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OT: "Line Reading Heaven" -- How Carey Mulligan Reads Her Lines in the "Promising Young Woman" Trailer


This is perhaps "quasi-on topic," because I'm here posting on a trailer for new movie that has some of that "funny-horror" Hitchcock feel(in his Psycho/Frenzy mode.)

Its called "Promising Young Woman," its coming in April to the US and it stars Carey Mulligan, who was pretty promising herself over a decade ago but never quite caught on as a star.

Maybe this time. Because her line readings, facial expressions, and changes of disguise in the trailer are "to die for." Literally.

The trailer lays out the premise WITH line reading:

Carey is drunk at a bar. A "nice guy" picks her up and takes her home. And, seeing as she's drunk, he starts to undress her for sex on the bed. "What'rre ya doin?" she slurs once. He continues. "Whaaaa...rre ya duin?" she murmurs more drunkenly. And as he doesn't stop, she sobers up entirely, rises from the bed to a sitting position and asks with great clarity: "What ...are ...you...DOING?"

So she wasn't drunk at all, she was trapping the man and though we don't see it...looks to me like she kills him. And others. The same way.

I don't know if this movie is going to be good or bad, but Carey Mulligan's every line reading, every facial expression, every body movement in the trailer is the essence of entertainment, to me. Line readings can never be discounted as key to a good movie.

We shall see.

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PYM debuted at Sundance last week so there *are* reviews of it, e.g.,
https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/promising-young-woman-movie-review-carey-mulligan.html

Vulture was +ve with reservations. It sounds like a must see (& possible zeitgeisty hit) notwithstanding its flaws.

There were a whole bunch of ambitious semi-horrors last year that were flawed but worth seeing: Us, Midsommar, The Lighthouse, The Nightingale (by the writer-directors of Get Out, Hereditary, The Witch, The Babadook respectively). None got any awards love because they're all less than triumphs, but each has high-points that are hard to shake. PYM has a shot at being in this category for 2020.

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