Anthony Burgess

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film). Count them as writer (4 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.

Arthur Schnitzler: 2 lines

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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 were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

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

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Kirk Douglas: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of the project) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Modern Romance: 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Terry Southern: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of an idea) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (title origin) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

War and Peace: 1 line

  1. unmapped (scale envy) · through Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film), which they were tied to as asked by Kubrick to take a swing at Napoleon: War and Peace ⇒ Napoleon (Kubrick's unmade film) (the host's read). Kubrick is imagined looking at Bondarchuk's War and Peace and thinking he could stage battles like that.
    “He's just looking at that and being like, I could do this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:12:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

A Clockwork Orange (1971): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (book vs film) · them, directly: 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) · them, directly: 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)

Andy Warhol: 1 line

  1. lineage (earlier adaptation) · them, directly: Anthony Burgess ⇒ Andy Warhol (the host's read). Warhol's Vinyl is an adaptation of the same book, which the speaker calls lightly inspired by it.
    “I think it's lightly inspired.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:22:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Babygirl (2024): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (2016): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

Phantom Thread (2017): 1 line

  1. unmapped (lesson learned) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they were tied to as novelist asked to read the novella: 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)

What the speakers said they did

Writing (4) everyone in writing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. 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)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (adaptation): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. 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)
  2. lineage (earlier adaptation): Andy Warhol → Anthony Burgess. Warhol's Vinyl is an adaptation of the same book, which the speaker calls lightly inspired by it.
    “I think it's lightly inspired.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:22:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (shared theme): Anthony Burgess → The Wanting Seed (novel). Burgess's earlier novel is another dystopia, about overpopulation and food scarcity instead of violence.
    “the Anthony Burgess novel before a Clockwork Orange is very similar in that it's a dystopian future”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:49:43 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. 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)
  2. unmapped (book vs film): Anthony Burgess → A Clockwork Orange. 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)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Anthony Burgess: When Burgess adapted the book as a stage play, an actor dressed as Kubrick sang Singin' in the Rain and got beaten up on stage.
    “get an actor dressed like Stanley Kubrick with an umbrella, singing, singing in the rain, and they beat the shit at him on stage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:16:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)