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  1. unmapped (joke): The Farewell → Triple Frontier. Amanda quips about which is better, The Farewell or Triple Frontier, while the farewell is being discussed as family.
    “what's better than farewell or triple frontier?”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:34:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Honeyland → The Farewell. Honeyland has two more nominations than The Farewell and Ad Astra, which is odd.
    “Honeyland has more nominations than at Astra.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Parasite → The Farewell. Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite.
    “I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Harriet → The Farewell. The speaker would watch The Farewell or Us before Harriet.
    “my choice between watching the farewell or us or Harriet again, I'm not watching Harriet.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (performance): The Farewell → Diana Lin. The mother and grandmother in The Farewell are named as great supporting performances.
    “I'm trying to isolate the mother and the grandmother.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:29:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about The Farewell: Wang negotiated final cut on her next, bigger film with Big Beach, and says a blank check is about freedom within the number, not the size of the number.
    “the blank check is less about the number that you put on it and more about the freedom you have within whatever that number is”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:07:05 · Lulu Wang (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. craft (music): The Farewell → Harry Nilsson. The film's song 'Without You' was a cover recorded with Wang's friends because the Nilsson foreign-language version could not be cleared.
    “I wanted the, an Italian version of uh, without you.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:13:58 · Lulu Wang (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. theme (personal link): The Farewell → Red Sorghum. Wang and her father sang a song from Red Sorghum a cappella at the real family wedding that inspired The Farewell.
    “the song that she's singing as she's walking away and it's like, there's subtitles.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:17:05 · Lulu Wang (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. theme (creative parallel): Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind → The Farewell. Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film.
    “I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (adaptation fidelity): The Farewell → Hayao Miyazaki. Like Miyazaki keeping the film identical to his manga, Wang wanted to carry the pure tone of her radio story into the feature without inflating the plot.
    “how do I maintain the spirit that's in the manga, the purity of it and transfer it to film, which is something that I thought a lot about with the farewell”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:41:13 · Lulu Wang (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (restraint): The Farewell → Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Both are praised for simplicity and for trusting a gesture over verbalized emotion.
    “that beautiful simplicity and that like confidence in the restraint”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:42:59 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (ending): The Farewell → Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Both reject Western catharsis; the hero is someone who comes to accept and understand a situation rather than fix it.
    “stories of people learning to accept what has been the case.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:45:35 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. industry (year-end rivalry): The Farewell → The Souvenir. Griffin flips between The Farewell and The Souvenir for movie of the year.
    “I keep flipping between it and the souvenir.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:15:15 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  14. industry (box office peer): John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum → The Farewell. Both are named as the only films that did not underperform in 2019, with John Wick as the highest-grossing non-Disney release.
    “one of the only films to not underperform at the box office, along with the farewell.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:48:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. verdict (verdict): The Farewell → The Farewell. Ben's Golden Mop: devastating and beautiful.
    “So the farewell, just because it's so devastating and beautiful.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:29 · Ben Hosley (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Farewell. The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential.
    “And that shot is still really influential.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)