The Favourite (2018)

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Wikidata Q22001133, film, IMDb tt5083738, TMDB 375262: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Emma Stone as actor (‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins); 5 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Mean Girls: 2 lines theme ×2

  1. theme (genre translation): The Favourite → Mean Girls. Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility.
    “The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The Favourite is in keeping with The Lobster but different from The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
    “It is in keeping with the lobster, but it's like way different than a killing of a sacred deer.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

The Wife: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Wife. The Favourite's Olivia Colman beat the star of The Wife, which the hosts had watched and podcasted.
    “She, of course, won best actress for the favorite, defeating the star of the wife.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Wife. The Favourite's Olivia Colman beat the star of The Wife, which the hosts had watched and podcasted.
    “She, of course, won best actress for the favorite, defeating the star of the wife.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The Favourite is in keeping with The Lobster but different from The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
    “It is in keeping with the lobster, but it's like way different than a killing of a sacred deer.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (genre translation): The Favourite → Mean Girls. Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls.
    “Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. theme (genre translation): The Favourite → Mean Girls. Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility.
    “The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

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