Yorgos Lanthimos’ directorial style is unique but before the analysis of it, we must consider his selection of narratives. The director will never make anything simplistic. If you have followed the works of the director, it would be clearly evident that his cinematic career is complemented by some of the most complex and bizarre films but they are oddly satisfying and mostly critically acclaimed. Emma Stone; who, so far, collaborated with the director three times with The Favourite, Poor Things, and the upcoming movie Kinds of Kindness, has given her impression of the filmmaker.
Emma Stone Commented On Yorgos Lanthimos’ Cinematic Vision
Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness. Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures
Yorgos Lanthimos has several astounding titles to his credit including Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. These movies have established the director’s unique style and his insistence on the very absurdity of the narratives with subtle surreal ailments to fine-tune the plots. Emma Stone who claimed her second Oscar for her role in Lanthimos’ Poor Things recently appeared in an interview with Collider alongside her co-star Willem Dafoe. Stone then reflected on the director’s cinematic vision. “I find his the way he sees the world or the way he shows us the world so fast you know,” Stone said.
Stone further revealed that she has seen only two movies from the director before landing on his film for the first time. “Before I met him before The Favorite I’d seen only Dogtooth and The Lobster and Dogtooth was obviously such an examination of control and of you know 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 there was like there’s an absurdism and a sort of specificity to it that makes you think so much more than if it was a prescriptive kind of worldview like you’re thinking, about what this would be like but it’s not real and it doesn’t really exist but what does that mean about long-term relationships or if you break up with somebody and what does it mean if you’re if someone teaches you the wrong words to everything and lies to you and guides you through it’s these bigger themes and pictures.”
The actor further explained, “I find actually much more emotionally resonant than these straightforward films,” she continued. Stone was responsive to that feeling “before I met him 10 years ago and then we’ve gotten to make these things from then and I love that that’s his sort of way into the world I find it very impactful in his storytelling.”
Emma Stone Established A Greek Mythology Connection In Yorgos Lanthimos’ Works
Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness. Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures
Of course, Lanthimos’ movies are as mind-boggling as the tales of Greek Mythology. Stone believes that it can not be a coincidence as his narrative echoes the subtle hint of inspiration from Greek Mythology. Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker and his style and craft, as established by Stone, his films are “mythic in some way.”
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“I feel like it’s not coincidental that he’s Greek and a lot of this feels like Mythic in some way you know?” Stone told Collider in the same interview. “I mean, especially Sacred Deer but there’s like there is that element when you read a Greek myth that doesn’t remind you anything of your life but it teaches you particular things or it gets you thinking about particular things in a way that obviously we cannot relate to with the gods and goddesses and all these things but I think that Yorgos has a lot of inspiration from that kind of Greek tradition of myth and that kind of storytelling.”
Stone is all set to make another theatrical spectacle with Lanthimos’ latest pic Kind of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness follows three separate stories with the same actors but the director had an idea to omit potential confusion. Along with Stone, the movie stars Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.
Kind of Kindness is slated for June 21, 2024 release.
