Blank Check with Griffin & David: Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany
Published 2023-09-03; 2:09:34 by the feed.
As extracted (engineer-sonnet-2026-10-13)
The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany”.
Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Tatiana Maslany.
Subject films: Decision to Leave (2022).
On the transcript: Transcript is rough, with sponsor reads (Video Game Town, Audible Dracula, Mubi) mid-episode, which were skipped; several overlapping speakers made attribution uncertain. The first section is a long off-topic cold open.
Films that came up
passing (40)
WandaVision · Wonder Pets · Grey House (Broadway play) · Parasite · Mother (Bong Joon-ho) · Bram Stoker's Dracula (Audible, ad) · Black Hat · Goosebumps (Slappy the dummy) · Elemental · Wheel of Fortune · The Sympathizer (HBO series) · The Axe · Avatar · Top Gun: Maverick · I Saw the Devil · The Witch: Part 2. The Other One · The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion · The Outlaws · The Roundup (Crime City 2) · Lightyear · Broker · Jurassic World Dominion · Pokemon film (11th/latest) · C'mon C'mon · The Last Voyage of the Demeter · Cobweb · The Electric State · Poldark · Halloween Ends · Smile · Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile · The Woman King · Don't Worry Darling · Barbarian · Terrifier 2 · Bros · The Killer (Fincher) · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Alien 3 · Alien vs. Predator / Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
subject (1)
anecdote (13)
Orphan Black · Network (Broadway play) · Trumbo · A Woman Under the Influence · The Nightmare Before Christmas · There Will Be Blood · The Brigands of Rhine Boug (unproduced script) · She-Hulk: Attorney at Law · Perry Mason (HBO) · Eastern Promises · Ginger Snaps · Stronger · Support the Girls
compared (20)
The Little Drummer Girl · Stoker · The Handmaiden · Mist (1967 Korean hit song) · Martin Beck novels (Swedish) · Lust, Caution · Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type) · Brief Encounter · Robocop · Insomnia · Strangers on a Train · The Simpsons (Sideshow Bob) · Thirst · Lady Vengeance · Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance · Oldboy · Joint Security Area (JSA) · I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK · Trio (Park Chan-wook) · The Moon Is the Sun's Dream
dismissed (2)
recommended (1)
Claims (39)
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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.”
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verdict (personal favorite):
Tatiana Maslany → A Woman Under the Influence.
Tatiana throws on A Woman Under the Influence often and has seen it about 40 times.
“I would I would throw on a woman under the influence often.”
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verdict (childhood favorite):
Tatiana Maslany → The Nightmare Before Christmas.
She knows it backwards and forwards and can quote it; a seminal childhood film.
“Like, I can quote it.”
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verdict (personal favorite):
Tatiana Maslany → There Will Be Blood.
She has seen it about 50 times and puts it on to watch one scene then gets sucked in.
“But even like there will be blood is one that I've seen probably like 50 times.”
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people (subtitle performance):
Tang Wei → Decision to Leave.
The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is.
“I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is.”
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industry (peer rivalry):
Decision to Leave → Bong Joon-ho.
Park constantly goes up against his buddy Bong, who has only been submitted twice for the Oscars.
“And his buddy Bong, he's got to constantly go up against.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:25:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
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) -
unmapped (technical shoot anecdote):
Tatiana Maslany → She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
She describes shooting with a face on a stick, platforms and a dead-face mask as an eyeline double.
“And I had like a big face on top of my head on a stick.”
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career (career context):
The Handmaiden → Stoker.
Handmaiden was partly Amazon-funded, so after Stoker and Drummer Girl the Hollywood door was open for Park.
“Right, and Handmaiden is Korean film, obviously, but that was partly funded, I think, by Amazon, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:34:36 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
theme (anecdote parallel):
Steven Soderbergh → David Fincher.
Soderbergh's story of Fincher's hyper-precise color notes is used to explain a protagonist who cannot turn off noticing.
“I cannot imagine the curse of being able to notice that.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:43:03 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
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) -
people (same actor):
Decision to Leave → Lust, Caution.
Tang Wei broke out in Lust, Caution, a film about a seduction that may turn real, a similar tension to this film.
“But it's a movie about, basically, she has to seduce a man as an act of political espionage and the whole movie hinges on like, is she falling in love with him?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:45:28 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
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) -
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) -
what-if (alternate version):
Decision to Leave → Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type).
With more sex on screen the same story would slide into a Joe Eszterhas early-90s erotic thriller.
“Well, I also think if you make this same movie with more sex, it very quickly comes, becomes a Joe Esterhouse movie, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:48:24 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
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) -
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) -
career (career placement):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Handmaiden was the last Park film several of them had seen before this one; Griffin ranks it his number one.
“I haven't seen a Park John Rook film since The Handmaiden, which blew my mind.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:57:20 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (thematic):
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Jane Schoenbrun.
A movie about Hollywood being out of ideas that is itself new.
“while being an example of there's still being new stories to tell.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:07:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
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) -
theme (against genre):
Tang Wei → Decision to Leave.
Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious.
“Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
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) -
unmapped (production trivia):
Insomnia → Insomnia.
Insomnia, set in Alaska, was actually shot in British Columbia.
“Yeah, they filmed it in British Columbia.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:21:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cast connection):
Tatiana Maslany → Eastern Promises.
Tatiana played the victim Tatiana in Eastern Promises, an early film credit that David had never connected.
“I had never put this together, that you are the victim in Eastern promises.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:21:55 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (cast connection):
Tatiana Maslany → Ginger Snaps.
Tatiana is in Ginger Snaps, a werewolf-as-puberty film.
“I know that you're in ginger snaps too.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:23:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
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) -
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) -
craft (style comparison):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves.
“I guess he means more restrained than the Handmaiden.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:49:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (texting in film):
Steven Soderbergh → Decision to Leave.
Soderbergh is called one of the few major auteurs who head straight into the smartphone present, as Park does with texting.
“And Soderberg is one of the few guys who like head straight into it.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
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) -
industry (box office):
Decision to Leave → Top Gun: Maverick.
In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend.
“Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (performance):
C'mon C'mon → Woody Norman.
The kid improvised so much that Mike Mills had to cue Joaquin Phoenix's lines.
“Right. Yeah, he's improvising.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:58:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (standout performance):
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile → Javier Bardem.
The movie is garbage but Bardem is called incredible in it as a failed circus entertainer.
“Yeah, that movie sucks, but Javier Bird has incredible in it.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:01:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (crew choice):
Stronger → David Gordon Green.
Green deliberately worked with a new crew on Stronger rather than his usual people.
“I'm not going to work with like, he usually works with like the same crew”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:06:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
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)
Fun items (24)
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fun, about
Tatiana Maslany:
Tatiana keeps her Emmy in a storage locker rather than on a shelf.
“No, it's like in my storage locker.”
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fun, about
Brian Cranston:
Network on Broadway sold out because of the Cranston effect; Griffin's running Cranston-and-Rambo pun.
“Sold out every night because of Brian Cranston.”
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fun, about
Tatiana Maslany:
She calls herself a vibes-and-performance viewer who finds plot daunting, compared to her husband Brendan Hines.
“Like, I'm here for vibes.”
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fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart.
“So it had to be like something more intense, like his head to be like impactful enough.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:22:42 · Tatiana Maslany (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Tatiana on the bit where the sex scenes are the least sexy part of the movie, like toothbrushing.
“They're like where the sexiness is removed.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:23:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
S. Craig Zahler:
Griffin on Zahler's absurdly tight ponytail, which looks drawn on like a kid's drawing of hair.
“It's like how a kid draws hair”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:26:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park's gentleman-cop concept: a detective who carries wet wipes and eyedrops rather than a gun, a walking vending machine of a man.
“his concept is a police officer who doesn't carry a gun, but it says, carries instead carries wet wipes”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park spoke for 90 minutes pitching the whole film to Park Hae-il, who needed to pee halfway but was too immersed to interrupt.
“I really needed to pee about halfway in.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:46:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park's ending: he had wanted to end a movie with a person burying herself for about 30 years; he considered an epilogue but cut it.
“I have been trying to put that as the end of a movie first. So for like 30 years.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
On the opening mountain climb, two cops go up horizontally on a winch, one strapped to the other; Griffin says the moment he fell in love with the movie and that Park does one bizarre scene like it ten times per film.
“And it will happen 10 times in each of his films.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:58:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Chain mail glove: the detective puts on a chain mail glove in a rooftop chase against a man with a knife; the hosts note both men are too winded to move fast so he has time. David pulls up Amazon listings.
“The perp pulling the knife is him kind of saying like, so just give me like 90 seconds to catch up.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:04:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
A tweet summed it up: a lady so hot that a detective forgets how to do his job.
“It was about a lady is so hot that a detective forgets how to do his job.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Tatiana Maslany:
Her Eastern Promises role: a Russian diary voice named Tatiana; her first movie credits.
“I'm a Russian... And my name is Santiana.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:22:27 · Tatiana Maslany (0.70 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Tang Wei:
The hosts' joke pitch: a TV show where Tang Wei returns every season with a new husband who dies, like Sideshow Bob trying to kill Bart.
“She's the sideshow Bob of the show, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:35:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Tatiana's read of the ending: Seo-rae's sand burial is an act of empathy and power at once; leaving the detective with her unresolved case.
“I think the part of her that loves him is just like, I'm dooming him by staying alive.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:41:12 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Griffin's research: Park wanted an old-fashioned, restrained approach with vintage lenses and fixed setups, and had actors run with camera body mounts for the chases.
“vintage lenses, fixed camera setups, natural lighting.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:49:00 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park has won a prize at every Cannes he attended except for The Handmaiden; Decision to Leave won best director.
“In fact, he's won a prize at every Can film festival he's been at, except for the woman, the Handmaiden.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:50:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
See the cell-phone-photo scenes: the typing dots are shot from the phone's POV and take up more of the frame than his face.
“There's like a point of view from the phone of the dots on his face and you realize like how much, like that it takes up more of the frame than his face does.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:52:00 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
The film cost $10 million and was backed by CJ Entertainment; the hosts joke the sushi was half the budget.
“Well, because it's a CJ entertainment film, which is sort of, it was, the budget was $10 million.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:52:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Top Gun: Maverick:
David's theory for its worldwide success: no country is the villain.
“Because no country was the villain in that movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Park Chan-wook:
Two early Park movies nobody likes, including him: Trio and The Moon Is the Sun's Dream.
“He made these 2 movies that nobody likes, including his wife.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:04:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Park Chan-wook:
Griffin and David's Park rankings: Griffin puts Handmaiden first, Lady Vengeance and Thirst high and Oldboy eighth; the other list puts Thirst second and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance fifth.
“Number eight, old boy.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:05:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
David Fincher:
Next miniseries: Fincher, with The Curious Cast of Benjamin Buttcast as the title; a Reddit user had guessed it a day before.
“And then someone yesterday on Reddit fucking said they're probably going to call it the curious pot of Benjamin Butt cast, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:11:47 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Alien 3:
Next week is Alien 3; the Patreon covers Brosnan Bond and then the two Alien vs. Predator films, one fun and one the worst movie in the world.
“One of them is really fun and one of them is the worst fucking movie in the world.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 2:14:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Who's talking
- Griffin Newman (host): Loves plot-driven noir, weird procedural details (chain mail gloves, pockets, eyedrops) and Park's stranger visual gags. He prepares the director-biography research and box-office game. Is a sucker for bits that run for minutes, like the sand-beach and Wheel of Fortune riffs.
- David Sims (host): Critic's taste: values craft and performance, loves a good-looking cheap movie. Admires Park as a sensual filmmaker and Tang Wei's inscrutability. Not a Cassavetes fan, but enjoys Eastern Promises and Stronger, and champions Javier Bardem in Lyle Lyle Crocodile.
- Tatiana Maslany (guest): Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act.
The show's recurring bits
- 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.
Names the transcriber got wrong
- Black Jack / Blind check → Blank Check
- Tangway / Tong Wei → Tang Wei
- Park Hale → Park Hae-il
- Chung Sia Kung → Chung Seo-kyung
- S. Craig Zoller → S. Craig Zahler
- The Brigands of Raffle Borg → The Brigands of Rhine Boug
- Park Chamwork / Park Tenwick / Park Hunjung → Park Chan-wook / Park Hoon-jung
- Cynthia Arivo → Cynthia Erivo
- Ma Dong Sio Huino → Ma Dong-seok
- Cranston/Crambo → Cranston
- Newer Film Critics Circle → New York Film Critics Circle
- Strange → Stronger
- Javier Bird → Javier Bardem
- Jungle Pussy → Junglepussy
- Eric Cohn → Eric Kohn (likely)
- Slappy → a hosts' nickname for the character who slaps (not a mangled name)
- Mubi appears as movie
- the miss → The Mist (the 1967 song)