Beginners (2010)

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Connected to

Come On, Come On: 7 lines people ×3 craft ×2 theme ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Earlier films were like paintings with a wider palette; this one is a drawing.
    “maybe my other films are more like a painting, you know, or there's a wider palette deployed to tell the story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:14 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

Christopher Plummer: 2 lines career ×1 people ×1

  1. career (career): Christopher Plummer → Beginners. Plummer won his Oscar late for Beginners, given because of his long career.
    “Christopher Plummer got that later on in his career for beginners.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Mike Mills: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Mike Mills → Beginners. He says he got away with murder by making these three personal, uncommercial movies.
    “I got away with murder, you know, by making these 3 movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:28:43 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

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career (2)

  1. career (career): Christopher Plummer → Beginners. Plummer won his Oscar late for Beginners, given because of his long career.
    “Christopher Plummer got that later on in his career for beginners.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Mike Mills → Beginners. He says he got away with murder by making these three personal, uncommercial movies.
    “I got away with murder, you know, by making these 3 movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:28:43 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Earlier films were like paintings with a wider palette; this one is a drawing.
    “maybe my other films are more like a painting, you know, or there's a wider palette deployed to tell the story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:20:14 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women.
    “this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says he used text and archival-like material in earlier films and found a different way here, via included texts.
    “I love archival stuff and real, but I feel like I just did that with the text.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:22:28 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says he kept his sisters largely out of his films besides 20th Century Women.
    “I've kept my sisters largely out of my films, except for 20th”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:36 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says Beginners resonates with people coping with a parent's death.
    “you should see this movie called Beginners with Christopher Plummer.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:54 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Beginners was about Mills and his dad.
    “That's sort of me and my dad.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:26:08 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. people (performance): Christopher Plummer → Beginners. Plummer plays a father who comes out in his 80s in Beginners.
    “He's Ewan McGregor's dad, who comes out in his 80s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Beginners. Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child).
    “you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Beginners: Strangers tell Mills to see Beginners about a dying father, not knowing he made it.
    “oh, you should see this movie called Beginners with Christopher Plummer. And I'm like, oh, I made that movie, you know?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:25:54 · Mike Mills (0.90 sure it was them)

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