A Simple Favor (2018)

A Simple Favor (2018)
Director: Paul Feig
== Synopsis==
A woman (Anna Kendrick) seeks to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend (Blake Lively).
==Male Deaths==
*Eric Johnson [Davis]
*Dustin Milligan [Chris]
==Female Deaths==
*Blake Lively [Faith McLanden]
==Trivia==
*To accentuate the contrast between the scary and the funny, director Paul Feig made the decision to shoot the movie like a brightly-lit comedy. "Thrilling things happen in the daylight rather than in darkly lit rooms." He adds, "in the suburbs, there's not a lot of hiding among the white walls and bright windows."
*Anna Kendrick thinks that many women will be able to relate to Stephanie (Kendrick) and Emily's (Blake Lively) friendship because "Stephanie also wants validation from Emily." Kendrick says, "She's willing to put up with a lot of abuse because it's preferable to her loneliness."
*The character Emily Nelson in the film is a heavy drinker. In stark contrast, Blake Lively does not drink alcohol.
*One of the reasons that Blake Lively wanted Emily to wear suits was because she wanted to differentiate Emily from the character she played on the teen drama television series Gossip Girl (2007-2012). Both characters are women in fashion from the Upper East Side. 
*As noted in a recent article, Blake Lively deleted all of her Instagram photos and followed 28 accounts that share her character's name of Emily Nelson in the lead-up to this film's release.
*The film director Paul Feig convinced Anna Kendrick to take on the complicated role of Stephanie. He "especially loves her when she plays people who are sweet and helpful and candid --- and that is Stephanie." And he trusted that Kendrick would make sure that Stephanie had a backbone.
*Jessica Sharzer, the film's screenwriter, found the character of Emily enjoyable to write because she's "so fashionable and slick, but it's also a facade. Intriguingly, both Emily and Stephanie have dark pasts, but they hide them in very different ways..."
*"A Simple Favor" is author Darcey Bell's debut novel. The story Bell created was so engaging and cinematic that the film rights were purchased before the book had even been published.
*The most prominent part of the soundtrack consists of French songs from the '60s.
*To help promote "A Simple Favor" at CinemaCon in 2018, Blake Lively demonstrated how to make a 'perfect' martini onstage.
*In order to help the audience feel as though they were really following Stephanie's vlogs, director of photography John Schwartzman chose to re-film the vlog scenes as they played back on a very high-resolution monitor. The technique allowed him to incorporate the detailed texture of the pixels on screen.
*The scene where Emily (Blake Lively) swats Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) on her backside with the back of her hand was improvised by Lively; she believed it was appropriate for her character. Anna Kendrick’s yelp of pain and surprise was genuine.
*Director Paul Feig chose Henry Golding to play Emily's (Blake Lively) husband because Golding had a "beautiful voice" and he had "that ineffable sense of cool."
*In the scene where Emily (Blake Lively) makes her first appearance and is walking from her car in the rain, an umbrella blows past in front of her. This is a reference to a trope in almost every spaghetti western ever made, when two gunslingers approach each other and a tumbleweed blows by.
*Henry Golding and Paul Feig were inspired by Cary Grant when creating the character of Sean, though Golding does not think he could have done it without Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick. "Anna and Blake are forces to be reckoned with."
*This film was Blake Lively’s first role as a villain. 
==Gallery==
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Category:2018 Films
Category:Films directed by Paul Feig
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