What the corpus says about The Virgin Suicides
The 8 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else.
The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.
What was said about it (3)
- [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Lick the Stars ⇒ The Virgin Suicides (the host's read) · craft · Coppola's short Lick the Stars shows her honing the approach she took to the novel. · "you can see in her short film that she's basically like honing the approach"
- [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:33:09 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] The Virgin Suicides ↔ Sofia Coppola's later films · career · Brian says you can see all of Coppola's later films in her debut. · "you can see all her films from that film, like where where she was going"
- [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:08:46 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] The Virgin Suicides ↔ Lost in Translation · verdict · Brian calls Lost in Translation as good as a movie can be and says Virgin Suicides is perfectly executed but just misses. · "lost in translation for me is, you know, just as good as a movie can be"
Fun items about it (1)
- [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:08:24 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] The Virgin Suicides · fun · Coppola made it while under fire as the person blamed for ruining a famous franchise. · "She was considered to be the person who ruined."
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (1)
- [Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Her ↔ Lost in Translation · theme · A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation. · "he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation"
Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)
- [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
- [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
The shows' running bits (1)
- [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
The whole prompt
As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Virgin Suicides 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 The Virgin Suicides 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. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Lick the Stars ⇒ The Virgin Suicides (the host's read) · craft · Coppola's short Lick the Stars shows her honing the approach she took to the novel. · "you can see in her short film that she's basically like honing the approach" [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:33:09 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] The Virgin Suicides ↔ Sofia Coppola's later films · career · Brian says you can see all of Coppola's later films in her debut. · "you can see all her films from that film, like where where she was going" [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:08:46 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] The Virgin Suicides ↔ Lost in Translation · verdict · Brian calls Lost in Translation as good as a movie can be and says Virgin Suicides is perfectly executed but just misses. · "lost in translation for me is, you know, just as good as a movie can be" [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:08:24 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] The Virgin Suicides · fun · Coppola made it while under fire as the person blamed for ruining a famous franchise. · "She was considered to be the person who ruined." [Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Her ↔ Lost in Translation · theme · A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation. · "he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation" [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten) 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 The Virgin Suicides; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Virgin Suicides 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.