So, you know, things that the children say when they're possessed - or things that children allegedly said when they were possessed, you know. But certain things I did keep intact because I think that there's some weight to it. And so early drafts for it were a kind of monstrous collage of other people's words that I then had to hone into giving all the characters their own unique voices. And then I was just reading tons of primary source material and jotting down sentences and phrases and organizing them in my own sort of Puritan phrasebook - things that you would say about farming, things that you would say when you're chastising your children, things that you would say about whatever. But writing in it certainly is complicated, so I had to study the vocabulary, and I had to study the grammar. You were paying attention to those kinds of details.ĮGGERS: I do have a background in Shakespeare's so early modern English isn't, like, extremely foreign or terrifying to me. And like watching Shakespeare or something, it took me a few minutes to get in the groove of the words and the rhythm of their speech. You know, the language in this film, though, is very particular. MARTIN: So Kate is suspicious that something is not right, and William's saying just - we need to fix our gaze on God.
INESON: (As William) No, he has taken us into a very low condition to humble us and to show us more of his grace.
KATE DICKIE: (As Katherine) He hath cursed this family. RALPH INESON: (As William) We must turn our thoughts towards God, not ourselves. This is a moment at night when the husband and wife in this family, Kate and William, are trying to process these travails that face them, and they are having an intimate conversation late at night. MARTIN: Let's listen to a clip from the film. And I wanted to make an archetypal New England horror story that would feel like a nightmare from the past - like an inherited nightmare that would, hopefully, connect with some ancestral fears that are knocking around in the unconscious of Western culture today that we had forgotten about. And this may sound precious, but New England's past was always very much part of consciousness. MARTIN: Why'd you want to tell a story like this?ĮGGERS: I grew up in New England. When you're dealing with witches, that's what you're doing with. But feminism or female empowerment just rises to the top. And in making this film about Thomasin, I didn't set out to make a feminist film. The evil witch manifested herself as men's fears, desires, ambivalences and fantasies about women and female power. What was really interesting in doing this is to understand what a witch was in the early modern period. And being a young woman, she's kind of in the lowest place you could possibly be on the social scale. Thomasin - being a Puritan doesn't really suit her. So, Caleb, who's about 12 or so - he's grasped the rules a bit better. In order for us to kind of get in there, we have to be able to see things through the eyes of the children who are still learning about what the rules of the world are. The witch is a witch like a stone is a stone or a tree is a tree. And it's very crucial for us to invest in the film and believe in the witch as a given reality. ROBERT EGGERS: Modern audiences aren't extremely familiar with the worldview of pious English Calvinists from the 17th century.ĮGGERS: Yeah. And he told us it was important to him to try to convey to his audience what it was like to live, not just in this time, but in this very particular culture. I talked with the writer and director Robert Eggers. dramatic category at Sundance last year and has been getting rave reviews since it came out in February.
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MARTIN: The movie won the directing award in the U.S. It's the ominous color of the film and the oppressive music. The film is technically a horror film, but a lot of the terror you feel while watching it isn't traditional blood and gore.
And then, the family's newborn baby disappears - and that's just the beginning. The father, William, is so pious he's banished from their settlement, and he sets up on a farmstead of his own on the edge of a mysterious wood. They've come to the New World to start a new life. The film follows a family of English Puritans. It takes place in 1630s New England, a few decades before the Salem witch trials.
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