible environment for an artist.
    “shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:22:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Arliss Howard recalls Kubrick astonished that so many people had opinions about Spartacus.
    “Said when he did Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick said he was astonished at how many people were allowed to have opinions on the content of the movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:25:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: The research dossier's theory: the endless takes were waiting to be surprised, not to see what was in his head.
    “It sounded so much more that the thing he was waiting for was for something to surprise him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:29:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's name is said Kubrick in America; reportedly he let people in England go on saying it the English way.
    “And then when he went to England, people assumed it was cubric and he didn't correct them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:13:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Graduated Taft High with a 67 average; no college would take him.
    “eventually ends up at Taft High School in the Bronx with a 60, graduates with a 67 average, which I guess is bad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:18:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: At double features he read his paper by whatever light he could find while actors talked, rustling it at the audience.
    “If actors started to talk too much, he would read his paper by whatever light he could find until they stopped talking, very annoying audience members.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: His uncle wanted a percentage of his whole career; Kubrick refused, then caved a month later for one film.
    “And Kubrick, stubborn fuck that he was, was like, I'm not fucking signing right with my career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:33:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)