Fatal Attraction (1987)

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Wikidata Q504157, film, IMDb tt0093010, TMDB 10998: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Michael Douglas as actor (Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri); 2 more episodes agree.

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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.

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Led to

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

Domestic Disturbance: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction.
    “We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Babygirl: 3 lines contrast ×3

  1. contrast (contrast): Babygirl → Fatal Attraction. Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction.
    “I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Adrian Lyne: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (reappraisal): Fatal Attraction → Adrian Lyne. Lyne has been retroactively inserted into the pantheon; Sliver was not valued in 1993.
    “It is funny how Adrian Lyne has become kind of a like sort of retroactively inserted into the pantheon.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Domestic Disturbance: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Domestic Disturbance → Fatal Attraction. Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction.
    “We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Glenn Close: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Fatal Attraction → Glenn Close. First extended Glenn Close appearance on the show is Fatal Attraction; Garp is expected eventually.
    “Garp's gonna happen at some point.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

Michael Douglas: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Michael Douglas → Fatal Attraction. Douglas's hit run from 87 includes Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, Roses, Basic Instinct and more.
    “And then from 87 on when he rips off Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, War of the Roses, shining through.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:14:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Obsession: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Obsession → Fatal Attraction. Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse.
    “If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Big Chill: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (parody): Fatal Attraction → The Big Chill. An SNL sketch has Glenn Close's character turn into Fatal Attraction while listening to the fertility-night scene.
    “And finally, she turns into fatal attraction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Game: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (Douglas persona): The Game → Fatal Attraction. Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction.
    “The adulterer from Fatal Attraction.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The War of the Roses: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The War of the Roses → Fatal Attraction. Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble.
    “I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)

Working Girl: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Working Girl → Fatal Attraction. Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks.
    “Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Michael Douglas → Fatal Attraction. Douglas's hit run from 87 includes Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, Roses, Basic Instinct and more.
    “And then from 87 on when he rips off Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Black Rain, War of the Roses, shining through.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:14:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Fatal Attraction → Glenn Close. First extended Glenn Close appearance on the show is Fatal Attraction; Garp is expected eventually.
    “Garp's gonna happen at some point.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (contrast): Working Girl → Fatal Attraction. Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks.
    “Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Babygirl → Fatal Attraction. Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction.
    “You know, this is not fatal attraction.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Babygirl → Fatal Attraction. It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film.
    “It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Babygirl → Fatal Attraction. Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction.
    “I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Domestic Disturbance → Fatal Attraction. Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction.
    “We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): The War of the Roses → Fatal Attraction. Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble.
    “I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (Douglas persona): The Game → Fatal Attraction. Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction.
    “The adulterer from Fatal Attraction.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (reappraisal): Fatal Attraction → Adrian Lyne. Lyne has been retroactively inserted into the pantheon; Sliver was not valued in 1993.
    “It is funny how Adrian Lyne has become kind of a like sort of retroactively inserted into the pantheon.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody): Fatal Attraction → The Big Chill. An SNL sketch has Glenn Close's character turn into Fatal Attraction while listening to the fertility-night scene.
    “And finally, she turns into fatal attraction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Obsession → Fatal Attraction. Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse.
    “If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

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