Leslye Headland

1 sketch, 15 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie.

Stances

  • Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside
  • Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash
  • Fight Club is a durable satire
  • Digital can look gorgeous

Humor: Warm and self-deprecating, with big confessions (the roommate intervention) delivered deadpan.

In their words

  • “I have witnessed a masterpiece.” (0:27:32)
  • “It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment.” (0:04:09)
  • “But to me, Fight Club is Doctor Strangelove.” (0:25:13)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

Their claims

Showing 1–15 of 15 claims.

  1. theme (personal canon): Zodiac → The Shining. Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore.
    “It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (personal canon): Zodiac → Back to the Future. Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore.
    “It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. theme (personal canon): Zodiac → The Apartment. Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore.
    “It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. craft (same-year mood): Zodiac → There Will Be Blood. Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007.
    “There's something in the air that year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:17:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (same-year mood): Zodiac → No Country for Old Men. Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007.
    “But even like just these nihilistic endings where you're like, you know, there's just there's no hope.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:17:16 · Leslye Headland (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (generational datedness): Easy Rider → Fight Club. Younger viewers may see Fight Club the way the speakers see Easy Rider.
    “younger people now watching that film would be like us watching Easy Rider.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:24:48 · Leslye Headland (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (satire that holds up): Fight Club → Dr. Strangelove. Leslye calls Fight Club a Strangelove-style satire that lasts because male toxicity is evergreen.
    “But to me, Fight Club is Doctor Strangelove.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:25:13 · Leslye Headland (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (live-in movie): Barry Lyndon → Zodiac. Leslye compares Zodiac, a movie she can live inside, to Barry Lyndon.
    “It's like it's like Barry Linden for me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:29:06 · Leslye Headland (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. craft (labyrinthian structure): The Shining → Zodiac. Zodiac's episodic, not-three-act feel is likened to The Shining's labyrinth.
    “it's not a slave to the 3 act structure, it's interstitial, it's got this sort of episodic feel to it and not unlike the shining.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:32:02 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. craft (script structure): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. The script reminds Leslye of L.A. Confidential: methodical, restarts mid-film, scenes handing off to the next.
    “It's absolutely, like, the script reminds me so much of LA confidential.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:49:11 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (structure / influence): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential.
    “zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (trio of leads): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. The film passes the baton among three men, which is why it is like L.A. Confidential.
    “This is why it's like LA Confidential, though.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:55:58 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. people (shared actor): John Mahon → L.A. Confidential. The old cop in Zodiac is also in L.A. Confidential.
    “I think he's also in LA confidential”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:03:19 · Leslye Headland (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. theme (stylistic comparison): Alfred Hitchcock → Zodiac. Leslye says Fincher uses full Hitchcock in the Fleischer basement scene, which is wholly subjective.
    “No, Fincher is using full Hitchcock to do a scene that is entirely subjective.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:07:42 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. people (shared composer): David Shire → The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Shire, Zodiac's composer, also scored Pelham 123.
    “David Shire, one of the great composers of all time. Did one of my favorite film scores for the taking film, 123.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:14:08 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

  1. fun, about Leslye Headland: Leslye watched Zodiac every day after moving to LA, until her roommate staged an intervention.
    “she had an intervention with me, and was like, you have to stop watching.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:28:01 · Leslye Headland (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Zodiac: The opening dolly shot needed a huge run of dolly track; Leslye says she'd be laughed out of the room pitching it.
    “40 yards of fucking dolly track”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:14:21 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Zodiac: Zodiac's blood is digital, and Leslye says it looks better than almost any digital blood she has seen.
    “the fact that the blood is digital.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:34:10 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Brian Cox: Cox's Belli looks straight into the lens when talking; the speaker likens it to the Lambs cam.
    “he's just looking like essentially straight into the cam song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:51:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Arthur Leigh Allen: Fincher told John Carroll Lynch to play it innocent; the more innocent he played, the guiltier he looked.
    “the more innocent, he played it the more he looked guilty”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:05:38 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Zodiac: The film's second Hurdy Gurdy Man cue lands as catharsis; Leslye says the song is forever transformed.
    “I'm like, you have forever transformed this song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:13:55 · Leslye Headland (0.70 sure it was them)