Scarlett Johansson

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q34436: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011); the next Batman film. Count them as director (1 film), actor (18 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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.

Blue Velvet (1986): 1 line

  1. unmapped (quoted line) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Stieg Larsson: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major.
    “I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sven Nykvist: 1 line

  1. craft (visual reference) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so). Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms.
    “I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) (2009): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). 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 with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Social Network (2010): 1 line

  1. people (casting led to) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read). 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 · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. people (casting approach) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they were tied to as tested/considered for Lisbeth: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). 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 · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (25) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Scarlett Johansson → Marriage Story. Johansson became a two-category nominee in one year; both performances are quite good.
    “I think her performances in both of these movies is quite good”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Scarlett Johansson → Iron Man 2. The Avengers uses Johansson (and Black Widow's Russian-scene vulnerability-as-weapon) better than anything since 2003, and better than Iron Man 2's secretary-spy version.
    “This is the better version of that where he's like, she has been trained in a weird Russian program to be able to manipulate anybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:08:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Scarlett Johansson → Keira Knightley. Johansson, Knightley and Natalie Portman are the same age and were sexualized as young teens cast as adults.
    “Scarjo is 33.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:27:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Scarlett Johansson → The Avengers. Her Iron Man 2 turn is flat with too much affected femme fatale, and she gets it right in the next one.
    “Which I only point out just because she gets it so right in the next episode.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:05:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Robert Downey Jr. → Scarlett Johansson. Downey renegotiated Marvel's thrifty early contracts and raised co-stars' pay.
    “He renegotiated for all of them so that Scarlett Johansson started making actual money off these movies”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:16:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Ghost World → Scarlett Johansson. Ghost World marks the year the Ricci-type teen girl gets replaced by Scarlett Johansson.
    “That sort of archetype of the teen girl is going out the window and is being replaced by Scarlett Johann.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida (Ad-Free) · 1:18:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (casting rationale): David Fincher → Scarlett Johansson. Fincher reportedly said Johansson could not be cast without being titillating.
    “there is no way to not make Scarlett Johansson titillating.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting contrast): Scarlett Johansson → Under the Skin. Under the Skin shows Johansson was wrong for Lisbeth: audiences want to see her.
    “The proof that she's wrong for this part is under the skin, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:00:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (repeat collaborators): Kristin Scott Thomas → Scarlett Johansson. Johansson works with Scott Thomas a third time in North Star after Horse Whisperer and The Other Boleyn Girl.
    “And it's got Scarlett Johansson, who she's now working with 3 times.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:21:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Scarlett Johansson → Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Her performance is livelier here than before.
    “I think her performance in this is so much more alive.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:15:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Scarlett Johansson → Emily Blunt. Black Widow was meant for Blunt, who passed because she was contracted to Gulliver's Travels.
    “But this was supposed to be Emily Blunt, and she passes because they had her contractually obligated to make golfers travels.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:55:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Scarlett Johansson: Joins a short list of double nominees in one year.
    “there's only been 10 people in the history of the Oscars who have been nominated twice”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)