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The Big Picture If your introduction to Yorgos Lanthimos was last year's Academy Award-winning Poor Things, you may have been a little jarred by the "absurdism" of the world. But if you first watched Lanthimos' Dogtooth in 2009... you'd still be pretty jarred, actually. No matter the situation or time period, what remains constant for the writer-director is his ability to keep an audience off-kilter just enough to "open up your imagination in a new way.
Both Stone and Dafoe are not only recurring characters in Kinds of Kindness, but also in Lanthimos' filmography. During this interview, they share their insight into the filmmaker's distinct vision, what about his views they find fascinating, and why audiences might find his stories a bit "strange." Stone and Dafoe also share their favorite Stanley Kubrick films, and Stone shares how the dance scene in this movie differs from the now-iconic dance sequence in Poor Things.
STONE: I have to choose The Shining because it was such a resonant movie for me in the moment that the impact that it had on me when I watched it feels the most impactful. Now you watch it, and you go, like, “Oh, look at the film, blah, blah,” but I was younger when I saw that, and, I don't know, that kind of feeling sticks with you. But I love all of them.STONE: Yeah. Like The Shining. I think 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's no right answer.
STONE: I find the way he sees the world, or the way he shows us the world, so fascinating. Before I met him, before The Favourite, I'd seen only Dogtooth and The Lobster. Dogtooth was obviously such an examination of control and of keeping someone locked into this scenario, and then I saw The Lobster, and I was like, “They're also in control. They're locked into this scenario. They have to do this specific thing, or they’ll be turned into an animal.
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