Fran Hoepfner

2 sketches, 2 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–2 of 2 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) (guest)

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.

Humor: Warm, quick, self-deprecating; plugs her magazine.

In their words

  • “I saw it on New Year's Day, 2012.” (0:25:32)
  • “I am like a 3rd of the way into the 2nd one.” (0:15:05)
  • “And Rooney is so good, in my opinion, that, like, it's it's a tough performance.” (0:15:52)

Blank Check — Patreon: Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves the novel and reread it; finds the Kubrick film dramatically patchy but compelling. Drawn to bold, uncomfortable material and the final Humbert-Lolita scene. A sucker for self-sabotaging comedy bits like the giant lollipop.

Stances

  • The film is an unadaptable novel reduced to its premise
  • Code-dodging makes it feel like The Lobster
  • Sellers' later stretches do not charm her

Humor: Self-deprecating, deadpan about her own bits and misery.

In their words

  • “The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster.” (0:51:25)
  • “Yeah, I brought my giant lollipop to the film form.” (0:43:20)
  • “I'm one of the braver people.” (0:36:28)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–2 of 2 claims.

  1. lineage (sequel/reboot): The Girl in the Spider's Web → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 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 with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (tonal comparison): Lolita → The Lobster. The code-dodging dialogue gave the speaker the feel of The Lobster, a movie with a weirdly agreed-upon reality.
    “The more I started to see it as like, oh, this feels like the lobster.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:51:25 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  1. fun, about Fran Hoepfner: Fran brought a giant lollipop to the Film Forum screening, a bit tied to her Gawker piece.
    “Yeah, I brought my giant lollipop to the film form.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:43:20 · Fran Hoepfner (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Lolita: At Film Forum the audience split into reverence, cursed object, and bafflement.
    “And there were, I could feel there are people who are just like, reverence, Kubrick, masterpiece, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:50:59 · Fran Hoepfner (0.60 sure it was them)