Insomnia (2002)

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Wikidata Q429969, film, IMDb tt0278504, TMDB 320: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Christopher Nolan as director (Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany); 1 more episode agrees.

Also said as Insomnia (original): the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

The Rewatchables

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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

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

Al Pacino: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Al Pacino → Insomnia. Insomnia is the last Pacino movie that felt like an event before his decline.
    “Last grasp, insomnia is the tail end, and then it flips.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Christopher Nolan: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career stepping stone): Christopher Nolan → Insomnia. Insomnia proved Nolan was a professional who could handle personalities, earning Warner's trust to make Batman.
    “Not because insomnia is like Batman, but because I think within Warner Brothers, they were like, this seems like a pretty solid bet”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:09:49 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Decision to Leave: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (genre lineage): Decision to Leave → Insomnia. A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference.
    “But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Stellan Skarsgard: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Stellan Skarsgard → Insomnia. Skarsgard plays the Pacino part in the Norwegian original of Insomnia.
    “he plays the Pacino part in the original insomnia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:50:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career stepping stone): Christopher Nolan → Insomnia. Insomnia proved Nolan was a professional who could handle personalities, earning Warner's trust to make Batman.
    “Not because insomnia is like Batman, but because I think within Warner Brothers, they were like, this seems like a pretty solid bet”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:09:49 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Al Pacino → Insomnia. Insomnia is the last Pacino movie that felt like an event before his decline.
    “Last grasp, insomnia is the tail end, and then it flips.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Stellan Skarsgard → Insomnia. Skarsgard plays the Pacino part in the Norwegian original of Insomnia.
    “he plays the Pacino part in the original insomnia.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:50:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (genre lineage): Decision to Leave → Insomnia. A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference.
    “But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (production trivia): Insomnia → Insomnia. Insomnia, set in Alaska, was actually shot in British Columbia.
    “Yeah, they filmed it in British Columbia.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:21:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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