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Explore the meticulous world-building of Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights.' The acclaimed director breaks down how every visual element, from the fabric of a chair to the color palette of a dress, was chosen for a specific emotional reason.
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00:00I think the thing about the gothic and you know any gothic literature making any gothic you know
00:06cinema is that everything is pathetic fallacy right it's not just the weather that is stormy
00:11when people are feeling sad or sunny when people are happy it's that the clothes that they wear
00:17the rooms that they inhabit reflect their emotional landscape so so much of everything
00:22that we made in this movie was to do with that whether it's to do with the underside of things
00:27having hair on them for example so the underside of staircases the underside of tables often had fur
00:33or hair and it's kind of always about looking not just at color but at texture and kind of explaining
00:39as best as you can what a world feels like emotionally and so when it comes to the color
00:43palette of the clothes for example it made sense that Kathy makes an imprint on the world that she's
00:48in Kathy is kind of like burns an image onto any space and so we wanted to make sure that
00:53her clothes
00:54were very graphic so they're black white red and you know Cajun like a silver because she's always
00:58a kind of sort of indelible shape but when it comes to Isabella she's sort of soft and pastel and
01:03she
01:04has trims which kind of give her this sort of sense of like disappearing into any room that she's in
01:09and
01:09so it's just always about looking at what is the emotional reason for making anything whether it's
01:14like the camera shot or you know the fabric on a chair

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