What the corpus says about The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

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What was said about it (26)

[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:53:12 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Graceland (album) · craft · Gabriel's score and Paul Simon's Graceland are late-80s world music breakthroughs. · "Yeah, I mean, along with like Graceland, right?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Passion of the Christ · contrast · A host prefers Scorsese's humble Jesus-at-work to Gibson's solemn first-chair invention. · "I prefer to the Mel Gibson passion of the Christ thing where Jesus makes, it seems like, is it the 1st chair in existence?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:53:23 · Jamelle Bouie (0.70)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ben-Hur · contrast · Biblical epics already existed in public mind in the 60s, so a Last Temptation would have drawn less ire then than in the 80s. · "Precisely because the biblical epic already existed in like the public mind."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:51:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ After Hours · career · After Hours was Scorsese proving he could make movies quickly and responsibly. · "he makes after hours, which is a great movie, but is obviously him being like, see, I can make movies quick."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:51:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Color of Money · career · The Color of Money was Scorsese showing he could work with stars and studios to make a hit. · "And then he makes color of money to be like, I can work with stars."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:18:50 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Mean Streets · career · The Jesus figure runs through Scorsese's whole filmography back to Mean Streets. · "But what's like this Jesus is as central of this guy's entire filmography as anything?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:17:57 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · career · The paycheck-gig hit stabilizes Scorsese's career and makes Last Temptation and Goodfellas possible. · "Must admit though, it is the guarantor that allows him to immediately then make. Last temptation of Christ in Goodfellas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:23:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ After Hours (the maker said so: Scorsese quoted in an oral history) · career · Scorsese worked Kafka's Before the Law into the club doorman scene to reflect his frustration over Last Temptation. · "inspired by Franz Kafka's before the law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of the Last Temptation of Christ."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Spider-Man · people · Dafoe's cursed-villain/old-coot career is the through-line from Norman Osborn to Jesus. · "Wilm Defoe gets used so much now the last 25 years as a villain and or an old coot."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:59:52 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Gangs of New York · industry · Last Temptation put Scorsese in debt until Cape Fear; Gangs put him back and The Departed got him out. · "He says the movie put him in debt and like he didn't come out of it until he made Cape Fear."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:00:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ Cape Fear (the host's read) · industry · Universal's deal to make Last Temptation obliged a bigger film later, resulting in the Spielberg swap and Cape Fear. · "it gets fear is a direct result of his deal with Universal for this month."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:02:07 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Satyricon · industry · Collider's list of films with a lone director nomination includes Satyricon and Last Temptation. · "Collider says there are 7 movies."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Blue Velvet · industry · Like Blue Velvet, it got just a director nomination and no picture nomination; list also includes Mulholland Drive and Short Cuts. · "Well, Blue velvet was the same thing."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:26 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · industry · Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Cocktail and others filled the box office the week Last Temptation opened at #13. · "The movie comes out August 12, 1988."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:13:16 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · controversy · Kundun, via Chinese government anger, is offered as a rival for Scorsese's most controversial film. · "If you're going by pure numbers, I guess you could go for Kundu"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:13:56 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Benedetta · controversy · Protest against Benedetta was six nuns, showing religious outrage has faded since Last Temptation. · "it kind of shows that they just can't be bothered anymore."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:54:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Boxcar Bertha ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the maker said so) · production method · Scorsese's Corman-style Boxcar Bertha experience let him storyboard and time every shot to make Last Temptation cheaply. · "I never would have been able to make this movie if I didn't have my Corman background and experience a boxcar Bertha specifically"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:02:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Odyssey · language debate · Modern vernacular dialogue in antiquity draws the same complaints as it did for Nolan's Odyssey. · "Nolan had this happen this year with the Odyssey where people are like, well, I don't understand."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:02:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Ben-Hur ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · accent convention · Scorsese made the Romans British, as in Ben-Hur, with everyone else American. · "He said the big thing was to give let the Romans be British."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ After Hours · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ben-Hur · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:24 · David Sims (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Jesus building a crude cross opens the film; hosts riff on the chair-inventing scene in Gibson's film and the invention of chairs. · "The guy who made us his chair got crucified."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:51 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Watched the film then the Criterion vintage commentary, intercut among Cox, Schrader, Scorsese and Defoe, recorded as multiple interviews edited together. · "And it's intercutting between Cox, Schrader, Scorsese, and Defoe."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:45 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Novel history: Kazantzakis published 1955, Orthodox Church tried to excommunicate him; Scorsese first heard of it as an NYU student and only read it around 1972-79. · "The novel, presented Deeply Human Christ, contemplating a normal life spent with Mary Magdalene"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:06:13 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · With only five centurions, Scorsese whip-panned among them to suggest twenty-five without ever showing them in one frame. · "And he reuses 5 centurions to make them 25 centurions."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:24:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Jesus' trick of raising a cup became a meme; the water-into-wine scene shifts into Scorsese's Mean Streets rhythm of two guys needling each other. · "It is so funny that it's the one scene where Marty goes into like Shinebox rhythm, right?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:46 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · The final crucifixion film burn: a cameraman exposed the magazine too early, ruining film in the final shot, and the flashing light damage was kept. · "a cameraman exposed the magazine too early."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:19:00 · unknown host (0.30)] Seven Years in Tibet ↔ Kundun · programming · Both films angered the Chinese government and were released by Hollywood around the same time. · "Oh, 2 films that angered the Chinese government that were released by Hollywood."
[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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[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"
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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'
[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] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (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

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 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 Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:53:12 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Graceland (album) · craft · Gabriel's score and Paul Simon's Graceland are late-80s world music breakthroughs. · "Yeah, I mean, along with like Graceland, right?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Passion of the Christ · contrast · A host prefers Scorsese's humble Jesus-at-work to Gibson's solemn first-chair invention. · "I prefer to the Mel Gibson passion of the Christ thing where Jesus makes, it seems like, is it the 1st chair in existence?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:53:23 · Jamelle Bouie (0.70)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ben-Hur · contrast · Biblical epics already existed in public mind in the 60s, so a Last Temptation would have drawn less ire then than in the 80s. · "Precisely because the biblical epic already existed in like the public mind."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:51:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ After Hours · career · After Hours was Scorsese proving he could make movies quickly and responsibly. · "he makes after hours, which is a great movie, but is obviously him being like, see, I can make movies quick."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:51:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Color of Money · career · The Color of Money was Scorsese showing he could work with stars and studios to make a hit. · "And then he makes color of money to be like, I can work with stars."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:18:50 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Mean Streets · career · The Jesus figure runs through Scorsese's whole filmography back to Mean Streets. · "But what's like this Jesus is as central of this guy's entire filmography as anything?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:17:57 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · career · The paycheck-gig hit stabilizes Scorsese's career and makes Last Temptation and Goodfellas possible. · "Must admit though, it is the guarantor that allows him to immediately then make. Last temptation of Christ in Goodfellas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:23:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ After Hours (the maker said so: Scorsese quoted in an oral history) · career · Scorsese worked Kafka's Before the Law into the club doorman scene to reflect his frustration over Last Temptation. · "inspired by Franz Kafka's before the law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of the Last Temptation of Christ."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Spider-Man · people · Dafoe's cursed-villain/old-coot career is the through-line from Norman Osborn to Jesus. · "Wilm Defoe gets used so much now the last 25 years as a villain and or an old coot."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:59:52 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Gangs of New York · industry · Last Temptation put Scorsese in debt until Cape Fear; Gangs put him back and The Departed got him out. · "He says the movie put him in debt and like he didn't come out of it until he made Cape Fear."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:00:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ Cape Fear (the host's read) · industry · Universal's deal to make Last Temptation obliged a bigger film later, resulting in the Spielberg swap and Cape Fear. · "it gets fear is a direct result of his deal with Universal for this month."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:02:07 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Satyricon · industry · Collider's list of films with a lone director nomination includes Satyricon and Last Temptation. · "Collider says there are 7 movies."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Blue Velvet · industry · Like Blue Velvet, it got just a director nomination and no picture nomination; list also includes Mulholland Drive and Short Cuts. · "Well, Blue velvet was the same thing."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:03:26 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · industry · Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Cocktail and others filled the box office the week Last Temptation opened at #13. · "The movie comes out August 12, 1988."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:13:16 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · controversy · Kundun, via Chinese government anger, is offered as a rival for Scorsese's most controversial film. · "If you're going by pure numbers, I guess you could go for Kundu"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:13:56 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Benedetta · controversy · Protest against Benedetta was six nuns, showing religious outrage has faded since Last Temptation. · "it kind of shows that they just can't be bothered anymore."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:54:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Boxcar Bertha ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the maker said so) · production method · Scorsese's Corman-style Boxcar Bertha experience let him storyboard and time every shot to make Last Temptation cheaply. · "I never would have been able to make this movie if I didn't have my Corman background and experience a boxcar Bertha specifically"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:02:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Odyssey · language debate · Modern vernacular dialogue in antiquity draws the same complaints as it did for Nolan's Odyssey. · "Nolan had this happen this year with the Odyssey where people are like, well, I don't understand."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:02:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Ben-Hur ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · accent convention · Scorsese made the Romans British, as in Ben-Hur, with everyone else American. · "He said the big thing was to give let the Romans be British."
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ After Hours · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Kundun · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ben-Hur · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:24 · David Sims (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Jesus building a crude cross opens the film; hosts riff on the chair-inventing scene in Gibson's film and the invention of chairs. · "The guy who made us his chair got crucified."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:06:51 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Watched the film then the Criterion vintage commentary, intercut among Cox, Schrader, Scorsese and Defoe, recorded as multiple interviews edited together. · "And it's intercutting between Cox, Schrader, Scorsese, and Defoe."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:45 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Novel history: Kazantzakis published 1955, Orthodox Church tried to excommunicate him; Scorsese first heard of it as an NYU student and only read it around 1972-79. · "The novel, presented Deeply Human Christ, contemplating a normal life spent with Mary Magdalene"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:06:13 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · With only five centurions, Scorsese whip-panned among them to suggest twenty-five without ever showing them in one frame. · "And he reuses 5 centurions to make them 25 centurions."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:24:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · Jesus' trick of raising a cup became a meme; the water-into-wine scene shifts into Scorsese's Mean Streets rhythm of two guys needling each other. · "It is so funny that it's the one scene where Marty goes into like Shinebox rhythm, right?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:46 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ · fun · The final crucifixion film burn: a cameraman exposed the magazine too early, ruining film in the final shot, and the flashing light damage was kept. · "a cameraman exposed the magazine too early."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 2:19:00 · unknown host (0.30)] Seven Years in Tibet ↔ Kundun · programming · Both films angered the Chinese government and were released by Hollywood around the same time. · "Oh, 2 films that angered the Chinese government that were released by Hollywood."
[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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[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"
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[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'
[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] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[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 Last Temptation of Christ (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 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.