Decision to Leave (2022)
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Wikidata Q100889636, film, IMDb tt12477480, TMDB 705996: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
In the store as #691, Decision to Leave (2022).
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Griffin Newman: 18 lines in Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany
- David Sims: 7 lines in Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany
- Tatiana Maslany: 5 lines in Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany
- Unattributed: 2 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
The Big Picture
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
Brief Encounter: 1 line the maker said so ×1
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lineage (influence):
Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show).
Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo.
“He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
Martin Beck novels (Swedish): 1 line the maker said so ×1
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lineage (source character):
Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so).
The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist.
“So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Mist (1967 Korean hit song): 1 line the maker said so ×1
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lineage (source song):
Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so).
Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea.
“A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Strangers on a Train: 1 line the host's read ×1
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craft (plot structure):
Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read).
The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts.
“I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
The Handmaiden: 3 lines career ×1 craft ×1 people ×1
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people (same director):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Sean says The Handmaiden was the first Park movie he liked in a long time, then Decision to Leave was the next.
“It was like the 1st park movie I'd liked in a while.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
Tang Wei: 2 lines people ×1 theme ×1
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people (subtitle performance):
Tang Wei → Decision to Leave.
The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is.
“I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:21:03 · Tatiana Maslany (0.60 sure it was them)
Basic Instinct: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (comparison):
Decision to Leave → Basic Instinct.
Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir.
“I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type): 1 line what-if ×1
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what-if (alternate version):
Decision to Leave → Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type).
With more sex on screen the same story would slide into a Joe Eszterhas early-90s erotic thriller.
“Well, I also think if you make this same movie with more sex, it very quickly comes, becomes a Joe Esterhouse movie, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:48:24 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
Bong Joon-ho: 1 line industry ×1
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industry (peer rivalry):
Decision to Leave → Bong Joon-ho.
Park constantly goes up against his buddy Bong, who has only been submitted twice for the Oscars.
“And his buddy Bong, he's got to constantly go up against.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:25:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
Brief Encounter: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (influence):
Decision to Leave → Brief Encounter.
Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo.
“He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
Eastern Promises: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (fight realism):
Decision to Leave → Eastern Promises.
Eastern Promises has similarly clumsy, human fight sequences where skin is actually pierced, like the knife-and-chain-mail scene.
“That movie has some similarly, like, very, very human fight sequences”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:23:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Insomnia: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (genre lineage):
Decision to Leave → Insomnia.
A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference.
“But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Lust, Caution: 1 line people ×1
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people (same actor):
Decision to Leave → Lust, Caution.
Tang Wei broke out in Lust, Caution, a film about a seduction that may turn real, a similar tension to this film.
“But it's a movie about, basically, she has to seduce a man as an act of political espionage and the whole movie hinges on like, is she falling in love with him?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:45:28 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
Martin Beck novels (Swedish): 1 line lineage ×1
-
lineage (source character):
Decision to Leave → Martin Beck novels (Swedish).
The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist.
“So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Mist (1967 Korean hit song): 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (source song):
Decision to Leave → Mist (1967 Korean hit song).
Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea.
“A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Nope: 1 line verdict ×1
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verdict (ranking):
Decision to Leave → Nope.
Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are.
“for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
RoboCop: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (visual gag comparison):
Decision to Leave → RoboCop.
The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop.
“He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Send Help: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Send Help → Decision to Leave.
The beautiful sushi platters in Send Help recall the sushi in Decision to Leave.
“Decision to leave and then now the sushi platters that are used in this, in this film, stay with me.”
The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:03:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
Steven Soderbergh: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (texting in film):
Steven Soderbergh → Decision to Leave.
Soderbergh is called one of the few major auteurs who head straight into the smartphone present, as Park does with texting.
“And Soderberg is one of the few guys who like head straight into it.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
Stoker: 1 line career ×1
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career (career context):
Decision to Leave → Stoker.
Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations.
“This is the 1st time he's completely regenering something.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Strangers on a Train: 1 line craft ×1
-
craft (plot structure):
Decision to Leave → Strangers on a Train.
The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts.
“I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
The Little Drummer Girl: 1 line career ×1
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career (career context):
Decision to Leave → The Little Drummer Girl.
The film was made after Park's English-language TV show, which left him homesick for a Korean film.
“But so he's homesick.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:34:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
Top Gun: Maverick: 1 line industry ×1
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industry (box office):
Decision to Leave → Top Gun: Maverick.
In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend.
“Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
Vertigo: 1 line lineage ×1
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lineage (influence denied):
Decision to Leave → Vertigo.
Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence.
“He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- subject in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany, first at 0:09:10, 40 times
- passing in The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’, first at 1:03:34, 1 time
- recommended in The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022, first at 0:44:23, 3 times
- anecdote in Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep, first at 0:04:55, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
career (3)
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career (career context):
Decision to Leave → The Little Drummer Girl.
The film was made after Park's English-language TV show, which left him homesick for a Korean film.
“But so he's homesick.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:34:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
career (career context):
Decision to Leave → Stoker.
Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations.
“This is the 1st time he's completely regenering something.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career placement):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Handmaiden was the last Park film several of them had seen before this one; Griffin ranks it his number one.
“I haven't seen a Park John Rook film since The Handmaiden, which blew my mind.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:57:20 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (4)
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craft (visual gag comparison):
Decision to Leave → RoboCop.
The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop.
“He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (plot structure):
Decision to Leave → Strangers on a Train.
The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts.
“I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (style comparison):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves.
“I guess he means more restrained than the Handmaiden.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:49:21 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Send Help → Decision to Leave.
The beautiful sushi platters in Send Help recall the sushi in Decision to Leave.
“Decision to leave and then now the sushi platters that are used in this, in this film, stay with me.”
The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:03:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (2)
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industry (peer rivalry):
Decision to Leave → Bong Joon-ho.
Park constantly goes up against his buddy Bong, who has only been submitted twice for the Oscars.
“And his buddy Bong, he's got to constantly go up against.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:25:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (box office):
Decision to Leave → Top Gun: Maverick.
In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend.
“Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (5)
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lineage (source song):
Decision to Leave → Mist (1967 Korean hit song).
Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea.
“A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (source character):
Decision to Leave → Martin Beck novels (Swedish).
The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist.
“So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (influence denied):
Decision to Leave → Vertigo.
Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence.
“He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (influence):
Decision to Leave → Brief Encounter.
Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo.
“He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre lineage):
Decision to Leave → Insomnia.
A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference.
“But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
people (3)
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people (subtitle performance):
Tang Wei → Decision to Leave.
The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is.
“I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:21:03 · Tatiana Maslany (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (same actor):
Decision to Leave → Lust, Caution.
Tang Wei broke out in Lust, Caution, a film about a seduction that may turn real, a similar tension to this film.
“But it's a movie about, basically, she has to seduce a man as an act of political espionage and the whole movie hinges on like, is she falling in love with him?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:45:28 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (same director):
Decision to Leave → The Handmaiden.
Sean says The Handmaiden was the first Park movie he liked in a long time, then Decision to Leave was the next.
“It was like the 1st park movie I'd liked in a while.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (2)
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theme (against genre):
Tang Wei → Decision to Leave.
Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious.
“Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (comparison):
Decision to Leave → Basic Instinct.
Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir.
“I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
unmapped (2)
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unmapped (fight realism):
Decision to Leave → Eastern Promises.
Eastern Promises has similarly clumsy, human fight sequences where skin is actually pierced, like the knife-and-chain-mail scene.
“That movie has some similarly, like, very, very human fight sequences”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:23:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (texting in film):
Steven Soderbergh → Decision to Leave.
Soderbergh is called one of the few major auteurs who head straight into the smartphone present, as Park does with texting.
“And Soderberg is one of the few guys who like head straight into it.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
verdict (1)
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verdict (ranking):
Decision to Leave → Nope.
Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are.
“for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (1)
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what-if (alternate version):
Decision to Leave → Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type).
With more sex on screen the same story would slide into a Joe Eszterhas early-90s erotic thriller.
“Well, I also think if you make this same movie with more sex, it very quickly comes, becomes a Joe Esterhouse movie, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:48:24 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart.
“So it had to be like something more intense, like his head to be like impactful enough.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:22:42 · Tatiana Maslany (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Tatiana on the bit where the sex scenes are the least sexy part of the movie, like toothbrushing.
“They're like where the sexiness is removed.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:23:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park's gentleman-cop concept: a detective who carries wet wipes and eyedrops rather than a gun, a walking vending machine of a man.
“his concept is a police officer who doesn't carry a gun, but it says, carries instead carries wet wipes”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:35:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park spoke for 90 minutes pitching the whole film to Park Hae-il, who needed to pee halfway but was too immersed to interrupt.
“I really needed to pee about halfway in.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:46:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park's ending: he had wanted to end a movie with a person burying herself for about 30 years; he considered an epilogue but cut it.
“I have been trying to put that as the end of a movie first. So for like 30 years.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:52:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
On the opening mountain climb, two cops go up horizontally on a winch, one strapped to the other; Griffin says the moment he fell in love with the movie and that Park does one bizarre scene like it ten times per film.
“And it will happen 10 times in each of his films.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:58:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Chain mail glove: the detective puts on a chain mail glove in a rooftop chase against a man with a knife; the hosts note both men are too winded to move fast so he has time. David pulls up Amazon listings.
“The perp pulling the knife is him kind of saying like, so just give me like 90 seconds to catch up.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:04:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
A tweet summed it up: a lady so hot that a detective forgets how to do his job.
“It was about a lady is so hot that a detective forgets how to do his job.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Tatiana's read of the ending: Seo-rae's sand burial is an act of empathy and power at once; leaving the detective with her unresolved case.
“I think the part of her that loves him is just like, I'm dooming him by staying alive.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:41:12 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Griffin's research: Park wanted an old-fashioned, restrained approach with vintage lenses and fixed setups, and had actors run with camera body mounts for the chases.
“vintage lenses, fixed camera setups, natural lighting.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:49:00 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Park has won a prize at every Cannes he attended except for The Handmaiden; Decision to Leave won best director.
“In fact, he's won a prize at every Can film festival he's been at, except for the woman, the Handmaiden.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:50:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
See the cell-phone-photo scenes: the typing dots are shot from the phone's POV and take up more of the frame than his face.
“There's like a point of view from the phone of the dots on his face and you realize like how much, like that it takes up more of the frame than his face does.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:52:00 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
The film cost $10 million and was backed by CJ Entertainment; the hosts joke the sushi was half the budget.
“Well, because it's a CJ entertainment film, which is sort of, it was, the budget was $10 million.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:52:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Decision to Leave:
Amanda still thinks weekly about the sushi takeout shot.
“that shot, that sushi takeout. I just, I think about that once a week.”
The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:47:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Park Chan-wook: director (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- Park Chan-wook: director (The Big Picture, The Top Five Movies of 2022)
- Park Chan-wook: director (The Big Picture, The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’)
- Chung Seo-kyung: co-writer (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- Tang Wei: actor (Seo-rae) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- Tang Wei: actor (The Big Picture, The Top Five Movies of 2022)
- Park Hae-il: actor (the detective) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- CJ Entertainment: studio / financier (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- Mubi: US distributor (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)
- Seo-rae's partner Lee Jung-ho: character joke nickname 'Slappy' (second suspect) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany)