Poor Things (2023)

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Wikidata Q108760382, film, IMDb tt14230458, TMDB 792307: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Emma Stone as actor (The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along); 3 more episodes agree.

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In the store as #547, Poor Things (2023).

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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.

Alasdair Gray: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (source novel): Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read). The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties.
    “this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Bride of Frankenstein: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read). Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things.
    “the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Dogtooth: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (sequel in spirit): Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read). Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes.
    “It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (visual echo): The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read). The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon.
    “the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Alasdair Gray: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (source novel): Poor Things → Alasdair Gray. The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties.
    “this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Barbie: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (comparison): Poor Things → Barbie. Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart.
    “it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Bride of Frankenstein: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Poor Things → Bride of Frankenstein. Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things.
    “the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Dogtooth: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (sequel in spirit): Poor Things → Dogtooth. Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes.
    “It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Emma Stone: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Emma Stone → Poor Things. In Poor Things Emma Stone is like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined, with sexual content in a funny tone.
    “But she's sort of like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:11:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Eraserhead: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Poor Things. Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars.
    “Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fair Play: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme link): Poor Things → Fair Play. The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode.
    “We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Frankenstein: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (inversion): Poor Things → Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness.
    “There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Game of Thrones: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (bar marketing): Poor Things → Game of Thrones. A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing.
    “sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Guillermo del Toro: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (could-have-been-by): Poor Things → Guillermo del Toro. The creature story and design could have come from a del Toro film.
    “This could have been a Giroba Del Toro movie, honestly”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Holly Waddington: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Poor Things → Holly Waddington. A host raves that the clothes in Poor Things are out of control and credits the costumes to Holly Waddington.
    “The clothes in this movie are out of control.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Mark Ruffalo: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career surprise): Mark Ruffalo → Poor Things. Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this.
    “I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

May December: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (actors satirized): May December → Poor Things. Sean says he discussed the satirization of actors in May December with the guests, tied to why actors may have overlooked it.
    “I actually talked about specifically some of the satirization of actors with Julianne and Todd.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Oppenheimer: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (awards tiebreaker): Oppenheimer → Poor Things. Oppenheimer bridges the old and new voting blocks the other two split.
    “It is very old versus young and Oppenheimer is the great tiebreaker because it does both.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)

The Holdovers: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (awards rivals): Poor Things → The Holdovers. The two are tied, appealing to different voting blocks: old classical versus young and visual.
    “the holdovers is just a very classical movie that feels like it was made in the 70s and speaks to that nostalgia factor for a lot of voters”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Island of Dr. Moreau: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (character echo): Poor Things → The Island of Dr. Moreau. Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure.
    “he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

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

  1. theme (genre per Lanthimos): The Killing of a Sacred Deer → Poor Things. Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie.
    “that's also his horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

The Lobster: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): The Lobster → Poor Things. The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie.
    “I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The War of the Roses: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): The War of the Roses → Poor Things. The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things.
    “looks like you're like in poor things for like a second.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wizard of Oz: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (visual echo): Poor Things → The Wizard of Oz. The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon.
    “the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Zone of Interest: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (adaptation recontextualization): The Zone of Interest → Poor Things. Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one.
    “The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Todd Haynes: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (recommendation): Todd Haynes → Poor Things. Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo.
    “I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Emma Stone → Poor Things. In Poor Things Emma Stone is like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined, with sexual content in a funny tone.
    “But she's sort of like Kathleen Turner and Julia Roberts combined.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:11:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career surprise): Mark Ruffalo → Poor Things. Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this.
    “I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (tonal contrast): The Lobster → Poor Things. The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie.
    “I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (inversion): Poor Things → Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness.
    “There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): The War of the Roses → Poor Things. The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things.
    “looks like you're like in poor things for like a second.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (visual echo): Poor Things → The Wizard of Oz. The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon.
    “the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Poor Things → Holly Waddington. A host raves that the clothes in Poor Things are out of control and credits the costumes to Holly Waddington.
    “The clothes in this movie are out of control.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (bar marketing): Poor Things → Game of Thrones. A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing.
    “sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (awards rivals): Poor Things → The Holdovers. The two are tied, appealing to different voting blocks: old classical versus young and visual.
    “the holdovers is just a very classical movie that feels like it was made in the 70s and speaks to that nostalgia factor for a lot of voters”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (awards tiebreaker): Oppenheimer → Poor Things. Oppenheimer bridges the old and new voting blocks the other two split.
    “It is very old versus young and Oppenheimer is the great tiebreaker because it does both.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Eraserhead → Poor Things. Poor Things beat Jack Fisk's Flower Moon nomination at the Oscars.
    “Yeah, but they had to give it to poor things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

lineage (4)

  1. lineage (adaptation recontextualization): The Zone of Interest → Poor Things. Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one.
    “The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (sequel in spirit): Poor Things → Dogtooth. Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes.
    “It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (influence): Poor Things → Bride of Frankenstein. Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things.
    “the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (source novel): Poor Things → Alasdair Gray. The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties.
    “this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (actors satirized): May December → Poor Things. Sean says he discussed the satirization of actors in May December with the guests, tied to why actors may have overlooked it.
    “I actually talked about specifically some of the satirization of actors with Julianne and Todd.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (recommendation): Todd Haynes → Poor Things. Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo.
    “I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (comparison): Poor Things → Barbie. Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart.
    “it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme link): Poor Things → Fair Play. The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode.
    “We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. theme (character echo): Poor Things → The Island of Dr. Moreau. Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure.
    “he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. theme (genre per Lanthimos): The Killing of a Sacred Deer → Poor Things. Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie.
    “that's also his horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (could-have-been-by): Poor Things → Guillermo del Toro. The creature story and design could have come from a del Toro film.
    “This could have been a Giroba Del Toro movie, honestly”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Poor Things: A Los Angeles bar printed a Poor Things martini ad, not from Searchlight but because the bar manager liked the movie.
    “oh no, the bar manager just does that when he likes stuff.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:16:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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