Alex Ross Perry

2 sketches, 31 claims, and 17 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–2 of 2 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first.

Stances

  • Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually
  • Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated
  • The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new
  • Zodiac is the best Fincher

Humor: Self-deprecating confessional detail, mock-grievance, and long run-ups to bits.

In their words

  • “This movie is so pivotal to me.” (0:25:49)
  • “This is like me taking acid for the 1st time.” (0:25:51)
  • “I would say I would rank it number one.” (3:22:47)

Blank Check — Patreon: A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) (guest)

Calls A Clockwork Orange the favorite film of his life and the number one on his Sight and Sound list. Loves the five-act structure, the handheld work, Kubrick's looseness, and the book's syntax. Is a sucker for Simpsons quotes, the prodigy, and seeing it on 35mm.

Stances

  • Kubrick's mythology as a controlling genius is wrong; the film is loose and largely on location
  • Every Kubrick film is about the inherent flaw of man and unintended consequences
  • The film's structure has five distinct acts with the camera changing with Alex's control
  • Alex is not simply cool; the film self-critiques violence

Humor: Arrives with printed pages and a ready supply of Simpsons quotes; builds the hip hop Sims bit with Griffin.

In their words

  • “Number one, yeah, on any given day.” (0:12:08)
  • “It's the movie of my life.” (0:12:36)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–31 of 31 claims.

  1. career (Fincher filmography order): Seven → The Game. Alex long believed the order was Seven then Fight Club, not realizing The Game came between.
    “I always was like, it must go 7 and then Fight Club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:56:09 · Alex Ross Perry (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Seven → Fight Club. Seven was fucked up in a way entirely different from Fight Club, yet studios treated Fincher as the fucked-up guy.
    “it's fucked up in a way that's entirely different from this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:58:26 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (generational time capsule): Easy Rider → Fight Club. Alex says a young viewer today would find Fight Club the way he found Easy Rider: he can see what it meant but it does not connect.
    “this is like kids watching this now, I think, would be like when I watched Easy Rider.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:02:47 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. programming (twist pairing): The Sixth Sense → Fight Club. Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal.
    “That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. programming (generational pairing): Slacker → Fight Club. Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film.
    “either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (star vehicle): Malcolm McDowell → Lindsay Anderson. McDowell became a cultural avatar across the Lindsay Anderson movies of 67 to 73.
    “where he becomes like sort of a cultural avatar. across like the Lindsey Anderson movies in this, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:02:40 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. career (career arc): Fear and Desire → 2001: A Space Odyssey. An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001.
    “So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. theme (location myth): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones.
    “it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. people (repeat actors): Peter Sellers → Timothy Carey. They are the two actors Kubrick gave leads to more than once.
    “Peter Sellers and Timothy Carey.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:37:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (trilogy claim): Dr. Strangelove → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ciment suggests a future trilogy; Kubrick, as quoted, rejects any deliberate pattern.
    “There is no deliberate pattern to the stories I have chosen to make into films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:44:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  11. theme (theme: man vs machinery): Dr. Strangelove → A Clockwork Orange. Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall.
    “Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme: killing at a distance): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances.
    “Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme: Ludovico as 2001): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course.
    “And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme: human error): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there.
    “What's the human error in the Ludovico technique.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. career (career sequence): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. After the grandest film he moves to a punk movie within two years.
    “It just feels so exciting to be like, you just made 2001.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:06:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (roman a clef): Stanley Kubrick → Blue Movie (Terry Southern novel). Southern's novel Blue Movie is the book of a writer who worked with Kubrick.
    “there's these books like Terry Southern's blue movie where people are like, I worked with Kubrick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. people (co-writer): Terry Southern → Dr. Strangelove. Terry Southern wrote Dr. Strangelove and worked on Lolita.
    “Terry Southern Road, Dr. Strangelove.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:15:31 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. lineage (origin of an idea): Terry Southern → Eyes Wide Shut. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. lineage (parallel adaptation): Vinyl → A Clockwork Orange. The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book.
    “Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. 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)
  23. theme (compared character): A Clockwork Orange → Richard III (play). Kubrick compares Alex to Richard III: a monster we are still somewhat sympathetic to.
    “He compares him to Richard III.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:27:31 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. lineage (inspiration): A Clockwork Orange → Her Smell. The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell.
    “This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  25. people (composer): Wendy Carlos → A Clockwork Orange. The electronic score is called a ten out of ten before the movie even begins.
    “it's already a 10 out of 10, the electronics score.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:31:10 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. people (shared composer): Wendy Carlos → Tron. Carlos's discography is just three films: A Clockwork Orange, Tron, The Shining.
    “And I looked up the Wendy Carlos discography and it's like, uh, Cockwork Orange, Tron, the Shining, and that's it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:31:25 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. people (shared composer): Wendy Carlos → The Shining. Carlos scored A Clockwork Orange, Tron, and The Shining; each indelibly iconic.
    “and each one is like indelibly iconic, even though some, you know, shining has very little music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:31:53 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (self-reference): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (anticipates): A Clockwork Orange → Michel Foucault. The film's prison debate predates Foucault's Discipline and Punish by four or five years.
    “which is exactly what the government comes and says in this movie that predates this Foucault book by like 4 or 5 years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:10:30 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  30. people (shared actor): David Prowse → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Prowse, the bodyguard in this film, played Darth Vader.
    “He played Darth Vader.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:32:00 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. people (casting world): A Clockwork Orange → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The British casting looks like Star Wars casting six years later.
    “this just feels like it lives in the same world of casting at Star Wars to me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:33:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–17 of 17 fun items.

  1. fun, about Fight Club DVD: The shot of Norton flapping his arms in front of the car is in every Fox Power of DVD pre-roll.
    “that was in like every fox power of DVD pre-roll.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:34:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about David Fincher: Alex's take that Fincher built his own perfectionist myth.
    “I just think he created this myth of himself, rather than it being kind of created despite himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:50:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Alex Ross Perry: He kept a 7-foot Blockbuster cardboard display and a four-panel window poster in his basement.
    “I got the 7 foot tall cardboard display from Blockbuster, 4 fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:59:37 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Alex Ross Perry's parents took his name from a movie credit, and for years he told people he was named after Alex in this film.
    “I told people I was named after Alex and the Clockwork Orange.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Alex Ross Perry first saw it at 13, rented from Blockbuster in his grandparents' basement in June 1998, two weeks after the AFI 100 list came out.
    “And I remember sitting in my grandparents' basement and they took me to Blockbuster, I guess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:14:14 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's box maker says he sent a 40-page document and months went into the micron of card for a perfect lid.
    “And he's just like, Stanley came to us with a 40 page document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:03:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: Three years after 2001 missed a best picture nomination, the Oscars put this X-rated film in the race.
    “is this movie too violent to exist? and the Oscars are like, eh, best picture.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:10:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: In the Ciment book Kubrick says on the opening zoom: save cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the place.
    “It's important to save your cinematic ideas until you have rehearsed the scene in the actual place you're going to film it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:32:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The milk bar is one of only four built sets; the fiberglass furniture was made, not found.
    “And this is one of the 4 built sets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:33:29 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The graffiti on the lobby poster in Alex's building is written in the book.
    “Weirdly, the graffiti on that poster is written in the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:39:43 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The cat lady scene uses one editing trick that never recurs in the film: a visit condensed over the shot of her doing yoga.
    “there's a trick he does here once that never occurs elsewhere in the movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:54:22 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick shot the handheld shots himself in all his movies, which the speaker calls an underanalyzed strength.
    “That he did all the handheld stuff himself.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:57:52 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: The post-treatment demonstration scene has Michael Bates giving all-time reaction shots to the naked woman.
    “The series of of reaction shots of him watching her are just like all time reaction shots.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:18:49 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about David Prowse: Told to carry the wheelchair down stairs repeatedly, Prowse said his name was not one-take Kubrick; they got it in six takes.
    “And Prow says, yeah, I am, but your name's not one take Kubrick, is it?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:32:26 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about David Prowse: Prowse did all the Darth Vader dialogue on set in a thick west country accent, expecting his voice to be used.
    “He's got this lovely west country accent.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:33:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Warner Bros.: The Kubrick estate and Warner were so protective that Alex DeLarge merchandise stayed at bay until a recent flood of products.
    “Part of it, by the way, was just that like Warner Brothers even was so respectful to the Kubrick estate”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:55 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about House of Wax: It was the first major studio 3D movie, with a two-minute paddleball bit aimed at the camera.
    “just fucking paddleballs the camera for like 2 minutes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 3:00:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)