When Newburn combed through the Beau Is Afraid script, he quickly discovered this project would require a whole different set of tools. Newburn’s company, Applied Arts FX Studio, worked with Aster on Hereditary, designing the head used in that film’s unforgettable decapitation scene as well as the miniatures that Toni Collette’s artist makes. Every dollar counted, especially when constructing something so elaborate.
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That alone was a meaty undertaking: With a reported $35 million budget, Beau Is Afraid is A24’s most expensive movie to date. But first, Aster and Newburn had to figure out how their penis monster would look and function.
Why wouldn’t there be a frighteningly large phallus looming in the recesses of his biography?įreud would have a field day with all this oedipal symbolism. Terrified he’ll meet an identical fate, Beau has stayed cellibate, substituting a needy push and pull with mommy dearest for carnal comforts. His grandfather and great-grandfather allegedly expired the same way. It makes sense: Beau Is Afraid, now open in wide release, is about a misfit whose mother, Mona (a barn-burning Patti LuPone), told him his dad died on top of her while he was being conceived. “I’ve never talked about sex so much on a movie,” Newburn tells Vanity Fair. But none were more offbeat than a roughly 16-foot-tall animatronic penis monster sitting in the corner of a dim attic. Ari Aster’s three-hour trek through the life of a paranoid 49-year-old virgin ( Joaquin Phoenix) required several unorthodox effects, including Parker Posey frozen in rigor mortis at the exact moment her character orgasms. Steve Newburn has created Hollywood prosthetics for more than two decades, but he’s never had an assignment like Beau Is Afraid.
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