#264: Lady Killers, Pt. 2 — Promising Young Woman

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Though Emerald Fennell has cited Mary Harron’s AMERICAN PSYCHO as one of the inspiration points for her buzzy debut feature PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, there’s not a whole lot obviously linking the films in terms of protagonist, narrative, or even their respective satirical targets. But as we discuss in this week’s comparison, both woman-directed films are deeply concerned with ideas of male privilege and toxic masculinity, make ample use of high-pop needledrops, and engage with violence in a heightened and stylized manner that underlines their thematic concerns. We get into all that, plus Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about AMERICAN PSYCHO, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: Scott: Abel Ferrara’s MS. 45 Keith: Mary Harron/Guinevere Turner’s THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE and CHARLIE SAYS Tasha: “Emerald Fennel Explains Herself” by Angelica Jade Bastién (Vulture.com) Genevieve: Eugene Ashe’s SYLVIE’S LOVE Outro Music: Juice Newton, “Angel of the Morning” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.4	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:20.1	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:26.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:34.5	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:41.3	I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with Genevieve Kosky.
0:44.5	Scott Tobias.
0:45.6	And Keith Phipps.
0:46.7	On last week's show, we talked about Mary Heron's American Psycho, a pitch-black satire of the 1980s that centers on a man who spends his days obsessing about
0:54.5	image and is nights hunting down and murdering people, particularly women.
0:58.5	Writer director Emerald Thunel has said it's one of the films that inspired her debut feature,
1:02.7	promising young woman, which starts off centered on a woman who goes out at night hunting
1:06.6	down and punishing men.
1:08.0	Initially on the surface, these are very different films, where Patrick
1:10.9	Baitman and American Psycho is a grotesquely rich businessman and a higher-powered job, who seems to do
1:15.9	nothing but harass his secretary, adjust the pencils on his desk, and jockey for social position,
1:20.6	Cassie and promising young woman is an under-employed, outwardly fairly cheery med school dropout,
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