Promising Young Woman (2020)

Promising Young Woman (2020)
Director: Emerald Fennell
==Synopsis==
A young woman (Carey Mulligan), traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path. 
==Male Deaths==
*None
==Female Deaths==
*Carey Mulligan [Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas]
==Gallery==
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==Posters==
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==Trivia==
#The title is a reference to Brock Turner, a Stanford University student who was convicted of sexual assault in 2016. Despite the conviction, he was referred to by some as a "promising young man."
#Alison Brie and Adam Brody both starred in Scream 4 (2011).
#Chris Lowell and Max Greenfield both starred in Veronica Mars.
#Max Greenfield, Adam Brody and Sam Richardson have all appeared in the TV show New Girl.
#Alison Brie and Chris Lowell appear in the series Glow together.
#The very first scene writer Emerald Fennell thought of was a female character lying on a bed while someone takes her pants down, as she is drunkenly asking "What are you doing?", then asking the same question in a completely sober manner. She wrote the rest of the film based on this idea, and the full scene did end up in the finished film.
#The words "rape" and "sexual assault" are not spoken in the film.
#In an interview, Emerald Fennell said that Carey Mulligan was very nervous about having to act drunk, a notoriously difficult thing to do. Fennell reminded her that she wasn't actually acting drunk, but rather was playing a character that was sober, pretending to be drunk, so it didn't need to be perfect. This helped Mulligan relax, and Fennell was quick to point out that her drunk acting was very good.
#Upon scoring the lead role, Carey Mulligan was sent a playlist by director Emerald Fennell, that would set the mood for the film. 'Toxic' by Britney Spears featured twice. Fennell is a self-declared massive fan of Spears and considers the song to be one of the best of all time. At the same time, she wanted to rebel against a dismissive notion that female pop culture is "guilty pleasure," and therefore made it an integral part of the audiovisual side of the film.
#Took a total of 23 days to film.
#Emerald Fennell receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Director, along with Chloé Zhaofor Nomadland (2020), marked the first time two women have been nominated in the category in the same year. They were also only the sixth and seventh female directors to be nominated for Best Director.
#Emerald Fennell said that one advantage to filming in L.A. was that production was able to entice a lot of her first choice actors to sign on for the smaller roles in the film, since it involved little to no travel and a much shorter time commitment on their part. She referred to the cast as a whole as "an embarrassment of riches."
#With this film, Emerald Fennell is the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for a debut film.
#The book Cassie reads while working at the coffee shop is titled "Careful How You Go," which is a nod to Emerald Fennell's 2018 short film of the same name, starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Daniel Rigby, and Linda Bassett.
#Emerald Fennell deliberately chose Paris Hilton's "Stars are Blind" for the pharmacy dance scene. In an interview she said she wanted "a song, that if the guy knew the lyrics to it, you would immediately fall in love with him".
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