What the corpus says about The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:54:41 · unknown (0.30)] The Hudsucker Proxy ↔ Hail, Caesar! · programming · If the show ever does the Coen brothers, Hudsucker and Hail, Caesar! are the episodes the hosts most want. · "If we ever do the Cohens, it's mostly for like the Hudsucker and Hail Caesar episodes, in my opinion."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:45:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Hudsucker Proxy · career · Fargo came after the Hudsucker flop but was not a reaction to it; the script was already being written. · "this movie was not a conscious reaction to that. They had already been writing it before they shot Hudsucker."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:39:55 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Hudsucker Proxy ↔ Toy Story franchise · canon filler · To make a good toy-movie canon you have to cheat and include movies not driven by a product: Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, Hudsucker. · "In order to make a cannon that is good. You have to cheat and put in things like Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, and the Hudsucker proxy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:32:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Sam Raimi ↔ The Hudsucker Proxy · craft · Raimi's best movies have one deliberate way each scene could be constructed, with no alternate coverage. · "there is only one way this scene could be constructed"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:02:49 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] The Hudsucker Proxy ↔ Paul Newman · career · In Hudsucker Newman plays the old man as comedic evil, a heightened version of the elder-statesman role. · "Which Hudsucker, he's obviously doing full on old man, but also full on evil."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:08:10 · unknown (0.30)] Bill Cobb ↔ The Hudsucker Proxy · recurring face · The Color of Money's pool house owner is the magical janitor in Hudsucker and is in thousands of things. · "he's also the, um, the magical janitor in Hudsucker proxy, but he's in 8000 things."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:34:41 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] The Hudsucker Proxy · fun · Griffin's pick for the toy-movie canon because it is about the business of toys: a film entirely about the hula hoop. · "It is a movie entirely about the hula hoop."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40)] Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus · theme · Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to. · "Hail Caesar, which is mocking that"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:16 · Zach Cregger (0.70)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Cregger says the Paul Bunyan statue shot is lit and scored like the scariest thing you have ever seen, with Burwell's score. · "they light it and shoot it like the scariest fucking thing you've ever seen. With the fucking Carter Burwell score"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:34:54 · Zach Cregger (0.50)] Carter Burwell ↔ Fargo · craft · Burwell's score plays the dread straight and never acknowledges the film's zaniness, its most playful moment being the break-in buildup. · "this movie, with all of the zaniness that's definitely in here. His score never really acknowledges any of it."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 1:03:01 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40)] Roger Deakins ↔ Fargo · craft · The Coens first told Deakins they wanted only fixed shots, then relaxed it as too puritanical, per his commentary as relayed by the hosts. · "they initially told him we only want fixed shots. Like you're doing nothing. And then they realized like that's maybe a little too puritanical."
[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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 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.