What the corpus says about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Mindhunter · career · Between The Social Network and Dragon Tattoo, Fincher developed Mindhunter with Charlize Theron. · "starts developing Mindhunter with Charlie's Theron, who is a producer."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 2:31:28 · unknown (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · career · A host says Fincher's later airport-paperback thrillers deepen the text where Panic Room is mostly craft. · "And I think later when he gets to what I'd call his airport paperback thriller phase, right?"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · people · The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience. · "that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:31:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · people · Reznor and Ross scored both films; the speaker listens to the Dragon Tattoo score more than Social Network's. · "I listen to more than the social network score."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · people · Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander. · "Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:40:41 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Seven · people · Fincher's quote on Dragon Tattoo casting (find the essential quality that survives 100 takes) is applied to why Pitt works as Mills. · "I think the thing you want to find when you're casting your leads and casting your movie stars is like the essential quality they have in their being that no matter what is going to come through on camera"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:17:21 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Fifty Shades of Grey · verdict · Dragon Tattoo is grouped with Da Vinci Code and Fifty Shades as studio bets on bestsellers; this one underperformed. · "And in other cases of shit like Da Vinci code or Fifty Shades of Grey, where there's a best-selling book,"
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:47:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Gone Girl · industry · Dragon Tattoo got the same dismissal as a stylist's pulp job, with more nominations. · "He is, he is, but Dragon Tattoo kind of got the same treatment."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:34:58 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Ghost Protocol was number one, Game of Shadows number two, Dragon Tattoo number three that weekend. · "Okay. Number two, is Dragon Tattoo?"
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:35:13 · unknown (0.30)] Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Game of Shadows opened two weeks before and held at number two. · "Sherlock Holmes. a game of Shadows."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:41:04 · unknown (0.30)] The Artist ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Weinstein's campaign made The Artist a populist favorite while Dragon Tattoo won only editing. · "One of the last and worst tricks that Weinstein played on us was like, everyone loves this"
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:12:26 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · blank check compared · Button, not Dragon Tattoo, is probably Fincher's biggest blank check. · "I think Benjamin Button ended up being the bigger one, but this was such a like..."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:18:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · recast role · Vicky Krieps plays the Robin Wright role in Spider's Web. · "She plays the Robin Wright role."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:34:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · look compared · Rewatching the Swedish film, the speaker finds the two do not look alike despite the shot-for-shot-remake talk. · "these things don't fucking look similar at..."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Social Network · timeline · Social Network came out a bit more than a year before. · "just a little more than a year before this film, obviously."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:47:31 · unknown (0.30)] Aloha ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · affairs line · Pascal's reported 'people don't want affairs' lesson is tied to Aloha. · "People never want to watch movies about affairs."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Jaws · tension compared · The first hour's wait for the leads to meet is likened to Brody facing the shark. · "as if it's like Brody coming face to face with the shark."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:32 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ A Clockwork Orange · violence compared · Fincher cites Clockwork Orange as film where rape is offensive, not titillating. · "It's a power of clock or orange."
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Straw Dogs · violence compared · Fincher names Straw Dogs as challenging ideas of revenge. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Star 80 · violence compared · Fincher mentions Star 80 in the same breath. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · quoted line · The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet. · "Hopper says that in blue velvet."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

1. [pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Social Network · said 4 times in 2 episodes
2. [pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) · said 3 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Gone Girl · said 2 times in 1 episode
4. [pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Girl in the Spider's Web · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:24:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · On the commentary, Fincher tells how the bottle-catch and the cat landing in frame was a perfect take, and he did two more anyway, a self-parody of his many takes. · "I wasn't even happy with that take."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:51:41 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · Zaillian and Fincher stopped fighting the structure and accepted a five-act story. · "we just need to accept this as a 5 act story, which is unconventional, but if they're ever going to let us do it, they're going to let us do it on this movie."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:10:19 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · About 35 percent of the movie was reshot; the wall of suspects was reshot most. · "it felt like 35% of this movie was reshot."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:27 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · Fincher: a reshoot cost money because a hair gap, the Louise Brooks gap, was missing from half the scene and had to be tracked in. · "which he refers to as like the Louise Brooks gap"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (21)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ La Femme Nikita · lineage · Oplev likens an American Dragon Tattoo to the American version of La Femme Nikita. · "what would you want to see the French version of La Femme Nikita or the American one?"
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
5. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
6. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
7. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
19. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

1. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
2. [speaker] Fran Hoepfner · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Read the Millennium books for the episode and is wading through the denser sequels; admires Rooney Mara and finds the Spider's Web reboot ill advised. A sucker for Daniel Craig in glasses and a sweater. · stances: Rooney Mara is so good; Spider's Web was a bad idea; Craig is a babe here.

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:43:45 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Mindhunter · career · Between The Social Network and Dragon Tattoo, Fincher developed Mindhunter with Charlize Theron. · "starts developing Mindhunter with Charlie's Theron, who is a producer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 2:31:28 · unknown (0.40)] Panic Room ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · career · A host says Fincher's later airport-paperback thrillers deepen the text where Panic Room is mostly craft. · "And I think later when he gets to what I'd call his airport paperback thriller phase, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · people · The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience. · "that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:31:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · people · Reznor and Ross scored both films; the speaker listens to the Dragon Tattoo score more than Social Network's. · "I listen to more than the social network score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · people · Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander. · "Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:40:41 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (reading the dossier) (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Seven · people · Fincher's quote on Dragon Tattoo casting (find the essential quality that survives 100 takes) is applied to why Pitt works as Mills. · "I think the thing you want to find when you're casting your leads and casting your movie stars is like the essential quality they have in their being that no matter what is going to come through on camera"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:17:21 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Fifty Shades of Grey · verdict · Dragon Tattoo is grouped with Da Vinci Code and Fifty Shades as studio bets on bestsellers; this one underperformed. · "And in other cases of shit like Da Vinci code or Fifty Shades of Grey, where there's a best-selling book,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:47:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Gone Girl · industry · Dragon Tattoo got the same dismissal as a stylist's pulp job, with more nominations. · "He is, he is, but Dragon Tattoo kind of got the same treatment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:34:58 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Ghost Protocol was number one, Game of Shadows number two, Dragon Tattoo number three that weekend. · "Okay. Number two, is Dragon Tattoo?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:35:13 · unknown (0.30)] Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Game of Shadows opened two weeks before and held at number two. · "Sherlock Holmes. a game of Shadows."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:41:04 · unknown (0.30)] The Artist ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · industry · Weinstein's campaign made The Artist a populist favorite while Dragon Tattoo won only editing. · "One of the last and worst tricks that Weinstein played on us was like, everyone loves this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:12:26 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · blank check compared · Button, not Dragon Tattoo, is probably Fincher's biggest blank check. · "I think Benjamin Button ended up being the bigger one, but this was such a like..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:18:14 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · recast role · Vicky Krieps plays the Robin Wright role in Spider's Web. · "She plays the Robin Wright role."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:34:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · look compared · Rewatching the Swedish film, the speaker finds the two do not look alike despite the shot-for-shot-remake talk. · "these things don't fucking look similar at..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Social Network · timeline · Social Network came out a bit more than a year before. · "just a little more than a year before this film, obviously."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:47:31 · unknown (0.30)] Aloha ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · affairs line · Pascal's reported 'people don't want affairs' lesson is tied to Aloha. · "People never want to watch movies about affairs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Jaws · tension compared · The first hour's wait for the leads to meet is likened to Brody facing the shark. · "as if it's like Brody coming face to face with the shark."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:32 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ A Clockwork Orange · violence compared · Fincher cites Clockwork Orange as film where rape is offensive, not titillating. · "It's a power of clock or orange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Straw Dogs · violence compared · Fincher names Straw Dogs as challenging ideas of revenge. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:53:35 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Star 80 · violence compared · Fincher mentions Star 80 in the same breath. · "I holy respect straw dogs or even star 80."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · quoted line · The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet. · "Hopper says that in blue velvet."
[pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Social Network · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Gone Girl · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ The Girl in the Spider's Web · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:24:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · On the commentary, Fincher tells how the bottle-catch and the cat landing in frame was a perfect take, and he did two more anyway, a self-parody of his many takes. · "I wasn't even happy with that take."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:51:41 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · Zaillian and Fincher stopped fighting the structure and accepted a five-act story. · "we just need to accept this as a 5 act story, which is unconventional, but if they're ever going to let us do it, they're going to let us do it on this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:10:19 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · About 35 percent of the movie was reshot; the wall of suspects was reshot most. · "it felt like 35% of this movie was reshot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:27 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · fun · Fincher: a reshoot cost money because a hair gap, the Louise Brooks gap, was missing from half the scene and had to be tracked in. · "which he refers to as like the Louise Brooks gap"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ La Femme Nikita · lineage · Oplev likens an American Dragon Tattoo to the American version of La Femme Nikita. · "what would you want to see the French version of La Femme Nikita or the American one?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Fran Hoepfner · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · Read the Millennium books for the episode and is wading through the denser sequels; admires Rooney Mara and finds the Spider's Web reboot ill advised. A sucker for Daniel Craig in glasses and a sweater. · stances: Rooney Mara is so good; Spider's Web was a bad idea; Craig is a babe here.
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.