The Idea of You Quiz
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A note on Ms. Hathaway's name
She was a guest on the Tonight Show in 2021 where she made it clear that she has always been called Annie her whole life and that that's the name she relates to. She said her "stage name" is Anne Hathaway because when she filled out her SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) form at the beginning of her career, she was young and naive and just wrote down her legal name. She says the only person in her life who calls her Anne is her mother when her mother is really, really mad at her about something, and that's what that name reminds her of. So Annie is used here, per her wishes.
Tonight Show 
(Jan. 12, 2021)
"Everybody, call me Annie. Please."
Parallel scenes
| 1) | There are three scenes where Hayes opens a door with Solène on the other side and we hear the exact same dialogue, with Hayes always speaking first: |
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| Hayes: Hi. Solène: Hi. | |
| The three scenes are in Hayes' trailer at Coachella (9:29), in the hotel in New York (53:51), and in the recording studio (1:27:50). Of course, the context is completely different each time. | |
| Honorable mention: 25:26 – Hayes is already inside the doors of the art gallery but when Solène comes out of her office he says "Hey" and Solène responds "Hi". | |
| 2) | When they are in the warehouse and Solène says she doesn't understand why they are there (34:50), Hayes gives a flippant response ("I told you. I love Glendale.") and Solène tilts her head like "Really? That's your answer?" Then Hayes gives a serious response. |
| When they are eating lunch at Solène's house and Hayes asks her "What's your favorite color?" because she thought the question about her ex-husband was too direct (40:12), Solène gives a flippant response ("That's a very personal question"). Hayes tilts his head like "Really? That's your answer?" Then Solène gives a serious response (to the question about Daniel). | |
| 3) | When Solène tries to break off the conversation (40:44) after Hayes says "Hate him already" about her ex-husband, Hayes interrupts her and says "Solène". She says "Mm-hmm?....Hayes?", with a notable pause before his name, with a tone of "go on". |
| When Hayes is leaving Solène's house after lunch (and after the kiss) and asks when he can see her again (47:50), she responds "Hayes" in a tone that says "Enough of that." He responds after a similar pause simply with "Solène?" in a similar tone, i.e. "go on". | |
| 4) | Like mother, like daughter – |
| Solène gets flustered when she finds out she has inadvertently entered Hayes Campbell's personal trailer and stammers ineffectively before heading toward the door in embarrassment. (10:37) | |
| Izzy gets flustered when Hayes hears her say "August Moon is so seventh grade" and stammers ineffectively before walking away in embarrassment. (14:19) | |
| 5) | When Hayes asks Solène what she feels when she looks at her friend's painting called "Unclose me" she gets a faraway look in her eyes and says in a lowered but emotional voice, "Everything" (32:32). |
| Later, Solène comes to the recording studio to apologize to Hayes about how she treated him and to tell him that, the truth is, she does feel all those things Hayes talked about, too. With him she does, in fact, feel "Everything" (1:28:36). | |
| 6) | Of course, it goes without saying that there are numerous scenes in the movie where the watch is passed back and forth. |
Other observations
It was only after multiple viewings (not going to say how many) of the movie that this viewer noticed that Hayes visibly flinches and steps back when Solène comes marching across the gallery (28:27) to tell him off for treating her artists and their art so casually.
It's amusing seeing Solène make an immediate beeline out of the kitchen when her daughter calls at the end of her lunch with Hayes', while saying "No" to her daughter, who presumably had asked if she was busy (44:48). Solène is already hiding her relationship with Hayes. This is another example of a lot of non-verbal "dialogue" going on in the movie, most of it taking advantage of Annie Hathaway's expressive face and eyes to say things without words.
Solène has a lot of lines where she says the same thing two, three or even four times. Actually five.
"Yes, yes." (1:46)
"You do. You do." (6:52)
"Okay, okay, okay" (36:22)
"Okay, okay, okay, okay" (38:16)
"Sundays, Sundays", "Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye" (50:23)
"You're not a joke. You're not a joke." (1:00:07)
"You're right. You're right." (1:24:53)
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" (1:36:23)
Izzy takes after her mother again (see Parallel Scenes) at one point.
"We're good, we're good." (7:28)
Solène waggles her head quite a few times in the movie as well. 18:04, 30:31, 57:45, 57:50. This was the first intriguing repeated action in the movie noticed by the webmaster. (See the entry about closing her eyelids in the Questions section below.)
Solène tells Hayes the story of how she found out Daniel was cheating on her. She says it happened one night "about three years ago" (41:58). That seems very casual for a momentous event like that that "fucking destroyed [her] life" (6:00). I would think it would be a lot more specific in her memory.
Watch Solène turn off her smile like flipping a switch at 36:50, after smiling at the fans making a fuss over seeing Hayes.
Solène's snort of laughter is amusing at 59:18. Again, no real dialogue, but the point is well made.
If Hayes asks you if you want to hear a story, say no. All his stories are "woe is me" stories about disappointments.
At 47:46 notice the unusual close walk past the camera. It's a bit of a strange vibe.
The writers must have had a fun time coming up with the barrage of mean tabloid/website headlines that were shown after Solène and Hayes' relationship becomes known to the public. (1:29:54) Pause and look to catch them all.
"Hayes Can Do Better", "Her??", "Can Solène Keep Up?", "Mommy Issues"
All the artists mentioned in the movie are real.
Susan Hable
Amanda Friedman
Natrice Miller
Teddy Kelly
So is the restaurant Solène suggested, called All Time , on Hillhurst (Ave), which is near Glendale.
And so is Scunthorpe . It's a real city in England.
The book Solène is reading while texting with Hayes (50:54), who is asking her to come to New York, is the big yellow book about which she says at the very beginning of the movie, "I'm not going to read it," (1:30) when deciding what books to take on her camping trip (that never happened). It's called "Ninth Street Women" and it's about five pioneering women artists in the field of Abstract Expressionism. So, it's appropriate for Solène.
It's always fun when a movie manages to sneak the title of the movie into the dialogue, and it happens in this movie. At 1:14:42 Solène says to Hayes, "I got swept up in the idea of you.
At 1:49:36 Solène has a "lizard eye" moment where she recognizes Hayes' voice in the other room and her gaze snaps into a hard lock in that direction, like a gecko after a fly. It's similar to the look she gives Hayes' in his hotel room at 1:02:32.
Annie Hathaway has no dialogue in the last 3:45 of the movie (aside from a barely audible "Bye" to a customer at the art gallery). Yet she still manages to say a lot.
Continuity Errors
After watching scenes multiple times to make this quiz, these (sometimes small) continuity errors couldn't be unseen
10:16 - The Mr. Pibb can is against the wall in Hayes' trailer
10:25 - The can is near Hayes
10:29 - The can is back against the wall
12:22 - A loop of Solène's hair is sticking out
12:24 - The loop is gone and her hair is straight
12:27 - The loop reappears
40:50 - On front shots, Solène's hair is behind her shoulder, on rear shots it's lying across her shoulder
49:38 - When Solène drops Izzy off at camp, the leaves are already starting to turn fall colors. Everything should have been green, though, because it was early summer in the movie's timeline. The movie was filmed in October in North Georgia, though -- which is the beginning of fall there. Even when Solène picked up Izzy at the end of summer (1:23:36) it should only have been August and still green. More Georgia early fall colors are seen at 30:49 and 30:55 and other points.
1:01:18 - Solène's hair is at an angle back over her shoulder
1:10:19 - Solène's hair is hanging straight down next to her cheek
1:02:49 - Hayes' hand is rubbing Solène's shoulder
1:02:51 - Hayes' hand is firmly on Solène's lower back
1:25:04 - When Solène is talking to Izzy when picking her up at camp, she says she broke things off with Hayes ten days earlier. She also says she thinks Hayes is in L.A. (which we find out in the next scene is true). But in the break-up scene in the house in the South of France, Hayes says (1:14:49) that there are a couple more weeks of the European tour left and then after that he is going to be in L.A.
The filmmakers appear to have paid attention to the time shown on the watch in various scenes. (Bravo!) When Hayes leaves it behind for Solène after their lunch, it says 3:37 pm, which is plausible after touring the warehouse, driving back from Glendale and dealing with the broken refrigerator. When Solène is sitting on her bed trying to decide whether to meet Hayes in New York, the watch says 11:20 PM. Again, plausible.
The mysterious one is when Solène arrives in New York, and meets Hayes in his hotel room. The watch says 6:09. Is that PM or AM? Is it New York time or L.A. time? Her plane lands when it's dark and sunset is at 8:20 PM (ish) in New York that time of year. But maybe it's L.A. time on the watch and it's really 9:09 PM in New York. Even so, Solène wouldn't likely have landed in the dark. Could it be 6:09 AM New York time? (It couldn't be 9:09 AM.) Her plane took off when it was daytime in Los Angeles so that seems like a very long flight (non-stop flight time is about 5½ hours) to get there at 6:09 AM. And would Desmond be guarding the hallway at that hour? And would Hayes be up? Also, they seemed to have plenty of night time hours left at that point in the story. Was room service 24 hours? Because they had time to take care of some business before ordering food. And when was Hayes' show that Solène referred to? Not before 6 PM, you would think.
Okay, that's a lot of that. It was probably just an oversight by the producers.
Questions
| 1) | Solène closes her eyes frequently while talking or thinking, throughout the movie. Is that a quirk of the character as a conscious acting choice, an unconscious choice that happened naturally, or is that an Annie Hathaway thing? |
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| This viewer counted 97 times in 110 minutes that happened, not counting kissing scenes where it's obviously normal. Some examples are at 12:36, 41:09, 51:50, 59:24, 1:06:34 and 1:14:57 in the Prime Video version. | |
| 2) | What does Solène say to Izzy during the concert at 17:21? You can read her lips in the "Holy fuck" scene without ever hearing the dialogue, but this scene is hard to understand the words. Any idea? |
| 3) | What's the deal with the scene on the plane where Solène wakes up and Jodie is kind of staring at her and Hayes? Thoughts? |
| 4) | How does Solène get over the "gut punch" so quickly to get back together with Hayes? I guess, after all, he didn't really betray her like Daniel did. |
| 5) | When Hayes tells Graham Norton there is someone he would like to see in L.A., Solène's face shows absolutely no reaction (1:48:54). Why? Does she already know he's coming? Maybe just not when? She does have a premonition in the gallery shortly before he arrives. And Jeremy does tell Hayes that they are holding a piece of art for him in the back, so he has obviously stayed in touch in some way. |
| 6) | Speaking of the premonition scene, why does Annie Hathaway look so much like Mila Kunis in that scene? |
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Solène's art gallery today
Solène's house today
