Movies often feature gross-out scenes that, while uncomfortable for viewers, have fascinating behind-the-scenes stories. For example, the "Captain's Dinner" scene in Triangle of Sadness required meticulous planning and special effects, involving tubes and fake vomit over multiple days. In The Substance, practical effects were prioritized for characters, with extensive makeup work leading to intense filming conditions. Meanwhile, Saltburn director Emerald Fennell conceptualized key scenes around emotional themes, demonstrating how creative vision drives these unforgettable cinematic moments. These insights reveal the artistry and effort behind some of cinema's most shocking scenes.
According to Variety, in Triangle of Sadness, the "Captain's Dinner" scene, which ends in an explosion of seasickness, took multiple days to film. The actors had to wear tubes on their faces, and the SFX crew pumped fake vomit - including pieces of octopus and shrimp - out of it. The scene was so complicated to film that it was planned two years before filming began.
In The Substance, Gollum and Monstro were almost completely practical. Prosthetics and makeup effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin told GQ, "Coralie Fargeat, the writer/director] wanted to use practical effects as [much as] possible. I would sometimes suggest we use VFX and she would immediately say no, because she doesn't like VFX." For Gollum, Demi Moore spent seven hours in the makeup chair, where the upper half of her body was covered in prosthetics.
Saltburn writer/director Emerald Fennell told Entertainment Weekly, "The bathtub was the first thing, the first image, that came to me. It was a boy saying, 'I wasn't in love with him,' and that same boy licking the bottom of a bathtub. So that was the very center of the film for me, this kind of unreliable narrator, somebody who was clearly in the grips of extreme desire and who hasn't yet come to terms with it or who has had to find another way of coming to terms with it or explain it."
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