Under the Silver Lake (2018)

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Wikidata Q27703232, film, IMDb tt5691670, TMDB 396461: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

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Led to

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No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Andrew Garfield: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Andrew Garfield → Under the Silver Lake. Speaker will follow Garfield wherever he goes, citing Silence, Under the Silver Lake, Tammy Faye.
    “I'll go there with under the silver lake.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:28:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

David Robert Mitchell: 1 line people ×1

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:52:30 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

It Follows: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Under the Silver Lake → It Follows. Under the Silver Lake is a detective, paranoia, internet movie, a very different energy from It Follows.
    “more of a detective movie, more of like a hipster examination of paranoia and looking for coded messages”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:28:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Jeremy Bobb: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Jeremy Bobb → Under the Silver Lake. His single scene is maybe the scene of the year, though the young-actor-in-old-age-makeup device helps.
    “I think it's maybe the best scene of the year, but I also, I think that performance is doing a lot of work.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:35:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Los Angeles: 1 line theme ×1

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:35:51 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

Russian Doll: 1 line theme ×1

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:08:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Silence: 1 line career ×1

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:47:55 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

Sunset Boulevard (immersive adaptation): 1 line theme ×1

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:53 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

Taxi Driver (unnamed; via Travis Bickle): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:54 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

The Game: 1 line theme ×1

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

The Goonies: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:51:49 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (self-aware modern noir): Under the Silver Lake → The Long Goodbye. The modern noir with a real idea about now, self-parodying like The Long Goodbye.
    “similar to that longer buy, sort of like highly self-aware, almost self-parodying aspect, but that is really, really successful.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:06:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Andrew Garfield → Under the Silver Lake. Speaker will follow Garfield wherever he goes, citing Silence, Under the Silver Lake, Tammy Faye.
    “I'll go there with under the silver lake.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:28:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:47:55 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Under the Silver Lake → It Follows. Under the Silver Lake is a detective, paranoia, internet movie, a very different energy from It Follows.
    “more of a detective movie, more of like a hipster examination of paranoia and looking for coded messages”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:28:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:51:49 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:54 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:52:30 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:35:51 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:53 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:08:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (self-aware modern noir): Under the Silver Lake → The Long Goodbye. The modern noir with a real idea about now, self-parodying like The Long Goodbye.
    “similar to that longer buy, sort of like highly self-aware, almost self-parodying aspect, but that is really, really successful.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:06:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Jeremy Bobb → Under the Silver Lake. His single scene is maybe the scene of the year, though the young-actor-in-old-age-makeup device helps.
    “I think it's maybe the best scene of the year, but I also, I think that performance is doing a lot of work.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:35:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Under the Silver Lake → Under the Silver Lake. Griffin watched it on a train from Buffalo and half-believes it was a dream; it played better in a theater than on a plane.
    “I watched Under the Silver Lake on a train back to New York from Buffalo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:35:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Host champions it as the modern noir worth rescuing, with a real idea about our current condition.
    “is under the Silver Lake, that that's the one that I feel like people are really trying”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:50:19 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:16 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  4. 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”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:00:30 · Andrew Garfield (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. 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.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:05:32 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Jeremy Bobb's scene is perhaps the scene of the year; the film feels like a dream.
    “I sometimes feel like it was an experience that I may have like dreamed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:35:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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