What the corpus says about Margin Call (2011)

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 (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:48 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Koppelman recommends The Company Men as a good if lesser film in the same mold. · "if you like this movie, um, that I really, really like. It's not as good as margin call, but really good is the company man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:35:46 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Russillo remembers Affleck's kid's jumper in The Company Men. · "Affleck's kid has probably one of the best jumpers I've ever seen in a movie or TV"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:48:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Margin Call ↔ Up in the Air · theme · Simmons or Koppelman note Up in the Air shares the layoff-scene quality with the Tucci layoff. · "Oh, that's another movie that goes in the category is up in the air"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Margin Call · theme · Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before. · "30 years before the moment in time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:52:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Margin Call · craft · Margin Call also pauses to have a character ask for the explanation. · "there will be times in margin call where a character will be like, explain this to me like I'm 10."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down. · "the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:50:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Billions · craft · Koppelman says Billions also does the all-the-best-characters-in-one-room scene. · "There's a couple TV shows that do this, including billions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:00:20 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · craft · Russillo compares Margin Call's overnight city-drive beat to McKay's silent montage with iPhones, which he says sold it better. · "I think the big short sold that so much more."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:08 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ The Station Agent · craft · The Station Agent was on Brian's potential list and shares tone and performances with Margin Call. · "there's something related Tom McCarthy's movie to it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:04:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · contrast · Koppelman says the Big Short film does not equal Margin Call in conveying the psychology of the people who unleashed the crisis. · "the movie, The Big Short, to me, doesn't really equal this film in letting us understand the psychology of the people who really like loose this thing on the world"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · contrast · Koppelman: unlike Big Short, these people are not criminals by law, making this a crime movie with no prosecutable crime. · "this is a crime movie with no prosecutable crime in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime. · "Jordan went to jail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:51 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has murder in it, Margin Call does not. · "Michael Clayton has murder in it."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:55 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · contrast · Brian says Margin Call is the best film about business and the two are the best movies on the subject. · "Wall Street and Margin Call of the 2 best movies about this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · career · Koppelman says Margin Call reaffirmed how he and Dave had thought about these people, and made a hedge-fund story make more sense than a bank story. · "margin call may be reaffirmed that the way Dave and I thought about these people, as we'd met them, was pretty much like the way a lot of them are"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:32:20 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ Rounders · career · Koppelman contrasts Chandor's four-day script with Rounders, which took 3.5 months for a first draft. · "rounders was 3.5 months for the 1st draft after we'd outlined it"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:11:19 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ A Most Violent Year · career · Brian calls Chandor's later gangster-adjacent film a cousin to Hard Eight. · "it's actually like a cousin to heart 8 in a certain way"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:04:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · verdict · Simmons's hottest take: he likes Margin Call more than The Big Short. · "I just like this movie more than the big short."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Billions · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:01:48 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call · fun · Koppelman has watched this more than any movie of the last 15 years; Simmons calls it more horror than drama. · "I dig that it's more of a horror movie than a drama."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Margin Call · fun · Shot in 17 days on a $3.5 million budget that grossed $19 million; nominated for best original screenplay. · "This movie had a $3500000 budget made 19 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:02:41 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call · fun · Best-title discussion: Russillo and Simmons say Margin Call is a bad title; suggestion of Sell, Sell, Sell. · "I think it's a bad title."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:05:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Margin Call · fun · Casting what-ifs: Irons role first offered to Ben Kingsley, Tim Robbins and Billy Crudup passed, Carla Gugino was to play Demi Moore's part. · "The Jeremy Ions ions world was originally offered too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:07:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Margin Call · fun · Best that guy: Asif Mandvi plays the executive lawyer. · "His name is Asif Manvi."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:12:11 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call · fun · More than 80 percent of the film was shot on the 42nd floor of One Penn Plaza, vacated by a trading firm. · "more than 80% of the action was shot on the 42nd floor of one Penn Plaza"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · theme · Margot Robbie in the bathtub explaining finance to camera mirrors The Big Short's device. · "Margot Robbie in a bathtub and direct to camera speaking about, um, financial things, but and like simplifying them."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:51:44 · Van Lathan (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Big Short · craft · Both movies must teach the audience the rules while telling the story. · "the big short is the only other movie that I can compare to this film that has to do work in order for the narrative to be understood."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] Silence ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf, Silence, The Irishman and Killers are all durational films about his obsessions. · "Shutter Island, Hugo, the Wolf of Wall Street, silence the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, all of which are these kind of durational films."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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] Ryen Russillo · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Deep-dives on 2008, finance, scene mechanics and detail; loves Irons's powerful-as-normal act and the sales-floor scene. Can't stand bad athletic casting. · stances: Irons is his favorite performance; Seth is next-generation; 2008 aged best for storytelling; Hot take: Demi Moore as scapegoat today
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 (2)

[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] 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 Margin Call (2011) 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 Margin Call (2011) 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 · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:21 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Simmons groups Margin Call with Michael Clayton, Shattered Glass and Moneyball as modern office thrillers. · "It's like an office thriller, almost."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:48 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Koppelman recommends The Company Men as a good if lesser film in the same mold. · "if you like this movie, um, that I really, really like. It's not as good as margin call, but really good is the company man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:35:46 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Russillo remembers Affleck's kid's jumper in The Company Men. · "Affleck's kid has probably one of the best jumpers I've ever seen in a movie or TV"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:48:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Margin Call ↔ Up in the Air · theme · Simmons or Koppelman note Up in the Air shares the layoff-scene quality with the Tucci layoff. · "Oh, that's another movie that goes in the category is up in the air"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:25:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Sex, Lies, and Videotape ↔ Margin Call · theme · Both depict a moment in time; Sex, Lies depicted its moment 30 years before. · "30 years before the moment in time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:52:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Margin Call · craft · Margin Call also pauses to have a character ask for the explanation. · "there will be times in margin call where a character will be like, explain this to me like I'm 10."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:24:40 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Russillo notes the Irons/Spacey penthouse shot resembles the DiCaprio/McConaughey scene, both explaining finance without talking down. · "the shot is similar when it's the 1st time with DiCaprio and McConaughey"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:50:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Billions · craft · Koppelman says Billions also does the all-the-best-characters-in-one-room scene. · "There's a couple TV shows that do this, including billions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:00:20 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · craft · Russillo compares Margin Call's overnight city-drive beat to McKay's silent montage with iPhones, which he says sold it better. · "I think the big short sold that so much more."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:08 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ The Station Agent · craft · The Station Agent was on Brian's potential list and shares tone and performances with Margin Call. · "there's something related Tom McCarthy's movie to it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:04:16 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · contrast · Koppelman says the Big Short film does not equal Margin Call in conveying the psychology of the people who unleashed the crisis. · "the movie, The Big Short, to me, doesn't really equal this film in letting us understand the psychology of the people who really like loose this thing on the world"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · contrast · Koppelman: unlike Big Short, these people are not criminals by law, making this a crime movie with no prosecutable crime. · "this is a crime movie with no prosecutable crime in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:45 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Same stretch: Wolf is about criminals who went to jail; Margin Call has no coke, assault or prosecutable crime. · "Jordan went to jail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:26:51 · Brian Koppelman (0.70)] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · contrast · Michael Clayton has murder in it, Margin Call does not. · "Michael Clayton has murder in it."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:55 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · contrast · Brian says Margin Call is the best film about business and the two are the best movies on the subject. · "Wall Street and Margin Call of the 2 best movies about this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · career · Koppelman says Margin Call reaffirmed how he and Dave had thought about these people, and made a hedge-fund story make more sense than a bank story. · "margin call may be reaffirmed that the way Dave and I thought about these people, as we'd met them, was pretty much like the way a lot of them are"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:32:20 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ Rounders · career · Koppelman contrasts Chandor's four-day script with Rounders, which took 3.5 months for a first draft. · "rounders was 3.5 months for the 1st draft after we'd outlined it"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:11:19 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ A Most Violent Year · career · Brian calls Chandor's later gangster-adjacent film a cousin to Hard Eight. · "it's actually like a cousin to heart 8 in a certain way"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:04:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · verdict · Simmons's hottest take: he likes Margin Call more than The Big Short. · "I just like this movie more than the big short."
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Big Short · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Billions · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ Michael Clayton · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:01:48 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call · fun · Koppelman has watched this more than any movie of the last 15 years; Simmons calls it more horror than drama. · "I dig that it's more of a horror movie than a drama."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Margin Call · fun · Shot in 17 days on a $3.5 million budget that grossed $19 million; nominated for best original screenplay. · "This movie had a $3500000 budget made 19 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:02:41 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call · fun · Best-title discussion: Russillo and Simmons say Margin Call is a bad title; suggestion of Sell, Sell, Sell. · "I think it's a bad title."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:05:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Margin Call · fun · Casting what-ifs: Irons role first offered to Ben Kingsley, Tim Robbins and Billy Crudup passed, Carla Gugino was to play Demi Moore's part. · "The Jeremy Ions ions world was originally offered too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:07:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Margin Call · fun · Best that guy: Asif Mandvi plays the executive lawyer. · "His name is Asif Manvi."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:12:11 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Margin Call · fun · More than 80 percent of the film was shot on the 42nd floor of One Penn Plaza, vacated by a trading firm. · "more than 80% of the action was shot on the 42nd floor of one Penn Plaza"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:25:01 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Boiler Room ⇒ The Wolf of Wall Street (the host's read) · lineage · Koppelman says Boiler Room informed Wolf, being the fictional version of Jordan Belfort's story. · "Boiler Room really informed Wolf of Wall Street because Boiler Room was the fictional version of Jordan's story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ The Big Short · theme · Margot Robbie in the bathtub explaining finance to camera mirrors The Big Short's device. · "Margot Robbie in a bathtub and direct to camera speaking about, um, financial things, but and like simplifying them."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:16:54 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ⇒ One Battle After Another (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese influenced PTA, and the uncomfortable-laughter humor of Wolf is very PTA. · "Scorsese is a huge influence on all filmmakers, including PTA, and there is a, like, a really screwed up level to the humor in this movie that is that is very PTA as well"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 1:17:48 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Clayton ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · Bill Harford is called in like the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes. · "the Michael Clayton of physicians to clean up rich people's messes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:51:44 · Van Lathan (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Big Short · craft · Both movies must teach the audience the rules while telling the story. · "the big short is the only other movie that I can compare to this film that has to do work in order for the narrative to be understood."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:27:43 · unknown (0.40)] The Wolf of Wall Street ↔ Gangs of New York · lineage · Leo arrived in Scorsese's world at Gangs of New York, which led to The Departed, Shutter Island and better Leo roles. · "if he doesn't make it, then you don't get the departed, you know, and you don't get Shutter Island and you don't get all these much more interesting Leo performances."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Industry ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories. · "Boiler room, margin call and industry."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Boiler Room ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Boiler Room, Margin Call and Industry are finance-bro stories that Wolf tops as the mothership. · "if you like these movies about how all the finance bros aren't living the good life, but also maybe not, you know, then this is the ultimate."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Wall Street ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf. · "That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] Silence ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Shutter Island, Hugo, Wolf, Silence, The Irishman and Killers are all durational films about his obsessions. · "Shutter Island, Hugo, the Wolf of Wall Street, silence the Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, all of which are these kind of durational films."
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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] Ryen Russillo · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Deep-dives on 2008, finance, scene mechanics and detail; loves Irons's powerful-as-normal act and the sales-floor scene. Can't stand bad athletic casting. · stances: Irons is his favorite performance; Seth is next-generation; 2008 aged best for storytelling; Hot take: Demi Moore as scapegoat today
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] 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 Margin Call (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Margin Call (2011) 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.