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theme (theme):
Babygirl → Hedda Gabler.
A speaker reads the movie's edges as Hedda Gabler-style constructs (transcript garbled).
“the further you get to the sides of some of the head of gabbler constructs, some of the robot concepts.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:03:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Babygirl → Basic Instinct.
Babygirl is divisive because it borrows the erotic-thriller look but is not Basic Instinct.
“One of the reasons why I think it's so divisive is, this is not basic instinct.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Babygirl → Fatal Attraction.
Babygirl has no murder and no killer; the stakes are a career, unlike Fatal Attraction.
“You know, this is not fatal attraction.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Babygirl → Basic Instinct.
No Sharon Stone throat-slashing here; the thriller stakes are only a fall from power.
“there's no Sharon Stone slashing someone's throat.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Babygirl → Fatal Attraction.
It lacks even the mania of the bunny-boiler Glenn Close film.
“It doesn't even have the mania of like the rabbit with Clint close.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
The film opens on Kidman's orgasm sounds piped in loud; in one screening nobody made a noise for a long time, in another people laughed.
“And those sounds are like piped in loud and there's nothing else, no one else was making any noise for a very long time.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:06:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
Computer-safety gripe: after watching porn on a shared-house laptop she just closes the lid without closing the tab.
“She she doesn't hit stop and close the tab.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:07:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
Dickinson is two heads taller than the other interns in the bullpen, dressed in hand-me-down Brooks Brothers.
“And my guy is 2 heads dollar than anyone else.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
He tells the CEO not to have coffee after noon; she says she has had seven.
“Seven. Seven.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:13:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Babygirl → The Substance.
Same year as The Substance; both are women-made films confronting an actress's aging, one literal, one metaphorical.
“it's an interesting time for this movie to come along in the same year as the substance where that movie makes the metaphorical literal.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Babygirl → Eyes Wide Shut.
The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
“Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Babygirl → Secretary.
The film that Babygirl is most often compared to.
“The movie that I've seen this movie compared to quite often is Secretary, have you seen Secretary?”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Babygirl → Secretary.
A wide shot in the motel scene immediately recalls Secretary.
“There is like a, like a beautiful wide shot that you immediately do think of secretary.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:29:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Babygirl → INXS.
A needle drop, 'Never Tear Us Apart', lands when the affair starts hitting hard; Reijn later calls it a song from Kidman's character's generation.
“In excess never tear us apart. I think is the song that hits when their affair starts really hitting hard.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Babygirl → Robyn.
'Dancing on My Own' is a much-used song that still feels appropriate in Babygirl.
“Robin's dancing on my own, which has been used quite often in the last 10 years.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:31:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Babygirl → We Live in Time.
A24 is finding female audiences: We Live in Time was huge with women and Babygirl would be too.
“You know, we live in time was huge with female moviegoers in this movie, obviously, would be true.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:36:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Eyes Wide Shut → Babygirl.
Kidman's Eyes Wide Shut work reads as an early beginning of the capstone that is Babygirl; the two films are in conversation.
“a nice little beginning of the capstone to baby girl.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:08:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Babygirl → The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Both give Kidman characters with distinctive sexual habits.
“This movie, and Baby Girl have something in common about how Nicole Kidman's characters like to have sex.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:40:50 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Babygirl → Nicole Kidman.
New films are rarely put in the Hall of Fame right away; yellow.
“We very rarely put the new one in.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:49:23 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Babygirl → Destroyer.
Amanda wants both Destroyer and Babygirl in; women can have it all.
“What if I want Destroyer and Baby Girl?”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Babygirl → Dead Calm.
The speaker would rather rewatch Dead Calm than Babygirl.
“It's good, but like I would rather watch Dead Come than Baby Girl again.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:58:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Babygirl → Nicole Kidman.
A listener vote for the last spot is floated.
“What do you think if we put these other 10 things up for the public and they can have the 11th spot?”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Babygirl → Bodies Bodies Bodies.
Blending tension and laughter was the same tonal search she began on Bodies Bodies Bodies.
“that with bodies, of course, we also really had to search for that.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:06:29 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
The dog-and-cookie scene: Samuel calms a dog with a cookie, then offers her one. In Sean's screening that is where the laughter started.
“In my screening, that's when everyone started laughing was the, do you want one scene with the cookie?”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
Reijn writes by playing all the parts herself in her little house.
“No, I write very much, um, I just play all the parts.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:10:25 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Babygirl → Basic Instinct.
Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist.
“I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Babygirl → Fatal Attraction.
Reijn made a thriller where every character is ambiguous, unlike the villain and angel of Fatal Attraction.
“I like there is in fatal attraction or so I really wanted to create my own path in that sense.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:30 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
Kidman's husband has a baby girl tattoo on his neck and calls her that, which is why she was obsessed with the title.
“and she immediately got obsessed because apparently her husband has a tattoo of baby girl in his neck and he calls her baby girl in there.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:19:09 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
The milk scene is, per Reijn, the most sexual scene: nothing happens, they never touch, he says good girl as he passes.
“For me, that's the most sexual scene.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:30:39 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
George Michael's Father Figure is Reijn's anthem; she lost her father at ten and got the rights before writing the script.
“And so even before I started writing a new father figure, because father figure has become my anthem of my life, I lost my father when I was very young.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:32:44 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Babygirl → George Michael.
Reijn chose Father Figure before writing: a younger man acting fatherly over an older woman with the power.
“I thought, 0 my god, father figure has all these elements, and if you play that, under a scene where this younger man acts fatherly over this older woman that has all the power, that could be so interesting.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:33:19 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Babygirl → Yellow Claw.
The rave, the film's climax, was made by Dutch DJs Yellow Claw to be the young people's world.
“rave, uh, composed or do you call that composed created by my friends of Yellow Claw?”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:34:20 · Halina Reijn (0.85 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Babygirl:
Kidman could not be dragged off the dance floor in between takes during the rave shoot.
“you couldn't get drag her off the dance floor in between takes”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:34:42 · Halina Reijn (0.85 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Babygirl → The Brutalist.
Reijn's last great thing seen is The Brutalist; Sean agrees it is his favorite of the year.
“I am obsessed with the brutalists.”
The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:35:20 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)