Eden
In the Book of Genesis, this lush paradise is where the first humans lived before being exiled for eating the forbidden fruit.
What is The Garden of Eden?
Eden's favorite novel is this classic Jane Austen novel, loved not just for the romance, but for its sharp social commentary and subtle comedy—specifically Austen’s satirical look at the manners and marriage markets of the 19th-century British gentry.
What is Pride and Prejudice
Clocking in as Eden's most played song (since beginning to track her statistics in 2020), this Lover track features a legendary bridge that everyone–Eden included–loves to scream-sing: 'I'm drunk in the back of the car...'
What is "Cruel Summer"?
This is Eden's favorite movie of all time, and she has forced many people in this room to sit down and watch it while she watches them watch it; it features as her first movie in her Letterboxd top 4.
What is About Time?
In a major departure from the books—where Madge Undersee gives it to her—the movie shows Katniss obtaining her Mockingjay pin from an old woman at this District 12 black market.
What is the Hob?
Set in the Salinas Valley, this 1952 John Steinbeck novel is a multi-generational retelling of the story of Cain and Abel.
What is East of Eden?
While most people call her Eden, this specific four-letter nickname is a 'VIP-only' title, reserved exclusively for her dad and the little children in her life.
What is Edee
Eden can’t pick just one, so these are her two favorite T.S. albums: one is a 'woodsy' sister record released in December 2020, and the other is a 2017 'snake-themed' era that famously declared the 'Old Taylor' was dead.
What is reputation and evermore?
In this classic Hitchcock film, a travel photographer uses a long-lens camera to spy on his courtyard neighbors; it holds the #2 spot in Eden's Letterboxd Top 4.
What is Rear Window?
In the prequel, we learn that a young Coriolanus Snow uses his mother’s perfume to hide the 'smell of blood'; by the time Katniss meets him decades later, he has famously engineered this specific flower to smell even stronger for the same reason.
What is a rose/white rose?
This 2014 song by Irish artist Hozier features the lyrics: 'Babe, there's something tragic about you / Something so magic about you / Don't you agree?'
What is From Eden?
Long before her Swiftie era, Eden's first ever favorite band was this UK group who headlined Super Bowl 50 (the last time the Broncos won) sharing the stage with guests Beyoncé and Bruno Mars.
Who is Coldplay?
In the Taylor Swift tradition, 'Track 5' is reserved for her most vulnerable songs; this folklore track about a haunting 'battleship' of a relationship is Eden’s favorite of them all.
What is "my tears ricochet"?
In this Rob Reiner classic NYC rom-com, a fake public display at Katz’s Delicatessen leads an onlooker to famously tell the waiter, 'I’ll have what she’s having.' and is my #4 pick for my Letterboxd top 4.
What is When Harry Met Sally? RIP Rob Reiner </3
In the books, Peeta’s leg injury is so severe it results in this permanent medical outcome that the movies completely omitted.
What is Amputation/Prosthetic Leg?
In the 2008 movie Barbie in a Christmas Carol, Barbie tells a story about Eden Starling, a glamorous but selfish singer in Victorian London who takes on the role of this famous literary miser.
Who is Ebeneezer Scrooge?
If Eden hadn’t pursued her current path, her 'childhood dream' was to become this very specific, and probably unrealistic, profession.
What is Film Director?
At just 19, Taylor wrote a 7-minute Speak Now classic famous for its 'bluesy' guitar riffs that mimic the signature style of this older musician it's rumored to be about—a man Taylor accuses of playing 'dark twisted games.'
Who is John Mayer?
This is Eden's Letterboxd review for the third of Eden's top 4 movies: "I don't think there have ever been better entertainers than Gene Kelley and Donald O'Connor."
What is Singin' in the Rain?
While he is famous for his trident, Finnick Odair explains in Mockingjay that the Capitol actually forced him into prostitution by selling his 'company' in exchange for this—the only thing more valuable than money in Panem.
What are secrets?
In this 1977 Billy Joel hit, the narrator describes a complex, 'modern' woman who 'promises you Eden' only to 'carelessly cut you' and 'laugh in your face.'
What is "She's Always a Woman"?
In a major 'realignment' of her leg, Eden underwent this complex surgical procedure with a three-word name, involving the cutting and shifting of the tibial tubercle to fix her kneecap’s 'tracking.'
(Hint: 2/3 of the words are in this clue)
Tibial tubercle Osteotemy (TTO)
Appearing on folklore, this is Eden’s favorite Taylor Swift song; in the 'Long Pond Studio Sessions,' Taylor describes it as a look at how her abnormal life affects her privacy, asking if her love can compensate for the lack of this titular state.
What is "peace"?
In the second installment of the Cornetto Trilogy, this 2007 movie made by my favorite director, Edgar Wright, featured as Eden's #4 Letterboxd pick until it was toppled by the answer for 400.
What is Hot Fuzz?
In the 50th Hunger Games—the subject of the prequel Sunrise on the Reaping—Haymitch Abernathy famously outsmarted the Capitol by using this specific feature of the arena’s edge to turn a Career’s own weapon against her.
What is the Force Field?