This narrative is followed by Bella's (or Victoria's) refutation of its facts, suggesting that her "poor fool" of a husband has concocted a life for her from the prevailing gothic and romantic motifs of the period: it "positively stinks of all that was morbid in that most morbid of centuries". This is reinforced by the novel's intricate echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Coe, Jonathan (8 October 1992). "Gray's Elegy". London Review of Books. Vol.14, no.19. ISSN 0260-9592. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020 . Retrieved 29 October 2023. 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’s 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 “Candle”) moping around in Glasgow in her absence. D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 28, 2023). "Emma Stone Reteam With Yorgos Lanthimos 'Poor Things' Sets Early Fall Release". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023 . Retrieved April 28, 2023.

a b Bradshaw, Peter (September 1, 2023). "Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos's virtuoso comic epic". The Guardian . Retrieved September 3, 2023.

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Maytum, Matt (August 11, 2023). "Emma Stone's unique Poor Things character look was actually a mistake". Total Film . Retrieved August 19, 2023. Youssef revealed that in preparation for their roles, he and Dafoe attended mortician school. Reflecting on the "experimental theater games" Lanthimos assigned the cast prior filming, Dafoe shared, "You’re very patient with everyone, and everyone’s patient with you. They need to be confident in what they’re doing, because what we’re doing is quite risky. It’s not a normal film." [19] Additionally, Dafoe spent six hours each day in the hair and makeup department - four hours getting extensive prosthetics applied to his face at the start of the day and two hours to get it all taken off at the end of the day. [20] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter termed it "an insanely enjoyable fairy tale", adding that Stone "gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about". [40] Variety 's Guy Lodge also believed that the film "rests on a single astonishing performance by Stone". [41]

LOS DELINCUENTES' BY RODRIGO MORENO AND MUSIC FROM 'POOR THINGS' GRAB TOP PRIZES AT 50TH EDITION FILM FEST GENT". Film Fest Ghent. October 20, 2023 . Retrieved October 22, 2023. a b Pearce, Leonard (April 28, 2023). "First Images from Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things, Set for September Release". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on April 28, 2023 . Retrieved April 28, 2023.verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Bella proves to be entirely too much for even a rake like Wedderburn, reducing him to quite a quivering, god-fearing mass. Peroni 0.0% Audience Award 2023 goes to Poor Things". November 21, 2023 . Retrieved November 21, 2023. Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year. [1] [2] Yorgos Lanthimos is directing the period comedy, and with Australian writer Tony McNamara penning the screenplay. McNamara previously wrote The Favourite, as well as the Emma Stone-led Disney drama Cruella. He is also the creator of comedy series The Great, starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Ali Herting and Dave McCary serve as producers on the film. Lowe and Guiney are co-founders of Element Pictures, who have also produced Room and Normal People.

Gray, Alasdair, James Kelman, and Tom Toremans. "An Interview with Alasdair Gray and James Kelman." Contemporary Literature 44.4 (2003): 565-586. Designed, quite literally, to be Baxter's companion, she is sexually curious and voracious and more interested in other men -- including McCandless, whom she gets engaged to. Kroll, Justin (May 22, 2021). "Willem Dafoe In Talks To Co-Star In Yorgos Lanthimos Adaptation of 'Poor Things' For Searchlight and Film4". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 21, 2021 . Retrieved May 22, 2021. His greatest achievement is the creation of life: he brings to life a dead woman by transplanting the brain of the foetus she is carrying.Those who, like me, are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not, ought to fall on Poor Things with delight, and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance. Though demure to the point of restraint, it is at least as witty as 1982 Janine, and even more intellectually appealing." - Philip Hensher, The Spectator Mark Ruffalo’s Duncan Wedderburn is a caddish lawyer and inveterate gambler who steals Bella away on a long European trip, thinking to take advantage of the comely, innocent young woman. But he gets a surprise when her appetites exceed his and he can’t keep up.

Presented as the memoir of a Scottish doctor, Archibald McCandless, it describes his life and that of a colleague -- the brilliant Godwin Baxter. Mr. Gray contrasts the political and moral bleakness of contemporary Britain with the civic energy that characterized the best of Victorian values, now lost. He underlines the harm done to Scotland. Poor Things is a political book. It is also witty and delightfully written, if at times two-dimensional. Attention to Victorian Glasgow with its civic fountains, domestic interiors and medical schools gives the book texture. It is the characters, and strangely enough its phantasmagoria, that give it life." - Geoff Ryman, The New York Times Book Review The film was originally slated for theatrical release in September 2023, but due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, it will not be commercially available until January 12, 2024 in the United Kingdom. The film is scheduled for an earlier December 8, 2023 release in the US. Who is in the cast of ‘Poor Things’? Book Genre: Classics, Cultural, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, Scotland

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Pritchard, Tiffany (November 22, 2021). "NEWS Robbie Ryan wins Golden Frog, tributes paid to Halyna Hutchins at Camerimage". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on November 23, 2021 . Retrieved February 27, 2022. Lanthimos read Poor Things years prior to developing the film and met with the author, Alasdair Gray, in Scotland to acquire the rights. "He was a very lovely man," Lanthimos shared, "Unfortunately, he died just a couple of years before we actually made the film, but he was very special and energetic; he was 80-something [when we met], and as soon as I got there, he had seen Dogtooth and said, 'I had my friend put on the DVD, because I don’t know how to operate these things, but I think you're very talented, young man.'" Lanthimos shared that Gray took him on a personal tour of Glasgow, where Gray showed Lanthimos several places that he had incorporated into the story. [5]