Patton Oswalt

2 sketches, 50 claims, and 22 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–2 of 2 sketches.

The Big Picture: ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! (guest)

Passionate about 40s and 50s B-movie noir, character actors and cinematographers, and thinks noir is a psychosexual snapshot of its era. Loves location shooting, low-budget invention and Del Toro. Can't stand the idea that constant growth and being number one is the point, and resents cynical grift.

Stances

  • 40s noir is the golden age
  • Nightmare Alley is great but perhaps not a true noir
  • The carnival is more honest than the penthouse
  • Cops and institutions are the real danger in noir
  • Entertaining and important are not opposites

Humor: Rant-driven riffs and vivid, profane similes (Sam Spade with a hearing aid and a bus pass) with a nerd's encyclopedic affection.

In their words

  • “Charles McGraw is the face of noir.” (0:51:33)
  • “it's Sam Spade with a hearing aid and a bus pass.” (1:02:09)
  • “my favorite era is the 40s only because it was, it's people.” (0:48:09)

Blank Check — Patreon: The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) (guest)

Watches The Killing repeatedly, loves noir and character actors, Timothy Carey stories, Matthau in Pelham 123, Albert Brooks and Adam Sandler's dramatic work, Shudder and the Corman-style ecosystem. Hates the method and the auteur theory.

Stances

  • The method and the auteur theory both get in the way of the work
  • The Killing's characters are small-time crooks who aren't smart enough
  • Titles do real work, the killing is a double meaning
  • Genre outsiders like Shudder directors will be the next filmmakers

Humor: Long, vivid anecdotes and self-deprecating confessions about his own unfinished projects.

In their words

  • “I hate the method and I hate the auteur theory.” (0:26:12)
  • “That one made it all the way through.” (0:06:41)
  • “I brought cannoli for everybody.” (0:32:55)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–50 of 50 claims.

  1. unmapped (ending): Nightmare Alley → Nightmare Alley. The new film keeps the novel's bleak ending, where the Tyrone Power version tacks on a happy Hollywood one.
    “there's the perfect ending, end it right here, and then you get that tacked on Hollywood ending where things are really, really happy.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:10:12 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (visual contrast): Nightmare Alley → Nightmare Alley. The 1947 film has great chiaroscuro photography but does not show how enticing a carnival is the way Del Toro does.
    “He's able to show you Del Toro is able to show you how enticing, um, a carnival is, no matter how evil”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:11:05 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (same filmmaker, tonal kin): Nightmare Alley → Cronos. Cronos is the only earlier Del Toro film where there is no way out.
    “this is really the 1st Del Toro, except maybe Kronos, where he started where there is no way out.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:12:01 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (tonal opposite): Nightmare Alley → Pan's Labyrinth. In Del Toro's other films a pure and hopeful heart defangs the monsters; the protagonist here has no such heart.
    “if you butt up against them with, I think, more pure and hopeful heart, they aren't monsters anymore.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:12:27 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. people (writer's worldview): Kim Morgan → Nightmare Alley. Morgan, a leading writer on classic noir, made this a dream project and the film realizes her worldview.
    “It's such a realization of Kim's worldview, um, and then, of course, meeting the vision of Guillermo del Toro.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:13:26 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (pacing contrast): Nightmare Alley → Goodfellas. Goodfellas is propulsive because its hero builds an empire; Nightmare Alley needs the slow seductive absorption that kills Carlisle.
    “unlike a movie like Goodfellas, which is the definition of propulsive”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:33:54 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. verdict (underrated by consistency): Purple Rain → Sign o' the Times. Prince's other films are being reassessed because Purple Rain's achievement overshadowed them.
    “Now people are reassessing sign of the times and realizing, oh, that was even better.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:35:53 · Patton Oswalt (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. career (career risk): Bradley Cooper → Roy Scheider. Cooper taking this dark role after A Star Is Born is a 1970s-style star move like Scheider in Sorcerer.
    “it reminded me of what Roy Schneider did in Sorcerer, which is another movie that came out”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:37:28 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. industry (box-office flop, future reassessment): Nightmare Alley → Sorcerer. Both bombed on release, Sorcerer under the summer of Star Wars, and Nightmare Alley will be reassessed the same way.
    “So this is going to be one of those movies that will be reassessed, I think, in the exact same way.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:38:05 · Patton Oswalt (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. people (unrecognized acting under prosthetics): Ron Perlman → Eddie Murphy. Both did Oscar-worthy acting under heavy makeup that went unnominated.
    “Perlman should have gotten an Academy Award nomination for Hellboy because he was emoting under the thickest latex”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:38:59 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (noir definition): Nightmare Alley → Nightmare Alley. Patton doubts it is a true noir because the carnival is honest about its ugliness; the corrupt veneer lives in the penthouses.
    “I don't really know that this is a true noir only because the world of this movie doesn't pretend like it's anything”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:41:41 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  12. theme (shared theme): The Prowler → I Wake Up Screaming. Both are 40s noirs about corrupt, damaged psychological cops, telling audiences not to trust authority.
    “movies and especially, 40s movies like the Prowler and I wake up screaming, um, which are about corrupt damaged psychological cops”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:48:34 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  13. theme (shared theme): On Dangerous Ground → The Prowler. Another noir where the cop is the most dangerous person; Robert Ryan frightens even as the hero.
    “Robert Ryan is the scariest thing in that movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:49:40 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  14. craft (craft): John Alton → Phantom Lady. Naming John Alton as a favorite noir cinematographer, the speaker places him on T-Men and tentatively on Phantom Lady.
    “I believe he did, didn't he do Phantom Lady?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:50:20 · Patton Oswalt (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. contrast (femme fatale contrast): Ella Raines → Lauren Bacall. Raines was the true noir femme fatale, more than Bacall or Colleen Gray, and ahead of her time.
    “Ella Reigns was the noir, was the noir version of the femme fatal”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:50:32 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (visual inspiration): Charles McGraw → Sin City. Frank Miller supposedly based Marv's face on McGraw's.
    “I think that Frank Miller based violent Marv from Sin City on his face.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:51:36 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. theme (shared theme): Crime Wave → On Dangerous Ground. Crime Wave is another damaged-cop movie, with Sterling Hayden.
    “crime wave, which is another great, um, damaged cop movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:53:51 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (documentary value): Crime Wave → Crime Wave. Shot on location out of B-movie necessity, it is an accidental documentary of 1940s LA.
    “that movie is an accidental documentary of what LA looked like in the 40s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:54:40 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  19. lineage (extreme-performer lineage): Timothy Carey → Laird Cregar. Both were actors who showed the extreme, unglamorous end of human emotion.
    “especially Timothy Carey, who was the Nicholas Cage with the 40s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  20. theme (resentment theme (via Trump)): Bad Day at Black Rock → Nightmare Alley. A technicolor noir whose small-town resentment of a veteran is read as very Trump-like, echoing the Trump-as-carnival reading of the new film.
    “I mean, that is very much a Trump or movie, these, um, people that, uh, are resenting the, the Japanese guy”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:57:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (decade/region shift): Blast of Silence → Brighton Rock. In the 60s noir moved off to Britain, where a fallen empire found a darker noir.
    “A lot of the noir kind of moved over to Great Britain, and you got, um, you know, movies like Brighton, Rock”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:58:12 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  22. theme (shared theme): The Damned → Brighton Rock. British noir-adjacent films dealing with delinquency and crime in a fallen empire.
    “These are the damned, which is ostensibly a science fiction film, but deals with juvenile delinquency and chaos”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:58:12 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  23. craft (craft): Richard Sylbert → Chinatown. For all its darkness Chinatown is a beautifully designed film; Sylbert's production design is why it looks gorgeous.
    “Chinatown that is a very elegant, um, beautifully designed film, Richard Silbert, um, you know, did this gorgeous looking.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:00:34 · Patton Oswalt (0.80 sure it was them)
  24. theme (shared theme): Hickey & Boggs → The Nickel Ride. Little-known 70s noirs where a private eye or small-time operator hangs on by his fingernails.
    “a private detective in the 70s, was just hanging on by his fingernails.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:00:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  25. theme (shared theme (men out of time)): Save the Tiger → The Long Goodbye. Lemmon and Elliott Gould play men in the wrong time; Save the Tiger is basically a noir about the garment business.
    “a prestige film like Save the Tiger is basically a film noir.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:01:23 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  26. theme (shared theme (time-warped detective)): The Late Show → The Long Goodbye. A time-warped 70s detective story; The Late Show is Sam Spade with a hearing aid and a bus pass.
    “it's Sam Spade with a hearing aid and a bus pass.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:02:09 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  27. lineage (femme fatale lineage): The Last Seduction → Body Heat. 90s-era erotic-thriller noirs push the femme fatale to an extreme; Bound completes the trio.
    “Oh, yeah, with last seduction in body heat.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:02:43 · Patton Oswalt (0.75 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (coded queerness): The Big Combo → Gilda. Both 40s/50s noirs carried gay subtext that could not be said aloud.
    “the big combo, um, Lee Van Cleef and his partner, that's a gay couple.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:03:14 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (adaptation censorship): Crossfire → Crossfire. The source book's gay GI became a Jewish GI in the film, and could be told differently today.
    “the book was about a gay GI, and then they changed it in the movie to a Jewish GI”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:04:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. contrast (era contrast (conspiracy vs. open corruption)): All the President's Men → Nightmare Alley. Covert conspiracy thrillers feel quaint now, so low-budget horror has taken over noir's role as commentary.
    “A movie like all the president's men feel so quaint.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:05:39 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (critical reassessment): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave it three stars as a young critic, believing something so entertaining could not be important, then reversed.
    “something this entertaining cannot be an important film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:08:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (look-alike): Kola Kwariani → Ed Wood films (Tor Johnson). The bald wrestler is likened to Tor Johnson in Ed Wood's films.
    “I also think of the Ed Wood guy with Tor Johnson, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:01:19 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. lineage (two adaptations): The Killer Inside Me → The Killer Inside Me. The Thompson novel has two film versions, the Stacy Keach and the Casey Affleck.
    “There's the Stacy Keach version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:12:39 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. people (actors walking out): Harvey Keitel → Christopher Plummer. Keitel's Eyes Wide Shut walkout is paired with Plummer's rant about Malick.
    “it's like that incredible clip of Christopher Plummer talking about working with Malik on the new world”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:25:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. people (method vs auteur): Daniel Day-Lewis → Stanley Kubrick. Patton sets nice Day-Lewis against Kubrick as the two examples people over-imitate.
    “Kubrick and Daniel De Lewis loom too large as those 2 examples.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:27:02 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Klaus Kinski. Carey is called the American Klaus Kinski.
    “But American Klaus Kinsky, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:31:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. theme (comparison): Marie Windsor → Illeana Douglas. Windsor is called an early Illeana Douglas.
    “it's like an early Iliana Douglas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:37:44 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (same dream): The Killing → Charley Varrick. Johnny Clay wants to vanish and live quietly on the money, like Matthau in Charley Varrick, though Matthau seems to want a nap.
    “He has the same dreams as like as Walter Mathow and Charlie Varick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:41:16 · Patton Oswalt (0.45 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (scene resemblance): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle.
    “that's all Travis Bickle”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (modern noir): The Killing → Taxi Driver. Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs.
    “this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (expectation): Kola Kwariani → Blazing Saddles. On paper the wrestler's monologues should go like Mongo in Blazing Saddles, but he nails it.
    “You imagine it will come off like blazing saddles with like Mongo”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:01:21 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (led to): The Killing → Paths of Glory. Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)
  43. contrast (awards-year contrast): The Killing → Giant. The Killing's little low-budget kind stands against the bloated epics (Giant, King and I, Ten Commandments) of the era.
    “all the great movies from this era are these little low budget”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:08:38 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. unmapped (documentary realism): Goodfellas → The Killing. Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick.
    “directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (admired): Steve Martin → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wrote Steve Martin asking for notes on The Jerk.
    “Kubrick was like sending letters to Steve Martin about the jerk”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:49 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. unmapped (cruel humor): Coen Brothers → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's humor and the Coens' are both cruel to their characters.
    “they are very cruel to their protagonists in their films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:17:26 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. unmapped (comic playing the problem): Punch-Drunk Love → Blue Collar. Pryor in Blue Collar and Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love play what's wrong rather than the hero.
    “Even early Richard Pryor was in Blue Collar, was so good at playing what the problem was rather than the hero.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:18:09 · Patton Oswalt (0.45 sure it was them)
  48. unmapped (professional-first filmmakers): Night of the Living Dead → Anything for Jackson. The Anything for Jackson makers, like Romero, were working filmmakers who then made a genre film.
    “it's the same George Romero thing of, I'm just an industrial filmmaker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:26:47 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. people (possible cameo): Rodney Dangerfield → The Killing. IMDb lists Dangerfield as an uncredited onlooker; the speakers doubt it.
    “He is currently on IMDb.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:28:54 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  50. industry (box office week): The Killing → The Searchers. The Searchers topped the box office the week of release, a hit with a Dell comics tie-in.
    “it was a big hit and it like had like a Dell comics tie in”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:31:50 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–22 of 22 fun items.

  1. fun, about Willem Dafoe: The geek monologue, how you make someone a geek, is taken from the novel and reads like a handbook for online edge-lords.
    “that's the handbook for being a shit posting edge lord”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:23:01 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Hellboy II: The living forest monster's death scene is one of the most beautiful things Patton has seen on screen.
    “It is a ferocious, mindless, rampaging beast that dies so beautifully that you're almost crying.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:36:30 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Nutty Professor II: The Klumps: Eddie Murphy should have been nominated for playing eight characters at a dinner scene, riffing on earlier takes.
    “he's riffing on them from stuff he did earlier in the week.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:39:12 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Ron Perlman: Patton spent a long night with Perlman in Vancouver; says Perlman knows he looks like a special effect.
    “He's a special effect, basically.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:40:08 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Laird Cregar: Patton says Cregar dieted himself to death because he was unhappy being a character actor.
    “a guy who basically dieted himself to death because he wasn't happy being a character actor”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:51:10 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Charles McGraw: Patton calls McGraw the face of noir; the T-Men scene where his face comes out of the shadows on the docks.
    “Charles McGraw is the face of noir.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:51:33 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Early noir directors: The famous single lit desk was because they had one desk and no money; impressionism by necessity.
    “Because we had one desk.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:53:00 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Crime Wave: At a screening Andre de Toth said they shot on location because as a B movie they could not use studio sets.
    “We were the bottom of the bill.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:54:27 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Sterling Hayden: Patton calls him the avatar of a bad mood, always looking like he is in the worst mood.
    “He is a, he is, um, he's the avatar of of a bad mood.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:55:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Kiss Me Deadly: Patton's favorite noir of all time.
    “Kiss Me Deadly. is is fucking incredible.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:57:58 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Blast of Silence: Allen Baron filmed the hurricane finale in a real hurricane, lying in icy water.
    “that end scene in the hurricane, which was an actual pretty brutal hurricane that hit New York that he went and filmed in”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:59:07 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Whisper of Panic: In Silver Screen Fiend, Patton dreamed up a month at the New Beverly of movies never made; his entry was Whisper of Panic, a hotel detective with shrapnel in his head.
    “a hotel detective with a piece of shrapnel in his head”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:59:40 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Late Show: One of the most underrated movies of the 70s: Sam Spade with a hearing aid and a bus pass.
    “One of the most underrated movies of the 70s, fucking brilliant.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:02:04 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Big Combo: Patton reads Lee Van Cleef and his partner as a gay couple the film could not say aloud.
    “it's too gay hitmen.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:03:23 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Ebert wrote that he gave it 3 stars as a young critic because entertaining could not be important, then realized making an entertaining film is hard.
    “it's actually really hard to make an entertaining film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:08:32 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Deathbed: The Bed That Eats: Patton's bit is awe that someone finished a movie about a bed that eats people while his own projects die.
    “That one made it all the way through.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:06:41 · Patton Oswalt (0.75 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Timothy Carey: Carey reportedly showed up to a Godfather Part II meeting with a bakery box holding a blank-filled gun and shot it at the ceiling.
    “I brought cannoli for everybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:32:55 · Patton Oswalt (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Timothy Carey: His post-credits bit in D.C. Cab: he gets in a cab and says he's the angel of death and to take him to hell.
    “I'm the angel of death.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about The Killing: In the airport scene the baggage staff are the only two people in the film who don't know it's a noir.
    “those 2 actors are the only 2 people in this entire film who don't know they're in an AWAR film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:50:17 · Patton Oswalt (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Rodney Dangerfield: Frame freeze in the fight scene: a man looks like Rodney Dangerfield, IMDb lists him uncredited, the speakers doubt it but want it to be him.
    “I would love it to be Rodney.”
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  21. fun, about The Searchers: It was a big hit in 1956 with a Dell comics adaptation.
    “kids were fucking buying the comic adaptation of the searchers, this movie about loneliness.”
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  22. fun, about Timothy Carey: He was cast as Squiggy's dad on Laverne & Shirley and fired the first day for his philosophy of immediate flatulence.
    “Timothy Carey was originally cast on Laverne and Shirley as Squiggy's dad.”
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