Sofia Coppola explains how she shot the dinner table scene in The Beguiled

[ms_mmelissa]

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• They shot all the scenes with the little girls first because they had to go to school
• This scene shows Kirsten's character is more of a town girl and is A okay with exposing her shoulders
• Coppola read etiquette books for the time as research, learned that wearing makeup and saying thank you to compliments was considered vulgar because they invited

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[ghostsaddle]

shut up

[arielazul_22]

lmao...met

[myblackass]

LOL!

[sakuramochii]

is this out already?

[ms_mmelissa]

I think it's had a few advance screenings, but it officially opens this Friday (only in 4 theatres though).

[ilouboutin]

How are the reviews? Thinking about seeing it.

[ms_mmelissa]

They're pretty high. It has a 79 on metacritic which is really good: http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-beguiled

Putting it in perspective it's her best reviewed movie since Lost in Translation.

[snuffyqui45]

So filming by candlelight to be accurate and stay true to the 1800's is doable but having any black folks in the confederate south just "didn't work" for this film...

#yesi'mbitter#yesi'llstaybitter

[executivehpfan]

lol mfte

This stupid becky's movie is so blindingly white I'm surprised she even needed to bother trying to light these Caspers

[snuffyqui45]

She probably tried it without the candles but it looked like those old Victorian spirit photos.

[sandstorm]

LOL

[executivehpfan]

Only used candles as a light source to stay true to 1800s lighting

So historical accuracy matters for ambiance, but not for racial diversity.

[arielazul_22]

ambience and aesthetic is more important, obvi

[sadmagikarp]

mmmhmmmmmt and if she really cared about "authenticity" she wouldn't have cast nosferatu kidman cause we all know botox and fillers weren't around in the 19th century

[executivehpfan]

Nosferatu Kidman

Close. My. Casket.

[dov_b]

'The first thing I did was sure everyone was appropriately white. We had Sally Hershberger on stand by with peroxide'

[lloyd_llewellyn]

lmao comment of the year!