Lemon (2017)

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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.

New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel): 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel) ⇒ Lemon (the maker said so: Gelman, speaking as the filmmaker). A scene in Lemon is an homage to the commercial where the couple met.
    “the scene where he and me and me is sort of in homage to that place that we met”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:23 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

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

Juneteenth (Atlanta episode): 2 lines theme ×1 craft ×1

  1. theme (theme): Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) → Lemon. Sean calls Juneteenth a sister to Lemon because both explore awkward encounters between privilege and non-privilege.
    “it really makes Juneteenth a sister of some kind to lemon and that movie explores it as well.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles): 2 lines contrast ×1 craft ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Lemon → Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles). Lemon is a commentary on the genre of the flailing 30-40 year old white guy for whom everything works out.
    “it is a 1000% of commentary on this kind of genre of 30 something 40 something year old white guy who is flailing through life, but that everything works out for.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:30:30 · Janicza Bravo (0.60 sure it was them)

Gregor Goboom (short): 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Gregor Goboom (short) → Lemon. Sean asks whether Lemon is more confident because the collapse and the Gregor Goboom detour happened; Bravo says yes, the delay was her incubation.
    “Do you think that Lemon would not have been, I don't know, maybe as accomplished or as like confident, if that hadn't happened”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:23:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Joy McMillan: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Joy McMillan → Lemon. Bravo says she asked editor Joy McMillan to keep lengthening the tug-of-war scene, from about 15 seconds up to 90 and back to about 45.
    “my note to our editor was to make it longer to our editor, Joy McMillan.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:35:04 · Janicza Bravo (0.90 sure it was them)

Michael Sarah: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Lemon → Michael Sarah. Bravo and Gelman wrote the part for him before he liked her short, a serendipity.
    “we were writing this part for him and then he actually liked the thing that I made.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:14:33 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel): 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel) → Lemon. A scene in Lemon is an homage to the commercial where the couple met.
    “the scene where he and me and me is sort of in homage to that place that we met”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:23 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

Twin Peaks: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Lemon → Twin Peaks. Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment.
    “There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Gregor Goboom (short) → Lemon. Sean asks whether Lemon is more confident because the collapse and the Gregor Goboom detour happened; Bravo says yes, the delay was her incubation.
    “Do you think that Lemon would not have been, I don't know, maybe as accomplished or as like confident, if that hadn't happened”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:23:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Lemon → Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles). Lemon is a commentary on the genre of the flailing 30-40 year old white guy for whom everything works out.
    “it is a 1000% of commentary on this kind of genre of 30 something 40 something year old white guy who is flailing through life, but that everything works out for.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:30:30 · Janicza Bravo (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) → Lemon. Sean says the tone of awkward comedy with high tension links the episode to the film.
    “Lemon, though, is really, like I said, kind of related to it”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:08:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Lemon → Loser white guy comedies (genre, no specific titles). Lemon follows love, family and career like those films but ends in plateau and failure.
    “lemon goes through love life, family, and career in the same way, but it's all plateau, and it's all failure”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:31:02 · Janicza Bravo (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Joy McMillan → Lemon. Bravo says she asked editor Joy McMillan to keep lengthening the tug-of-war scene, from about 15 seconds up to 90 and back to about 45.
    “my note to our editor was to make it longer to our editor, Joy McMillan.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:35:04 · Janicza Bravo (0.90 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (origin): Lemon → Lemon. The Sundance lab deadline, which came from a lie, produced the first draft in five days.
    “because of this deadline, this kind of self-imposed deadline, that was the result of a lie, we ended up having this script.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:12:57 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): New York lotto commercial (Brett as Jewish minstrel) → Lemon. A scene in Lemon is an homage to the commercial where the couple met.
    “the scene where he and me and me is sort of in homage to that place that we met”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:18:23 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Lemon → Michael Sarah. Bravo and Gelman wrote the part for him before he liked her short, a serendipity.
    “we were writing this part for him and then he actually liked the thing that I made.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:14:33 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (theme): Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) → Lemon. Sean calls Juneteenth a sister to Lemon because both explore awkward encounters between privilege and non-privilege.
    “it really makes Juneteenth a sister of some kind to lemon and that movie explores it as well.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Lemon → Twin Peaks. Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment.
    “There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Lemon: Bravo told Sundance people she had a feature when she did not; she and Gelman wrote the first draft in five days at South by Southwest.
    “They asked if I had a feature, I lied and said yes.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:11:10 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Lemon: Michael read the script and said yes the same day, which fast-tracked the film.
    “And Michael read it that day and said yes to doing it that day”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:13:31 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Lemon: A financier said she could say yes only if the film were all black; Bravo thought she was full of it.
    “There was that one person that was like, if this is all if this was all black, I could say yes to it.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:15:59 · Brett Gelman (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Lemon: Gelman's elevator pitch for the film.
    “I always say that, uh, come watch me fail for 90 minutes.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:22:20 · Brett Gelman (0.65 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Lemon: On the first day of pre-production an actor dropped out, funding fell apart in three to five days, and Bravo fell into a depression for the rest of the year.
    “and I fell into a very deep depression that lasted for, I think the rest of that year.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:23:20 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Lemon: Gelman, as producer, acted as a bodyguard on set.
    “it's sort of like I have my own bodyguard here.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:27:27 · Janicza Bravo (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Lemon: Bravo wondered whether an audience would be as charmed if the flailing guy were a person of color.
    “I think they'd be disgusted.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:31:00 · Janicza Bravo (0.65 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Lemon: The tug-of-war scene: Bravo kept asking the editor to make it longer, from 15 seconds to 90 and back to about 45.
    “And at one point we had it going for, I think like 90 seconds and that was too long.”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:35:13 · Janicza Bravo (0.85 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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