Darren Aronofsky

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q192762: 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: RoboCop (1987). Count them as director (5 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.

Avatar (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through RoboCop (1987), which they were tied to as attached director (3 years): 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 were tied to as attached director (3 years): 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 were tied to as attached director (3 years): 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 were tied to as attached director (3 years): 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 (7) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Darren Aronofsky → Mother. Aronofsky goes for it in every film, mother! and Noah included.
    “I mean, he goes for it every movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:39:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (origin-story parallel): Jason Reitman → Darren Aronofsky. Reitman's image-first story for Afterlife recalls Aronofsky's story of typing the title mother and the exclamation mark.
    “that reminds me of the Darren Aronovsky story about writing the title for mother”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:04:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Matthew Libatique → Darren Aronofsky. Libatique and Aronofsky make movies together that don't look like anything else.
    “he and Maddie LeBoutique make movies together and they don't look like anything else.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): The Wrestler → Darren Aronofsky. Shoemaker attributes The Wrestler to Aronofsky.
    “the amazing Darren Aronovsky movie”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:04:31 · David Shoemaker (0.90 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Darren Aronofsky → RoboCop. Aronofsky was first choice, stayed three years, then left because MGM could not fund the film, the start of his flirtations with franchises.
    “Yes, Darren Aronovsky is the 1st choice.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:11:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

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