What the corpus says about The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The 60 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 (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] Silence ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf, Silence, The Irishman and Killers are all durational films about his obsessions. · "Shutter Island, Hugo, the Wolf of Wall Street, silence the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, all of which are these kind of durational films."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.40)] Paradise Lost (Milton) ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · theme · Belfort descending into hell as the lights change reads as Paradise Lost. · "Yeah, that's the Paradise Lost, you know, yeah."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain. · "all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:28:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Revenant ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · The Revenant won the Oscar but is merely physical; Wolf demands as much and more. · "Which is a great physical performance. Who cares? So is this."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · theme · Margot Robbie in the bathtub explaining finance to camera mirrors The Big Short's device. · "Margot Robbie in a bathtub and direct to camera speaking about, um, financial things, but and like simplifying them."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him. · "He's like a wolf of Wall Street type."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down. · "the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Color of Money ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both. · "We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:31:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Belfort, like Henry Hill, is the narrator and our way into the world while we watch him get lost in it. · "Well, like like Henry Hill, he is also, the movie is about him, but he is our way into the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:43:57 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Wall Street/Wolf of Wall Street was done by the show and is a very different movie. · "It's a very different movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:50:56 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Chill · contrast · Quaaludes apex mountain belongs to Wolf of Wall Street, not The Big Chill. · "No, Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime. · "Jordan went to jail."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:39 · unknown (0.40)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Catch Me has the daddy-issues backstory that Wolf pointedly omits. · "It does have some of the trappings of explaining why someone is the way that they are that we're talking about that you don't necessarily have to do."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:59:15 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · career · Apex Mountain check: Jonah Hill, Wolf and This Is the End the same year, probably worth Moneyball. · "I mean, this is Wolf and this is the end, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:36 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · career · Wolf sits in DiCaprio's run of comic-dramatic roles alongside Once Upon a Time, Don't Look Up, Killers of the Flower Moon and One Battle. · "this movie is in the same league with, once upon a time in Hollywood, don't look up, Killers of the Flower Moon, or one bad after another, where he's getting a lot of laughs in the movie."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Margin Call · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ One Battle After Another · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Boiler Room · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:01:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Dobbins texted Fennessey 48 minutes into the rewatch asking if this is the greatest movie ever made, even though it sits at only No. 11 on the list. · "about 48 minutes into it. I texted you, is this the greatest movie ever made?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century. · "it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:11:18 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Leo raised $100 million himself and the film became Scorsese's biggest hit, $400 million worldwide, with some dubious money in the financing that echoes the story. · "he raised $100 million. Got Scorsese attached, attached this incredible cast."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:14 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · The financing itself had misdeeds that mirror the movie's story; summed up as no way to do anything at scale in America cleanly. · "There's no way to do it cleanly."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:36 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Fennessey claims the film is roughly 80 percent montage, with moments of Leo speaking straight to camera standing out. · "it is like roughly 80% montage."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Slowed-down blues over the bacchanalia, where lights change and sound drops out until the camera finds Belfort gleeful and regretful, reads as him descending into hell. · "you can almost feel Jordan like descending into hell or like, or he's being portrayed as Satan."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ↔ One Battle After Another · programming · The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another. · "that was also great prep for one battle after another."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:51:44 · Van Lathan (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Big Short · craft · Both movies must teach the audience the rules while telling the story. · "the big short is the only other movie that I can compare to this film that has to do work in order for the narrative to be understood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:00:20 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · craft · Russillo compares Margin Call's overnight city-drive beat to McKay's silent montage with iPhones, which he says sold it better. · "I think the big short sold that so much more."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Ryen Russillo · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Deep-dives on 2008, finance, scene mechanics and detail; loves Irons's powerful-as-normal act and the sales-floor scene. Can't stand bad athletic casting. · stances: Irons is his favorite performance; Seth is next-generation; 2008 aged best for storytelling; Hot take: Demi Moore as scapegoat today

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)
[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

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 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 Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] Silence ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf, Silence, The Irishman and Killers are all durational films about his obsessions. · "Shutter Island, Hugo, the Wolf of Wall Street, silence the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, all of which are these kind of durational films."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.40)] Paradise Lost (Milton) ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · theme · Belfort descending into hell as the lights change reads as Paradise Lost. · "Yeah, that's the Paradise Lost, you know, yeah."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain. · "all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:28:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Revenant ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · The Revenant won the Oscar but is merely physical; Wolf demands as much and more. · "Which is a great physical performance. Who cares? So is this."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · theme · Margot Robbie in the bathtub explaining finance to camera mirrors The Big Short's device. · "Margot Robbie in a bathtub and direct to camera speaking about, um, financial things, but and like simplifying them."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him. · "He's like a wolf of Wall Street type."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down. · "the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Color of Money ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both. · "We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:31:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Belfort, like Henry Hill, is the narrator and our way into the world while we watch him get lost in it. · "Well, like like Henry Hill, he is also, the movie is about him, but he is our way into the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:43:57 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Wall Street/Wolf of Wall Street was done by the show and is a very different movie. · "It's a very different movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:50:56 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Chill · contrast · Quaaludes apex mountain belongs to Wolf of Wall Street, not The Big Chill. · "No, Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime. · "Jordan went to jail."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:39 · unknown (0.40)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Catch Me has the daddy-issues backstory that Wolf pointedly omits. · "It does have some of the trappings of explaining why someone is the way that they are that we're talking about that you don't necessarily have to do."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:59:15 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · career · Apex Mountain check: Jonah Hill, Wolf and This Is the End the same year, probably worth Moneyball. · "I mean, this is Wolf and this is the end, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:30:36 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · career · Wolf sits in DiCaprio's run of comic-dramatic roles alongside Once Upon a Time, Don't Look Up, Killers of the Flower Moon and One Battle. · "this movie is in the same league with, once upon a time in Hollywood, don't look up, Killers of the Flower Moon, or one bad after another, where he's getting a lot of laughs in the movie."
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Margin Call · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ One Battle After Another · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Boiler Room · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:01:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Dobbins texted Fennessey 48 minutes into the rewatch asking if this is the greatest movie ever made, even though it sits at only No. 11 on the list. · "about 48 minutes into it. I texted you, is this the greatest movie ever made?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century. · "it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:11:18 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Leo raised $100 million himself and the film became Scorsese's biggest hit, $400 million worldwide, with some dubious money in the financing that echoes the story. · "he raised $100 million. Got Scorsese attached, attached this incredible cast."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:14 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · The financing itself had misdeeds that mirror the movie's story; summed up as no way to do anything at scale in America cleanly. · "There's no way to do it cleanly."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:12:36 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Fennessey claims the film is roughly 80 percent montage, with moments of Leo speaking straight to camera standing out. · "it is like roughly 80% montage."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wolf of Wall Street · fun · Slowed-down blues over the bacchanalia, where lights change and sound drops out until the camera finds Belfort gleeful and regretful, reads as him descending into hell. · "you can almost feel Jordan like descending into hell or like, or he's being portrayed as Satan."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ↔ One Battle After Another · programming · The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another. · "that was also great prep for one battle after another."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:51:44 · Van Lathan (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Big Short · craft · Both movies must teach the audience the rules while telling the story. · "the big short is the only other movie that I can compare to this film that has to do work in order for the narrative to be understood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:00:20 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · craft · Russillo compares Margin Call's overnight city-drive beat to McKay's silent montage with iPhones, which he says sold it better. · "I think the big short sold that so much more."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:59:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Giant · theme · Its magnitude and oil, family and betrayal themes recall Giant, with Ford, Hawks, Stevens epic scale. · "I did think of giant a few times while watching the movie, which is a movie about oil and families and betrayal."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Shane · theme · Sean notes Scorsese often talks about Shane when discussing Westerns. · "Scorsese talks about Shane a lot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
[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
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Ryen Russillo · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Deep-dives on 2008, finance, scene mechanics and detail; loves Irons's powerful-as-normal act and the sales-floor scene. Can't stand bad athletic casting. · stances: Irons is his favorite performance; Seth is next-generation; 2008 aged best for storytelling; Hot take: Demi Moore as scapegoat today
[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)
[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 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 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.