What the corpus says about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

What was said about it (20)

1. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · theme · Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. · "Like this is his people versus Bugs movie."
2. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
3. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
4. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
5. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ WALL-E · theme · Both end on the image of a single green sprout as proof that things can grow again. · "This ends with the very Wally image, which is like the last frame in the end credits is the one... little sprout, the one little leak."
6. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:59 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Castle in the Sky · craft · Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. · "That's sort of, and it's much like his castle in the Sky Score."
7. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ⇒ Warriors of the Wind (the host's read) · craft · The 95 minute American cut dropped the environmental themes, renamed Nausicaä as Princess Zandra and turned the Ohmu into plain enemies. · "the film basically turns into an action adventure movie where like the environmentalist themes are kind of gone."
8. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mad Max · craft · The apocalypse-world energy of the film is likened to Mad Max and to Mortal Engines. · "Let's get some energy vibes."
9. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:57 · unknown (0.30)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mortal Engines · craft · Mortal Engines is offered as a recent film with a similar blasted world. · "Mortal Engine."
10. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:43:58 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · contrast · Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy. · "reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda."
11. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:37:17 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Nausicaä values insects as alive, whereas the photoreal Lion King has Timon and Pumbaa eating bugs that visibly flee in fear. · "Whereas Nausaka is like the one person who's like, no, they're like alive."
12. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:34:54 · David Sims (0.60)] The Castle of Cagliostro ⇒ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (the host's read) · career · Cagliostro was poorly received by fans of the series, then Miyazaki struggled to get another film made, which led to the manga and then this film. · "which is not well received, despite being a fucking awesome movie, because the fans thought it was too much of a departure from the series."
13. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:26:40 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Princess Mononoke · what-if · Unlike Nausicaä, Mononoke has no real villain, so it is hard to strip the Miyazaki out; Nausicaä can be recut into heroes versus villains. · "his other films, it's harder to strip the Miyazaki out of it."
14. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:42:59 · David Sims (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · restraint · Both are praised for simplicity and for trusting a gesture over verbalized emotion. · "that beautiful simplicity and that like confidence in the restraint"
15. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:45:35 · David Sims (0.50)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · ending · Both reject Western catharsis; the hero is someone who comes to accept and understand a situation rather than fix it. · "stories of people learning to accept what has been the case."
16. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:11:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hideaki Anno ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · lineage · The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. · "one of the big guys from Neon Jellous, Neon Genesis Evangelian. Right, starts on this, right?"
17. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:47:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Natalie Portman ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · people · Portman was announced by Disney to voice Nausicaä and is cited as a woman culture has dumped its expectations on. · "Natalie Portman, who almost played Nausicaa, was announced by Disney to play Nausicaa"
18. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:28 · David Sims (0.50)] Isao Takahata ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · people · This is the film that unites Miyazaki with Takahata, who is brought on as executive producer. · "this is the movie that unites him with this Hautakajata, who's the other great Chibile director."
19. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:11:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Britney Spears ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · real-world analog · Britney, AOC, Rihanna and Natalie Portman are offered as modern Nausicaä figures, saviors onto whom culture projects hopes. · "I mean, in many ways, she is like our heroine, Nausicaa."
20. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:53:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lulu Wang ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · real-world analog · Griffin says Wang's press moment resembles Nausicaä's role as the one everyone looks to. · "She is she is handling it, though, with the grace and valiant heroism of Nausaka."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · said 2 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

1. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80)] The Farewell ↔ Hayao Miyazaki · lineage · Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot. · "how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell"
2. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ The Lord of the Rings trilogy · theme · Everyone keeps comparing Dune's trilogy to Lord of the Rings. · "everyone keeps talking about it as the Lord of the Rings."
6. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60)] The Farewell ↔ Red Sorghum · theme · Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell. · "the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · theme · Joke: Chip's co-producer was Judge Doom, so Doom/Dune won. · "my co-producer was, of course, Judge Doom."
8. [Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell ↔ Harry Nilsson · craft · The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared. · "I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:29 · unknown (0.30)] Chip Smith ↔ Dune · theme · Chip is called a Baron Harkonnen type; Dune won the most Oscars on a Chip-produced telecast. · "you got some like kind of baron Harkonan vibes."
10. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:38 · unknown (0.40)] Javier Bardem ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve uses comforting faces like Bardem as shortcut casting. · "Javier Burden walks in and people are like, I get what this is."
11. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.35)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve's film makes the plot easier to follow when watching Lynch's. · "it's easier for me to track what's going on in the plot of this movie because I can keep relating it back to the movie that is more narratively functional."
12. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Lynch's film reaches the end of Villeneuve's Part One in about 90 minutes, then crams the rest into 45. · "Everything that he made the 2nd film is contained within 45 minutes."
13. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:50:07 · John Hodgman (0.80)] Carlo Rambaldi ↔ Dune · craft · Rambaldi's Guild Navigator design is the grotesque, sexual image the speaker calls the moment the whole film began to unpack for him. · "That Carlo Rimbaldi design."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
2. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
3. [speaker] Lulu Wang · latest sketch, Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · Reads Nausicaä through her own craft: she values simplicity, restraint and purity of form over plot machinery, and distrusts forced catharsis. She is watching Miyazaki in both dubbed and subtitled versions as a bilingual filmmaker and likes the 'all my films are hopeful' framing. A sucker for karaoke and Red Sorghum. · stances: Film adaptations should keep the tone of the source rather than inflate the plot; Catharsis may be a Western demand; calls to continue thinking can be better; Final cut matters practically and symbolically; Dubs and subs give different experiences

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [bits] Blank Check: 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)
2. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · theme · Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. · "Like this is his people versus Bugs movie."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ WALL-E · theme · Both end on the image of a single green sprout as proof that things can grow again. · "This ends with the very Wally image, which is like the last frame in the end credits is the one... little sprout, the one little leak."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:59 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Castle in the Sky · craft · Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. · "That's sort of, and it's much like his castle in the Sky Score."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ⇒ Warriors of the Wind (the host's read) · craft · The 95 minute American cut dropped the environmental themes, renamed Nausicaä as Princess Zandra and turned the Ohmu into plain enemies. · "the film basically turns into an action adventure movie where like the environmentalist themes are kind of gone."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mad Max · craft · The apocalypse-world energy of the film is likened to Mad Max and to Mortal Engines. · "Let's get some energy vibes."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:57 · unknown (0.30)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mortal Engines · craft · Mortal Engines is offered as a recent film with a similar blasted world. · "Mortal Engine."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:43:58 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · contrast · Starship Troopers ends with bug-hatred propaganda, whereas Nausicaä realizes the bugs are just trying to survive and approaches them with empathy. · "reading the mind of the bug and cheering the fact that they're afraid because it's all about propaganda."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:37:17 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Nausicaä values insects as alive, whereas the photoreal Lion King has Timon and Pumbaa eating bugs that visibly flee in fear. · "Whereas Nausaka is like the one person who's like, no, they're like alive."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:34:54 · David Sims (0.60)] The Castle of Cagliostro ⇒ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (the host's read) · career · Cagliostro was poorly received by fans of the series, then Miyazaki struggled to get another film made, which led to the manga and then this film. · "which is not well received, despite being a fucking awesome movie, because the fans thought it was too much of a departure from the series."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:26:40 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Princess Mononoke · what-if · Unlike Nausicaä, Mononoke has no real villain, so it is hard to strip the Miyazaki out; Nausicaä can be recut into heroes versus villains. · "his other films, it's harder to strip the Miyazaki out of it."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:42:59 · David Sims (0.55)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · restraint · Both are praised for simplicity and for trusting a gesture over verbalized emotion. · "that beautiful simplicity and that like confidence in the restraint"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:45:35 · David Sims (0.50)] The Farewell ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · ending · Both reject Western catharsis; the hero is someone who comes to accept and understand a situation rather than fix it. · "stories of people learning to accept what has been the case."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:11:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hideaki Anno ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · lineage · The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. · "one of the big guys from Neon Jellous, Neon Genesis Evangelian. Right, starts on this, right?"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:47:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Natalie Portman ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · people · Portman was announced by Disney to voice Nausicaä and is cited as a woman culture has dumped its expectations on. · "Natalie Portman, who almost played Nausicaa, was announced by Disney to play Nausicaa"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:28 · David Sims (0.50)] Isao Takahata ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · people · This is the film that unites Miyazaki with Takahata, who is brought on as executive producer. · "this is the movie that unites him with this Hautakajata, who's the other great Chibile director."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:11:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Britney Spears ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · real-world analog · Britney, AOC, Rihanna and Natalie Portman are offered as modern Nausicaä figures, saviors onto whom culture projects hopes. · "I mean, in many ways, she is like our heroine, Nausicaa."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:53:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lulu Wang ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · real-world analog · Griffin says Wang's press moment resembles Nausicaä's role as the one everyone looks to. · "She is she is handling it, though, with the grace and valiant heroism of Nausaka."
[pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80)] The Farewell ↔ Hayao Miyazaki · lineage · Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot. · "how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read) · lineage · The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential. · "And that shot is still really influential."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ The Lord of the Rings trilogy · theme · Everyone keeps comparing Dune's trilogy to Lord of the Rings. · "everyone keeps talking about it as the Lord of the Rings."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60)] The Farewell ↔ Red Sorghum · theme · Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell. · "the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dune ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · theme · Joke: Chip's co-producer was Judge Doom, so Doom/Dune won. · "my co-producer was, of course, Judge Doom."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] The Farewell ↔ Harry Nilsson · craft · The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared. · "I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:07:29 · unknown (0.30)] Chip Smith ↔ Dune · theme · Chip is called a Baron Harkonnen type; Dune won the most Oscars on a Chip-produced telecast. · "you got some like kind of baron Harkonan vibes."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:38 · unknown (0.40)] Javier Bardem ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve uses comforting faces like Bardem as shortcut casting. · "Javier Burden walks in and people are like, I get what this is."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:20:27 · unknown (0.35)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Villeneuve's film makes the plot easier to follow when watching Lynch's. · "it's easier for me to track what's going on in the plot of this movie because I can keep relating it back to the movie that is more narratively functional."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune · craft · Lynch's film reaches the end of Villeneuve's Part One in about 90 minutes, then crams the rest into 45. · "Everything that he made the 2nd film is contained within 45 minutes."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:50:07 · John Hodgman (0.80)] Carlo Rambaldi ↔ Dune · craft · Rambaldi's Guild Navigator design is the grotesque, sexual image the speaker calls the moment the whole film began to unpack for him. · "That Carlo Rimbaldi design."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Lulu Wang · latest sketch, Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · Reads Nausicaä through her own craft: she values simplicity, restraint and purity of form over plot machinery, and distrusts forced catharsis. She is watching Miyazaki in both dubbed and subtitled versions as a bilingual filmmaker and likes the 'all my films are hopeful' framing. A sucker for karaoke and Red Sorghum. · stances: Film adaptations should keep the tone of the source rather than inflate the plot; Catharsis may be a Western demand; calls to continue thinking can be better; Final cut matters practically and symbolically; Dubs and subs give different experiences
[bits] Blank Check: 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)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.