David O. Russell

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q314342: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Fight Club (1999); n/a. Count them as director (8 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.

Seven (1995): 2 lines

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

Chuck Palahniuk: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book.
    “obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Douglas Coupland: 1 line

  1. lineage (literary lineage) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing.
    “It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Panic Room (2002): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Deadpool 2 (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (joke template) · through Fight Club (1999), which they were tied to as director offered Fight Club 1st; said he did not understand the book: Fight Club ⇒ Deadpool 2 (the host's read). A joke that Fight Club is the template Deadpool perfected.
    “I walked so that Deadpool could run.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (9) everyone in directing

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (loyal collaborator): Christian Bale → David O. Russell. Bale's Oscar nominations all come from Adam McKay or David O. Russell movies, and he is doing an Al Davis film for Russell.
    “All of his Oscar nominations are either for Adam McKay or David O. Russell movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:37:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (director clout): Peter Weir → David O. Russell. Both were directors A-listers trusted and expected awards from.
    “The last guy who kind of had this for better or worse, and mostly for worse, was David O. Russell.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 0:36:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (passed on directing): David O. Russell → Fight Club. Fox first handed the book to David O. Russell, who says he did not understand it.
    “David O. Russell says he did not understand the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:53:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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