Stars: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Vicki Pepperdine, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael | Written by Tony McNamara | Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Ever since he made a splash with 2009’s Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been considered an exciting voice in cinema, resulting in accolades and award nominations for his disturbing and absurdist works. That does not change for Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel which sees Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara on fire once more after their previous collaboration with 2018’s The Favourite.
After committing suicide, Bella (Emma Stone) is resurrected by the scarred and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) – who Bella refers to as God. Initially naïve, Bella’s eagerness to learn more about the outside world clashes with Godwin’s desire to keep her safe. Bella rebels by running away with slick lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), as their continent-spanning journey leads...
Ever since he made a splash with 2009’s Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been considered an exciting voice in cinema, resulting in accolades and award nominations for his disturbing and absurdist works. That does not change for Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel which sees Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara on fire once more after their previous collaboration with 2018’s The Favourite.
After committing suicide, Bella (Emma Stone) is resurrected by the scarred and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) – who Bella refers to as God. Initially naïve, Bella’s eagerness to learn more about the outside world clashes with Godwin’s desire to keep her safe. Bella rebels by running away with slick lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), as their continent-spanning journey leads...
- 3/21/2024
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
There’s the characteristic Lanthimos-core peculiarity in the Emma Stone-starrer Poor Things, albeit not needlessly. But the director, maybe just for the sake of challenging his usual pessimism, turns the absurdities endearing with the constant existence of hope. Of course, transcendence from the glum limitations of being Frankensteinian is not handed on a platter to our recreated heroine, Bella Baxter. Granted, the theme of deviance, which is the very foundation of the film, is delivered through motifs that aren’t identical to the world we know. But the existential and social parallels that Poor Things inspires you to ponder over are enough to make the film intensely effective.
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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
It’s funny how, at the very beginning, Poor Things pulls a little prank on you by confusing you about who the Frankensteinian “monster” really is. Just a peek at Dr. Godwin Baxter’s face,...
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Film?
It’s funny how, at the very beginning, Poor Things pulls a little prank on you by confusing you about who the Frankensteinian “monster” really is. Just a peek at Dr. Godwin Baxter’s face,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Lopamudra Mukherjee
- Film Fugitives
When production designers Shona Heath and James Price were tasked with designing the dark comedy Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated movie about a woman whose resurrected with her infant’s brain, they had several key decisions to make. For starters, how would they represent the London mansion, which included the laboratory of mad scientist Dr. Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe? The answer turned out to be simple: They’d put human anatomy along the walls and ceiling.
They stapled packing foam to the atrium ceiling to resemble the “wiggly bits...
They stapled packing foam to the atrium ceiling to resemble the “wiggly bits...
- 3/3/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Poor Things Movie (Picture Credit: IMDb)
Poor Things is one of the most discussed movies of 2023, along with Oppenheimer and Barbie. The film stars Emma Stone in the lead role, has won several accolades, and received the Oscars 2024 nominations, too. When the film was released in 2023, critics and audiences praised it heavily.
The film is based on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name. The cine buffs who missed watching it on the big screen are eagerly awaiting the movie’s digital release. You don’t have to wait any longer, as the movie will finally be available to stream online. Read to know when and where it will be released digitally, along with other essential details like the cast and premise of Poor Things.
Poor Things Cast
The film stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, Wille Dafoe as Dr Godwin Baxter, Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn, Ramy Youssef as Max McCandles,...
Poor Things is one of the most discussed movies of 2023, along with Oppenheimer and Barbie. The film stars Emma Stone in the lead role, has won several accolades, and received the Oscars 2024 nominations, too. When the film was released in 2023, critics and audiences praised it heavily.
The film is based on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name. The cine buffs who missed watching it on the big screen are eagerly awaiting the movie’s digital release. You don’t have to wait any longer, as the movie will finally be available to stream online. Read to know when and where it will be released digitally, along with other essential details like the cast and premise of Poor Things.
Poor Things Cast
The film stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, Wille Dafoe as Dr Godwin Baxter, Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn, Ramy Youssef as Max McCandles,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Pooja Darade
- KoiMoi
We have 2 fantastic prize bundles to give away from Poor Things including: a Bubble bottle, Photo book, Novel, Sunglasses, Tote bag, T-shirt, Key ring and Postcards!
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Poor Thing Starring: Emma Stone as Bella Baxter
Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn
Willem Dafoe as Godwin Baxter
Ramy Youssef as Max McCandless
Christopher Abbot as Alfie Blessington
Suzy Bemba as Toinette...
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Poor Thing Starring: Emma Stone as Bella Baxter
Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn
Willem Dafoe as Godwin Baxter
Ramy Youssef as Max McCandless
Christopher Abbot as Alfie Blessington
Suzy Bemba as Toinette...
- 1/30/2024
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This article contains Poor Things spoilers.
It would have been a perfect circle. Willem Dafoe’s scientist Godwin Baxter finds the recently deceased body of suicide victim Victoria Blessington (Emma Stone) after she’s leapt from a bridge. Victoria is very pregnant and her unborn baby is not dead, so God transplants the infant’s brain into Victoria’s body, which he reanimates. He renames his creation Bella Baxter and watches her develop as a child in an adult’s body. Through the course of the film she travels, learns, and grows into the happy woman we see at the end.
Of course, the end of the film comes with a gag. Alfie Blessington (Christopher Abbott), the husband of the deceased Victoria, attempts to imprison Bella, drug her, and mutilate her genitals. But he’s defeated when Bella throws the chloroform-laced cocktail intended for her in Alfie’s face, causing...
It would have been a perfect circle. Willem Dafoe’s scientist Godwin Baxter finds the recently deceased body of suicide victim Victoria Blessington (Emma Stone) after she’s leapt from a bridge. Victoria is very pregnant and her unborn baby is not dead, so God transplants the infant’s brain into Victoria’s body, which he reanimates. He renames his creation Bella Baxter and watches her develop as a child in an adult’s body. Through the course of the film she travels, learns, and grows into the happy woman we see at the end.
Of course, the end of the film comes with a gag. Alfie Blessington (Christopher Abbott), the husband of the deceased Victoria, attempts to imprison Bella, drug her, and mutilate her genitals. But he’s defeated when Bella throws the chloroform-laced cocktail intended for her in Alfie’s face, causing...
- 1/19/2024
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
This article contains Poor Things spoilers.
It is probably the happiest Bella Baxter has ever been, and it’s certainly the most euphoric we’ve seen a Yorgos Lanthimos movie get. Hidden away in a shabby laboratory, scalpel in hand and trusted partner (if not great lover) by her side, Bella is doing what she realizes she always wanted to do: play God by way of vivisection.
Somehow Bella’s epiphany is both macabrely funny and unexpectedly sweet. In the penultimate sequence of Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the Emma Stone heroine has found the purpose and fulfillment she always strived for during her brief but extraordinarily eventful life. Earlier that very day, in fact, the man who was married to the body that now houses Bella’s mind sought to mutilate her genitals. In his warped patriarchal view, removing Bella’s clitoris would exert some kind of barbaric control over her body.
It is probably the happiest Bella Baxter has ever been, and it’s certainly the most euphoric we’ve seen a Yorgos Lanthimos movie get. Hidden away in a shabby laboratory, scalpel in hand and trusted partner (if not great lover) by her side, Bella is doing what she realizes she always wanted to do: play God by way of vivisection.
Somehow Bella’s epiphany is both macabrely funny and unexpectedly sweet. In the penultimate sequence of Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the Emma Stone heroine has found the purpose and fulfillment she always strived for during her brief but extraordinarily eventful life. Earlier that very day, in fact, the man who was married to the body that now houses Bella’s mind sought to mutilate her genitals. In his warped patriarchal view, removing Bella’s clitoris would exert some kind of barbaric control over her body.
- 1/12/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The concept of multi-verse has been highlighted in the series Sonic Prime. The director, Eric Weise, has done an excellent job of portraying a clash between Sonic and Dr. Eggman in their quest for the Paradox Prism. The way Sonic jumps from one parallel dimension to another is because of his unparalleled speed and determination to save his friends and his home. However, many questions come to our minds while watching the series. Will Sonic be able to rebuild the shattered Paradox Prism? How will the Chaos Council try to be a barrier in his path? How will his friends help him in his conquest? Let’s find out!
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What Caused The Prism To Shatter?
Eggman always had his eyes on the paradox prism that was buried under a huge rock in the Green City. He wanted to use the prism to ensure that he had control over...
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What Caused The Prism To Shatter?
Eggman always had his eyes on the paradox prism that was buried under a huge rock in the Green City. He wanted to use the prism to ensure that he had control over...
- 1/11/2024
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
“She is the most literal character. ‘It’s sunny, you wear glasses. I put on shoes because it hurts when I walk outside without shoes on,’” says producer and actress Emma Stone of her latest role as Bella Baxter in “Poor Things.”
Based on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name, Bella is a creation of Willem Dafoe’s mad scientist Godwin Baxter. He brings Bella back to life after she tries to kill herself, using the brain of an unborn fetus, and Bella ends up a young child trapped in a woman’s body. Director Yorgos Lanthimos used different chapters to punctuate Bella’s discovery of the world and learning what it means to be a woman in a man’s world. Together, the film’s group of artisans reflected that evolution through their respective crafts.
Holly Waddington’s costume designs needed to reflect Bella’s arc and her development,...
Based on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name, Bella is a creation of Willem Dafoe’s mad scientist Godwin Baxter. He brings Bella back to life after she tries to kill herself, using the brain of an unborn fetus, and Bella ends up a young child trapped in a woman’s body. Director Yorgos Lanthimos used different chapters to punctuate Bella’s discovery of the world and learning what it means to be a woman in a man’s world. Together, the film’s group of artisans reflected that evolution through their respective crafts.
Holly Waddington’s costume designs needed to reflect Bella’s arc and her development,...
- 1/6/2024
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Vicki Pepperdine, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael | Written by Tony McNamara | Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Ever since he made a splash with 2009’s Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been considered an exciting voice in cinema, resulting in accolades and award nominations for his disturbing and absurdist works. That does not change for Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel which sees Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara on fire once more after their previous collaboration with 2018’s The Favourite.
After committing suicide, Bella (Emma Stone) is resurrected by the scarred and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) – who Bella refers to as God. Initially naïve, Bella’s eagerness to learn more about the outside world clashes with Godwin’s desire to keep her safe. Bella rebels by running away with slick lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), as their continent-spanning journey leads...
Ever since he made a splash with 2009’s Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has been considered an exciting voice in cinema, resulting in accolades and award nominations for his disturbing and absurdist works. That does not change for Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel which sees Lanthimos and writer Tony McNamara on fire once more after their previous collaboration with 2018’s The Favourite.
After committing suicide, Bella (Emma Stone) is resurrected by the scarred and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) – who Bella refers to as God. Initially naïve, Bella’s eagerness to learn more about the outside world clashes with Godwin’s desire to keep her safe. Bella rebels by running away with slick lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), as their continent-spanning journey leads...
- 11/2/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Bella Baxter––whose organic internal makeup I’ll leave to shocking reveal––was born an adult woman. The furiously beating heart of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, Poor Things, she was found dead at the bottom of a bridge, an unknown life left behind her, and reanimated from Jane Doe into Bella (Emma Stone) by a bubble-belching monster. Though, that’s not what he calls himself.
Dr. Godwin Baxter––a professor-scientist who looks more like Frankenstein’s monster than Dr. Frankenstein, trenches carved through his compartmentalized face––calls himself God. He means it as a lighthearted joke, but Bella doesn’t understand it that way. To her, he is Creator. Godwin (Willem Dafoe) teaches her how to eat, breathe, sleep, shit, laugh, go outside––all the essentials. No mind his grotesque appearance, or that he involuntarily yap-croaks large oily bubbles while he eats, or the apparent character flaws: a foreboding workaholism,...
Dr. Godwin Baxter––a professor-scientist who looks more like Frankenstein’s monster than Dr. Frankenstein, trenches carved through his compartmentalized face––calls himself God. He means it as a lighthearted joke, but Bella doesn’t understand it that way. To her, he is Creator. Godwin (Willem Dafoe) teaches her how to eat, breathe, sleep, shit, laugh, go outside––all the essentials. No mind his grotesque appearance, or that he involuntarily yap-croaks large oily bubbles while he eats, or the apparent character flaws: a foreboding workaholism,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Luke Hicks
- The Film Stage
It’s a failing of our society that we’ve allowed “interesting” to become a euphemism, a blandly veiled insult, something to say when no other praise comes to mind. Little in life is more important than interest: having it, attracting it, identifying it in any crevice of the everyday, making it strange and fresh in the process. Across his career, Yorgos Lanthimos has befuddled many a viewer into calling his work “interesting” as a placeholder for their confusion and excitement, and it’s hard to imagine that he’d ever take offense. He’s a filmmaker who revels in interest, in curiosity at the price of comfort, and in his lavish, violently ravishing new film “Poor Things,” he zeroes in on a heroine with the same craving. To Bella Baxter, a literal child in a woman’s body, everything is new and everything is interesting — words, bodies, maps, music,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Actress Jennifer Lawrence used to eat garlic before kissing scenes with Liam Hemsworth during ‘Hunger Games’.
However the actress insists it wasn’t intentional.
The actress is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen character in ‘The Hunger Games’ movie franchise which first came out in 2012, reports mirror.co.uk.
Starring as the leading lady in the hit film, her character Katniss volunteers as tribute for the games after her younger sister Prim gets selected.
The film shows how the Capitol of Panem forces its 12 districts to each select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games.
Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. In the film, Katniss was best friends with Gale Hawthorne, with them often sharing kisses on-screen in the movie.
Gale was played by Liam Hemsworth, who brutally revealed something...
However the actress insists it wasn’t intentional.
The actress is best known for playing Katniss Everdeen character in ‘The Hunger Games’ movie franchise which first came out in 2012, reports mirror.co.uk.
Starring as the leading lady in the hit film, her character Katniss volunteers as tribute for the games after her younger sister Prim gets selected.
The film shows how the Capitol of Panem forces its 12 districts to each select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games.
Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. In the film, Katniss was best friends with Gale Hawthorne, with them often sharing kisses on-screen in the movie.
Gale was played by Liam Hemsworth, who brutally revealed something...
- 6/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
When Cynthia Powell first met John Lennon, she wasn’t impressed. In fact, she was turned off by his rude, boyish behavior. But she eventually fell for the future Beatle and did what she could to woo him. Part of their origin story, though, is a lie she told him after he asked her to dance.
Cynthia and John Lennon | Douglas Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Cynthia Powell’s first impression of John Lennon
The two both attended Liverpool Art College, where they met. When Cynthia first got acquainted with John, she brushed him off as not her type. He didn’t look like the clean-cut boys she was used to, and his behavior was devilish.
“His outspoken comments and caustic wit were alarming: I was terrified he might turn on me, and he soon did, calling me ‘Miss Prim’ or ‘Miss Powell’ and taking the mickey out of...
Cynthia and John Lennon | Douglas Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Cynthia Powell’s first impression of John Lennon
The two both attended Liverpool Art College, where they met. When Cynthia first got acquainted with John, she brushed him off as not her type. He didn’t look like the clean-cut boys she was used to, and his behavior was devilish.
“His outspoken comments and caustic wit were alarming: I was terrified he might turn on me, and he soon did, calling me ‘Miss Prim’ or ‘Miss Powell’ and taking the mickey out of...
- 4/24/2023
- by Kelsey Goeres
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
2022 has been one of those fascinating years where in the gauntlet of catching up on all of the lauded awards players that have been racking up the most placements on Best of Year lists, I’ve oddly been finding myself at quite a distance from the large majority of them. I won’t bemoan any specific titles (you can probably guess some of them from their lack of appearance here), but there’s been an odd feeling of disconnect for me with the ones people are talking about the most, the ones that will be vaunted on awards stages in the coming months.
Rather than seeing this as a symbol of me being “out of touch” or having crossed over into some Armond White contrarian territory, however,...
2022 has been one of those fascinating years where in the gauntlet of catching up on all of the lauded awards players that have been racking up the most placements on Best of Year lists, I’ve oddly been finding myself at quite a distance from the large majority of them. I won’t bemoan any specific titles (you can probably guess some of them from their lack of appearance here), but there’s been an odd feeling of disconnect for me with the ones people are talking about the most, the ones that will be vaunted on awards stages in the coming months.
Rather than seeing this as a symbol of me being “out of touch” or having crossed over into some Armond White contrarian territory, however,...
- 1/1/2023
- by Mitchell Beaupre
- The Film Stage
(l to r) Mrs. Primm (Constance Wu), Josh Primm (Winslow Fegley), Lyle (Lyle the Crocodile) and Hector (Javier Bardem) slurp up an ice cream sundae in Columbia Pictures Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. Photo by: Courtesy of Sony Pictures
So, are you looking for a “family-friendly” flick to perhaps introduce your “pre-k’ tots to the wonders of moviegoing? Well, many parents may be leery of much of the fare, since the “kid aimed” movies are often part of an ongoing franchise or based on a line of toys, video/computer games, or TV shows, perhaps resembling a feature-length commercial to provide “product synergy”. So where are the big-screen adaptations of classic children’s books, one that may inspire the wee ones” to (gasp) read? Well, we’ve got one opening “wide” this weekend based on a beloved tale that’s almost sixty years old. Oh, and it’s filled with music often sung by an adorable animal.
So, are you looking for a “family-friendly” flick to perhaps introduce your “pre-k’ tots to the wonders of moviegoing? Well, many parents may be leery of much of the fare, since the “kid aimed” movies are often part of an ongoing franchise or based on a line of toys, video/computer games, or TV shows, perhaps resembling a feature-length commercial to provide “product synergy”. So where are the big-screen adaptations of classic children’s books, one that may inspire the wee ones” to (gasp) read? Well, we’ve got one opening “wide” this weekend based on a beloved tale that’s almost sixty years old. Oh, and it’s filled with music often sung by an adorable animal.
- 10/7/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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