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  1. craft (script structure): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. The script reminds Leslye of L.A. Confidential: methodical, restarts mid-film, scenes handing off to the next.
    “It's absolutely, like, the script reminds me so much of LA confidential.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:49:11 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (structure / influence): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential.
    “zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (trio of leads): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. The film passes the baton among three men, which is why it is like L.A. Confidential.
    “This is why it's like LA Confidential, though.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:55:58 · Leslye Headland (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (character parallel): L.A. Confidential → Zodiac. The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential.
    “Like, like the Kevin Spacey character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. people (shared actor): John Mahon → L.A. Confidential. The old cop in Zodiac is also in L.A. Confidential.
    “I think he's also in LA confidential”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 2:03:19 · Leslye Headland (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. programming (programming): L.A. Confidential → The Nice Guys. CR month ends with To Live and Die in L.A., Nice Guys, and L.A. Confidential, the first four-person Rewatchable.
    “Our 1st 4 person we watchable.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Internal Affairs → L.A. Confidential. L.A. Confidential is the other prominent L.A. dirty-cop movie that the speakers had left out.
    “LA Confidential?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): L.A. Confidential → Internal Affairs. Both open with a dirty cop who executes a man and plants a gun on him with no consequences.
    “So like even in like confidential when Russell Crowe just walks in and executes that guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Kim Basinger → L.A. Confidential. The Natural got Basinger's career going; L.A. Confidential was the tail end, so not her apex.
    “This got her career really moving the next level.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:15:58 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)