Saltburn (2023) and Mean Girls (2024)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A pair of bang up to the minute films in this episode of Film Stories, both of which enjoyed the fruits of viral marketing. Saltburn (2023) had been in the head of its writer/director Emerald Fennell for years before she even got to work on her Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman (2020). The catalyst? A really rather famous scene in with a bathtub. But who could have guessed how the internet would take hold of her film post-release? In the case of Mean Girls (2024), the battle was on to hide what it actually was. The new take on the 2004 film of the same name was a musical, but you'd never guess that from the (very deliberate) way that Paramount marketed the movie. A movie that, incidentally, was originally intended for streaming services before getting a cinema upgrade... Stories of both are told in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:27.1	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:31.8	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:35.0	And a very, very warm welcome.
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0:40.5	You better not kill the girl. DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down.
0:45.6	Four, three, two, one.
0:47.2	Come with me.
0:49.8	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:52.8	In movies, movies that had stories.
0:55.0	That the story just sucks a man.
0:58.0	This is just the beginning.
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1:06.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew as always. That's
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