Poor Things is a 2023 film [a] directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between Ireland , the United Kingdom , and the United States , the film stars Emma Stone , Mark Ruffalo , Willem Dafoe , Ramy Youssef , Christopher Abbott , and Jerrod Carmichael . [ 6 ]

Dec 12, 2023 · Yorgos Lanthimos’ retro-futuristic vision required a melding of old and new VFX techniques, including Frankensteining strange animal combinations.

Nov 10, 2024 · In Godwin Baxter's (Willem Dafoe) home laboratory there are frequent scenes of bodies being cut up and experimented on, as strange creatures cobbled together from different animals run around the house. Poor Things establishes a baseline of weirdness, but there are still a few shocking scenes that go even further.

Dec 15, 2023 · For Simon Hughes and his Union VFX team, Yorgos Langthimos’ dark comedy, a stunningly designed visual maelstrom, required something completely different from a typical VFX project, including odd, surgically created hybrid animals using as much actual footage as possible, integration of plates shot with 3 different film stocks, 11 enormous ...

Dec 15, 2023 · Digital Trends talked to the VFX wizards behind the Emma Stone movie Poor Things and found out how they created a steampunk world full of strange creatures.

Dec 9, 2023 · The surreal world created for Poor Things is extraordinary, from Dr. Baxter’s experiments creating Frankensteined animals including a half goose, half French bulldog and a half duck, half goat to the unique locations that the naive Bella and more suave Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo) travel to via boat, including fairytale-like versions of ...

Dec 15, 2023 · What is Poor Things about? Poor Things is, like most Yorgos films, strange. But also mostly straightforward. Bella’s child-like perspective of the world allows the film to question established norms, gender roles, and power dynamics. It’s like if an alien arrived on Earth and kept asking “Why do you do that?

Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef, Poor Things is written by Tony McNamara and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. The plot focuses on Bella Baxter, a young Victorian woman brought back …

Feb 5, 2024 · GQ speaks to Poor Things’ production designers about handcrafting the movie set across everything from clitoris light switches, hybrid animals and brain slices.

Dec 12, 2023 · “Poor Things” could be taken as “Fear of Flying” before there were airplanes. What began as an uneasy predatory play by Duncan gets inverted and twisted as Bella’s backstory comes to light in slow strokes.