The Big Picture: The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview
Published 2019-04-19; 1:09:12 by the feed.
As extracted (engineer-sonnet-2026-10-13)
The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On 'Under the Silver Lake' | Interview”.
Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins. Guests: Andrew Garfield.
Subject films: Under the Silver Lake (2018).
On the transcript: No speaker labels; the host/guest handoff is at 0:32:56. Several guesses at film-title mangling (Dee Rees, Punchdrunk) lean on outside knowledge.
Added from the extractor's memory, not said
- Mangled-name corrections (Hiro Murai, Dee Rees, Punchdrunk, Chabon etc.) and 'Boy A'/'Adam McKay' identifications are my guesses, not said in the transcript.
- Taxi Driver is named only through the character Travis Bickle.
Films that came up
subject (4)
Under the Silver Lake · Guava Island · Homecoming · Cats
compared (9)
The Last Waltz · Atlanta: Teddy Perkins · Get Out · Les Mis · Vice · The Wife · A Star Is Born · The Goonies · The Game
passing (25)
Lemonade · A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood · The Post · Star Wars · Ford v Ferrari · Downton Abbey · Green Book · Fair and Balanced · The Big Short · Game Change · The Goldfinch · The Irishman · The Last Thing He Wanted · The Laundromat · Little Women · Lady Bird · Fighting with My Family · Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · The Report · Us · Avengers: Endgame · Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker · Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory · Sunset Boulevard (immersive adaptation) · Spider-Man: Homecoming
anecdote (10)
Beale Street · The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade) · Teen Wolf 3 (imagined) · White Men Can't Jump (imagined sequel) · Lions for Lambs · 99 Homes · Death of a Salesman (play) · The Amazing Spider-Man films · Silence · Angels in America (play)
recommended (2)
Claims (47)
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lineage (lineage):
Homecoming → The Last Waltz.
Sean says the Beyonce concert film in some ways looks like The Last Waltz.
“this in some ways looks a little bit like the last waltz”
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verdict (verdict):
The Last Waltz → Homecoming.
Amanda was bored by Last Waltz and suspects many viewers were equally bored by a concert they had already seen.
“okay, fine, it's a Beyonce concert that I've already seen.”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → Martin Scorsese.
Sean explains the Last Waltz as Scorsese's documentary of the Band's final performance.
“Martin Scorsese's documentary about the final performance of the band”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → The Band.
The Last Waltz documents the Band's final performance.
“Martin Scorsese's documentary about the final performance of the band, the band.”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
“Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → Neil Young.
Neil Young is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
“Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → Joni Mitchell.
Joni Mitchell is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
“Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
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people (people):
The Last Waltz → Van Morrison.
Van Morrison is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
“Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
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contrast (contrast):
The Last Waltz → Homecoming.
The Last Waltz is great for reasons other than the performances; Homecoming is great precisely because of the performance.
“I think homecoming is great, particularly because of the performance.”
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career (career):
Homecoming → Lemonade.
Sean points to Beyonce's talent for assembling shows, music and the Lemonade film as proof of a clear storytelling vision.
“she's so singularly talented at putting together, not just as a performer, but this shows and the music and, you know, lemonade the film.”
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theme (theme):
Beyonce → other control-freak filmmakers.
Her total control over collaborators is compared to male auteurs, who are just not also dancers and singers.
“to compare her to other control freak egomaniac filmmakers.”
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craft (craft):
Beyonce → Homecoming.
Like a director choosing collaborators, Beyonce picks her choreographer and costume designer for the performance.
“She's picking her choreographer. She picking the costume designer for all of the costumes during the performance.”
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programming (programming):
Homecoming → Netflix.
Beyonce also picks the platform, and Netflix puts the film in more homes than anywhere else.
“if you give it to Netflix, it's going to go into more homes than almost anywhere else.”
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lineage (lineage):
Guava Island → This Is America (video).
Glover reprises the This Is America dance moves and warehouse set in Guava Island.
“he's just kind of doing this is America.”
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contrast (contrast):
Guava Island → Homecoming.
Guava Island's purpose is unclear next to the clarity of Homecoming.
“how it fits into the childish Gambino mythology, like with homecoming.”
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programming (programming):
Guava Island → Homecoming.
The smaller reception is partly about release: Amazon is not Netflix for promotion.
“Amazon is not Netflix in terms of promo.”
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lineage (lineage):
Guava Island → Atlanta: Teddy Perkins.
Guava Island shares a style with Atlanta, and recalled Teddy Perkins, though not as well developed.
“it is of a style with Atlanta, you know, it felt like I was immediately reminded of Teddy Perkins.”
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industry (industry):
Beale Street → Oscar calendar.
A December release now leaves about 7 weeks of campaign before a February ninth ceremony.
“If a movie comes out on December 14th, that movie's got 7 weeks, the campaign less.”
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lineage (lineage):
Cats → Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical.
“Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical”
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programming (programming):
Cats → Les Mis.
Both are Tom Hooper musicals everyone pretends are in the Oscar conversation until release.
“it was the same feeling that we had with Les Mis, the last big Tom Hooper musical.”
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verdict (verdict):
Les Mis → Cats.
Amanda rates Les Mis a much better musical than Cats.
“Les Mis is a much better musical than cats.”
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theme (theme):
Downton Abbey → Green Book.
After Green Book, Amanda thinks voters just want to be happy, which could help a crowd-pleaser.
“man, people just want to be happy.”
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programming (programming):
Fair and Balanced → Vice.
Sean says the Fox News movie feels like Vice of 2019, and it is also slated for late December.
“it feels a little bit like the vice of 2019.”
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people (people):
Vice → Adam McKay.
Vice stars previous Oscar winners and is directed by the guy who made The Big Short.
“directed by the guy who made the big short.”
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career (career):
Jay Roach → Game Change.
Roach has made political docudramas like Game Change for HBO, so he can do this.
“Jay Roach, of course, has experience making movies like Game Change for HBO.”
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programming (programming):
Cats → The Wife.
Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
“cats is the new, the wife, right?”
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programming (programming):
The Irishman → A Star Is Born.
Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession.
“perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us.”
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programming (programming):
The Irishman → Netflix.
Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not.
“I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that.”
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career (career):
Little Women → Lady Bird.
Little Women is Greta Gerwig's follow-up to Lady Bird.
“Greta Gerwig's follow-up to Ladybird.”
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career (career):
Us → Get Out.
Get Out is the extraordinary debut and Us is the second-album film, so Us may get makeup votes.
“get out is the extraordinary debut and us is the, you had 6 months to make your 2nd album kind of film.”
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industry (industry):
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker → Academy.
The Academy will want to reward Star Wars for reviving big-tent box office.
“they're going to want to acknowledge its achievement in reviving super duper big tent box office.”
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theme (theme):
Under the Silver Lake → Los Angeles.
The film captures the city's forbidding, foreboding feeling that everyone is on the outside.
“the feeling of forbiddance and foreboding that the city has, I think, is what David, Robert Mitchell, the director of this film under the silver lake really captures”
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people (people):
Stephen Daldry → Roger Deakins.
Daldry and Deakins were said to be making the unmade Kavalier & Clay together; Garfield could not confirm it was Deakins.
“So Dawdry and Deacons were going to make Cavalier.”
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people (people):
Andrew Garfield → Ryan Gosling.
Acting opposite Gosling in a Kavalier & Clay screen test taught Garfield what screen acting is.
“going, oh, fuck, that's what that's what screen acting is.”
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career (career):
Andrew Garfield → Lions for Lambs.
The unmade Kavalier & Clay screen test reached Robert Redford and got Garfield cast in Lions for Lambs.
“a screen test to Redford.”
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people (people):
Avy Kaufman → Lions for Lambs.
The casting director on the unmade Kavalier & Clay passed Garfield's screen test to Robert Redford, which led to his Lions for Lambs audition and casting.
“AV sent, I think, a screen test to Redford.”
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contrast (contrast):
99 Homes → The Amazing Spider-Man films.
99 Homes and Death of a Salesman were the antidote to the franchise behemoth.
“this great antidote for, um, this, this beer moth kind of uh, franchise.”
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career (career):
Andrew Garfield → Martin Scorsese.
Garfield kept a list of directors to wait for, with Scorsese on it, but hasn't had the courage to write them.
“I made a list of directors that I was going to wait for.”
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career (career):
Under the Silver Lake → Silence.
Silence and Angels in America left Garfield with a martyrdom complex, so Silver Lake was a reaction in the opposite direction.
“Angels in America was definitely the icing on top of the martyrdom cake”
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theme (theme):
Free Solo → Andrew Garfield.
Garfield loves Free Solo because he is curious about human potential and where we break.
“I'm just very curious about the human potential”
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lineage (lineage):
Under the Silver Lake → The Goonies.
Garfield says the script reminded him of The Goonies: a grown-up, regressed one-man quest movie.
“It was like a grown up regressed version of the Goonies of like a one-man Goonies, a quest movie.”
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people (people):
Under the Silver Lake → David Robert Mitchell.
Mitchell is specific about mood and references, all on the page, and the film is knowingly meta.
“David is so specific in what he wants to create, the mood he wants to create”
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lineage (lineage):
Under the Silver Lake → Taxi Driver (unnamed; via Travis Bickle).
Sam is a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wiping scum off the streets, but he is brainwashed and perpetuates the misogyny.
“a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wanting to wipe the scum off the streets”
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theme (theme):
Under the Silver Lake → The Game.
Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that.
“the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue.”
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people (people):
The Game → David Fincher.
Sean identifies The Game as the Fincher movie.
“The Fincher movie.”
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theme (theme):
Under the Silver Lake → Sunset Boulevard (immersive adaptation).
Immersive theater like Punchdrunk gives the same visceral decoding-a-mystery experience as the film's code hunt.
“you feel viscerally involved in decoding some mystery.”
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theme (theme):
Under the Silver Lake → Russian Doll.
Sean pairs Russian Doll as Garfield's New York with Under the Silver Lake as his LA.
“If Russian doll is my New York under the Silver Lake is sort of my LA.”
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Fun items (24)
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fun, about
Homecoming:
Beyonce embedded the year's criticism of her Coachella set into the film itself, a self-reflexive analysis.
“And so she essentially embedded all that into the documentary itself.”
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fun, about
The Last Waltz:
Amanda's college boyfriend forced her to watch it as the most important thing she'd ever see; she was bored.
“I mean, it's just the last waltz is a movie that my college boyfriend sat me down and made me watch and was like, this is the most important thing that you'll ever see.”
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fun, about
Guava Island:
Glover seems to have only two dance moves, repeated from This Is America.
“it makes me think that he only has like 2 dance moves.”
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fun, about
Guava Island:
Rihanna gets to gaze but not sing, which the hosts joke about.
“even though again, Rihanna is not allowed to sing.”
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fun, about
Tom Hanks:
If Beautiful Day misses the Oscars, either Tom Hanks is over or it's terrible.
“Tom Hanks is over?”
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fun, about
Cats:
Hosts predict The Ringer will cover Cats aggressively; Taylor Swift in a unitard.
“Taylor Swift in a Unitard, like with a weird name.”
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fun, about
Avengers: Endgame:
Amanda admits she will be sad if Captain America dies, while Sean doesn't care.
“It'll be sad if Captain America dies.”
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fun, about
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope:
Sean casts Amanda as Rey of the podcast and himself as Kylo.
“I will say I have often thought of you as the ray of this podcast in me as the Kylo.”
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fun, about
Andrew Garfield:
He first stayed in LA on his manager's assistant's leather couch with a heavy-breathing pit bull, waking stuck to it, and walked to the California Chicken Cafe.
“And, uh, and it was a leather couch, so my skin would be stuck to it by the time I woke up every morning.”
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fun, about
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade):
Garfield's screen test for the never-made film put him alongside a crowd of young actors, Ryan Gosling napping in a dressing room.
“Ryan Gosling is taking a nap or meditating or something”
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fun, about
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade):
The Sam/Joseph screen-test pool: Schwartzman, Bell, Maguire, Murphy, Whishaw, Gosling.
“And it was myself, Jason Schwartzman.”
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fun, about
Andrew Garfield:
Two days of screen tests with film cameras felt like film school.
“It was 2 days of kind of like film school, really.”
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fun, about
Teen Wolf 3:
Garfield's childhood dream was making Teen Wolf 3 after the Jason Bateman one flopped; the next Michael J. Fox would be a British boy from Surrey.
“where I would fantasize making Teen Wolf 3 after the Jason Bateman one didn't go as well as planned.”
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fun, about
White Men Can't Jump:
Garfield's dream: a sequel where white men still can't jump, set in London's subterranean basketball culture.
“where white men still can't jump”
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fun, about
Andrew Garfield:
Waiting on the Lions for Lambs casting call in an H&M fitting room at the Beverly Center.
“trying on an ill-fitting suit in H and M that I could just about afford to buy and maybe take back if I didn't stain it.”
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fun, about
Eddie Redmayne:
Redmayne introduced Garfield around at a party but skipped Natalie Portman, seemingly to protect his thunder.
“he did not introduce me to Natalie Portman.”
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fun, about
Angels in America:
Garfield calls the eight-hour play pure martyrdom with a fresh audience each night.
“which is angels in America, which is 8 hours of pure martyrdom.”
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fun, about
Andrew Garfield:
His swimming-coach father never let him settle, even a gold medal was celebrated briefly, then back to the tape.
“Even a gold medal was celebrated briefly, and then you kind of go back to the tape and you go, so where did you go wrong?”
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fun, about
Under the Silver Lake:
Garfield's favorite catharsis: a scene where he beats up a bunch of kids half his size.
“there's a scene where I get to beat up a bunch of kids, like who are very, very weak compared to me.”
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fun, about
Under the Silver Lake:
Mitchell is hurt that some people think the film perpetuates Hollywood's misogyny.
“he's disappointed in, and, and hurt that, um, certain people feel like it's, um, perpetuating the, the, the misogyny of Hollywood”
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fun, about
David Robert Mitchell:
Garfield guesses Mitchell enjoys being the architect watching viewers decode his film like mice.
“he likes being the architect watching the, the mice scurry around.”
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fun, about
Under the Silver Lake:
Garfield hopes it becomes a cult classic; he was fascinated by a geocaching-style live treasure-hunt app.
“there was an app where you could do like a live treasure hunt”
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fun, about
Under the Silver Lake:
The cereal box that seems to call out is the moment Garfield gets chills thinking about.
“Like, the cereal box calling out.”
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fun, about
Andrew Garfield:
Sean and Garfield are both Leos born in 1983.
“We are the same age. We're the same, 1983 guys.”
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Who's talking
- Sean Fennessey (host): Loves long things, big-tent Oscar movies (Ford v Ferrari, Once Upon a Time) and the business and career-arc angle of franchises. Skeptical of Tom Hooper and unclear streaming strategies; cares about artists controlling their image. As interviewer he probes how Garfield picks directors.
- Amanda Dobbins (host): Loves costume dramas (Downton), crowd-pleasers, and Greta Gerwig; likes things with a clear tone. Bored by The Last Waltz and unimpressed by Hooper. Can be sentimental (sad if Captain America dies) while resisting franchise lore.
- Andrew Garfield (guest): Drawn to dark, strange, specific directors and to spiritual, grueling roles; loves The Goonies, The Game, Free Solo, Russian Doll and immersive theater. Wants a Spider-Man-sized scope with a small film's soul. Admires filmmakers who make exactly the film they want.
The show's recurring bits
- Drafts: Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument.
- Hall of Fame: A star's or director's best, ranked and argued.
- Countdowns: Ranked lists, top five or top ten.
Names the transcriber got wrong
- 'Sean Fantasy' = Sean Fennessey
- 'Hero Mari'/'Hero Morai' = Hiro Murai
- 'childless'/'childish Gambino' = Childish Gambino
- 'Juliette Littman'/'Juliet Lemon' = Juliet Litman
- 'Austin' = Us
- 'Down Abbey'/'Down Emmy' = Downton Abbey
- 'D-Reese' = Dee Rees; 'the last thing you wanted' = The Last Thing He Wanted
- 'Quinn Tarantino' = Quentin Tarantino
- 'Sturman drying' = Sturm und Drang
- 'beer moth' = behemoth
- 'pedomasochistic' = probably sadomasochistic
- 'Effendi handbag' = Fendi
- 'Cavalier Eclaire' = Kavalier & Clay; 'Michael Shabon' = Chabon; 'Stephen Dawdry' = Daldry; 'Scott Ruden' = Rudin; 'Deacons' = Deakins
- 'Boyer' = probably Boy A
- 'Eddie Redmain' = Eddie Redmayne; 'Toby Maguire'; 'Killian Murphy'; 'Ben Wishaw'
- 'Alice and Jannie' = Allison Janney; 'Charlie Theron'; 'Ned Benning' = Annette Bening
- 'Sarah Pal' = Sarah Palin
- 'punch trunk' = Punchdrunk
- 'NPAA' = MPAA
- 'Synicon' = CinemaCon
- 'goldfish' = goldfinch