What the corpus says about Public Enemies (2009)
The 31 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 (6)
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Public Enemies · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Public Enemies, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
- [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:33 · unknown (0.40)] Public Enemies ↔ Black Hat · verdict · Split by a hair: Public Enemies has higher highs, Black Hat is more consistent. · "I think public enemies has higher highs."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:08:30 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] Michael Mann ↔ Public Enemies · people · Mann loves people going for it across Ali and Public Enemies. · "And Ali, there's people just going for left and right, public enemies."
- [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:37:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Public Enemies ↔ Michael Mann · verdict · Public Enemies is a disappointment; digital shooting and Johnny Depp did not work for the speaker. · "one of the more disappointing movie experiences I've had in the last 15 years is public enemies"
- [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:38:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Public Enemies ↔ Christopher Nolan · what-if · Nolan could shoot a Dillinger movie with style and propulsion. · "he would be able to shoot a movie like this with an enormous amount of style and propulsion and intrigue"
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Ridley Scott · lineage · On the Rewatchables they joked about whether Mann invented wetting the streets, with Ridley Scott dumping water. · "Remember Ridley Scott just dumping water on the streets."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
- [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · Prison as a purifying origin recurs in Heat's crew. · "All the, all the guys in, in, uh, in Neil's crew are like from, from our jail buddies."
Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)
- [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
- [speaker] 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] 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
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 Public Enemies (2009) 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 Public Enemies (2009) 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 · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Public Enemies · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Public Enemies, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:33 · unknown (0.40)] Public Enemies ↔ Black Hat · verdict · Split by a hair: Public Enemies has higher highs, Black Hat is more consistent. · "I think public enemies has higher highs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:08:30 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] Michael Mann ↔ Public Enemies · people · Mann loves people going for it across Ali and Public Enemies. · "And Ali, there's people just going for left and right, public enemies."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:37:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Public Enemies ↔ Michael Mann · verdict · Public Enemies is a disappointment; digital shooting and Johnny Depp did not work for the speaker. · "one of the more disappointing movie experiences I've had in the last 15 years is public enemies"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:38:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Public Enemies ↔ Christopher Nolan · what-if · Nolan could shoot a Dillinger movie with style and propulsion. · "he would be able to shoot a movie like this with an enormous amount of style and propulsion and intrigue"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Ridley Scott · lineage · On the Rewatchables they joked about whether Mann invented wetting the streets, with Ridley Scott dumping water. · "Remember Ridley Scott just dumping water on the streets."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Heat · theme · Prison as a purifying origin recurs in Heat's crew. · "All the, all the guys in, in, uh, in Neil's crew are like from, from our jail buddies."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] 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
[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 Public Enemies (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Public Enemies (2009) 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.