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contrast (contrast):
Saving Private Ryan → Schindler's List.
Schindler's List is the other side of the coin and does what Ryan's back half wanted to do: reckon with the other side of the conflict.
“My number 4 Schindler's list, which is kind of the other side of the coin on Saving Private Ryan.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Schindler's List → Billy Wilder.
Wilder reportedly asked Spielberg to let him make Schindler's List as his last film, and Spielberg said no.
“Billy Wilder learned that Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to Schindler's list, and he came to Steven before he made the movie.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Schindler's List:
Rumor: Billy Wilder asked Spielberg for the rights to make it as his last movie.
“And this may be hearsay, but from what I was told, Steven Spielberg said, nope, I'm gonna do it.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Schindler's List → Schindler's List.
It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now.
“set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Schindler's List:
The girl in the red dress as an icon of innocence lost.
“the little girl in the red dress, which is this iconic image of innocence lost in the middle of conflict”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:14:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Schindler's List.
Both are important, but Close Encounters in a different way.
“Close encounters, I think, is also important in a different way.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Minority Report → Schindler's List.
Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films.
“one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Jurassic Park → Schindler's List.
Spielberg released both in the same year.
“he released Jurassic Park and Schindler's list in the same year.”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Schindler's List → Steven Spielberg.
Bill suspected Spielberg did it for an Oscar, which he admits isn't fair.
“he's doing this because he wants to win an Oscar?”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:53:26 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
what-if (swap):
Schindler's List → Cape Fear.
Scorsese gave up Schindler's List to Spielberg, who gave him Cape Fear.
“which turns into the swap that lands with uh, Spielberg giving him Cape Fear.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:00:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (awards competition):
Fearless → Schindler's List.
Fearless lost heat to that year's heavy hitters Schindler's List, The Piano and The Fugitive.
“it was the Schindler's list, piano, fugitive.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fearless with Timothy Simons · 1:41:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
John Williams → Schindler's List.
Williams has not won an Oscar since 1993 (Schindler's List) because the Academy keeps treating his work as another good job.
“And it's like, he hasn't won an Oscar since 1993.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:14:24 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (dry run):
Empire of the Sun → Schindler's List.
Schindler's List is the more successful grown-up film that erased Empire of the Sun from memory; it was seen as the dry run.
“Look back as this was the dry run before he totally cracked it on Shell.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:30:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (method contrast):
Schindler's List → Empire of the Sun.
On Schindler Spielberg refused to storyboard, almost as a reaction to criticism of the puppet-show control in Empire.
“Schindler, the infamous thing, is that he was like, I won't storyboard this.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:31:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Schindler's List → Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
After Schindler's List Spielberg refused to do cartoon Nazis in Crystal Skull.
“I'm not going back to doing cartoon Nazis post Schindler's list.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:58:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60 sure it was them) -
industry (Oscar chase):
The Color Purple → Schindler's List.
The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List.
“Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (same-year pair):
Jurassic Park → Schindler's List.
Spielberg released both in 1993 and was finishing Jurassic Park post-production while shooting Schindler's List.
“He was, you know, doing post-production on Duressque Park while he was shooting through Schindler's list.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:05:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (project killed):
Schindler's List → Wartime Lies / Aryan Papers (unmade Kubrick project).
Schindler's List is said to have killed Kubrick's own Holocaust project.
“obviously, Schindler's list kind of killed it”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career retrofit):
Liam Neeson → Schindler's List.
After Taken, Neeson's earlier dramatic roles read as if he were about to take people out.
“Yeah, Schindler's list. You feel like he's going to take out some people.”
The Rewatchables · 'Taken' With Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano · 0:36:55 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)