Poor Things Movie - Featurette - The World of Poor Things (2023)
US Release Date: December 8, 2023
Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo
Director : Yorgos Lanthimos
Synopsis: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
US Release Date: December 8, 2023
Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo
Director : Yorgos Lanthimos
Synopsis: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
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00:00 There is a world to enjoy, traverse, circumnavigate.
00:05 Let us do this.
00:07 I always thought that we should build a world according to Bella and to her understanding and perception of it.
00:24 We're in Budapest, in Hungary, shooting on many sound stages.
00:28 Our world has been built. It's been unbelievable.
00:31 I could never figure out someone specific.
00:34 I thought that maybe if I put two people that have very different minds together
00:39 and if it worked out and if they got along, it would become something very interesting.
00:44 We all share as collaborators a admiration for Yorgos' work and absolute love of the script.
00:51 I have adventured it and found nothing but sugar and violence.
00:55 It is most charming.
00:58 It felt sort of timeless.
01:00 Your mind just starts racing of where it could go.
01:03 London, Lisbon, Paris.
01:06 We've built a composite set, epic in scale.
01:09 Yorgos is one of the 1930s films but with today's technology.
01:13 They worked very closely in tandem and I remember seeing the early look books of what they were working on
01:20 because they have two very different sensibilities that seem to have met up so beautifully.
01:26 I mean, you could see they have created a world.
01:29 It's Victorian, it's a dream, it's gorgeous and it really does serve the vision.
01:37 It really defines the story we're telling.
01:40 It's got a refined aesthetic but it's also got a sense of humor.
01:44 I got scared for a second. I thought we were trapped in here.
01:51 There's so much originality.
01:53 There are fish on Bella's ceiling and there's seaweed and a mirror that has ears
01:58 and these padded silk walls with cityscapes sewn in.
02:02 I want to copy it. I want to live in that bedroom.
02:05 The functioning shops, the doors lead to actual rooms.
02:09 It's incredible.
02:11 I do think that there's a spiritual connection that happens.
02:16 You don't have to make anything up. Everything's there.
02:19 Everything that you need is there and then there's more.
02:22 It feels like something of the era but also it has so many nons to the future.
02:28 We used the latest technology but also tapped into some old school techniques
02:34 like miniatures or painted backdrops.
02:38 I think it was an interesting combination of techniques.
02:41 And it is as big as it looks, even in a 4mm lens, which is the widest possible angle.
02:49 It's bigger than that. I've never seen anything like it.
02:52 [Music]
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