Tang Wei

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q270687: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Decision to Leave, which Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Lust, Caution (2007); Black Hat (2015); Decision to Leave (2022).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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 (1945): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they acted in: 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

  1. lineage (source character) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they acted in: 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

  1. lineage (source song) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they acted in: 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 (1951): 1 line

  1. craft (plot structure) · through Decision to Leave (2022), which they acted in: 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)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

people (1)

  1. 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)

theme (1)

  1. 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)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Tang Wei: The hosts' joke pitch: a TV show where Tang Wei returns every season with a new husband who dies, like Sideshow Bob trying to kill Bart.
    “She's the sideshow Bob of the show, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:35:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)