THE MYSTIC SIDE OF THE UTOPIC WORLD
Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line
Cinema‘s Don’t Worry
Darling, is a compelling mystery film with a striking
treatment of the science fiction and psychological-thriller genres. Following
in the footsteps of 1998’s The Truman
Show, the production offers the audience an extraordinary story
with its striking visuals and reverse corner ending. In the movie directed by
the famous American actress Olivia Wilde,
Wilde is accompanied by two-time Oscar nominee
cinematographer Matthew
Libatique behind the camera. The costumes of the film,
whose music was composed by the famous Oscar-nominated British composer John Powell, were designed by the three-time Oscar
nominee American costume designer Arianne
Phillips. Although the film is presented as a luxury lifestyle
that takes the audience back to the Rat Pack era with the glamor and glamor of
the utopian world (with established gender roles), it criticizes the system
with its underlying socio-political references. “We wanted to show that it’s
not always easy to realize that the system you’re a part of is broken,” says
screenwriter Katie
Silberman. Overall, Don’t Worry Darling tells us a deep and
shocking love story within the framework of psychological-thriller. But its
background is surrounded by a dramatized simulation universe in which reality
and imagination are intertwined. Director/producer/actor Olivia Wilde says,
“This psychological thriller is my love letter to movies that push our
imagination.” says the director and opens the doors of a scary dream
universe to us.
PLOT OF THE FILM
In the 1950s, Alice (Pugh) and her husband Jack (Styles)
are fortunate to live in the ideal society of Victory,
a utopian experimental company town. While the men work every day at the town’s
top-secret Victory Project Headquarters,
their wives spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury, and debauchery of
their community. Life is perfect as the needs of every resident are met by the
company. All they ask in return is secrecy and unquestioned loyalty to the
Victory cause. But Alice begins to worry that the glamorous company may be
hiding troubling secrets, and she’s willing to lose what she has to reveal
what’s really going on in this utopian paradise.
Stars; Florence
Pugh, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne, Nick Kroll, Sydney
Chandler, Kate Berlant, Asif Ali, Douglas Smith, Timothy Simons, Ari’el
Stachel, Steve Berg and Chris Pine.
According to director Olivia Wilde:
“At the heart of our movie is Alice
Chambers, played by Florence Pugh,
and she’s such a witty, loving and warm character that it’s impossible not to
connect. I think he is someone you empathize with and connect with from the
very first moment as a spectator. And we meet this character in this incredibly
happy moment of his life, right at the point where he begins to question some
of the mysteries around him. And then we discover that he’s also brutally
brave. He’s so willing to put himself in danger that his dedication to finding
answers is sweeping us away.
Screenwriter Katie
Silberman describes the main characters, Alice and Jack, as
“young and modern even for this kind of ensemble.” They’re madly in love and
they’re a great team. They’re in the 1950s with dormant misogyny. They are
truly partners. They are equal. And friends.” Director Wilde says, “Choosing Jack was really tough
because we wanted to find someone who could be a worthy stage partner for
Florence. It also had to be someone we wouldn’t typically describe as the
traditional man of the 1950s. We wanted their relationship to look singular.
You quickly realize that he is not a stereotypical “master of the house”, their
love seems real, authentic and warm, and that is special at Victory. Jack and
Alice are different.” When we found them, the movie became their movie.
Florence and Harry worked hard together to create and bring this incredibly
original, warm, subtle human relationship to the screen. Our next job was to
decide who to line up around them.”
FRANK, CEO OF
VICTORY
Supervising every resident of the town and every employee of Project Victory is the ubiquitous and
all-knowing Frank, played by Chris Pine.
CEO, mayor, social leader and voice of conscience, Frank asks everyone to share
their philosophy and vision for progress. Among the inspirations for the
character of Frank are Earl
Nightingale, an American popular radio broadcaster and author
who is interested in personal growth, motivation and meaningful existence, and Zig Ziglar, the famous American motivational
speaker. And also American social philosopher and psychologist B.F. Skinner, who was also a professor of
psychology at Harvard
University evokes his work of psychological work on
behaviorism. The character of Frank is reminiscent of the emergence and
star-making popularity of the motivational/self-help figures of the era. Frank
is the kind of leader you’d do anything to follow. He inspires his employees to
be the best of themselves. It welcomes those who set out to change the world
and are brave enough to change the world with it. The filmmakers encouraged
this impressive cast to come up with the backstory of their characters during
their first rehearsal process, especially the husband and wife relationships.
Screenwriter Katie
Silberman says: “When we were working with them from the
very beginning, they brought these great ideas and we were able to push them
through the story. They found a lot in terms of their actual dynamic with each
other. All of this really came in handy during filming. It was really great.”
ARCHITECTURE OF
VICTORY TOWN
In general, the story takes place in Victory Town.
Its design reflects an American design movement MCM-Mid
Century Modern aesthetic in architecture and urban
development spanning America’s post-World War II era (popular from 1945 to
1969). Used as a style descriptor in the mid-1950s, the term was defined as a
design movement in 1984 by Cara
Greenberg in her book Mid-Century
Modern: The Furniture of the 1950s (Random House) and is now a major design movement
by scholars and is now recognized as an important design movement by scholars
and museums around the world.
DON’T WORRY DARLING
Don’t Worry Darling, a mystery, thriller and drama filmed in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California.
An exciting production that will drag you to the dark side of a utopian world.
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