What the corpus says about Hero (1992)

The 34 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 (4)

[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:37 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Hero ↔ Bob's Burgers (TV series) · contrast · Mills offers two recommendations at opposite ends of the spectrum. · "2 sides of the spectrum."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.80)] Hero ↔ Come On, Come On · verdict · Mills's last great thing he saw: A Hero, praised for patient layering and ambiguity. · "I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Hero (the host's read) · industry · Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US. · "Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States."

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.90)] A Hero · fun · Mills praises the patient micro-layering and positive ambiguity of A Hero. · "I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story with such patience and control"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:31:39 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Bob's Burgers (TV series) ↔ Anton Chekhov · craft · Mills calls Bob's Burgers Chekhovian and like Russian short stories. · "I think Bob's Burgers is totally Chekovian awesomeness."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Fearless ↔ Allen Daviau · craft · The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it. · "this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[speaker] Mike Mills · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · Loves French new wave and Italian cinema (Fellini, Godard), Buster Keaton, radio journalism (Studs Terkel, Ira Glass), and Chekhovian small stories like Bob's Burgers. Drawn to personal, uncommercial, non-plot-driven films and to the fable image of a child and adult. Suspicious of tidy 'truth'; likes masking and nerves in interviews. · stances: Fatherhood deepened and broadened his work; Each film is a bet of all his chips on a primary relationship; Long shelf lives and strangers' personal stories are the highest honor; Blur the boundaries between documentary and acting
[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'

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] 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)

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 Hero (1992) 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 Hero (1992) 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 · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:37 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Hero ↔ Bob's Burgers (TV series) · contrast · Mills offers two recommendations at opposite ends of the spectrum. · "2 sides of the spectrum."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.80)] Hero ↔ Come On, Come On · verdict · Mills's last great thing he saw: A Hero, praised for patient layering and ambiguity. · "I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Hero (the host's read) · industry · Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US. · "Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:30:43 · Mike Mills (0.90)] A Hero · fun · Mills praises the patient micro-layering and positive ambiguity of A Hero. · "I thought that was so masterfully built up, like such a micro layering of a story with such patience and control"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:31:39 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Bob's Burgers (TV series) ↔ Anton Chekhov · craft · Mills calls Bob's Burgers Chekhovian and like Russian short stories. · "I think Bob's Burgers is totally Chekovian awesomeness."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:32:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Fearless ↔ Allen Daviau · craft · The speaker praises how Fearless looks, a film about absorbing textures and the feeling in the air, tied to Daviau shooting it. · "this film looks incredible and this is a movie that needs to just look good because it's so much about like absorbing textures of things and and the space and the feeling in the air"
[speaker] Mike Mills · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · Loves French new wave and Italian cinema (Fellini, Godard), Buster Keaton, radio journalism (Studs Terkel, Ira Glass), and Chekhovian small stories like Bob's Burgers. Drawn to personal, uncommercial, non-plot-driven films and to the fable image of a child and adult. Suspicious of tidy 'truth'; likes masking and nerves in interviews. · stances: Fatherhood deepened and broadened his work; Each film is a bet of all his chips on a primary relationship; Long shelf lives and strangers' personal stories are the highest honor; Blur the boundaries between documentary and acting
[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'
[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] 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)

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 Hero (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hero (1992) 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.