Griffin Newman

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 61–80 of 96 sketches.

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

• Drafts: Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument.
• Hall of Fame: A star's or director's best, ranked and argued.
• Countdowns: Ranked lists, top five or top ten.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

• The box office game: Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against.
• The sung theme: "Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it.

Their claims

Showing 101–200 of 1,162 claims.

101. lineage (origin of project): David Lean → Empire of the Sun. Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him.

     “He asks Spielberg to check in on the rights for him.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:57:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
102. unmapped (screenwriting): Tom Stoppard → Empire of the Sun. Stoppard became the sole credited writer and said it taught him where dialogue is unnecessary.

     “I learned a lot working on that in terms of like where you don't need dialogue.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:08:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
103. unmapped (authorship): Tom Stoppard → Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Stoppard directed the film version of his own play, which won at Venice.

     “And he directed he directed the film version of it too.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:10:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
104. people (actor comparison): Christian Bale → Adam Driver. Bale takes weird projects, even bad movies, a bit like Driver, but is more flexible.

     “He's almost like there's there's a bit of the Adam Driver thing going on with them.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:13:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
105. unmapped (scene reference): Empire of the Sun → Gone with the Wind. Jim stands before the Gone with the Wind poster, echoing Spielberg's remark to Alice Walker that it is one of his favorites.

     “I mean, you have that moment where he's standing in front of the giant gone with the wind poster, right?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:31:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
106. craft (shot design): Empire of the Sun → Jaws. Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot.

     “he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
107. craft (shot design): Empire of the Sun → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Same slow reveal as Indiana Jones in pieces before the hero shot.

     “which similarly has the like Spielberg taking 5 minutes to show you Indiana Jones in pieces before you really get the hero shot”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
108. lineage (inspiration): Empire of the Sun → Tropic Thunder. Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later.

     “Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
109. unmapped (psychology key): Empire of the Sun → The Fabelmans. Griffin reads Empire through The Fabelmans: Spielberg's core trauma was being pulled into the adult world, like Jim in the camp.

     “I mean, here's here's my big post-fableman's take on this movie.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:50:40 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
110. unmapped (dark twin): Empire of the Sun → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Griffin pairs E.T. and Empire as two stabs at the same childhood material at the front and back of the 80s.

     “I do think they're like him sort of like at the front and end of the 80s taking 2 stabs at a similar thing.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:55:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
111. people (performance): Miranda Richardson → Kansas City. Griffin saw the Altman film at a repertory screening where the audience was blown away by Richardson.

     “holy shit, the Miranda Richardson performance in this.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:06:28 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
112. craft (plot structure): Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl → Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film fails to tie its Indiana-Jones-style MacGuffin to the Wallace-Gromit relationship.

     “They fail to make the, um, the plot, the sort of like Indiana Jones-S McGuffin of what they're up against directly relate to Wallace and Gromit's relationship.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:11:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
113. theme (quality comparison): Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl → Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Vengeance Most Fowl is better than Dawn of the Nugget.

     “it is much better than Dawn of the Nugget, which I think is basically wall-to-wall bullshit.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:12:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
114. unmapped (stylistic shift): Saving Private Ryan → Minority Report. Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.

     “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
115. unmapped (historical context): Come See the Paradise → Empire of the Sun. A reminder that America had its own internment camps, as in Alan Parker's film.

     “America did that to you, Japanese citizen.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:24:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
116. unmapped (reappraisal): Fatal Attraction → Adrian Lyne. Lyne has been retroactively inserted into the pantheon; Sliver was not valued in 1993.

     “It is funny how Adrian Lyne has become kind of a like sort of retroactively inserted into the pantheon.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
117. craft (craft): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Last Crusade shows that silent comedy, especially Buster Keaton, is part of the DNA of these movies.

     “that's the huge part of the DNA of these movies is silent comedy and not just the adventure serials.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 1:14:01 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
118. industry (industry): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Spider-Man. The big 2002 superhero films were limited by effects budgets in action; Raiders felt like it exceeded what was possible.

     “this is more movie than you thought was previously possible.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:41:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
119. unmapped (experience): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Spider-Man 2. Seeing Spider-Man 2's subway chase felt to him like watching Raiders' escalating set pieces in 1981.

     “I imagine this is what it would have felt like to watch Raiders in the theater at the time, but seeing Spider-Man 2 opening nights”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:43:59 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
120. unmapped (weirdest-ever): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Twin Peaks season 2 finale. Part 8 is Lynch topping his own season 2 finale as the weirdest thing ever on prime time, building something weird in relation to the template of weirdness he already set.

     “he's like, no, I need to make the thing that is weird and relation to the template of weirdness I have already set, much like the season 2 finale”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:07:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
121. lineage (alt-cut riff): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut). Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy.

     “Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
122. lineage (location callback): Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The convenience store was only seen inside, upstairs, in Fire Walk with Me; Part 8 shows its exterior and it is where nasty business happens.

     “Wait, so we've been to the convenience store and in the past?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
123. craft (structural echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The abstract atomic-origin sequence is likened to 2001 for television, and the speakers note 2001 also comes after two hours of conventional narrative.

     “you're like, oh, we're watching something that is 2001, a Space Odyssey for television.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
124. unmapped (bit): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Wonka. A running gag predicts Wonka 2 will have Willy Wonka meet the Fockers.

     “My prediction is we'll find out his middle name as Nelly.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:59:01 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
125. industry (industry): Francis Ford Coppola → Ronnie Rocket. Lynch came close to making Ronnie Rocket at Zoetrope.

     “He actually comes close now because he has real clout, Zoatrope, Francis Ford Coppola's, you know, House of Madness.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:00:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
126. what-if (what-if): David Lynch → Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. Lynch would have gone wild on Jabba's Palace.

     “The whole 1st 30 minutes, you're like, Lynch would go fucking hog wild on that.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:04:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
127. career (career): David Lynch → Red Dragon / Manhunter. Roth approached Lynch to direct Red Dragon, which Michael Mann later made as Manhunter.

     “Richard Roth approached him to direct Red Dragon, which, of course, eventually Michael Mann makes as Manhunter.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
128. career (career): David Lynch → Blue Velvet. Lynch pitched Blue Velvet to Roth in the same meeting.

     “That is when he pitches Roth on Blue Velvet.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:38 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
129. lineage (lineage): Tender Mercies → The Straight Story. Tender Mercies was a quiet drama offered to Lynch, a sensibility that foreshadows The Straight Story.

     “but somebody like the straight story speaks to him.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
130. career (career): David Lynch → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Cameron Crowe approached Lynch to direct Fast Times.

     “He was also approached by Cameron Crowe to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
131. people (people): Dino De Laurentiis → Federico Fellini. Raffaella says her father thought Lynch was as good as Fellini.

     “My father loved directors and he thought David was as good as Fellini, she says.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
132. contrast (contrast): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot.

     “But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
133. industry (industry): Dino De Laurentiis → Conan the Barbarian. Conan had already happened by the time of Dune.

     “Conan had happened at this point, Barbarellas.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:10:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
134. career (career): Matt Keeslar → Sour Grapes. Keeslar plays a Matt LeBlanc stand-in in Larry David's Sour Grapes.

     “Matt Keesler plays Matt LeBlanc in sour grapes.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:20:28 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
135. people (people): W.D. Richter → Late for Dinner. Late for Dinner was directed by W.D. Richter, who also did Buckaroo Banzai.

     “The film you referenced was, in fact, directed by W.D. Richter, the only other film directed by the man who did Buck Rubons.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:29:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
136. what-if (what-if): David Lean → Dune. David Lean was approached by the original rights holder and passed.

     “Martha P. Jacobs at one point wanted David Lean to make Dune.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:29:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
137. what-if (what-if): Val Kilmer → Dune. Val Kilmer was reportedly first choice for Paul and makes sense but was notoriously difficult.

     “Now, Val Kilmer, I believe, was the 1st choice to play Paulitrates, and makes so much sense.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:43:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
138. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Dune. Tom Cruise was mentioned for Paul but feared too charismatic.

     “Obviously, Tom Cruise is also mentioned.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:44:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
139. theme (theme): Kyle MacLachlan → The Three Musketeers. MacLachlan said he preferred movies like The Three Musketeers to Eraserhead.

     “I more liked movies like The Three Musketeers.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:45:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
140. people (people): David Lynch → Kyle MacLachlan. Lynch cast MacLachlan without an audition after talk about the Northwest and red wine.

     “They talk about red wine and and Lynch is like, I like your vibe, read this script.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:45:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
141. career (career): Freddie Jones → The Elephant Man. Freddie Jones is the one actor carried over from Elephant Man.

     “You have Freddie Jones, of course, from Elephant Man is the one actor he does bring over from that movie.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:51:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
142. craft (craft): Barry Nolan → John Dykstra. Nolan's lower-budget effects shop took over the film after Dykstra's Apogee left early.

     “leaves the movie early and in comes Barry Nolan, who works at a lower budget.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:07:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
143. career (career): Dune → Blue Velvet. Lynch's next movie after Dune was with Dino De Laurentiis.

     “This makes it all the crazier that the next movie David Lynch makes is with Dino DeLorentis.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:10:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
144. craft (craft): David Lynch → The Elephant Man. Lynch planned to do the Elephant Man makeup effects himself, as he had on Eraserhead, until the production insisted on a professional.

     “Like his plan was to do the makeup effects entirely himself because he was used to working that way on Elephant Man, or not Elephant Man, Eraserhead.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:10:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
145. people (people): Brian Eno → Toto. The speaker likens the Eno-credited, Toto-scored split on Dune to the Danny Elfman and Alf Clausen relationship.

     “So it's like the Danny Elfman Alf Clausen relationship.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:14:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
146. career (career): Ed Naha → Ghostbusters II. The Making of Dune author Ed Naha also novelized Ghostbusters II.

     “Uh, novelizer of Ghostbusters 2?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:36:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
147. craft (craft): Eraserhead → The Elephant Man. Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch.

     “It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
148. programming (programming): Dune → Blue Velvet. Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus.

     “Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
149. unmapped (impression): Brian Cranston → Trumbo. Griffin's one good impression is Brian Cranston in Trumbo.

     “There's like 3 impressions I have that are good and one of them is Brian Cranston and Trumbo.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:14:43 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
150. career (unmade project): S. Craig Zahler → The Brigands of Rhine Boug (unproduced script). Park was attached to Zahler's famous blacklist western spec before Decision to Leave.

     “He got attached to a very famous blacklist script, a notorious blacklist script called The Brigands of Raffle Borg, which is written by S. Craig Zoller.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
151. career (career context): Decision to Leave → The Little Drummer Girl. The film was made after Park's English-language TV show, which left him homesick for a Korean film.

     “But so he's homesick.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:34:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
152. lineage (source song): Decision to Leave → Mist (1967 Korean hit song). Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea.

     “A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
153. career (career context): Decision to Leave → Stoker. Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations.

     “This is the 1st time he's completely regenering something.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
154. lineage (source character): Decision to Leave → Martin Beck novels (Swedish). The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist.

     “So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
155. unmapped (writing partner): Park Chan-wook → Chung Seo-kyung. Chung is his frequent co-writer; she initially refused a melodrama about an abused woman and he talked her into it.

     “I said no, I didn't want to write a melodrama about an abused woman.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:44:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
156. people (prior role): Park Hae-il → The Host. Park Hae-il is known from the Bong Joon-ho movie The Host and had never worked with Park Chan-wook before.

     “He's in the host, the Bunkshun Ho movie.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
157. unmapped (fandom link): Park Hae-il → Lust, Caution. Park Hae-il says he has loved Tang Wei since Lust, Caution, which is why he said yes.

     “I've always loved Tong Wei. Since less caution.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:47:11 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
158. lineage (influence denied): Decision to Leave → Vertigo. Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence.

     “He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
159. lineage (influence): Decision to Leave → Brief Encounter. Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo.

     “He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
160. craft (visual gag comparison): Decision to Leave → RoboCop. The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop.

     “He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
161. lineage (genre lineage): Decision to Leave → Insomnia. A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference.

     “But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
162. unmapped (fight realism): Decision to Leave → Eastern Promises. Eastern Promises has similarly clumsy, human fight sequences where skin is actually pierced, like the knife-and-chain-mail scene.

     “That movie has some similarly, like, very, very human fight sequences”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:23:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
163. craft (plot structure): Decision to Leave → Strangers on a Train. The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts.

     “I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
164. career (upcoming): Park Chan-wook → The Sympathizer. Park has the HBO series The Sympathizer coming, with Robert Downey Jr. in multiple roles.

     “He has an HBO series where Robert Downey Jr. plays multiple characters.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:51:36 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
165. unmapped (next series): David Fincher → The Killer. The next miniseries is Fincher timed to his fall release The Killer, with Brendan Hines to guest.

     “We are doing the films of David Fincher, who has a new movie coming out this fall and we want to sync up with that.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:10:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
166. people (future-stars cast): Beware of the Gonzo → Dazed and Confused. Like Dazed and Confused, the young cast included many future stars.

     “It was hour dazed and confused.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:14:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
167. unmapped (joke analog): Beware of the Gonzo → The Fabelmans. Griffin jokes that Beware of the Gonzo is the Fabelmans of its time.

     “the Fabelmans of its time.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:20:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
168. unmapped (action direction): Buster Keaton → James Cameron. As an action director Keaton is likened to James Cameron.

     “he's also like fucking James Cameron as an action director.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:51:04 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
169. unmapped (borrowed magic bits): Sherlock, Jr. → Houdini. The dream sequence let Keaton use vaudeville and Houdini-style magic bits in a movie grounded in reality.

     “there were magic bits that he knew from vaudeville, from Houdini and other magicians”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:53:54 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
170. verdict (best work): Charlie Chaplin → One A.M.. Griffin says Chaplin's one-man drunk-on-the-staircase short is the best thing Chaplin ever did, better than his features.

     “which, for my money, is still the best thing Chaplain ever did, over his features.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:58:42 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
171. unmapped (Keaton-esque): One A.M. → Buster Keaton. Chaplin's non-tramp drunk short plays more like a Keaton picture in its directing style.

     “it's more Keatney”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:59:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
172. unmapped (theater-viewing): Sherlock, Jr. → Rear Window. A CalArts teacher argued certain films, like Sherlock Jr., should be seen in a theater while Rear Window can be appreciated at home.

     “you can watch rear window at home and appreciate it.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:00:20 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
173. unmapped (coincidence gag): Sherlock, Jr. → Pulp Fiction. The wrong-man-walks-by coincidence in the pawn shop is compared to Ving Rhames walking by in Pulp Fiction.

     “much like Ving Reims and Pulp Fiction, just happens to walk by at that moment.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:16:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
174. craft (effects analysis): Sherlock, Jr. → Corridor Crew (YouTube channel). A YouTube channel was stumped by three of the film's special-effects sequences, more than by modern movies.

     “they were more stump trying to figure out the special effects of Sherlock Jr. than most modern movies.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:18:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
175. people (people): Sherlock, Jr. → The Navigator. The same long-term cinematographer, Elgin Leslie, shot both Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator.

     “who was named Elgin Leslie, who shot this and the navigator and the bulk of his shorts and most of his features of this era.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:22:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
176. unmapped (intrusion gag): Sherlock, Jr. → Bugs Bunny cartoons. The film rejecting Keaton's linear-time presence is like Bugs Bunny messing with Daffy.

     “It's Bugs Bunny fucking with Daffy.”

     Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:27:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
177. unmapped (vaudeville pool): Sherlock, Jr. → W. C. Fields. Vaudevillians really could play pool; W. C. Fields had an eccentric pool bit in his act.

     “WC Fields also had a bit in his act where he did eccentric pool and he does them in some films.”

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178. unmapped (cartoon logic): Sherlock, Jr. → Wile E. Coyote cartoons. Keaton riding the handlebars without noticing the driver is gone follows Wile E. Coyote logic.

     “it's Wiley Coyote logic.”

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179. unmapped (childlike innocence): Sherlock, Jr. → Dumb and Dumber. Keaton's baffled reaction to the sudden babies is compared to a childlike, non-sexual innocence like Dumb and Dumber.

     “where he has a childlike innocence, so he is not drawn towards sexual situations, if I may be permitted in comparison.”

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180. unmapped (archetype guess): The Confidence Man → Vince Vaughn. David guesses the rogue who reforms is a Vince Vaughn type.

     “So I'm going to guess he's a Vince Vaughn type rogue.”

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181. unmapped (archetype guess): Girl Shy → Michael Cera. Harold Lloyd's shy boy is likened to a Michael Cera type.

     “He's more of a Michael Sarah motherfucker.”

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182. unmapped (same setup): The Navigator → Cabin Boy. A fancy lad must prove he is a tough man at sea, a setup that Cabin Boy repeats while looking like a Harryhausen movie.

     “Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup.”

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183. craft (craft): Cabin Boy → Ray Harryhausen. Cabin Boy is coded visually and tonally as a Ray Harryhausen movie, with stop motion and forced-perspective giants, even as its story is a Keaton setup.

     “that movie is obviously so coded like visually and tonally as a Ray Harryhausen movie, but Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup”

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184. craft (reaction style): The Navigator → Harold Lloyd. In the ghost-painting bit Keaton panics like a Harold Lloyd character instead of staying deadpan.

     “He actually had kind of a Harold Lloyd reaction to this.”

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185. craft (craft): The Navigator → Victor Herbert. A Navigator title card jokes about singing Kiss Me Again to the music of Alice, Where Art Thou; the speaker looked up that Kiss Me Again is by Victor Herbert.

     “Kiss Me Again is an up-tempo, like, waltz. That I can imagine. I can basically picture what that's written by Victor Herbert”

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186. unmapped (Rube Goldberg gag): The Navigator → Pee-wee Herman. The pulleys-and-ropes kitchen sequence is described as Pee-wee Herman and Rube Goldberg stuff.

     “they pee wee Hermann at the kitchen.”

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187. lineage (remake): The Thief of Baghdad → The Thief of Baghdad (Korda/Powell and Pressburger version). Griffin has seen the Korda, Powell and Pressburger version, an all-time great special effects movie.

     “one of the all-time great special effects movies of the 1st half of the century.”

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188. lineage (remake): Seven Chances → Chris O'Donnell. Seven Chances is one of the rare Keaton films that was remade, with Chris O'Donnell as the Buster Keaton of our day.

     “Yes, with the with the Buster Keaton of our day.”

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189. lineage (joke remake): The Navigator → Captain Phillips. Griffin quips that The Navigator was remade as Captain Phillips, with fewer gags.

     “and the navigator was remade as Captain Phillips.”

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190. industry (beat it at the Oscars): Roddy McDowall → Citizen Kane. Griffin says he used to think the Roddy McDowall film shouldn't have beaten Citizen Kane, then saw it and changed his mind.

     “oh, that's the movie that shouldn't have beaten Season K.”

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191. unmapped (shadow): Henry Selick → Tim Burton. A host says Burton's name overshadows Selick; people hear Nightmare Before Christmas and assume it is Burton's.

     “It does really feel like the Burton thing is a shadow.”

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192. contrast (documentary type contrast): Claydream → The Sparks Brothers. David assumed Claydream was a Sparks Brothers-style career overview but it is really about art within capitalism.

     “I assumed it was maybe more of a Sparks Brothers type.”

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193. unmapped (takeover fallout): Will Vinton → Henry Selick. After Vinton was pushed out of Will Vinton Studios by Nike's Knight, the company (Laika) went after Selick.

     “They go after Henry Selleck, who's like the other giant stop motion, at least in America, right?”

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194. theme (story analogy): The Shadow King → Dumbo. The Shadow King's long fingers become a gift, like Dumbo's ears.

     “it's like Dumbo where like his terrifying, gigantic ears end up becoming this artistic gift.”

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195. unmapped (unfinished predecessor): The Shadow King → Wendell and Wild. The Shadow King combined stop motion with shadow animation; some of that is used in Wendell & Wild.

     “And they use some of that in this film, Wendell and Wild.”

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196. unmapped (creative conflict): John Lasseter → Henry Selick. Selick blames Lasseter's constant changes for budget creep that killed The Shadow King.

     “John Lassiter couldn't help himself.”

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197. unmapped (blame): Alan Horn → The Shadow King. Selick says Alan Horn found the movie too weird to sell.

     “said the movie was too weird.”

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198. lineage (origin of film): Jordan Peele → Wendell and Wild. Selick saw Key and Peele on Comedy Central and realized they were Wendell and Wild.

     “then it hit me, Wendell and Wild.”

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199. unmapped (protagonist note): Monkeybone → Wendell and Wild. Selick's pattern is to choose an adult / unconventional lead (retired pitchmen, a middle-aged nun) until a producer pushes for the kid.

     “Anyway, with monkey bone, I wanted every character to be a 60s, you know, retired pitch man.”

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200. industry (studio-notes buffer): Jordan Peele → Henry Selick. Peele was good at dealing with studio notes and calming Selick down.

     “He was really good at dealing with studio notes.”

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301. fun, about David Fincher: The anti-smoking ad that launched his music-video career: a fetus smoking in utero.

     “a fetus is smoking a cigarette in utero as an anti-cancer ad.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
302. fun, about David Fincher: Told by the Paramount president that nobody would give him $400,000 for a first picture, Fincher answered with a joke about a 40-minute movie.

     “Why would I do a 40 minute movie?”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:49:13 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
303. fun, about William Gibson: His unproduced script (now an audio drama, graphic novel, and novel) is summarized as space commies in a giant mall.

     “space commies, hijacked, alien eggs, big problem in wall mall world because it's set in a giant mall.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:51:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
304. fun, about Alien 3: Vincent Ward pitched a planet made of wood and monks; the studio responded by telling him to write it for $40 million.

     “Someone could walk into a studio and be like, whole planet is wood.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:58:03 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
305. fun, about David Fincher: His original Alien 3 pitch, in his own words, had multiple Lance Henriksens and 3,000 stormtroopers.

     “There were 3 Lance Henrikssons running around.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
306. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher says he tried to quit on day one; his agent said he could never work in town again.

     “Fincher says he tried to quit on day one and his agent was like, you can't.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:14 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
307. fun, about Alien 3: A 93-day schedule cut to 70 days, and 50 effects shots cut to 25, meaning lots of 18-hour days.

     “Uh, supposed to be a 93 day shooting schedule.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:14:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
308. fun, about Alien 3: In the assembly cut the alien gets into an ox, not the dog; the theatrical cut's dog set-up is the clearer one.

     “If you're talking about the assembly cut, it gets into an ox.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:21:38 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
309. fun, about Brian Glover: The warden actor was a professional wrestler (the Red Devil, then Leon Arras the man from Paris) and the crew adored him on set.

     “He was a professional wrestler.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:24:52 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
310. fun, about Ralph Brown: '85' is the character's IQ; Fincher wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.

     “He wanted 72, Fox wanted 97.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
311. fun, about Alien 3: Fox's head at the time on how little the content mattered to the opening.

     “well, first, you could have someone piss against the wall for 2 hours and call it Alien 3 and it would do 30000000 dollars.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
312. fun, about David Fincher: In a behind-the-scenes clip on the Panic Room DVD, Fincher gives notes over the previs in real time, never waiting for it to finish.

     “he is nonstop just going like, that needs to be 2 inches lower.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:54:13 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
313. fun, about Joel Schumacher: After Fincher showed him the cut, Schumacher said aiming high means disappointment, and that caring puts you at the mercy of people who don't.

     “you put yourself in a position where they have more power than you because you care and they don't.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:56:11 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
314. fun, about Alien 3: A pricey makeup bald cap cost about $20 grand because re-cutting Weaver's hair would have cost about $40 grand; when they needed it again, they found it in a pile.

     “So instead, they paid like 20 grand to make the world's most advanced makeup bald cap.”

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315. fun, about Lethal Weapon 3: The opening-weekend rival's poster is a recycled Lethal Weapon 2 poster with Pesci peeking in.

     “just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again.”

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316. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Hot Topic reclaimed the weird Disney movie: Disney did not want it, released it under Touchstone, and now Hot Topic mostly sells Disney merchandise.

     “Disney didn't even want it.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:06:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
317. fun, about Michael McDowell: Per a Caroline Thompson interview, McDowell delivered only the Elfman lyrics reformatted as a screenplay; she said he had 'snorted his salary'.

     “She put it, quote, that he had snorted his salary”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:30:30 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
318. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Development was backwards: Burton's poem, Elfman writing songs from story beats, then Thompson writing a script to fill the gaps; animation started before a script.

     “But they are animating this movie before they have a script.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:34:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
319. fun, about Stop motion: A single stop-motion shot like Jack scratching his chin took 3.5 weeks.

     “It took 3.5 weeks to have Jack scratch his chin and gesture at the moon”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:36:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
320. fun, about Sally: See the close-up of Sally's spoon with holes and the poison going through it: a real-time live-action shot, two free seconds.

     “The one I always think of is the close-up shot of Sally's spoon with the holes in it.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 0:39:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
321. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Title card shot with candy corn letters before Burton's name was added late; Selick says he understands it and will rue it until he dies.

     “I understand it, and I will rue it until the day I die.”

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322. fun, about Oogie Boogie: The four big unstitched bug shots took four months each.

     “4 big bug shots once once he's sort of unstitched and each of those shots took 4 months”

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323. fun, about Chris Sarandon: The speaking Jack may be the most enunciated performance in movie history; Elfman sings, Sarandon speaks, causing a lasting rift.

     “this like caused a rift between Selleck and Elfman that like lasted for forever.”

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324. fun, about Vincent Price: Vincent Price was recorded as Santa but had just lost his wife and it didn't work; Don Ameche was 'insanely grouchy'; James Earl Jones shouted 'you don't know me'.

     “Vincent Price, uh, a hero of Tim Burton's”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda (Ad-Free) · 1:10:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
325. fun, about Zero: Santa's grumpiness is the secret weapon: exasperated like a flight diverted to Atlanta.

     “He's exasperated in the way that you would be if like your flight got diverted to Atlanta, you know?”

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326. fun, about The Nightmare Before Christmas: Griffin's mom would not let him see it in theaters, so he got toys first; a lighting-fixture store near his school sold only lamps and Nightmare toys.

     “the only thing they sold aside from lamps was a nightmare before Christmas toys.”

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327. fun, about Emma Stefansky: Canonical to the podcast: Emma said of Oogie Boogie 'I wish I was bugs'.

     “Emma Stefansky said, I wish I was bugs.”

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328. fun, about David Sims: Sims says his review was positive but he reversed on the film within two weeks and wanted to rewatch it.

     “And within 2 weeks, you were like, is that movie better than I'm giving it credit for being?”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
329. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan wrote the bar scene before the script and sent it to King as proof of concept; a host jokes he slipped a $20 in the pages.

     “He slipped a crisp 20 into those pages.”

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330. fun, about The Shining: The tub lady gets more screen time in the director's cut, with a joke about her asking for the loofah.

     “She says, can you pass the loofah?”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:27:50 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
331. fun, about Doctor Sleep (director's cut): The director's cut has chapters, and takes fifteen minutes to show Ewan McGregor on screen.

     “Director's cut takes 15 minutes before you and McGregor shows up on screen.”

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332. fun, about Rose the Hat: Joke biography of Rose: Irish for thousands of years, then in the 1960s a hat and Fleetwood Mac.

     “1960s, decides to wear a hat. Becomes her thing. listens to Fleetwood Mac one time.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:55:15 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
333. fun, about Rebecca Ferguson: Flanagan quote: Ferguson could not talk after the first take of the Tremblay scene.

     “Rebecca Ferguson couldn't talk after the 1st take.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:01:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
334. fun, about Jacob Tremblay: Flanagan quote read aloud: after the harrowing scene Tremblay hopped up, high-fived his dad and got a candy bar from craft services.

     “And then Jacob just hopped up, brushed himself off, high-fived his dad, went and got a candy bar from craft services, and the rest of us couldn't even blink.”

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335. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Warner Brothers had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel while they believed the film would be a four-quadrant hit.

     “they had Flanagan start writing a Halloran prequel.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:04:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
336. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Shot in Atlanta on a three month schedule, with no Kubrickian nonsense.

     “Three month shoot.”

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337. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan says he hates jump scares and learned to sustain tension from Kubrick.

     “I hate jump scares.”

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338. fun, about Ready Player One: Hosts imagine a future Ready Player Two visiting a Doctor Sleep verse of quiet conversations around cups of tea.

     “Well, and I hope that 30 years from now there's a Ready Player one, Ready Player 2, where they go to the Doctor Sleep Averse.”

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339. fun, about Full Metal Jacket: The 3000 open video auditions produced a viral clip of a man at a Sears with a ladder saying hello Mr. Kubrick.

     “This was an early case of letting people submit auditions through videotape, like having a pretty open audition because they needed young people and they got 3000 submissions.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 0:50:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
340. fun, about R. Lee Ermey: Legend: Kubrick saw a video of Ermey rattling off insults while being pelted with tennis balls and oranges, never breaking.

     “There's like this legend that there's this video of Arli Ermy that Kubrick saw of him rattling off all these like insults and scream while being like pelted with tennis balls and oranges and never and never breaking.”

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341. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio: Weight gain claimed to be a record, 10 more pounds than De Niro in Raging Bull.

     “it has long stood as like the claim of the most weight an actor has gained for a role.”

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342. fun, about Adventures in Babysitting: A kid thinks D'Onofrio looks like Thor, and he is presented as the ultimate beefcake in the same year as Pyle.

     “the little girl in that movie is obsessed with Thor, Marvel's Thor, and she thinks he looks like Thor.”

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343. fun, about Matthew Modine: Modine's joke to Kubrick: Spielberg meets a bearded man in heaven who thinks he is Kubrick but is God, and Kubrick liked it.

     “And Modine says, Stanley liked that joke.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:33:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
344. fun, about Full Metal Jacket: The battlefield was Beckton Gasworks, a huge plant scheduled for demolition, so the crew could blow it up.

     “They're shooting at what's called the Bechton Gasworks, which was the largest gas plant in the world and was basically scheduled for demolition.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:43:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
345. fun, about Draft Day: Tim Simons corrects everyone on Twitter that his coffee drop from the Draft Day trailer is not in the final film.

     “the coffee drop is not in the film”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:25:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
346. fun, about Jack Nicholson: Someone who worked with him reported Nicholson saying he makes classics, not movies.

     “I don't make movies. I make classics.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:32:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
347. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick had his secretary bring him stacks of bestselling horror novels and she heard a book hit the wall every ten minutes until the day she heard nothing for two hours.

     “every 10 minutes she'd hear a book hit the wall.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
348. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: On the phone, Kubrick told King the idea of a ghost is optimistic because it presupposes an afterlife, and answered King's question about hell with a flat denial.

     “I don't believe in hell.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:45:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
349. fun, about Room 237: The documentary's theories get boiled down: the moon-landing reading rests on Danny wearing a moon sweater.

     “Well, the kid wears like a moon sweater and you're like, uh-huh.”

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350. fun, about Scatman Crothers: Crothers on Kubrick's takes: one shot of him crossing the street from a snow cat, no dialogue, took fifty.

     “One scene, I get out of a snow cat and I walk across the street with no dialogue, 50 takes.”

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351. fun, about Scatman Crothers: After months of Kubrick, Crothers cried when Clint Eastwood shot one take on Bronco Billy and moved on.

     “Scatman says, like, he started crying because he was like, yeah, that was good.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:23:30 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
352. fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall was discovered doing makeup demonstrations at a mall and sent to Robert Altman, who put her in Brewster McCloud.

     “She's discovered for Brewster McLeod as like a makeup tester at a mall.”

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353. fun, about Shelley Duvall: Duvall describes the cost of crying for a year and a half: the body rebels and the thought of crying makes her cry.

     “But after a while, your body rebels.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:51:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
354. fun, about Jack Nicholson: On set, Nicholson broke down the door with the axe faster than the crew could replace it; he was once a fireman.

     “He famously like broke the door down more than they could.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:08 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
355. fun, about Jack Nicholson: On A Few Good Men, Nicholson gave full energy off camera for every other actor's coverage.

     “He did off camera for everyone's, like, fucking takes and he did full energy every time.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:57:27 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
356. fun, about The Shining: Kubrick called the Steadicam a magic carpet; the camera follows Danny's Big Wheel across carpet and wood.

     “And he calls it like a magic carpet, which is really cool.”

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357. fun, about The Shining: Look for the typed manuscript pages: the PAs typed every page by hand, because Kubrick would not allow Xeroxes.

     “Oh, um, yeah, I wanted to say the poor fucking PAs.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
358. fun, about The Shining: In the gold room blood scene, one chair moves between shots, a rare slip in a controlled film.

     “it's funny that the chair moves.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:18:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
359. fun, about The Shining: The UK cut: Kubrick himself trimmed 30 minutes after the film played badly there.

     “in the UK, the movie was not playing well, and Kubrick himself cut 30 minutes.”

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360. fun, about The Shining: An Entertainment Weekly quote from Diane Johnson on the final photo: Jack had been the hotel's creature through reincarnation.

     “The idea that Jack was always at the hotel in some earlier incarnation.”

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361. fun, about A Clockwork Orange: It opened at number nine at the box office in January 1972; Diamonds Are Forever was number one.

     “And it's opening on number nine.”

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362. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Nolan's IMAX re-release was deliberately demastered to look yellowed and imperfect, how he remembered seeing it as a child.

     “He didn't want it to be like perfectly smooth.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
363. fun, about Leon Vitali: Vitali had to dodge whether the 4K Blu-ray would look like the Nolan version without stepping on Nolan's toes.

     “And he like couldn't say, good heavens, no.”

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364. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's daughter says her father wanted to be a short-order cook, which fits his chaotic hosted dinners.

     “I think my father always had this secret dream of being like a short order cook.”

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365. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick on why he did not want drugs to be the source of the film, as read from the dossier.

     “I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist.”

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366. fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Kubrick's premiere reaction was misery after 240 walkouts; he cut about 12 minutes.

     “apparently 240 people walked out.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:14:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
367. fun, about Douglas Trumbull: Kubrick got the film's only Oscar, for effects, while Trumbull got no statue.

     “The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”

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368. fun, about Dr. Strangelove: Mandrake's story about being captured by the Japanese is called the funniest part of the movie.

     “Mandrake talking about being captured by the Japanese is the funniest part of this whole movie.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:11:32 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
369. fun, about Dr. Strangelove: AFI's 100 Years 100 Laughs ranked Strangelove third, behind Tootsie and Some Like It Hot, and Blockbuster displayed the tapes together.

     “I watched this because AFI in the year 2000 did their 100 years, 100 laughs”

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370. fun, about Kirk Douglas: Douglas griped that Kubrick left their five-picture deal and made only six films after.

     “half of his remaining filmography would have been under my contract.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:30:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
371. fun, about Tony Curtis: Curtis's quote on why he and Kubrick got along: they only wanted to talk about two things.

     “we got along because we were only interested in talking about 2 things.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
372. fun, about Stanley Kubrick: The research dossier's theory: the endless takes were waiting to be surprised, not to see what was in his head.

     “It sounded so much more that the thing he was waiting for was for something to surprise him.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:29:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
373. fun, about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Cardassian-law episode gets confused with the Kardashians over Zoom.

     “Both times you said it, I thought you said Kardashians.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:26:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
374. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: Griffin avoided it his whole life, took six hours to finish for the podcast, loved it, owns it on steelbook, will never rewatch.

     “It took me 6 hours to finish watching it.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:19:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
375. fun, about The Killing: A working title for the film was Bed of Fear, which sets Patton off on his Deathbed routine.

     “But one of the titles, one of the working titles that apparently was close to happening for this movie, I don't know if you know this, was bed of fear.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
376. fun, about Die Hard: Sinatra's Detective rights gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Fox had to offer Die Hard to him first; the speaker pictures the call.

     “I just like imagining whoever the Fox exec was who was like, hey, Frank, I'm just calling so you can tell me to fuck off.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:15:04 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
377. fun, about Harvey Keitel: Keitel supposedly told Kubrick to go fuck himself on Eyes Wide Shut after 27 takes of walking through a door.

     “Kubrick made him walk through a door 27 times”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:20 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
378. fun, about Timothy Carey: His performance clenches the jaw like a living corpse; the speakers love how strange and huge he is on screen.

     “I'm already dead, and I'm going to play this with a rictus because I'm going to die.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
379. fun, about Timothy Carey: His image from The Killing turns up on the Sgt. Pepper outtake photos behind George Harrison, though the speaker concedes it may not be the final cover.

     “Sag had no cause projection, but apparently he's also in his image from the killing is on the Sergeant Pepper cover behind George Harrison.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
380. fun, about The Taking of Pelham 123: Why Matthau works: the original's one man who can handle it is hung over, ill-fitting suit, stale hot dog.

     “he's hung over in an ill-fitting suit eating a stale hot dog”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:42:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
381. fun, about Sterling Hayden: Stated line on his character: not smart enough to pull it off, too smart to be happy if he did.

     “he's he's not smart enough to pull off a con of this size, but he's too smart to ever be happy if he were to pull it off”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:43:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
382. fun, about The Killing: Audiences hated the studio-demanded chronological cut even more, so the jumbled timeline went back in.

     “They test screen it and the audiences hate it even more when it's in the right order.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:52:47 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
383. fun, about The Killing: UA's Max Youngstein ranked Kubrick and Harris 'not far from the bottom' of their producer-filmmaker teams.

     “And Max said, not far from the bottom.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
384. fun, about The Killing: Time predicted it would 'make a killing at the cash booth'; Wikipedia's next line is a loss of $130,000.

     “going to make a killing at the cash booth”

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385. fun, about Goodfellas: Powell's letter to Scorsese: a stunning script, a wonderful film and a priceless social document.

     “dear Marty, it is a stunning script and we'll make a wonderful film and a priceless social document.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
386. fun, about Goodfellas: The wig-shop commercial in Goodfellas was shot and cut by the real wig shop owner.

     “That is shot, that footage was shot and cut by the guy who owned that wig shot.”

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387. fun, about The Killing: Ben texts that if he were in a heist movie where people fuck it up, he would have pulled it off and ended on a tropical island.

     “Anytime Ben watches a heist movie in which people fuck it up.”

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388. fun, about Fear and Desire: The streaming copies are public-domain colorized versions that look like cheap AI, with color that will not stay on faces.

     “It looks like it was done by some very rudimentary $5 AI, but it's this thing where the color like can't stick to their faces.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:01:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
389. fun, about Fear and Desire: Eerie shot: a dead woman's POV as a hand waves over her eyes, then a pulse check.

     “They cut to a POV shot. I know. Of him waving his hand in front of her eyes.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
390. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Griffin's thesis: the best narrative ever built around Batman, with the most complete understanding of him as a character.

     “I think this is the best narrative that has ever been constructed around Batman”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:01:16 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
391. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The villains list: Conan O'Brien as the Riddler, Mantzoukas as Scarecrow, Garfunkel and Oats as Poison Ivy and Clayface, Doug Benson as Bane.

     “Conan O'Brien plays the Riddler.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:07:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
392. fun, about Billy Dee Williams: Voices Two-Face as little Lego Billy Dee, finishing the arc of never playing him for Burton.

     “It's his voice and they make it look like him.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:08:20 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
393. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The whole movie takes place on a table, and the kid's threat is pulling two pushed-together tables apart.

     “So this is setting up the, like, without cutting out the real world from the 1st movie.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:53 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
394. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Mariah Carey is the mayor for no stated reason.

     “Mariah Carey, inexplicably the mayor.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:10:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
395. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Watch the scene where Batman microwaves lobster Thermidor, types 20 minutes, and corrects himself; the hosts also like the lighting of the microwave.

     “And then he types 20 and then he goes, not 20 minutes stupid.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:19:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
396. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Lego film rule: animators scanned in every real Lego piece and had to build everything so it could physically exist.

     “So they essentially like scanned in every Lego block shape or piece type that exists.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:19:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
397. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Popcorn is made of big white balls because they could not make new pieces and had to find the closest existing one.

     “So they like weren't allowed to make new pieces.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:21:06 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
398. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Batman has a wall of dead parents, a Crime Alley photo, and only drops his guard talking to the pictures.

     “This wall of dead parents.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:21:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
399. fun, about Michael Cera: Allegra Frank's interview with Cera, who said his best compliment is when someone enjoys his dinner.

     “To me, the best compliment I could ever get in the world is when I make dinner for someone and they enjoy it.”

     Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:30:19 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
400. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Lego hair pieces swap for a wind-blown version when a megaphone hits a character in the face.

     “they switch the hairpiece to a hairpiece that looks wind blown.”

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