{"id":600072,"date":"2023-12-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/emerald-fennell-on-creating-just-pure-visceral-madness-with-saltburn\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:30:00","slug":"emerald-fennell-on-creating-just-pure-visceral-madness-with-saltburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/emerald-fennell-on-creating-just-pure-visceral-madness-with-saltburn\/","title":{"rendered":"#Emerald Fennell on Creating \u201cJust Pure, Visceral Madness\u201d With \u2018Saltburn\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n In Emerald Fennell\u2019s Saltburn<\/em>, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver Quick, a middle-class student at Oxford University who becomes infatuated with his handsome and wealthy classmate Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). As the school year ends, Felix invites him to spend the summer with him and his idiosyncratic family at their massive country estate \u2014 the eponymous Saltburn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Fennell\u2019s follow-up to her Oscar-winning debut, Promising Young Woman<\/em>, Saltburn<\/em> is a psychological black comedy inspired by Gothic literature, tracing Oliver\u2019s struggle to fit in with the strange and rich family that hosts him at their home. But twists and turns abound in Fennell\u2019s satire of the British class system, which she describes as \u201cBarry Lyndon<\/em> meets indie sleaze.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Calling out other films set in similar environs (including Oscar-winning features The Remains of the Day<\/em> and Atonement<\/em>), Fennell deliberately plays with preconceived notions of British identity. \u201cWhat happ<\/a>ens when we take the most restrained genre about the most restrained people \u2014 to restrain it to the extent that it\u2019s just pure, visceral madness?\u201d Fennell asks.<\/p>\n

\n The result is a wild and seductive tale of debauchery, eroticism and power, slowly unraveling to reveal that few of its characters are who they appear to be. Creating the world those figures inhabit proved great fun for Fennell, who turned to some of her favorite films, books and art to construct a mood board for Saltburn<\/em>\u2019s aesthetic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Here, she shares with THR<\/em> the inspirations for the film\u2019s visual style as well as its expertly plotted screenplay, built on the bones of a particularly British kind of storytelling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n Caravaggio\u2019s paintings of the biblical figure were numerous \u2014 and, as Fennell says, \u201cvery sexy.\u201d The contrast of the white skin against red fabric has always caught the director\u2019s eye, and that aesthetic went into the interiors of the Saltburn estate. \u201cWe\u2019re framing a huge, sumptuous, almost biblical kind of place \u2014 everyone is in velvets and silks, lying on chaises in a formal setting,\u201d she says. She also found inspiration in how Caravaggio depicted the male body: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of tension under the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Fennell calls L.P. Hartley\u2019s 1953 novel, which tells the story of a young man who feels like an outsider within his Victorian-era boarding school, \u201ca British staple.\u201d She adds: \u201cIt\u2019s exactly what makes this genre so thrilling. This is the skeleton of the story, a man going through all of his old stuff and realizing his life hasn\u2019t gone the way he wanted it to, and he sets out to resolve things.\u201d The novel also was adapted for film by Losey and Pinter in 1971.<\/p>\n

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\n This 1963 drama directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter stars Dirk Bogarde as the servant to a wealthy Londoner. \u201cLosey and Pinter\u2019s collaborations are so electric, because they have an undeniable erotic power,\u201d says Fennell. \u201cThat power relies entirely on the threat of violence \u2014 not just literal violence, but a complete chaotic upending of the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n At a late night karaoke party, Oliver is convinced to sing this Pet Shop Boys track \u2014 only to realize it\u2019s intended to make fun of him. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most romantic songs ever written,\u201d says Fennell of the tune, told from the perspective of a kept man. \u201cThe chorus is, \u2018I love you, you pay my rent.\u2019 There\u2019s some simplicity to that transaction. You could argue it\u2019s cold and cynical. But the underlying truth is something we\u2019re all looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Dafydd Jones\u2019 photos are both sordid and idyllic, capturing student life at Oxford in the 1980s \u2014 a direct reference for Fennell\u2019s 2007-set social<\/a> satire. \u201cWhat\u2019s so great about Oxford, Cambridge and the aristocracy is, like \u2026 pick your century, right?\u201d she says. \u201cDafydd catches those moments of genuine exhilaration, wealth and youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n This story first appeared in a November standalone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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