Smile (2022)

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Wikidata Q112623225, film, IMDb tt15474916, TMDB 882598: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by year 2022 in mention (Wendell & Wild); 1 more episode agrees.

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

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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

Obsession: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera.
    “Well, very much from the original smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

Connected to

Doctor Sleep: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (trauma horror pairing): Doctor Sleep → Smile. Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror.
    “smile is literally about trauma”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Halloween Ends: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (box-office rivalry): Smile → Halloween Ends. Smile, headed straight to Paramount+, outgrossed Halloween Ends, which was day-and-date on Peacock.
    “Got crushed by smile.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:06:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Obsession: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Obsession → Smile. Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera.
    “Well, very much from the original smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (box-office rivalry): Smile → Halloween Ends. Smile, headed straight to Paramount+, outgrossed Halloween Ends, which was day-and-date on Peacock.
    “Got crushed by smile.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Wendell & Wild · 2:06:51 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Obsession → Smile. Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera.
    “Well, very much from the original smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (trauma horror pairing): Doctor Sleep → Smile. Both are horror films about trauma, in the host's framing of a trend of elevated horror.
    “smile is literally about trauma”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:25:13 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Smile: In the theater someone shouted 'she's gonna smile' like calling a WrestleMania finisher.
    “She gonna smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:56 · Adam Nayman (0.60 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.