What is it about ‘Saltburn’ that makes it popular? phenomenon in social networks (The hasthag on TikTok has 1.7 billion views) Since its premiere on Prime Video on December 22? It doesn’t exactly seem like an original proposal at first glance, as it mixes elements from other books and movies. on A young man from a humble class and drug-addicted parents, Oliver Quick came to Oxford University on a scholarship in 2006 and became friends with Felix Catton, the son of a wealthy family. Echoes of ‘Brideshead Revisited’and in fact Evelyn Waugh is quoted at one point in the film.
But in Oliver’s relationships with his friend’s family and his true motives, the impact comes from: Her first novel about Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley It was made into a film in 1959 by René Clément (“In Full Sun”) and in 1999 by Anthony Minghella (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”). The dominance that the seemingly shy and timid Oliver exercises over the members of this wealthy family fascinating fallen angels from ‘Teorema’ and ‘Brimstone and Treacle’ performed by Terence Stamp and Sting respectively.
A new ‘Gelinbaşı Return’ is in the offing. sexuality when it is not epidermal, obsessive, hurtful: Oliver licks the tub where Felix masturbates. Does she want? It seems so. But does he love her? “Everyone wanted to be with Felix,” Oliver recalls as the film begins. “I loved her, I protected her, but was I in love with her?” Represents Oliver Barry Keoghan. This is no surprise as this 31-year-old Dublin actor’s career has been marked by his portrayals of misfit characters in ‘The Sacrifice of a Sacred Deer’, ‘Keep Calm’ and even ‘Druig the Dark Superhero’. Infinities’.’.
Felix Jacob ElordiThe young actor, who was born 26 years ago in Brisbane, Australia, is currently on everyone’s lips as his incarnation. abstract object of desire His role as Nate in the TV series ‘Saltburn’ and also his role as Nate in the TV series ‘Euphoria’ and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’. The two actors represent very well the identity conflict and the mutual attraction their respective characters confess. Much of the weight of the film falls on them.
Oliver’s experiences at Oxford were quite disgusting He’s a hysterical math genius and the only outcast, along with a girl who won’t leave her room because she has agoraphobia. Some teachers, like Farleigh, Oliver’s teacher and Felix’s cousin, are much less suited to the situation. Oliver goes through all kinds of devastating situations They sleep with someone else to make them jealous. His only real friend is Felix, so it’s no surprise that he’s invited to the humiliatingly luxurious mansion of, let’s say, the Cattons, a dysfunctional family. Richard E. Grant plays the father. Rosemaund Pike to mother (eccentric because she’s soft), Carey Mulligan is her best friend—though she has no qualms about humiliating her—and Alison Over is her daughter, Venetia, who is more seductive than her older brother. There’s no shortage of annoying butlers played by Paul Rhys.
Although there is a labyrinth in the courtyard of Saltburn Manor crowned with a statue of a minotaur, the house itself contains early editions of Shakespeare’s works, paintings by Rubens and Henry VIII. It is a maze where you can find Henry’s bed. You must always shave in front of Miss Catton. All dinners, no matter how ostentatious, are held in tuxedos and black tie. Of course, Felix, Oliver and their friends are also playing tennis while wearing tuxedos. The stuff of the rich and those trying to place themselves like a chameleon in this new world of wealth and hedonism.
The film depicts this world through Oliver’s ambiguous perspective and through highly studied, sometimes slightly aestheticizing visual compositions. Linus Sandgren, cinematographer of ‘La La Land’, ‘No Time to Die’ and ‘Babylon’, is as visually ornate as ‘Saltburn’. The Cattons tell of the servant of the poet Percy B. Shelley, who met him in the garden one day and later realized that the author was traveling in Italy at the time, meaning that she was his twin. But they have time for more popular and current references: They wonder if Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron had a threesome.
Director Emerald Fennel He knows what he’s talking about: he comes from an upper-class London family and was also educated at Oxford. He drowns his characters in it some beautiful and contradictory images, exuberant and stylized. The director had already been questioned for his overworked compositions, to the detriment of the content. He seems to justify himself in one of the first scenes: the ironic and jealous Farleigh discusses with Oliver the style, not the content, of his academic work. Fennell came to prominence with her first feature film. ‘Promising Young Woman’, where Carey Mulligan pushes the limits of double life. Fennell is also an actress – Camilla Parker Bowles from ‘The Crown’ – and has a role in ‘Barbie’. Margot Robbie, who is actually the real Barbie, is one of the producers of ‘Saltburn’.
In X they expanded some scenes in the movie or Barry Kheoghan is completely naked in one of the most important moments of the moviedances around the mansion to the beat of a song by Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the ‘comme il faut’ soundtrack: Pet Shop Boys, MGMT, Ladytron, Arcade Fire and The Killers are heard throughout the story. The film was released theatrically in the US and Canada in November and has already more than recouped its €11 million investment. It has established itself as the movie of the week two Christmases on streaming. It’s effective, but it also has a lot of impact.