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Emerald Fennell says Saltburn is “A Vampire Movie” About “The Fetishization Of Beauty”

I actually love vampires being used as a metaphor. In other words, it’s about a guy who is infatuated and obsessed with another guys beauty and the life that beauty helps him live, so he wants to basically “suck the beauty” out of the beautiful individual to have it for himself.

And it’s so true. The fetishization of beauty is at an all time high, which is hard to believe. Plastic surgery is at an all time high, people are image obsessed because of the internet, people are obsessed with staying young. It’s become the norm now to have tons of plastic surgery and fillers to stay young forever. And now they start young!

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by Anonymousreply 9September 22, 2023 3:15 PM

And some people have fetishized black people.

by Anonymousreply 1September 22, 2023 2:07 PM

Aren't most vampire stories metaphors about longing for (eternal) youth and beauty? I hate that this frau is, yet again, being presented to us as if she shits solid gold, when in fact she just discovered hot water.

by Anonymousreply 2September 22, 2023 2:08 PM

R2 don’t vampires drink blood because that’s their source of food? I don’t think they absorb your blood to stay young and beautiful. The young and beautiful trope is just that, a trope created in modern vampire films that vampires are eternally young and beautiful. Historically they’re scary looking creatures.

R1 what does that have to do with this? Why do you need to bring race up where it doesn’t belong?

by Anonymousreply 3September 22, 2023 2:15 PM

Why do the English continue to fetishize their ridiculous class system? WGAF about a bunch of useless upper class twits? Their last 13 years of government made this kind of idealization a parody.

by Anonymousreply 4September 22, 2023 2:24 PM

R3, it's true that the first few fictional vampires were scary living corpses. But Sheridan Le Fanu in 'Carmilla' hit on the winning formula: his vampire is young, beautiful and definitely lesbian. It took a while for that hot, sexy vampire to really take hold in film and literature, but it actually does go back to the Victorian era.

by Anonymousreply 5September 22, 2023 2:55 PM

Yes r5, but those vampires don’t feed to be young and beautiful. They aren’t feeding on you to capture your youth and beauty. Their youth and beauty is theirs and is used as a tool to seduce and capture their prey.

by Anonymousreply 6September 22, 2023 3:00 PM

16th century Elizabeth Bathory was probably the genesis for the idea- she bathed in the blood of virgins to preserve her youth and beauty.

by Anonymousreply 7September 22, 2023 3:10 PM

Oh so now if someone finds beauty attractive there's something wrong with them.

by Anonymousreply 8September 22, 2023 3:10 PM

R8 who said that?

by Anonymousreply 9September 22, 2023 3:15 PM
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