Poor Things: The hair, the drama and Maisie’s revelation
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- This week we go on the wild ride that is Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s a real head-scratcher as we try get to the bottom of what it’s all supposed to MEAN?! In the latest from one of our favourite directors, it’s the costume dept that are our true heroes of this film. We discuss the visual effects and production behind this eccentric spectacle, and, the erm, unique accent work. Plus, our favourite listener comments!
Written by Tony McNamara, directed Yorgos Lanthimos, based on the book Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. It stars Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffulo.
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Ladies, the accents are just as believable as the world they inhabit and just as real.
So glad you all are talking about this film! I am equally as obsessed with this film. I saw this on the big screen and I left the theater truly excited about cinema again. ✨
I interpreted Mark Ruffalo's dodgy accent as an affectation. His character is the type of bloke who would think that a posh English accent makes him seem sophisticated but he can't fully pull it off because it's a façade.
I think if there was a reason (like she's a walking corpse or the C-section left damage) that she isn't having a period, it should be mentioned. It does seem off that we want to look unflinchingly at every horrible thing that can happen to a woman but must avoid this natural thing. But that's me.
Mark Ruffalo stole the show. Maisie seems like shes maybe too focused on reality for this one, like talking about Bella learning words too quickly, or Mark Ruffalos accent not being correct when hes basically a cartoon character etc
I heard the director say this was an adult fantasy.what adult has a fantasy about infants brain in a grown woman's body.The men in the brothel did not know she had an infants brain, but the audience does .so why would a director want us to know this sick and twisted secret as entertainment.The director is Greek and the were know for pederasti. In the age of Epstein island you gave us a weird movie that is not a drama but a comedy posing as a feminist film.she was never forced to do anything as a matter a fact she broke dishes and peed on the floor no one corrected her .They let her make her own decision to leave despite warnings from the nanny and have sex with a stranger what age was she in her mind at that point? Am i telling untruths about any of this.
Interesting talk.
Never expected to see an adult with a baby's mind, that too while growing up, but this film is an awesome example of how growing up means establishing boundaries and getting rid of the leash manipulative and bossy people try to put on you. In my early childhood, I was also a victim of manipulation and actively embraced people who bossed me around as guardians and protectors. But after getting rid of them, I felt like I'd gotten wings and could all of a sudden do so much more.
Also, I'd just like to add that your confidence and the way you maintain the interest throughout your eps is awesome. I'm gonna be partaking in a short skit today and will try my best to embody at least a fraction of my acting inspiration Maisie's confidence in my performance.
Yes!!! And good luck with your short skit✨ You got this 💪
@@frankfilmclub it went pretty well, thanks a lot for the motivation. The only advice my judge gave was to not fold my arms, which I'd done to stop fidgeting my arms lol. But overall our group's performance was much better than average.
I have a question if you were an important person movie star or diplomat and your body guard told you to go a certain way and you defied him and went another way and something happened to you.is Is it your fault or your body guard's fault.
You are free to make your own, but your not free from the consequences of said decisions.Not all the time when some advises you to at least think about your action does it mean that you are being controlled.when you have a child is about to walk down a flight of stairs do you let them.Is that controlling them if you stop them from hurting themselves.She had the mind of the child and the movie was not realistic because if Duncan was a brute and really beat her up then what.The world does not work like the movie where everything works out in your favor.
@@theoutabodies5653 it will be my fault, of course, as that was my decision that I did not take under any pressure.
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I love that McNamara is the name you are worried about pronouncing.
Ok, I'm gonna find and watch it tonight. I have to know though: I've been getting a Pinnochio vibe from the story based on everything I've seen and read on it. Is that a thing, do you all think, or am I way off?
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She went willingly after god told her not to go ..even the mother figure character the maid told her not to go, she ended up helping her pack her bags.no one forced her to go. Even as a child she was not taught not to pee and break dishes.
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Possibly the thing you are approaching in this conversation is, better don't (over) analyze Lanthimos' ideas in search of a core. Not only occasionally, it might turn out to only be advanced baking with a lot of dressing it up, very sweet marchpane without a bite, hence without a core.
Initially, I liked the film a lot. This is seeping away now. And there is a whole section in the movie, which you lot didn't address explicitly: the idea of becoming a whore (in need of income), and explore female sexuality in that.
I remember during me too. The culture was staring away from the male gaze now it’s ok. A woman would never Wright these scenes for another woman to perform. Especially a scene with children watching.!
emma stone is a producer in this film, she didn't do anything she wasn't comfortable with. stop infantilizing women.
Love your show. Hate this movie.
Maise don’t let any one sway you from logic. There was never a time where Bella was in trouble. She never overcame anything. Even your character in GOT endured struggle. A film does not have to make men the villain to show a woman is capable. Polly from peeky one of the beat written female characters was strong and capable!
A feminist film directed by a man , written by a man and based on a book written by a man.Barbie was actually written by a women and a man still got the nom. Gen z dos not care for over done sex scenes and yall have yet to understand.
" Gen z dos not care for over done sex scenes." The cinematically disabled gen zers who avoid foreign arthouse films, yes.
Every seems to me people only talk about the pretty parts of the film talk about all of it. The women in the audience when I saw it was very uncomfortable when they first gently bend her over and had his way.
I notice that as well. It was pedophilia 101, not women's liberation. Barbie, however, was overcoming the male gaze and becoming a thinking and sensitive woman in a human way, by her own means. Poor things might be a nice movie with great acting, but it is not a feminist one. It doesn't have to be, so it is not ok to the create this narrative trying to to fool us, because this is uncomfortable
People must have shame it stops us from doing what ever we want to do with in the realms of decency. If not we just take craps in front of each other. The movie is not real. Because the reality is the world does not work that way. Even the animals respect each other’s differences and know how to move around a predator. Shame should stop grown women from sexual assault of young boys but it does not now a days. She was rude and obnoxious to be quite honest and that’s not freedom. That’s lack of responsibility! With freedom comes a responsibility. If I was your bodyguard and I told to walk a certain way and you said I am free to do whatever I want and you didn’t listen to men is it my fault or yours. As far those men.
If this was truly about feminism ,why hasn't Emma stone who is a big Hollywood a lister taken the young female black actress in the film around with her to all these events and introduced her to the all the influential people.she is a younger actress that could use a powerful female mentor in film.why was this black woman's only roll in this movie was to follow emma stone around the movie like a mammy side kick with only the agency of pleasuring emma stones 's character.Could this be the white female feminist trope that uses black women!
Well, I think if Margaret Qualley had been playing Bella, she would have given a different performance. She gave the performance for the character who wasn't developing so fast.
Every time I run out of movies to watch, I use your film club as a recommendation catalog, and when I come back and watch you guys deep dive on it. Its like a reward 🍧. love ya all , keep up the good work 🤍