Lucien Ballard

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as cinematographer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they shot, which the two lists below run through too: The Killing (1956).

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.

Clean Break (novel): 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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)

Stanley Kubrick: 1 line

  1. unmapped (drew on his chess life) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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)

Drawn on by

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

One-Eyed Jacks (1961): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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

  1. unmapped (led to) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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)

The Dark Knight (2008): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Killing (1956), which they shot: 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)

What the speakers said they did

Photography (2) everyone in photography

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. 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)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Lucien Ballard: Kubrick's ultimatum over the 25mm lens: move the camera or leave the set; silence, then Ballard moved it.
    “you either move that camera and put it where it has to be to use a 25 millimeter or you get off the set and you never come back”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:22:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)