What the corpus says about Raging Bull (1980)

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What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. · "Taxi driver is a straight drama."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] New York, New York ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · career · New York, New York's failure and bad reviews, with drugs and a collapsing marriage, pushed Scorsese toward making Raging Bull as a lifeline. · "New York, New York comes out to bad reviews."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:53:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · people · Newman watched Raging Bull on Ovitz's recommendation and wanted to work with Scorsese. · "Paul Newman watches Raging Bull on, I guess Ovid's his recommendation and says, like, that's one of the best things I've ever seen."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:23:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Raging Bull · people · Boxing is the most cinematic sport because it is contained; billiards is an even tinier version of that. · "A thing, I'm sure we've talked about extensively, on a raging bull episode, but billiards is like an even tinier version of that."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:21:02 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Scent of a Woman · people · Compared as top male leading performances; Raging Bull placed alongside Pacino's Godfather work and Scent of a Woman as a joke number one. · "No, I think I think it's like it's Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:56:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Mean Streets · people · Mean Streets feels like a director falling in love with De Niro, which carries through to this film. · "Well, you watch Mean Streets and it feels like watching a director fall in love."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:34:02 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Rocky · people · Raging Bull maps onto Rocky's cast: Pesci as the Burt Young figure, Moriarty as the Adrian. · "Then you get Pesci kind of playing the Burt Young."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:49:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35)] Raging Bull ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Frank Vincent keeps getting beaten in Scorsese movies, and Goodfellas does the same thing a second time better. · "Scorsese going, I can do this twice and no one's, and it'll be better the 2nd time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:33:29 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · verdict · Raging Bull is the better film aesthetically but Rocky is much more culturally significant. · "Raising Bull is better than this movie, but this movie is like much more, I think, culturally significant than Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:25:54 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Tess · industry · Tess won cinematography over Raging Bull, which the speakers find shocking. · "What did Tess, the Polanski film, which I'm sure Jeffrey Unsworth?"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:14:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · industry · Best Sound went to Empire rather than Raging Bull, with a joke about the high bar. · "Look, it did go to the Empire Strikes Back, which does have pretty good sound."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:15:52 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Ordinary People · industry · Ordinary People won best picture over Raging Bull; it was a new kind of film that ended in catharsis, while Raging Bull was subversive and funny. · "This is the ordinary people year, obviously."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:02:33 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Critics like Pauline Kael panning Raging Bull is compared to audiences not getting Citizen Kane at the time. · "Yeah, people didn't get Citizen Kane at the time."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:06:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Private Benjamin ↔ Raging Bull · industry · Private Benjamin was number one while Raging Bull limped to number 10 in its opening release. · "Is it Private Benjamin?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:21:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Ordinary People ↔ Raging Bull · industry · Raging Bull lost Best Picture to Ordinary People, which Bill still rates better than Out of Africa. · "I think for when he lost Raging Bull, 2 ordinary people, when he lost the best film."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:08:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Rupert Pupkin / The King of Comedy · unlikeable protagonist · The hosts compare how date-able Scorsese-De Niro characters are: LaMotta has some swagger, Pupkin is annoying, Jimmy Doyle is worst. · "But La Mata is similar, but I guess he has some swagger to him initially he sort of can, like, you can see."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull ↔ Inglourious Basterds · meta ending · Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds. · "It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · audience empathy · Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man. · "which is true taxi driver too."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:55:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] On the Waterfront ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · meta ending · LaMotta recites the Waterfront monologue flat; the film swapped it in for Shakespeare, which Michael Powell vetoed. · "So they they instead go for the on the waterfront because that's kind of like that's his iconography."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Rocky · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ The Color of Money · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Ordinary People · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ The King of Comedy · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ New York, New York · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:24:40 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull · fun · Sound editing: Scorsese insisted every punch and flashbulb be a unique sound. Foley man Frank Warner fired rifles into melons. See the Miami photo scene where the first flash makes a child scream. · "Marty drove everyone crazy because he insisted that every punch, every flashbulb be a unique sound"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:52:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · Paul Schrader wrote a 3-page prison masturbation monologue for LaMotta that Scorsese and De Niro cut; Schrader says it was among his best writing. · "Schrader had written a long, like 3 page masturbation monologue in which La Mata is in prison trying to jerk off and failing"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:54:38 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · Robert De Niro ate his way through Northern Italy and France for four months between shoots to gain the weight for older LaMotta, a pasta tour. · "He just goes to Northern Italy and France for 4 months stuffing his face to get the weight to play later, J. Cole."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:56:48 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull · fun · Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement. · "I'm making more than just a film about a boxer."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:09 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · The ending Bible passage, Once I was blind but now I can see, is a tribute to Scorsese's film teacher Haig Manoogian, who died shortly after; Schrader reportedly asked what the verse was about. · "It is also, you know, a tribute to his film teacher, a Hague, P. Manugian."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:10:44 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull · fun · Black and white was chosen to differ from the bright Rocky-era boxing movies, because color stock was fading, and to look like old Daily News photos. Black and white also softens the violence and comedy. · "if this movie were in color, it would be talked about as one of the most violent movies of all time."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver. · "very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:00:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ New York, New York · craft · Both run long stretches of repeated set pieces around a central pairing, then a final act turning inward, ending in a tragic blow; Last Temptation reads as a corrective. · "I think this movie is fascinatingly, structurally so similar to New York, New York."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:26 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Ordinary People · theme · 1980 was also a big drowning year in the movies. · "Big drowning year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:51:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ Ordinary People · craft · Death-at-sea scenes: Ordinary People, Perfect Storm and Titanic are cited alongside Truman Show's. · "Because ordinary people has a great one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[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"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)
[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

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 Raging Bull (1980) 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 Raging Bull (1980) 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · contrast · Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy. · "Taxi driver is a straight drama."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] New York, New York ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · career · New York, New York's failure and bad reviews, with drugs and a collapsing marriage, pushed Scorsese toward making Raging Bull as a lifeline. · "New York, New York comes out to bad reviews."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:53:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · people · Newman watched Raging Bull on Ovitz's recommendation and wanted to work with Scorsese. · "Paul Newman watches Raging Bull on, I guess Ovid's his recommendation and says, like, that's one of the best things I've ever seen."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:23:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Raging Bull · people · Boxing is the most cinematic sport because it is contained; billiards is an even tinier version of that. · "A thing, I'm sure we've talked about extensively, on a raging bull episode, but billiards is like an even tinier version of that."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:21:02 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Scent of a Woman · people · Compared as top male leading performances; Raging Bull placed alongside Pacino's Godfather work and Scent of a Woman as a joke number one. · "No, I think I think it's like it's Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:56:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Mean Streets · people · Mean Streets feels like a director falling in love with De Niro, which carries through to this film. · "Well, you watch Mean Streets and it feels like watching a director fall in love."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:34:02 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Rocky · people · Raging Bull maps onto Rocky's cast: Pesci as the Burt Young figure, Moriarty as the Adrian. · "Then you get Pesci kind of playing the Burt Young."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:49:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35)] Raging Bull ↔ Goodfellas · verdict · Frank Vincent keeps getting beaten in Scorsese movies, and Goodfellas does the same thing a second time better. · "Scorsese going, I can do this twice and no one's, and it'll be better the 2nd time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:33:29 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · verdict · Raging Bull is the better film aesthetically but Rocky is much more culturally significant. · "Raising Bull is better than this movie, but this movie is like much more, I think, culturally significant than Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:25:54 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Tess · industry · Tess won cinematography over Raging Bull, which the speakers find shocking. · "What did Tess, the Polanski film, which I'm sure Jeffrey Unsworth?"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:14:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · industry · Best Sound went to Empire rather than Raging Bull, with a joke about the high bar. · "Look, it did go to the Empire Strikes Back, which does have pretty good sound."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:15:52 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Ordinary People · industry · Ordinary People won best picture over Raging Bull; it was a new kind of film that ended in catharsis, while Raging Bull was subversive and funny. · "This is the ordinary people year, obviously."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:02:33 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Citizen Kane · industry · Critics like Pauline Kael panning Raging Bull is compared to audiences not getting Citizen Kane at the time. · "Yeah, people didn't get Citizen Kane at the time."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:06:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Private Benjamin ↔ Raging Bull · industry · Private Benjamin was number one while Raging Bull limped to number 10 in its opening release. · "Is it Private Benjamin?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:21:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Ordinary People ↔ Raging Bull · industry · Raging Bull lost Best Picture to Ordinary People, which Bill still rates better than Out of Africa. · "I think for when he lost Raging Bull, 2 ordinary people, when he lost the best film."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:08:08 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Rupert Pupkin / The King of Comedy · unlikeable protagonist · The hosts compare how date-able Scorsese-De Niro characters are: LaMotta has some swagger, Pupkin is annoying, Jimmy Doyle is worst. · "But La Mata is similar, but I guess he has some swagger to him initially he sort of can, like, you can see."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:11:18 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull ↔ Inglourious Basterds · meta ending · Raging Bull's ending where Scorsese says it is his masterpiece resembles Tarantino's closing line in Inglourious Basterds. · "It's it's akin to what Tarantino later did in inglorious Bastards."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · audience empathy · Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man. · "which is true taxi driver too."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:55:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] On the Waterfront ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · meta ending · LaMotta recites the Waterfront monologue flat; the film swapped it in for Shakespeare, which Michael Powell vetoed. · "So they they instead go for the on the waterfront because that's kind of like that's his iconography."
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Rocky · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ The Color of Money · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ Ordinary People · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ The King of Comedy · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raging Bull ↔ New York, New York · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:24:40 · David Krumholtz (0.60)] Raging Bull · fun · Sound editing: Scorsese insisted every punch and flashbulb be a unique sound. Foley man Frank Warner fired rifles into melons. See the Miami photo scene where the first flash makes a child scream. · "Marty drove everyone crazy because he insisted that every punch, every flashbulb be a unique sound"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:52:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · Paul Schrader wrote a 3-page prison masturbation monologue for LaMotta that Scorsese and De Niro cut; Schrader says it was among his best writing. · "Schrader had written a long, like 3 page masturbation monologue in which La Mata is in prison trying to jerk off and failing"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:54:38 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · Robert De Niro ate his way through Northern Italy and France for four months between shoots to gain the weight for older LaMotta, a pasta tour. · "He just goes to Northern Italy and France for 4 months stuffing his face to get the weight to play later, J. Cole."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:56:48 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull · fun · Scorsese reportedly conceived of the Raging Bull ending as a plea: I deserve to make films. The hosts call it a pat on the back and a bold meta statement. · "I'm making more than just a film about a boxer."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:09 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull · fun · The ending Bible passage, Once I was blind but now I can see, is a tribute to Scorsese's film teacher Haig Manoogian, who died shortly after; Schrader reportedly asked what the verse was about. · "It is also, you know, a tribute to his film teacher, a Hague, P. Manugian."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:10:44 · David Krumholtz (0.50)] Raging Bull · fun · Black and white was chosen to differ from the bright Rocky-era boxing movies, because color stock was fading, and to look like old Daily News photos. Black and white also softens the violence and comedy. · "if this movie were in color, it would be talked about as one of the most violent movies of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver. · "very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:00:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ New York, New York · craft · Both run long stretches of repeated set pieces around a central pairing, then a final act turning inward, ending in a tragic blow; Last Temptation reads as a corrective. · "I think this movie is fascinatingly, structurally so similar to New York, New York."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:30:26 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ Ordinary People · theme · 1980 was also a big drowning year in the movies. · "Big drowning year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75. · "Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:51:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Truman Show ↔ Ordinary People · craft · Death-at-sea scenes: Ordinary People, Perfect Storm and Titanic are cited alongside Truman Show's. · "Because ordinary people has a great one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them. · "Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[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"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[speaker] David Krumholtz · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raging Bull · Reveres Raging Bull as one of a small handful of films he bows to, alongside some Spike Lee, Spielberg, Kubrick and Scorsese. Worships De Niro as the actor nobody will ever be better than, and loves Pacino, Hoffman and Denzel as peers. Distrusts AI and metrics-driven Hollywood and likes sacrifice and humanity on screen. · stances: Raging Bull completely validates cinema; De Niro is the greatest, no such thing as better; AI cannot replace humans because the audience is human; Hollywood development executives and sabermetrics ruin movies
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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)
[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 Raging Bull (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Raging Bull (1980) 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.