What the corpus says about The Elephant Man (1980)

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 (10)

  1. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:07:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · craft · Both are movies about sensitive weirdos in arch black and white. · "he's made two, like, movies about sensitive weirdos and the pain of existing in society that are shot in like very arch black and white."
  2. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch. · "It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense."
  3. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. · "But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch."
  4. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:36:48 · unknown (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Road Warrior makes more sense as a second film leading to Dune than the Elephant Man did. · "Road Warrior makes a lot more sense than Elephant."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead. · "Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny."
  6. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:00:20 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ The Elephant Man · career · Elephant Man's hit status and Best Picture nomination made Lynch a director studios wanted. · "David Lynch made the elephant man."
  7. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:10:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Lynch planned to do the Elephant Man makeup effects himself, as he had on Eraserhead, until the production insisted on a professional. · "Like his plan was to do the makeup effects entirely himself because he was used to working that way on Elephant Man, or not Elephant Man, Eraserhead."
  8. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:51:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Freddie Jones ↔ The Elephant Man · career · Freddie Jones is the one actor carried over from Elephant Man. · "You have Freddie Jones, of course, from Elephant Man is the one actor he does bring over from that movie."
  9. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:53:24 · unknown (0.30)] George Lucas ↔ The Elephant Man · industry · Compared to Mel Brooks hiding his name on The Elephant Man so audiences would not expect a comedy. · "It's like the Mel Brooks elephant man thing, where it's like they'll think it's a comedy."
  10. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:16:52 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · perfectionist hands-on · Lynch, frustrated by wrong materials on the Return, mirrors his wish to do John Hurt's makeup himself on Elephant Man until Paramount said no. · "he wanted to do all the makeup for Elephant Man himself."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · said 4 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
  2. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
  5. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:50:47 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Prophecy · programming · An HBO Max Dune series is coming, which the hosts are excited for. · "10 hours at the HBO Max series coming?"
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup. · "it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
  8. [Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · craft · The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie. · "It comprises 10% of the whole movie."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
  11. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
  13. [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
  15. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · theme · Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs. · "the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
  17. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:58:13 · unknown (0.35)] Jupiter Ascending ↔ Dune · theme · Jupiter Ascending shares the palace-intrigue, gilded sci-fi mode. · "I think it's a goofier movie, but Jupiter ascending has the same thing of like palace intrigue."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"
  19. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
  2. [speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting

The shows' running bits (2)

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

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Elephant Man (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 The Elephant Man (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.

[Blank Check · Dune · 1:07:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · craft · Both are movies about sensitive weirdos in arch black and white. · "he's made two, like, movies about sensitive weirdos and the pain of existing in society that are shot in like very arch black and white."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:39:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Both films carry a sound designer credit for David Lynch. · "It is sound designed by David Lynch. Which makes sense."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:08:39 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Dino wanted Elephant Man Lynch, not Eraserhead Lynch, though they share a lot. · "But he's sort of saying like, I want the elephant man lynch, not eraser head lynch."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:36:48 · unknown (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · Road Warrior makes more sense as a second film leading to Dune than the Elephant Man did. · "Road Warrior makes a lot more sense than Elephant."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:31:35 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ The Elephant Man · contrast · The Elephant Man is a deeply tragic, not funny film, unlike Eraserhead. · "Watching the elephant man's a deeply trapped film. It's quite beautiful, but it's not really funny."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:00:20 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ The Elephant Man · career · Elephant Man's hit status and Best Picture nomination made Lynch a director studios wanted. · "David Lynch made the elephant man."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:10:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · craft · Lynch planned to do the Elephant Man makeup effects himself, as he had on Eraserhead, until the production insisted on a professional. · "Like his plan was to do the makeup effects entirely himself because he was used to working that way on Elephant Man, or not Elephant Man, Eraserhead."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:51:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Freddie Jones ↔ The Elephant Man · career · Freddie Jones is the one actor carried over from Elephant Man. · "You have Freddie Jones, of course, from Elephant Man is the one actor he does bring over from that movie."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:53:24 · unknown (0.30)] George Lucas ↔ The Elephant Man · industry · Compared to Mel Brooks hiding his name on The Elephant Man so audiences would not expect a comedy. · "It's like the Mel Brooks elephant man thing, where it's like they'll think it's a comedy."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:16:52 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] David Lynch ↔ The Elephant Man · perfectionist hands-on · Lynch, frustrated by wrong materials on the Return, mirrors his wish to do John Hurt's makeup himself on Elephant Man until Paramount said no. · "he wanted to do all the makeup for Elephant Man himself."
[pairs] The Elephant Man ↔ Eraserhead · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read) · lineage · Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while. · "Devo covered that song?"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max. · "which is like the sequel to Mad Max."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read) · lineage · Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "Modest mouse. Modest mouse."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:50:47 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Prophecy · programming · An HBO Max Dune series is coming, which the hosts are excited for. · "10 hours at the HBO Max series coming?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup. · "it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read) · lineage · The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song. · "The meteors would do it."
[Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · craft · The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie. · "It comprises 10% of the whole movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read) · lineage · The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records. · "Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:01:14 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Buster Keaton · lineage · Henry is a nightmare version of a Keaton-style put-upon silent comedy hero. · "He's like a nightmare version of like a Buster Keaton character, whatever."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:25:38 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Roy Orbison · lineage · The 50s-60s weepy ballad style, Roy Orbison type music, recurs through Lynch's work. · "Obviously, the sort of Roy Orbison type music recurs throughout his"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · theme · Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs. · "the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:58:13 · unknown (0.35)] Jupiter Ascending ↔ Dune · theme · Jupiter Ascending shares the palace-intrigue, gilded sci-fi mode. · "I think it's a goofier movie, but Jupiter ascending has the same thing of like palace intrigue."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45)] Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments) · lineage · Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas. · "H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting
[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 The Elephant Man (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Elephant Man (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.