{"id":30331,"date":"2023-05-14T05:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30331"},"modified":"2023-05-14T05:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:44:46","slug":"emma-stone-is-a-reanimated-corpse-with-the-brain-of-a-baby-in-poor-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30331","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone is a reanimated corpse with the brain of a baby in Poor Things"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is what is going on in the trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 new movie. Searchlight Pictures has released a teaser for the new Emma Stone movie Poor Things \u2014 and unlike many teasers, this trailer deserves the name, featuring only 30 seconds of footage and one line of dialogue (two, if you count an extremely camp \u201cow\u201d from Mark Ruffalo).<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, there\u2019s a lot to intrigue and mystify in this collection of surreal imagery from the mind of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite). And it\u2019s not just from Lanthimos\u2019 mind. Poor Things is an adaptation of the 1992 novel by the idiosyncratic Scottish author and illustrator Alasdair Gray, who very much had his own set of preoccupations (including sex, socialism, and typesetting \u2014 he not only illustrated all his own books but typeset them by hand).<\/p>\n

This is a decent summary, but it omits some of the juicier and funnier details of Gray\u2019s plot and characterization. Let\u2019s break it down by character \u2014 with the caveat that Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara (who co-wrote The Favourite and Stone\u2019s Cruella as well as creating the TV show The Great) may not have wanted, or been able to, replicate all of these on screen. The movie looks heavily visually stylized, almost fantastical, while the book takes place in a semi-realistic Victorian world with a few Gothic flourishes. The opening shots of the trailer nod to the Frankenstein story, which Gray riffed on for his book. Otherwise, the film seems to focus on Bella and Wedderburn\u2019s steamship tour. In the book, she has other adventures, including a spell in a Parisian brothel, and a lot of time is spent with Godwin and McCandless (whom Bella calls \u201cCandle\u201d) moping around in Glasgow in her absence.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen how much of the book Lanthimos and McNamara will bring to the screen, but if you\u2019re at all curious, I can\u2019t recommend it enough \u2014 like all Alasdair Gray, it\u2019s hilarious, moving, impassioned, and gloriously weird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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