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  1. theme (tonal echo): The Fabelmans → American Graffiti. Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti.
    “the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (collaboration): Tony Kushner → The Fabelmans. Amanda notes Spielberg wrote The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner, making it a deep but active collaboration.
    “he wrote it with Tony Kushner.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:40:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (thematic): Nope → The Fabelmans. Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies.
    “similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (ranking): The Fabelmans → The Eternal Daughter. Amanda ranks The Eternal Daughter at five and The Fabelmans at three, noting a taste for directors making movies about themselves.
    “But I like all of the director projects of let me just make a movie about myself.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:01:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Fabelmans: Amanda asks if she would trade having her son be as successful as Spielberg for the movie he'd make about her; Sean says to take the Jurassic Park money.
    “But could you be sitting on Jurassic Park money?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:03:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): The Fabelmans → West Side Story. Adam says late Spielberg makes two movies at once; West Side Story had nothing inside the tour de force, while The Fabelmans has a petty, thorny movie inside.
    “I like the other movie that's inside the Fablemans, which is like petty and thorny.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:05:03 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. programming (pairing): Aftersun → The Fabelmans. Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher.
    “Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  8. programming (same-year pairing): Nope → The Fabelmans. Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages.
    “it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (psychology key): Empire of the Sun → The Fabelmans. Griffin reads Empire through The Fabelmans: Spielberg's core trauma was being pulled into the adult world, like Jim in the camp.
    “I mean, here's here's my big post-fableman's take on this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:50:40 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Raiders of the Lost Ark → The Fabelmans. Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans.
    “I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. theme (theme): Raiders of the Lost Ark → The Fabelmans. Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans.
    “the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): Raiders of the Lost Ark → The Fabelmans. Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy.
    “it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (period look): The Fabelmans → Back to the Future. The prom set full of extras looked like Back to the Future.
    “And it looked like back to the future.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:16:01 · James Urbaniak (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (joke analog): Beware of the Gonzo → The Fabelmans. Griffin jokes that Beware of the Gonzo is the Fabelmans of its time.
    “the Fabelmans of its time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:20:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)