José Padilha

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: RoboCop (1987); Elite Squad (2007); Bus 174; Entebbe.

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.

Avatar (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through RoboCop (1987), which they directed: Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers.
    “It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Batman Begins (2005): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through RoboCop (1987), which they directed: Batman Begins ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it.
    “The Batman begins effect.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Flesh and Blood (1985): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through RoboCop (1987), which they directed: Flesh and Blood ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). Flesh+Blood is the failure that led Verhoeven to Hollywood and RoboCop, where he built entertainment around his interests.
    “from this film on, he figures out how to take everything he's interested in and put it into the body of a conventionally entertaining Hollywood movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:49:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz (1939): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through RoboCop (1987), which they directed: The Wizard of Oz ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read). The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart.
    “If I only had a heart is what it's.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (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.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (4) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): José Padilha → Elite Squad. Padilha comes from a gritty, stripped-down neo-realist police-force background, so the studio hired him for a serious reboot.
    “this is the director who comes from a sort of like gritty kind of, uh, stripped down neo-realist”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:10:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): José Padilha → Fernando Meirelles. Meirelles said Padilha told him making RoboCop was the worst experience of his life, with nine of every ten ideas cut.
    “Every 10 ideas I have, 9 are cut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:31:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about José Padilha: He told Meirelles it was hell; Meirelles repeated it in the press as a warning about Hollywood.
    “I'm having the worst experience of my life.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)