What the corpus says about Schindler's List (1993)

The 58 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 (17)

[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:31:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Schindler's List (the host's read) · contrast · On Schindler Spielberg refused to storyboard, almost as a reaction to criticism of the puppet-show control in Empire. · "Schindler, the infamous thing, is that he was like, I won't storyboard this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict. · "My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Both are important, but Close Encounters in a different way. · "Close encounters, I think, is also important in a different way."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films. · "one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:58:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Schindler's List ⇒ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (the maker said so: Spielberg's statement while making Crystal Skull) · career · After Schindler's List Spielberg refused to do cartoon Nazis in Crystal Skull. · "I'm not going back to doing cartoon Nazis post Schindler's list."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · career · Spielberg released both in the same year. · "he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Schindler's List ↔ Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) · career · Schindler's List is said to have killed Kubrick's own Holocaust project. · "obviously, Schindler's list kind of killed it"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Schindler's List · industry · Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive. · "it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Color Purple ↔ Schindler's List · industry · The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List. · "Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:00:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Schindler's List ↔ Cape Fear · what-if · Scorsese gave up Schindler's List to Spielberg, who gave him Cape Fear. · "which turns into the swap that lands with uh, Spielberg giving him Cape Fear."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Schindler's List (the host's read) · dry run · Schindler's List is the more successful grown-up film that erased Empire of the Sun from memory; it was seen as the dry run. · "Look back as this was the dry run before he totally cracked it on Shell."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · same-year pair · Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List. · "He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:36:55 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Liam Neeson ↔ Schindler's List · career · After Taken, Neeson's earlier dramatic roles read as if he were about to take people out. · "Yeah, Schindler's list. You feel like he's going to take out some people."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:53:26 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Schindler's List ↔ Steven Spielberg · verdict · Bill suspected Spielberg did it for an Oscar, which he admits isn't fair. · "he's doing this because he wants to win an Oscar?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:14:24 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] John Williams ↔ Schindler's List · industry · Williams has not won an Oscar since 1993 (Schindler's List) because the Academy keeps treating his work as another good job. · "And it's like, he hasn't won an Oscar since 1993."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Billy Wilder · what-if · Wilder reportedly asked Spielberg to let him make Schindler's List as his last film, and Spielberg said no. · "Billy Wilder learned that Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to Schindler's list, and he came to Steven before he made the movie."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Schindler's List ↔ Jurassic Park · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Schindler's List ↔ Empire of the Sun · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List · fun · Rumor: Billy Wilder asked Spielberg for the rights to make it as his last movie. · "And this may be hearsay, but from what I was told, Steven Spielberg said, nope, I'm gonna do it."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:14:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List · fun · The girl in the red dress as an icon of innocence lost. · "the little girl in the red dress, which is this iconic image of innocence lost in the middle of conflict"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (28)

[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:57:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lean ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. · "He asks Spielberg to check in on the rights for him."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:01:53 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] J.G. Ballard ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · The novel is darker than the film, which sanitized it and condensed characters. · "There is definitely a lot of sanitizing happening and a lot of kind of condensing of characters and turning them into more of a more of a Hollywoody plot element."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read) · lineage · Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave. · "that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Tropic Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later. · "Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:44:48 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] War Horse ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Spielberg returns to the idea of navigating the rules of a world you do not understand, as Jim does in the camp. · "the idea of sort of trying to learn to live by the rules of a world you don't quite understand."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read) · lineage · The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them. · "even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:25:00 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Haruki Murakami · theme · Bilge learned about Japan's wartime atrocities in China from Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. · "it's really a book about Japan's ignorance of it, the atrocities it carried out in China"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book. · "Can I be the rock star sign?"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:16:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Steven Spielberg · theme · Unlike his other childhood films, Empire shows adulthood through a child's eyes. · "But this is a film where you are seeing adulthood through the eyes of a child."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park. · "Jurassic Park is the same way."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:30:04 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] John Williams ↔ Empire of the Sun · craft · Williams' score is his most classical, with a big motif that is a hymn he did not write. · "One, the biggest motif in it is one that he did not write."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park. · "Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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] 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] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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 Schindler's List (1993) 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 Schindler's List (1993) 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 Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:31:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Schindler's List (the host's read) · contrast · On Schindler Spielberg refused to storyboard, almost as a reaction to criticism of the puppet-show control in Empire. · "Schindler, the infamous thing, is that he was like, I won't storyboard this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict. · "My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Both are important, but Close Encounters in a different way. · "Close encounters, I think, is also important in a different way."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films. · "one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:58:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Schindler's List ⇒ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (the maker said so: Spielberg's statement while making Crystal Skull) · career · After Schindler's List Spielberg refused to do cartoon Nazis in Crystal Skull. · "I'm not going back to doing cartoon Nazis post Schindler's list."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · career · Spielberg released both in the same year. · "he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Schindler's List ↔ Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project) · career · Schindler's List is said to have killed Kubrick's own Holocaust project. · "obviously, Schindler's list kind of killed it"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Schindler's List · industry · Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive. · "it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Color Purple ↔ Schindler's List · industry · The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List. · "Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:00:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Schindler's List ↔ Cape Fear · what-if · Scorsese gave up Schindler's List to Spielberg, who gave him Cape Fear. · "which turns into the swap that lands with uh, Spielberg giving him Cape Fear."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Schindler's List (the host's read) · dry run · Schindler's List is the more successful grown-up film that erased Empire of the Sun from memory; it was seen as the dry run. · "Look back as this was the dry run before he totally cracked it on Shell."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ↔ Schindler's List · same-year pair · Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List. · "He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list."
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:36:55 · Shea Serrano (0.50)] Liam Neeson ↔ Schindler's List · career · After Taken, Neeson's earlier dramatic roles read as if he were about to take people out. · "Yeah, Schindler's list. You feel like he's going to take out some people."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:53:26 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Schindler's List ↔ Steven Spielberg · verdict · Bill suspected Spielberg did it for an Oscar, which he admits isn't fair. · "he's doing this because he wants to win an Oscar?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:14:24 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] John Williams ↔ Schindler's List · industry · Williams has not won an Oscar since 1993 (Schindler's List) because the Academy keeps treating his work as another good job. · "And it's like, he hasn't won an Oscar since 1993."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Billy Wilder · what-if · Wilder reportedly asked Spielberg to let him make Schindler's List as his last film, and Spielberg said no. · "Billy Wilder learned that Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to Schindler's list, and he came to Steven before he made the movie."
[pairs] Schindler's List ↔ Jurassic Park · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Schindler's List ↔ Empire of the Sun · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List · fun · Rumor: Billy Wilder asked Spielberg for the rights to make it as his last movie. · "And this may be hearsay, but from what I was told, Steven Spielberg said, nope, I'm gonna do it."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:14:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List · fun · The girl in the red dress as an icon of innocence lost. · "the little girl in the red dress, which is this iconic image of innocence lost in the middle of conflict"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:57:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] David Lean ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · Lean asked Spielberg to check on the rights, then lost interest and handed the novel to him. · "He asks Spielberg to check in on the rights for him."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:48:14 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Weir ↔ Fearless · programming · A host has not seen Fearless and is obsessed with plane crashes. · "the most intense plane crash scene in a movie."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:01:53 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] J.G. Ballard ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · lineage · The novel is darker than the film, which sanitized it and condensed characters. · "There is definitely a lot of sanitizing happening and a lot of kind of condensing of characters and turning them into more of a more of a Hollywoody plot element."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read) · lineage · Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave. · "that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:11:17 · David Sims (0.50)] Rafael Yglesias ⇒ Fearless (the host's read) · lineage · Weir loved the unpublished-novel first-draft script, adapted by its own author. · "He adapts his own unpublished book."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:49:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Empire of the Sun ⇒ Tropic Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Ben Stiller, on the Empire set as a young actor, was inspired by actors playing at suffering to make Tropic Thunder two decades later. · "Which, of course, this is one of this movie's greatest, like, lasting legacies is that this, this is what inspires Tropic Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:50:16 · Tim Simons (0.45)] Fearless ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Both are about a man recovering from an accident that left him untouched; Bruce Willis would have fit, but was not ready. · "sort of a similar idea of a guy who's kind of like, fucking nothing happened to me, like, and who is recovering from an accident."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:44:48 · Bilge Ebiri (0.75)] War Horse ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Spielberg returns to the idea of navigating the rules of a world you do not understand, as Jim does in the camp. · "the idea of sort of trying to learn to live by the rules of a world you don't quite understand."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read) · lineage · The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them. · "even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:13:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Hero · theme · Hero, the year before, also asks what happens to people who walk out of a crash alive. · "What happens to the people who walk off walk out of a crash alive?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 2:28:08 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Kickin' It Old Skool · theme · A coma movie where a man wakes into a new reality is joked to be the Fearless of the 2000s. · "kind of the fearless of the 2000s?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:25:00 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Haruki Murakami · theme · Bilge learned about Japan's wartime atrocities in China from Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. · "it's really a book about Japan's ignorance of it, the atrocities it carried out in China"
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book. · "Can I be the rock star sign?"
[Blank Check · Fearless · 0:52:17 · Tim Simons (0.40)] Fearless ⇒ Tron: Legacy (the host's read) · craft · The 1993 Bridges look was the reference for the de-aged CGI Bridges in Tron: Legacy. · "I believe that this was the main visual reference for creepy CGI Jeff Bridges and Tron Legacy."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:16:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Empire of the Sun ↔ Steven Spielberg · theme · Unlike his other childhood films, Empire shows adulthood through a child's eyes. · "But this is a film where you are seeing adulthood through the eyes of a child."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park. · "Jurassic Park is the same way."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:06:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Fearless ↔ Picnic at Hanging Rock · craft · Fearless captures an uncanny mood with invisible craft the way Picnic at Hanging Rock does. · "And it has a little bit of that picnic at hanging rock thing where you're like, what is this mood he's captured?"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:30:04 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] John Williams ↔ Empire of the Sun · craft · Williams' score is his most classical, with a big motif that is a hymn he did not write. · "One, the biggest motif in it is one that he did not write."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park. · "Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that."
[Blank Check · Fearless · 1:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Fearless ↔ Sully · craft · Sully uses the same crash-in-flashback structure Weir chose for Fearless. · "Sully does basically the same thing."
[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] 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] 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] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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 Schindler's List (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Schindler's List (1993) 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.