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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Nancy Meyers.
Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
“a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:13:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (genre-riff contrast):
Panic Room → The Killer.
Panic Room was loaded with everything; The Killer strips a genre down.
“even when he's making something like panic room that's a bit of a genre riff”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:17:31 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (name joke):
Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room.
The cops in Panic Room were all named after Walker.
“One the cops were all named after him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:46:06 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (camera as character):
Panic Room → Zodiac.
The opening dolly shot is the Panic Room kind of thing: a camera moving with a mind of its own.
“it is that panic room kind of thing as well, of just like the camera kind of perfectly moving”
Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 1:14:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (template for):
Panic Room → Flight Plan.
A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
“And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The new New York studio the show records in turned out to be a built panic room, windowless and fortress-like.
“And we found out this was, in fact, intended to be a panic room.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:19:40 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (response to):
Fight Club → Panic Room.
A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
“Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The 3-disc special edition has two discs of nothing but pre- and post-production material, a film school in a box.
“There is a notorious 3 disc special edition of this film that sort of peaked DVD special features where there are 2 discs of nothing but special features.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (set the template for):
Panic Room → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
“But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Mel Brooks → Panic Room.
The hosts pitch Mel Brooks directing a spoof called Panic Attack Room.
“Mel Brooks should have done that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:32:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (storyboard artist):
Peter Ramsey → Panic Room.
The main storyboard artist on Panic Room later directed Rise of the Guardians and the first Spider-Verse.
“Oh, I think the main storyboard artist on this film was Peter Ramsey, who then goes on to direct Rise of the Guardians in the 1st Spider-Verse.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:32:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Fincher previs'd everything and handed the crew exact shots, which worked but arguably broke his brain; he takes five years off afterward.
“And that was his whole thought was, I can just make this whole movie in advance, and then everyone just knows what to do.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (carried-over injury):
Moulin Rouge! → Panic Room.
Kidman's knee was injured on Moulin Rouge and not healed, and she reinjured it on Panic Room.
“The whole thing with her knee was that she had actually injured at making Milan Rouge and not known.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:50:06 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
They shot around the pregnancy in oversized sweaters, finished the film to screen it for the studio, then reshot after the baby.
“They basically like finished the movie in order to screen the movie for them to then get the money to go back and reshoot the stuff after she'd had the kid.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:00:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (led to casting):
Sling Blade → Panic Room.
A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
“That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (first choice for Raul):
Maynard (James) Keenan → Panic Room.
Maynard James Keenan was the first choice for Raul but was busy with A Perfect Circle.
“But the 1st choice was Maynard, James Keenan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Maynard James Keenan of Tool was the first choice for Raul but was busy with A Perfect Circle.
“But the 1st choice was Maynard, James Keenan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (offered to direct):
Forest Whitaker → Panic Room.
Whitaker was offered the Panic Room script to direct before Fincher came on.
“Do you know, at one point, he was offered this script to direct earlier before Fentrick came on?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (same year, shared actor):
Panic Room → Phone Booth.
Whitaker is also very good in Phone Booth, released the same year.
“This is the same year as Phone Booth Panic Run.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:11:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (shared lead actor):
Panic Room → Fight Club.
Fincher put Jared Leto through physical abuse in both Fight Club and Panic Room.
“Because in the fight club as well, he gets a shipping down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:15:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (shared structure):
Panic Room → The Mist.
A host compares the stuck-until-it-resolves dread of Panic Room to The Mist.
“It's like, it's like, it's like the mist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (visual comparison):
Panic Room → Gone Girl.
A host says Panic Room's antiseptic, fluorescent look anticipates Gone Girl.
“Like, not eight, but like, it looks like Gone Girl.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:30:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cinematographer who left):
Darius Khondji → Panic Room.
Khondji was hired as DP, then was off the movie early; the speakers disagree about whether he quit or was fired.
“Sorry, just Doris Kanji was hired as the DP on this movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:32:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (tonal comparison):
Panic Room → Home Alone.
The back-and-forth between burglars and the family is compared to Home Alone.
“it's like Fincher doing Home Alone, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:40:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The makeup team behind the broken-collarbone effect traces to a Fincher memory of watching a hurt person's collarbone move as they spoke.
“Was talking to someone whose collarbone had just been broken, was with them in the immediate aftermath of that, and that when they were talking on the syllables, he could see their colorbone moving up and down.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:56:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The prosthetics shop behind it went extreme to become Fincher's default guys.
“they so badly want to be in his good graces that they were just like, we're going to do everything so extreme so that we become his default guys.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:57:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The movie skips the dull insulin-reminder setup scene; the diabetes is just there and pays off later.
“The movie never has the really boring scene of like, don't forget to take your insulin.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:57:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
In the opening titles, you can see the next credit floating in the distance, including Jodie Foster's name five blocks away.
“You can see the corner of Jody Foster's name 5 blocks away.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:10:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (shared actor and type):
Sling Blade → Panic Room.
In both films Yoakam plays a realistic sadist, which is why he works.
“I feel like in both this and Slingblade, the thing that works is that Yokum is playing a realistic sadist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:11:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cameo):
Andrew Kevin Walker → Panic Room.
The writer of Seven plays the sleepy neighbor who closes his blinds.
“Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of seven, plays the sleepy neighbor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:13:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (model for the villains):
Fargo → Panic Room.
A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
“But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career phase contrast):
Panic Room → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
A host says Fincher's later airport-paperback thrillers deepen the text where Panic Room is mostly craft.
“And I think later when he gets to what I'd call his airport paperback thriller phase, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:31:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (midpoint between):
Panic Room → The Brave One.
Flight Plan is fluffy and The Brave One is too rooted in reality, and Panic Room is the midpoint.
“And Brave one is too rooted in reality and this is sort of the midpoint between...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:32:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Sony wanted a PG-13 cut; Fincher had final cut and refused.
“Sony wanted to make it a PG-13 movie and Fincher had final cut and refused.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:33:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (marketing dispute):
Sony → Panic Room.
Fincher was angry that Sony marketed the film on his name as a prestige movie.
“Fincher was really mad at how Sony marketed the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:33:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (intended audience comparison):
Panic Room → Kiss the Girls.
Fincher says Panic Room is for people who go to see Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector, a popcorn movie.
“this is movies made for people who went, go to see like kiss the girls and the bone collector.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (intended audience comparison):
Panic Room → The Bone Collector.
Fincher says Panic Room is for people who go to see Kiss the Girls and The Bone Collector, a popcorn movie.
“this is movies made for people who went, go to see like kiss the girls and the bone collector.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (composer):
Howard Shore → Panic Room.
A speaker loves the Panic Room score by Shore.
“I love the Howard Shore panic room score.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:25:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (budget contrast):
Panic Room → The Game.
Panic Room cost 48 million five years later, against The Game's 70 million.
“it is wild that 5 years later, panic room costs 48.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:35:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Game → Panic Room.
Fincher called Panic Room the experiment in keeping the audience in perfect lockstep, unlike The Game.
“that's my experiment making a movie where you're in perfect lockstep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:44:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (led to):
Jodie Foster → Panic Room.
The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
“Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
The three-disc Panic Room DVD is called the most comprehensive special-feature package for any movie ever, and the movie is not on Blu-ray.
“peak DVD Fincher being like every single 2nd of this will be documented.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:12:22 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Nicole Kidman → Panic Room.
Kidman dropped out of Panic Room a week or two before shooting, as she did with other projects.
“Like she's supposed to do panic room and drops out like a week or 2 before.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:26:34 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Heat → Panic Room.
Bearer bonds in Heat and Panic Room are anachronisms because the 1982 tax act made them rare.
“But when we get to heat and panic room, no fucking way, basically.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Panic Room → The Godfather.
The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke.
“The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → Fight Club.
Fincher assumed a one-location film would be easier than Fight Club's 400 scenes in 100 locations; it was harder.
“He does Fight Club and it's an insane movie to make, I think he said, Fight Club at 400 scenes in 100 locations.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Rope.
One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Lifeboat.
One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Psycho.
Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one.
“But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → North by Northwest.
North by Northwest is the big cross-country picture; Fight Club plays that role for Fincher before Panic Room shrinks things down.
“It's very similar to Fight Club in that way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → Leighton Meester.
Without Foster and Fincher it's the movie on Netflix once a month with Leighton Meester.
“But there's a version of this movie that is on Netflix once a month.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Rear Window.
Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Straw Dogs.
Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Panic Room → Home Alone.
Fincher worried Home Alone would overshadow his film.
“He was concerned that Home Alone would overshadow it, but he's pretty traumatized after this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → The Shining.
Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.
“They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Panic Room → Fight Club.
Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
“This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Panic Room → No Country for Old Men.
Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Panic Room → The Godfather.
Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Zodiac → Panic Room.
Zodiac is deep (obsession, meaning through someone else's experience) where Panic Room is a well-made B movie.
“It's one of those things where like zodiac is deep.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Panic Room → Zodiac.
Five years between Panic Room and Zodiac; the effect on Fincher shows in how he tells stories afterward.
“5 years went by between panic room and zodiac.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Angelina Jolie.
The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Panic Room → Contact.
Foster came into Panic Room off a dry run that included Contact, which Bill calls awful.
“contact, which is an awful movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:29 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Contact → Panic Room.
Bill's take in 1997: Contact was disappointing and Foster and McConaughey had no chemistry.
“Matthew McConey and Jody Foster had no chemistry at all.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:06 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Sandra Bullock.
Ten actresses could have played the part; Sandra Bullock easily.
“Like Sandra Bullock easily could have been in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Panic Room → Bird Box.
Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version.
“But I think this is the really well-done version of it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Charles Bronson.
A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie.
“This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Panic Room → John Woo.
The syringes thrown into the panic room is like a John Woo moment.
“it's almost like a, uh, like a John Wu movie or something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Nicole Kidman → Panic Room.
Kidman was cast as Meg, then injured her knee (aggravated from Moulin Rouge) and was replaced by Foster.
“Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Nicole Kidman was first cast as Meg, hurt her knee, and Foster replaced her on a week's notice because her Flora Plum shut down; then Foster got pregnant and production stopped again, which is why it took two years.
“So this is why this thing takes 2 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Script by David Koepp sold for $4 million, a record; budget $48 million, worldwide gross $197 million.
“And it sold for 4 million.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas.
A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.
“didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Panic Room → The Social Network.
Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie.
“Like social network, perfect date movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Panic Room → Spider-Man.
2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year.
“but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Panic Room → Roger Ebert.
Ebert gave Panic Room 3 stars and called Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Panic Room:
Bill reads Roger Ebert's three-star review (Fincher a visual virtuoso, Foster spellbinding) and asks why not 3.5; the Ebert running gag.
“Why not 3.5, Rog?”
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contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → Seven.
Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information.
“Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience.”
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contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → Fight Club.
Panic Room is one of the first Fincher films where the audience is with the characters the whole time.
“And panic room is this real-time experience.”
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career (career):
Panic Room → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
After Panic Room, Fincher's films from Zodiac on are less about gotchas and more about ideas.
“Benjamin Button, all of these movies are less about like, boom, gotcha, and more about thinking about the ideas at the center of the movie.”
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lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me').
A new home-invasion movie in the same vein, with a blind cat sitter who robs houses.
“It's very much in the same vein as panic room”
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lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → Don't Breathe.
Home-invasion variants take senses away from the victim.
“What was don't breathe?”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Most rewatchable scene candidates: robbers show up, Jody finds out they're in the house, Jody gets her phone (slow-mo), Leto screws up the safe talk, the switcheroo, the propane-tank sequence.
“Jody gets her phone.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
The slow-mo phone scene: Whitaker talks in slow motion so you can't hear him but see the words mouthed while Foster searches the covers.
“You see the words being mouthed, which is amazing.”
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theme (theme):
Panic Room → Heat.
Bearer bonds and heist logic: Bill pitches a Michael Mann movie where robbers reveal the take by mistake.
“We have to have a thing where the robbers mistakenly reveal how much they were actually getting versus...”
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contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat').
Bill thought it was really bad, Chris thought it was good.
“I'd like to stand by the fact that when the movie was over, when Chris and I saw it together, I was like, that was really bad”
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lineage (lineage):
Panic Room → The Silence of the Lambs.
The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Propane scene: Sean argues she should blow up in a closed room and the dive backward is unrealistic; Chris takes the propane scene as his pick anyway.
“I think everyone dies in the panic room the moment she lights the flame.”
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theme (theme):
Panic Room → Max von Sydow.
Whitaker as the good burglar echoes Max von Sydow as the good Nazi in the Victory episode.
“We talked in the victory podcast about Max Van Saido as the good Nazi.”
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theme (theme):
Panic Room → Die Hard.
Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds.
“Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Bearer bonds explainer: bill Googles it; bonds are owned by whoever holds them, so they're 'the original Bitcoin' and a lazy heist-movie staple.
“So they're like the original Bitcoin.”
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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Henry Rollins.
Because Heat keeps coming up, Rollins would have been good as an enforcer.
“This would have been a good role for Rollins.”
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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins.
Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Michael Douglas.
Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo as Steven, though he wouldn't have agreed to the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo”
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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Ted Levine.
Ted Levine in the Yoakam part.
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
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what-if (what-if):
Panic Room → Heat.
They run through the cast of Heat for Raoul: Pacino, De Niro, Rollins, Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, Voight; Sizemore is the answer.
“Let's just run through the entire cast of heat and decide who could play Raul.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Kristen Stewart grew more than three inches during shooting, towering over Foster; Bill wants a database of child actors who grew mid-production.
“Kristen Stewart grew more than 3 inches during the filming.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Fincher took 103 takes for the medical bags sliding across the floor outside the panic room, and it was worth it.
“Yeah, I can't even imagine.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
The house is 38 West 94th Street, but the brownstone set took 15 weeks and $6 million at Raleigh Studios.
“The house is located at 38 West 94th Street in New York City.”
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craft (craft):
Arthur Max → Panic Room.
Max's production design team built the four-story brownstone set in 15 weeks for $6 million.
“Arthur Max, production design team, took 15 weeks, $6000000 on Raleigh Studios, and lovely Hollywood.”
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fun, about
Panic Room:
Darius Khondji started as cinematographer and quit or was fired six weeks in; Conrad Hall took over.
“Darius Kanji started out as the cinematographer of this movie and quit and or was fired 6 weeks into it.”
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craft (craft):
Panic Room → Fight Club.
The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
“And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
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