David Krumholtz

1 sketch, 6 claims, and 8 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raging Bull with David Krumholtz (guest)

Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen.

Stances

  • Raging Bull completely validates cinema
  • De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better
  • AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human
  • Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies

Humor: Self-deprecating short-guy and New York Jewish humor, plus tall tales about his own career.

In their words

  • “It completely validates the entire art form of cinema.” (0:11:02)
  • “Better than Robert De Niro.” (1:47:34)
  • “The audience is human.” (0:30:39)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–6 of 6 claims.

  1. unmapped (meta ending): Raging Bull → Inglourious Basterds. Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds.
    “It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (genre contrast): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy.
    “Taxi driver is a straight drama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (acting lineage): Robert De Niro → Marlon Brando. Brando laid the groundwork for De Niro's natural yet acrobatic style, which De Niro then took to an infinite level.
    “Brando now has laid the groundwork for De Niro to be as naturally simplistic, but also acrobatic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:43:33 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (cut monologue): Jeremy Strong → Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Strong improvised a hole-in-the-floor monologue on set that was used in the trailer but cut from the film.
    “The hole in the floor monologue is written by Jeremy Strong.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:04:20 · David Krumholtz (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (emotion Scorsese wants): Raging Bull → Cape Fear. Speaker lists Cape Fear alongside panic and embarrassment as the visceral feelings Scorsese is after.
    “Feel something so visceral, panic, you know, fear, cape fear, embarrassment”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:29:15 · David Krumholtz (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. theme (thematic): Martin Scorsese → Stanley Kubrick. The speaker says Kubrick's films are all about the fight between humanity's consciousness and animal instinct, which Raging Bull also tackles.
    “which is the fight between the consciousness, uh, of humanity and the subconscious nature of animal instinct, and that that inherent battle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:30:14 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–8 of 8 fun items.

  1. fun, about David Krumholtz: Father was a degenerate gambler whose favorite bar was Jimmy's Corner; the owner, a former boxer, trained young Krumholtz, who hated it. His brother, begging to box, balanced out and nearly went pro.
    “my father was talked about before, a degenerate gambling addict whose favorite bar was Jimmy's corner.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:02:05 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Raging Bull: Sound editing: Scorsese insisted every punch and flashbulb be a unique sound. Foley man Frank Warner fired rifles into melons. See the Miami photo scene where the first flash makes a child scream.
    “Marty drove everyone crazy because he insisted that every punch, every flashbulb be a unique sound”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:24:40 · David Krumholtz (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Martin Scorsese: Krumholtz's only exchange with Scorsese at a lunch: Scorsese declared Szechuan the best Chinese food, Krumholtz said Cantonese, and Scorsese looked at him like a moron and changed the subject.
    “That's the whole, my whole interaction with Martin Scorsese is that we disagreed on the best Chinese food style.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:49:47 · David Krumholtz (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Raging Bull: Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement.
    “I'm making more than just a film about a boxer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:56:48 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere: Krumholtz feared Jeremy Strong staying in character, but Strong was sweet; he then improvised a hole-in-the-floor monologue over several takes. Krumholtz joked that Sean Penn told him to fight for it. The monologue was in the trailer but not the movie.
    “Jeremy Strong, God love him, does not take no for an answer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:02:58 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Raging Bull: Black and white was chosen to differ from the bright Rocky-era boxing movies, because color stock was fading, and to look like old Daily News photos. Black and white also softens the violence and comedy.
    “if this movie were in color, it would be talked about as one of the most violent movies of all time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:10:44 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Robert De Niro: At the SAG Awards for Oppenheimer, Krumholtz found De Niro posing for fans outside the bathroom like a Disney mascot and saying cheese reflexively.
    “With every fan picture, he reflexively says cheese.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:39:11 · David Krumholtz (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about David Krumholtz: Krumholtz plays bongos in a Grateful Dead cover band, Golden String Fiddle, at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, NJ.
    “I'm playing at the Orange Lantern in Paramus, New Jersey.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 2:16:43 · David Krumholtz (0.90 sure it was them)