Saltburn
WARNING : MAJOR SPOILERS in advance for Saltburn .
Summary
There is a smashing issue of hidden details and references in Emerald Fennell’sSaltburn , many of them which would be difficult to blot even after multiple viewings . While the film is being mostly verbalize about for its most twisted scenes and graphic symbol , there is also a wealth of literary , historic , and cinematic extension that can be detect throughoutSaltburnwith a heedful middle . Because of the electric shock value that totally takes over the motion picture upon first watch , Saltburnhas try that it requires multiple viewings to full capture the breadth of its influence .
Fennell , who attended Oxford University at the same time during which her characters do inSaltburn , pulled some details of the now - classic 2006 - 2007 earned run average into the world of her flick . She has publically mentioned some of her more obvious celluloid inspirations such as 1999 ’s cultus hitCruel Intentionsas well as the not - so - unmistakable dark influence of Stanley Kubrick’sA Clockwork Orange(viaThe human face ) . The ending result is a seemingly straightforward psychological thriller that has many more easter eggs than meets the oculus .
Saltburn ’s wild ending leaves several question and secret wall Ollie , the Saltburn estate , and the Catton kinfolk altogether .
10“Zadok The Priest” Lyric Change
Fennell recently took to societal medium to point out that the opening strain titled " Zodak The Priest " made a hide language change as it played over the title card . Fennell said,“Saltburn ’s opening sequence was written , filmed & edited to Handel ’s Zadok the Priest : the coronation stem . Which Anthony Willis beautifully re - orchestrated . But here when the deed appear the choir does n’t whistle “ Zadok the Priest ” , they sing “ Oliver Quick ” . Long survive the king!“If anyone knew what they were looking for , the end of the movie is suggest at in its very first second .
9The Minotaur
Oliver garb as a deer during his natal day party and on the night he killed Felix underneath a Minotaur statue . The ocular references to the Minotaur are very clean but the meaning of it requires a cryptical nosedive into Greek mythology than merely going off the information presented in the film alone . The Minotaur was a notoriously furious half - human beings , half - pig figure who ate people , much like how Venetia accused Ollie of " eating " Felix and " licking the photographic plate " . The Minoatur is also pertain to a Greek human body identify Theseus , who has a like upgrade to power to Ollie .
8Felix’s Doppelgänger
Another out of sight detail in Saltburn actually in brief shows Felix ’s doppelgänger as a foreshadowing of his precarious fate . During a scene in which the Catton family and Ollie talk about the the British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , Felix ’s doppelgänger can be seen for a very short moment over his shoulder joint . This is a direct reference to the poet that they are discuss at breakfast , since Shelley magnificently see his doppelgänger before dying by drown . Fennell confirmed that she mean to put this contingent in Saltburn but made certain that it was well obscure to avert potentially spoiling her own pic .
7A Midsummer Night’s Dream Party
Ollie ’s birthday party atSaltburnis esthetically themed to William Shakespeare ’s famous comedyA Midsummer Night ’s Dream . The deer antlers that Ollie wears is a reference to the changeling male child at the center of the Shakespeare play , before his blue side transforms him into the Minotaur , that is . Other mention to Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night ’s Dreaminclude the costumes of Queen Titania , who Elspeth is dressed up as , and Duke Theseus , who and Sir James dresses as in a suit of armor .
Saltburn is loaded with hilariously bizarre and wildly disturbing scenes that result in some of the most distorted cinematic moments of 2023 .
6“The Shining” Labyrinth
The Labyrinth inSaltburnis belike a combining of a historical reference to the Minotaur as well as a cinematic credit to Kubrick’sThe Shining . In Grecian mythology , the Minotaur is condemned and trapped to live on in a tangle called the Labyrinth , where he kill and rust intruders until Theseus kills him . This Greek myth , which inform Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night ’s Dream , paints Ollie as both the Minotaur and Theseus , depending on how you watch his execution of Felix . The maze inThe Shiningis where Jack Nicholson ’s fiber famously descends into rage and try on to wipe out his family .
5Death Foreshadowing
outdoors of Felix ’s doppleganger decease adumbration , there are two other example that hint at succeeding Catton family deaths . When Venetia overrun her looking glass of wine-colored at the dinner party mesa following Felix ’s death , this is a adumbration of her eventual death in a bathtub full of her own ancestry . In the same conniption , Elspeth cash in one’s chips on her food , hinting at her cause of death when Ollie later take out the incubator tube out of her and she chokes to death .
4Gothic Literature
There are many references to Gothic literature inSaltburn . Fennell has expressed that bothThe Go - Betweenby L.P. Hartley ( 1953 ) andRebeccaby Daphne du Maurier ( 1938 ) were inspiration forSaltburn . The solemn scene is also inspired byWuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë ( 1847)in which Heathcliff digs to his lover Cathy ’s casket , which provides a interchangeable medieval context . Fennell also gave Jacob Elordi a copy ofBrideshead Revistedby Evelyn Waugh ( 1945 ) to help get him into character .
The ending of Emerald Fennell ’s Saltburn is ramp up on a connection of Trygve Halvden Lie spun by Oliver Quick and reveals the misrepresented level of his compulsion with Felix .
3“Superbad” Screener
James and Felix Catton check up at the 2007 hit comedy movieSuperbadduring an early scene inSaltburn , which some viewers have point out could be a logistical computer error since the film was put out in August 2007 . With the events at the Saltburn estate beginning in June 2007 , this would mean that the film , which seems to be principally to offer secular context , had n’t been released yet . Fennell has responded to this with the justification thatthe Catton ’s had received a screener to watch over the motion picture ahead of meter .
2Mid-2000’s Aesthetic
The mid-2000 ’s artistic is paint all over sure scenes and moment inSaltburn , peculiarly in Felix ’s stud piercing above his left eye . The hairstyle for Farleigh was also animate byHigh School Musicalactor Corbin Bleu ’s iconic afro and Ollie ’s hair in the first of the plastic film at Oxford was inspired by Zac Efron ’s look in the same movie . Felix ’s style flair was inspired by Prince Harry ’s aspect at the time and Venetia ’s aesthetic was heavily inspired by Keira Knightley .
1Theseus Statue
During a view in which Ollie and Elspeth blab out outside at Saltburn , a statue of Theseus can be seen behind them as he is kill the Minotaur . In Greek mythology , Theseus would become the King of Athens by tricking his own begetter into committing suicide . In this light , Theseus is representative of Ollie , who essentially fob Elspeth into giving him Saltburn upon her death , which directly , unbeknownst to her , led to her death . James also might have died by self-destruction as well but that remains unreadable . While Ollie can be interpret through several lenses inSaltburn , the influence of both Theseus and the Minotaur are certainly present .
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Written and directed by Emerald Fennell , Saltburn is a 2023 drollery - thriller film . When Oxford scholar Oliver Quick is invited to his friend Felix ’s sept ’s wealthy estate , Saltburn , for a summertime holiday , he is drawn into the populace of off-the-wall characters and increasingly helter-skelter event as his obsession with Felix comes to a school principal .
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, Saltburn is a 2023 comedy-thriller film. When Oxford student Oliver Quick is invited to his friend Felix’s family’s wealthy estate, Saltburn, for a summer vacation, he is drawn into the world of eccentric characters and increasingly chaotic events as his obsession with Felix comes to a head.
