Todd Field

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q670296: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Sleep with Me (1994); Twister (1996); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); The Haunting. Count them as director (5 films), writer (1 film) 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

lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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)
lineage (source novella) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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

lineage (adaptation) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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)

Industrial Light & Magic: 1 line

industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they acted in: Industrial Light & Magic ⇒ Twister (the host's read). The movie was built out of an ILM proof-of-concept clip of a pickup truck driving toward a tornado.
“It was a proof of concept clip from Industrial Light Magic”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jaws (1975): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Twister (1996), which they acted in: Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
“The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Marketing a disaster around unknown leads follows Jurassic Park, where Sam Neill and Laura Dern were known but not famous.
“coming off of Jurassic Park where it was like Sam Neil and Laura Dern were like well-known, but not famous.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:53:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Kirk Douglas: 1 line

lineage (origin of the project) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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

lineage (influence) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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)

Speed (1994): 1 line

industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they acted in: Speed ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Hollywood shifted after Speed; Twister marketed Paxton and others as future stars.
“The one that changed it was speed.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Terry Southern: 1 line

lineage (origin of an idea) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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

lineage (title origin) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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)

Drawn on by

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

Babygirl (2024): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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

lineage (lineage) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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

unmapped (lesson learned) · through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which they acted in: 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)

Titanic (1997): 1 line

industry (industry) · through Twister (1996), which they acted in: Twister ⇒ Titanic (the host's read). Twister started a playbook of putting not-yet-A-list leads in a spectacle, which Titanic and later Star Wars followed.
“It became a playbook for it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:54:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

career (career): Todd Field → Eyes Wide Shut. Todd Field as an actor is an absolute banger in Eyes Wide Shut, Twister and Sleep with Me, then directed only three unique movies.
“Nick in eyes wide shut, twister, and sleep with me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:57 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (filmography): Todd Field → Little Children. Field is the director of the Kate Winslet movie with Patrick Wilson.
“the guy who did like, uh, The Kate wins up movie in 06, that weird Kate Winslet movie with Patrick Wilson.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:54:19 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

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)
unmapped (mentor): Leon Vitali → Todd Field. Vitali worked on Todd Field's movies and mentored Kubrick acolytes.
“He also, you know, he worked on the Todd Field movies, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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