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  1. theme (theme): Tiger → Earl Woods. The first half frames Earl as a Dr. Frankenstein making Tiger into a monster of power and emotional danger.
    “to show Earl Woods, his father, as the kind of Dr. Frankenstein, and making Tiger Woods into this kind of Frankenstein monster, for better and for worse”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:04:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Tiger: Amanda's husband Zach, a golf maniac, whoops quietly at every golf shot as they watch, like a gallery of one.
    “every time a golf shot would be showed, Zach would just be like, whoa.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:05:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Tiger: The end of part one cuts to a famous woman sidling up to the camera, called great filmmaking; one director says the moment is a Sopranos homage scored with the song Evidently Chickentown.
    “Because of a very famous woman, just sidling up to the camera.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:07:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Tiger → The Last Dance. Unlike The Last Dance, where Jordan and his team were producers with some control, Tiger is unauthorized and Woods does not sit for it.
    “this is interesting, especially as a contrast of the last dance, which was, of course, the last big super sports documentary of recent times that wasn't authorized piece in which Michael Jordan and his compatriots were on board his producers.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:10:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Tiger: Amanda points out that the documentary shows a magazine photo shoot taken five days after the birth of his first child, which cannot have been accidental, and that a viewer has to look for the clue.
    “there is no way that a posed photo shoot is taken 5 days after the birth of a child without the participation and not just the participation, but the planning of the people involved.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:14:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): Tiger → O.J.: Made in America. Audiences are conditioned by Made in America and The Last Dance to expect soup-to-nuts sports documentaries that are really about larger ideas.
    “we have become conditioned, in part because of OJ made in America, in part because of the last dance, to get this soup to nuts kind of story.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:15:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Tiger → Pretend It's a City. Pretend It's a City, with its Spike Lee-Michael Jordan-as-artist archive, helps frame Tiger's moments as sublime, viewable only through footage.
    “I do think those Tiger Woods moments probably are this sublime, and to be able to see them again, as friendly boys kind of points out, is really the only way that you can”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:18:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Tiger: The directors found the footage of high-school Tiger dancing and doing air saxophone in his girlfriend's living room; nobody had seen that Tiger.
    “I still remember sort of sitting in the edit room when we 1st got them and saying nobody's seen this version of Tiger Woods before.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:34:43 · unknown (one of the directors) (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Tiger → The Last Dance. The interviewer says Tiger sits in league with Made in America and The Last Dance as sprawling psychological athlete profiles.
    “We've seen now with OJ Made in America and the last dance, these kind of sprawling, complex psychological profiles, really, of these historic athletes.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Tiger → The Sopranos. The cliffhanger-ish end of part one, scored to the song Evidently Chickentown, is an homage to a Sopranos final-season baptism episode.
    “that moment is kind of an homage to, um, the, an episode of uh, the Sopranos during the final season.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:45:33 · unknown (one of the directors) (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Tiger: A friend recalls Tiger scuba diving to the ocean floor because the fishies did not know his name down there.
    “he would go scuba diving at the bottom of the ocean, so he could go to a place where, you know, this tiger said, the fishies don't know my name down there.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:52:23 · unknown (one of the directors) (0.40 sure it was them)