All the details you probably missed in Taylor Swift's 'All Too Well' short film
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- Taylor Swift launched a short film on Friday for the 10-minute version of "All Too Well."
- Written and directed by Swift, the video appears to depict a heartbreak she skilled years in the past.
- There are a number of Easter eggs that time to Jake Gyllenhaal, who reportedly inspired the song.
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In a poem titled "Puedo Escribir Los Versos," widely known as "Tonight I Can Write," Pablo Neruda wrote, "Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido." In English, this interprets to, "Love is so brief, forgetting is so lengthy."
Swift beforehand included this quote in the liner notes for "Red" when it was initially launched in 2012.
"It's a line I've associated to in my saddest moments, once I wanted to know another person had felt that very same means," Swift wrote.
"And once we're making an attempt to maneuver on the moments we all the time return to aren't the mundane ones," she continued. "They're the moments you noticed sparks that weren't actually there, felt stars aligning with out having any proof, noticed your future earlier than it occurred, after which noticed it slip away with none warning."
A lot of "Purple" was apparently inspired by Swift's relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal — which, to the general public's information, lasted simply three months. The 2 have been first linked in October 2010 and reportedly cut up simply earlier than the brand new yr, shortly after Swift turned 21.
Neruda was 19 years previous when "Tonight I Can Write" was revealed in 1924. It was included in a set titled "Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada," or, "Twenty Love Poems and a Track of Despair," which is now often known as his most celebrated work.
"Tonight I Can Write," the penultimate poem within the assortment, ends with a half-hearted promise that Neruda gained't write concerning the lady he misplaced anymore ("Although this be the final ache that she makes me endure, and these the final verses that I write for her.")
Subsequent, we see Sadie Sink asking Dylan O'Brien, "Are you actual?" which could possibly be a nod to a number of the track's lyrics.
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Sadie Sink, 19, and Dylan O'Brien, 29, star within the brief movie, apparently reinacting the ill-fated relationship that impressed Swift to put in writing "All Too Nicely." Their characters are listed merely as "Her" and "Him" within the movie's finish credit.
Of their first scene collectively, Sink's character asks O'Brien, "Are you actual?"
When he asks her to make clear, she replies, "I don't know I simply really feel like, perhaps I made you up."
This appears to depict the track's fourth verse, when Swift sings, "'Trigger there we're once more once I beloved you so / Again earlier than you misplaced the one actual factor you've ever recognized / It was uncommon, I used to be there, I keep in mind all of it too nicely."
It may be a nod to the projection described within the third verse: "The thought you had of me, who was she? / A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine displays on you."
The scene means that Swift was making an attempt her greatest to know her ex and see past her infatuation with him, whereas he was falling in love with an idealized model of her.
One other establishing shot might be a nod to "Out of the Woods," the lead single from "1989."
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A few of Swift followers beforehand believed that "1989" can be her second rerecorded album after "Fearless (Taylor's Model)" dropped in April. As an alternative, she announced it would be "Red."
Some nonetheless consider that "1989 (Taylor's Model)" is imminent, emboldened by a seeming visible parallel between the "All Too Nicely" brief movie and the "Out of the Woods" music video, which was launched as a single from "1989" in 2015.
Each songs are constructed on the sensation of nostalgia and bittersweet reminiscences from doomed relationships. All through "All Too Nicely," Swift recollects particulars of her heartbreak adopted by the phrase, "I keep in mind all of it too nicely."
Within the first verse of "Out of the Woods," Swift sings, "We have been mendacity in your sofa / I keep in mind." Within the bridge, she sings, "Keep in mind whenever you hit the brakes too quickly?" and "Keep in mind once we couldn't take the warmth?"
The automotive they drive upstate is a Mercedes-Benz manufactured in 1989.
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Eagle-eyed followers observed the automotive's particular make and claimed it was included as an Easter egg for "1989 (Taylor's Model)." Swift appeared to verify this principle by commenting on a fan's TikTok.
"Can't cease gained't cease being cryptic and bizarre," she wrote. "That's just the start."
This tense scene recollects pictures taken of Swift and Gyllenhaal driving in Los Angeles.
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Swift and Gyllenhaal have been final photographed together in December 2010, about one week earlier than Swift's birthday.
The couple's facial expressions appeared tense in the photos published by the Daily Mail. In a single shot, Gyllenhaal held his hand subsequent to his ear within the form of a telephone, whereas Swift seemed out the window, straight-faced.
On the ceremonial dinner, all of the wine glasses on the desk are proven both empty or principally empty — besides Sink's.
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Throughout nearly all of Swift's relationship with Gyllenhaal, she was 20 years previous, whereas he was 29.
She told Rolling Stone in 2012 that she had her first sip of alcohol on her 21st birthday.
"I knew I couldn't get away with it till then," she stated. "I didn't actually care to know what I used to be lacking, and I knew it was unlawful, and that my luck can be that I'd get caught."
"I'm nonetheless not a lot of a drinker, however I'll have a glass of wine each occasionally," she added, declining to say whether or not she'd ever gotten drunk: "I'm not gonna speak about that! Nobody needs to image that!"
The wine glasses within the banquet scene serve to underscore the distinction in age — and, by extension, the imbalanced energy dynamic — between Sink's character and O'Brien's.
Within the track's third verse, Swift sings, "You stated if we had been nearer in age perhaps it might have been superb / And that made me need to die."
The battle scene was largely improvised by Sink and O'Brien.
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"They have been so electrical, and [improvising] lots of what they have been doing, that we simply couldn't take the digital camera off them," Swift told Jimmy Fallon of Sink and O'Brien.
"We couldn't reduce, we couldn't edit," she continued. "So there's a really lengthy one-take, one-camera shot that lasts for a really very long time, and once you're watching it, you don't word that. You don't understand that as a result of they're so magnetic."
Within the "very tense scene," Sink's character accuses her associate of dropping her hand throughout dinner.
This looks like a reference to "Champagne Issues," a fan-favorite track from Swift's 2020 album "Evermore" ("I dropped your hand whereas dancing / Left you on the market standing / Crestfallen on the touchdown").
Their card recreation mirrors a scene from "White Horse," the second single from Swift's sophomore album "Fearless."
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"White Horse," launched as a single in 2008, shares an identical premise with "All Too Nicely."
"It talks about falling in love and the fairy tales that you're going to have with this individual, after which there's that second the place you understand that it isn't going to occur," she told Billboard. "That second is probably the most earth shattering second."
The 2 songs additionally share some lyrical similarities. Within the refrain of "White Horse," Swift sings, "This can be a huge world, that was a small city / There in my rearview mirror disappearing now."
In "All Too Nicely," Swift recollects a visit she took together with her ex to a small city in upstate New York, and her reminiscences of that "lengthy gone" drive ("There we're once more on that little city road / You virtually ran the pink 'trigger you have been wanting over at me / Wind in my hair, I used to be there / I keep in mind all of it too properly.")
The characters additionally appear to work on a crossword collectively, which might be a nod to the album's title monitor.
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"Red" is one other track that followers suspect was inspired by Gyllenhaal. Within the second verse, Swift sings, "Preventing with him was like making an attempt to unravel a crossword and realizing there's no proper reply."
Sink tries to write down one thing after the breakup, however crumples it up. Swift has stated "All Too Nicely" was written after an extended interval of author's block.
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"All Too Nicely" was the primary monitor Swift wrote for "Pink."
In accordance with USA Right now's Brian Mansfield, who interviewed Swift in 2012, "The track got here after a six-month writing drought that adopted a very poisonous relationship."
"There's a type of dangerous that will get so overpowering you'll be able to't even write about it," Swift stated. "If you really feel ache that's to date previous dysfunctional, that leaves you with so many feelings that you would be able to't filter them right down to easy feelings to put in writing about, that's when you already know you actually need to get out."
Sink additionally proceeds to throw the crumpled piece of paper on the ground proper after Swift sings the road, "I'm a crumpled up piece of paper mendacity right here."
The opposite ladies on the celebration are credited as "dream women."
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When Sink attends a cocktail social gathering, she stands alone and gazes sadly across the room. A number of glamorous, seemingly random ladies are proven laughing and chatting.
Within the movie's finish credit, it's revealed these actresses have been forged as "dream women." They spotlight the insecurities of Sink's character and the best way her ex made her really feel inferior.
The birthday celebration scene mirrors "The Second I Knew," the 17th monitor on "Pink."
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Swift wrote "The Second I Knew" about her 21st birthday party, which she referred to as "the worst expertise ever." She was courting Gyllenhaal on the time, who was a no-show to the festivities. Their cut up made headlines just some weeks later.
One of many wrapped presents would reappear days later in Swift's video for "I Guess You Assume About Me."
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Swift surprise-released a music video for "I Bet You Think About Me," one of many vault tracks launched with "Purple (Taylor's Model)," three days after "All Too Nicely" premiered.
"I Guess You Assume About Me" casts Miles Teller as Swift's ex-boyfriend, who's getting married to a different lady however retains hallucinating Swift on the ceremony.
At one level, Swift provides the bride a present, wrapped in deep pink paper with an identical ribbon. Inside is identical pink scarf that Sink wore in "All Too Nicely," which Swift famously says she left at her ex's sister's home.
This visible connection appears to verify that "I Guess You Assume About Me" was impressed by the identical man as "All Too Nicely." The track additionally bears several lyrical connections to "We Are By no means Ever Getting Again Collectively."
Through the "reeling" part, Sink is sporting the identical plaid shirt O'Brien wore throughout their journey upstate.
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This can be a clear reference to the music's fourth verse: "Time gained't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it / I'd wish to be my previous self once more, however I'm nonetheless looking for it / After plaid-shirt days and nights whenever you made me your personal / Now you mail again my issues and I stroll house alone."
The security pin in Sink's bed room might be a nod to Swift's political views.
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On the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift wore a multicolored sequin jacket by Versace. The print prominently featured a number of security pins, which some thought were intended to be a subtle political message.
Within the wake of former President Donald Trump's election in 2016, safety pins became a symbol of protest and solidarity with marginalized communities.
Forward of the midterm elections in 2018, Swift broke her long-standing political silence to endorse two Democratic candidates in her residence state of Tennessee and brought about a boom in the state's voter registrations.
She additionally turned much more vocal in her help of the LGBTQ group and used her acceptance speech at the 2019 VMAs to name out the Trump administration's inaction on the Equality Act, "which principally simply says all of us deserve equal rights underneath the regulation."
Some followers assume the upside-down kiss between Sink and O'Brien is a reference to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man."
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Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" stars Tobey Maguire because the title character and Kirsten Dunst as his love curiosity, Mary Jane Watson.
In the film's most iconic scene, Maguire hangs the wrong way up and Dunst removes the underside a part of his masks to kiss him.
"Spider-Man" hit theaters in 2002, simply earlier than Dunst turned 20 years previous. Mere months later, she started courting Gyllenhaal, who was 21. The couple went on to share a house in Los Angeles and even adopted a pet collectively before they split in 2004.
In "Spider-Man 2," launched in 2004, Dunst's character tries to recreate the upside-down kiss with a unique love curiosity, in an try and recapture the magic of her earlier relationship.
In "All Too Nicely," the upside-down kiss between Sink and O'Brien — initiated by O'Brien's character — performs over the road, "Again earlier than you misplaced the one actual factor you've ever recognized."
In accordance with one popular TikTok, which presently has four million views and almost 800,000 likes, this shot was an intentional nod to Gyllenhaal's earlier relationship with Dunst.
"To Taylor, as the author [in 2012] and, I feel, the character, it's very clear that that is the one actual factor both of them had ever recognized," says TikToker @classiclaur.
"However to Taylor the director [in 2021]," she continues, "placing this shot over this line, wanting again on these lyrics now, I feel this may be one in every of her methods of acknowledging that this was by no means as actual to him, and actually, he may need even been making an attempt to recreate the kind of relationship he had when he was her age."
After the 13-year time bounce, Swift's character appears to put on the identical rings as her youthful self.
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Sink wears a set of gold rings all through the brief movie.
When the movie flashes ahead 13 years and Swift assumes the position of "Her, afterward," she seems to be sporting the identical set of gold rings.
The duvet of the "All Too Properly" ebook resembles "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein.
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Within the movie, Sink's character grows as much as write a ebook titled "All Too Properly." The duvet, designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio in London, options a leafless tree with a red scarf hanging from one in every of its branches.
The idea resembles the duvet for Shel Silverstein's basic youngsters's story "The Giving Tree," which tells the story of a egocentric boy who takes all of the tree's assets till the tree has nothing left to provide. The tree is referred to utilizing feminine pronouns. On the finish, all that is still of her is a stump.
Swift could possibly be hinting a few guide in her actual future.
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Swift might have chosen to flash ahead 13 years just because it's her fortunate quantity, however some followers assume it holds extra significance.
Swift's relationship with Gyllenhaal led to 2010, which was 11 years in the past. "All Too Nicely" was initially launched in 2012, which was simply 9 years in the past.
Apparently, the day of the movie's premiere, Swift told Fallon that she enjoys hinting at tasks a number of years prematurely. It's attainable that Swift is on the brink of launch a e-book — maybe 13 years after a big occasion, like the primary time followers heard "All Too Nicely."
The actor who performs "Him, afterward" is credited as Jake Lyon.
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On the finish of the brief movie, the again of a person's head is proven sporting Swift's previous scarf, gazing at her by means of a window.
O'Brien doesn't return to reprise his position as "Him" for this scene. As an alternative, one other actor was forged as "Him, afterward."
In accordance with the movie's finish credit, the actor's identify is Jake Lyon. Not solely does he share a primary identify with the music's alleged topic, however "Lyon" could possibly be meant as a phonetic version of "Lying."
Lyon can also be credited as a gaffer, which is somebody who works within the electrical division on the set of a movie or TV manufacturing. (It's additionally slang for an previous man.)
"I can solely think about Taylor Swift listening to a few random lighting tech on set identify Jake Lyon and saying to herself, 'you already know what can be be hilarious?'" one fan wrote on Twitter.
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