David Ehrlich

2 sketches, 16 claims, and 7 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–2 of 2 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) (guest)

Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies.

Stances

  • Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form
  • The film is an invitation to project yourself onto
  • The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal

Humor: Self-deprecating, with parent and theater-memory stories.

In their words

  • “obsessed with this movie.” (0:15:12)
  • “it's such an invitation to project yourself onto, which is by design” (0:03:30)

Blank Check — Patreon: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves CTHD uncritically ('the best film you guys have ever done'), Michelle Yeoh, Lee's bottled-emotion films, and emotional fight choreography; has an unabashed love of Robocop and Broadcast News (via the hosts' list). Not a fan of studio-franchise fights with no story.

Stances

  • CTHD is the best film the show has covered
  • fight scenes should be expressive, like a screenplay
  • calls out hosts' nickname bit as essential

Humor: Fast, sardonic, and self-deprecating with arsonist threats.

In their words

  • “Crouching Tiger is the best film you guys have ever done.” (0:09:07)
  • “This brings me back to the very 1st movie review I ever wrote” (0:18:43)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–16 of 16 claims.

  1. theme (theme): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sense and Sensibility. Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword.
    “This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Michelle Yeoh → Daniel Kaluuya. Her eye acting reminded the speaker of Kaluuya's eye performance in Get Out.
    “I thought of Daniel Kaluya in Get Out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:39:21 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird. Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart.
    “I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Sense and Sensibility. What if Kate Winslet's Sense and Sensibility character could fly and was a bandit: Jen.
    “What if Sense and Sensibility, Kate Winslow's character could fly and was a bandit?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:43:22 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (joke): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Blade 2. The film's first 20 minutes inspired a bad feeling akin to Harry Knowles's Blade 2 review.
    “Like Harry Knowles reviewing Blade 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:48:40 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Tan Dun → Yo-Yo Ma. On the opening fight cue the composer goes wild and the cellist matches him.
    “Tandon is wild and out. Ends up just going crazy. Yo-Yo Ma is sitting there throwing him, like, throwing him layout.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:50:38 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → American action movies (genre). Compared to CTHD, American action looks awful because Hollywood lacks the trained talent and time.
    “it's because you just don't have the talent required to pull it off.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:56:34 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Zhang Ziyi. Zhang approached the fight scenes as dance with no martial arts background.
    “Xi Jang had no martial arts background, only a dance background and she just approached all of this like dance routine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:57:38 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → John Wick. Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth.
    “John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Chad Stahelski → John Wick. The Stahelski and Leitch school of action wants you to see the whole stunt, the whole fight.
    “I like that because, right, again, they want you to see the whole stunt.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:59:20 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): John Hyams → Universal Soldier (direct-to-video sequels). He choreographs and shoots action similarly despite crazy limited budgets and schedules.
    “He choreographs and shoots action in a very similar way, which is even more astounding because he's working on crazy, limited budgets and schedules.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:59:43 · David Ehrlich (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lust, Caution. CTHD's sensuality was the most Lee had filmed until Lust, Caution.
    “prior to lost caution, far and away, the most sensual thing that Angley had ever filmed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:25:59 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird. Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once.
    “She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them)
  14. what-if (what-if): Jet Li → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Maybe Jet Li wasn't ready for CTHD because he hadn't yet turned down CTHD; he took Romeo Must Die instead.
    “Oh, that's an interesting point that maybe Jet Lee wasn't ready to do Crouching Tiger because he hadn't yet turned down Crouching Tiger.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:37:25 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them)
  15. theme (theme): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Lady Bird. Jen and Shu Lien's big fight is Lady Bird fighting with her mother.
    “And it is also ladybird fighting with her mother.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:37:46 · David Ehrlich (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (lineage): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Brokeback Mountain. CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback.
    “This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–7 of 7 fun items.

  1. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Ehrlich took a train from Connecticut to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas the opening day, brought four friends, and went again.
    “Scratching Tiger came out of Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on December 8th, 2000, and I got on a train from Connecticut to New York.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:17 · David Ehrlich (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Ehrlich's first Ang Lee film; he had not seen Ice Storm or Ride with the Devil and had only seen Sense and Sensibility because his mom made him.
    “This was my 1st Angly movie unquestionably.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:15:15 · David Ehrlich (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Ehrlich's first-ever movie review, for his high school newspaper, was of CTHD.
    “This brings me back to the very 1st movie review I ever wrote”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:18:43 · David Ehrlich (0.65 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The silent teacup catch: the foley-heavy film goes silent to show effortlessness.
    “That teacup thing is like silent.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:17:17 · David Ehrlich (0.45 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Merch: a line of Crouching Tiger toys two years after a Sony Pictures Classics release.
    “It had made such a cultural impact that there were like crouching tiger toys at RIP Toys R Us?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:19:03 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Camera and wires for the bamboo-top fight: Ehrlich/Griffin still can't figure out how it was done.
    “I still don't know how they got the camera up there.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:42:21 · David Ehrlich (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Ehrlich: Recognized he was in love with his wife the night she got him to wear Bjork's swan dress.
    “This is the moment I realized I was in love with my wife.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:51:07 · David Ehrlich (0.60 sure it was them)