Film
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The Drama
Reached for as the other recent school-shooting story, proof the Scandinavians are up to something. Middlebrow
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The Mask
A mishearing of "masking" detours into Robert Pattinson's reported favorite film. Middlebrow
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Son of the Mask
The contrarian's sequel pick, offered strictly for the Jamie Kennedy of it all. Middlebrow
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The Odyssey
The long shadow the whole episode sits in, and the reason everyone suddenly claims the classics. Middlebrow
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Finding Nemo
What the Odyssey turned out to be, once you've seen enough movies about journeys. Middlebrow
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Where a man literally saves a cat, as a wink to everyone who read the book. Middlebrow
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Prometheus
Named while unpacking why the myth of stolen fire keeps getting handed to tech founders. Middlebrow
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Jurassic Park
Goldblum's line about whether you should is the Prometheus myth in blockbuster form. Middlebrow
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A Knight's Tale
The Heath Ledger one, briefly confused for Chaucer scholarship and then for Dev Patel. Middlebrow
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The Green Knight
The Dev Patel medieval film that gets tangled into the same mix-up. Middlebrow
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The Departed
Where she learned Freud's line about the Irish being impervious to psychoanalysis. The great Irish text. Middlebrow
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Infernal Affairs
Noted as the Hong Kong original, since adaptation is the episode's real subject. Middlebrow