mother! | 09.15.17 | Paramount | Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence | Razzie Awards frontrunner

[dashrendar44]

Everytime I see that title, all I can think is a musty and burly Danzig shouting at my face "MOTHER!" on repeat.

 

 

[trifle]

So it seems Jen was cheated out of a credit....

 

Spoiler

How 'mother!' Uses Sound To Enhance Its Allegory

Like all aspects of this movie, using sound in this manner also has thematic meaning. Aronofsky and Lawrence have confirmed what early viewers suspected (spoilers ahead) — #mother is a biblical allegory, Him (Javier Bardem) is God, Mother (Lawrence) is mother nature, and the bricks and mortar of the home are planet Earth, shown symbolically via a pulsating heart hidden in the structure of the walls. In this sense, sounds of the home become the score.

Its use is impressive enough, but there's a surprise twist — the sounds are the voice of mother nature herself, Jennifer Lawrence, digitally distorted and manipulated. In an interview with Aronofsky and Lawrence, the New York Times confirmed that the sounds of the house, down to every creak in the floorboards, use Lawrence's voice as a foundation. This is poetic representation of the omens, warnings, and disturbances from mother nature's "voice" about the state of the world, hurricanes replacing creaks, earthquakes replacing smashes.

It relates to another metaphorical warning hidden within mother! in climate change and the human disregard for the health of the planet. Those seemingly innocuous sounds catch mother nature's attention (and the audience's, too), but to the hoards who carelessly invade her home, they mean nothing. Her warnings are ignored, her renovations taken out of her control. Eventually, it leads mother nature to implode her planet, engulfing it in a fiery apocalypse — another biblical reference.

 

Spoiler warning! https://moviepilot.com/p/jennifer-lawrence-mother-score-voice/4373783

 

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When guest moderator William Friedkin (also a member of the rarefied “F” CinemaScore club, thanks to 2007’s “Bug”) grilled Aronofsky over his intentions and personal beliefs at a Directors Guild Q&A on Sunday, the exchange reportedly took on a life of its own: “Do you believe in God?” he asked Aronofsky in a wide-ranging conversation described as “tense” and “insane” by guests in attendance.

 

“Do you believe in possession?” retorted Aronofsky, whose pre-”mother!” films have queried similar themes of religion and human consequence, most obviously 2014’s “Noah” and 2006’s “The Fountain.”

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mother-darren-aronofsky-meaning-backlash-20170920-story.html

Edited September 20, 2017 by trifle

[The Futurist]

The Director's Cut

Episode 90: mother! with Darren Aronofsky and William Friedkin

 

 

 

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Edited September 22, 2017 by trifle

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[JohnnyGossamer]

On 9/20/2017 at 7:58 PM, The Futurist said:

The Director's Cut

Episode 90: mother! with Darren Aronofsky and William Friedkin

 

 

 

This is great. Trust me. I love Aronofsky. But, fuck, gotta love Friedkin needling him into nothing. "The message of the film is vote!?!" Cracked me up.

Edited September 22, 2017 by JohnnyGossamer

[ddddeeee]

Going to see this again tomorrow. Even more excited than I was the first time.

[Alli]

5 hours ago, trifle said:

 

 

 

 

 

lol will this poster be shown at the cinemas? why would they waste even more money on it?

[CoolioD1]

i like the idea of the poster but it would've only worked if they put some actual pans on the bad side. like rex reed calling it the worst movie of the century. some of those quotes aren't inherently bad. if you're gonna have the idea give it some balls.

[filmlover]

Or touted the F CinemaScore grade.

[WrathOfHan]

I fear that poster will be the Blu cover  

[The Futurist]

 

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46 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

Going to see this again tomorrow. Even more excited than I was the first time.

I'm seeing it again tomorrow,  as well!

22 minutes ago, Alli said:

lol will this poster be shown at the cinemas? why would they waste even more money on it?

There are no actor credits... I suspect Aronofsky just created it on the spot for his reddit q& a this morning.  But he and Jen are flying to Korea for a film festival soon.

16 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Or touted the F CinemaScore grade.

They already did that.  If it had opened on a platform release it wouldn't even have HAD a cinemascore.  Oh well!

4 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

 

Yeah. Except click bait articles are captioning headlines "JLaw flips off critics of her movie" or whatever, when she was really relating a story about how she reacted to Aronofsky when Aronofsky came to her, oxygen tubes in her nose, with a torn diaphragm, telling her they needed to shoot 'that scene' again, because it was fuzzy. 

 

In another interview DA said he had decided to take the camera off of her back, shooting her 'perspective' of that scene, and put it on her face because 'you just don't see emotion like that!'  So he kinda deserved it, imho. And probably thought the result was worth it, from the fact that he's laughing in the picture, as she does it.

[Harley]

I like how DA has put a guide to understanding the movie. As if the audience is to stupid to understand his blatant, lazy assed symbolism. 

[CoolioD1]

honestly aronofsky should stop doing all these interviews where he's going around explaining the movie. take a page from what lynch is doing. he's done a bunch of interviews the last couple weeks but he's not explaining shit.

[75Live]

25 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I fear that poster will be the Blu cover  

 

don't have to fear that since they won't even release it on blu ray  

[Noctis]

Aronofsky sounds really fucking pretentious in the interviews.

[Cochofles]

J-"This is what I use and my boyfriend loves it!"

D-"So what? I am secure in my manhood, and nothing a straight couple does in the bedroom can be called 'gay' anyway.

                          Amirite?" 

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