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lineage (lineage): Stanley Kubrick → Killer's Kiss. Early films like Killer's Kiss and Fear and Desire are seen as the developmental stage.
“the sort of fear and desire, killer's kiss, the killing run feels like, well, that's the developmental.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:41:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (shared financing): Fear and Desire → Killer's Kiss. Both were funded by pharmacists and druggists.
“It's funny. Both of these films you read that all the money came from like fucking pharmacies and drugstores.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (inspiration): Day of the Fight → Killer's Kiss. The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss.
“Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (shared cast): Fear and Desire → Killer's Kiss. Frank Silvera is in both films.
“The cast, Frank Silvera, who's also in Killer's Kiss.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:37:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Fear and Desire → Killer's Kiss. Killer's Kiss was conceived as pure action on a mechanical gangster plot, the opposite of the first film.
“This one was nothing but action sequences strung together on a mechanically constructed gangster plot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:03:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Killer's Kiss: Kubrick fired the sound team when they wanted a microphone in his shot, and dubbed again.
“I set up a shot and they're like, well, we need to put a microphone there. And Kubrick says, cut.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:05:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (shared technique): Fear and Desire → Killer's Kiss. Both were shot silent and dubbed afterward.
“Oh, right, he does the same fucking thing again, where they shoot it without sound and dub over every line dialogue.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:05:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Killer's Kiss → Double Indemnity. The speaker expected a double-cross plot but got a tender romance.
“You went for some double indemnity thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:08:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Killer's Kiss: The shaving-mirror shot that reflects her window across the airshaft.
“And you see in the mirror her window.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:12:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Killer's Kiss: The Penn Station frame sets up a poetic tragedy, but the ending was forced on the film.
“And the ending was forced on this movie, I think.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:17:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Killer's Kiss: The mannequin warehouse fight is the coolest part of the movie.
“Like, which is the coolest part of the movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:18:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (successor): The Killing → Killer's Kiss. The Killing puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors.
“The killing kind of just like puts all of this in a cooler package with better actors, no offense to the actors.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 1:21:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)