💥"It Sounded Like A Injury": Saltburn Director Reveals The Bizarre Origin Of The Movie Title💥
0"It Sounded Like A Injury": Saltburn Director Reveals The Bizarre Origin Of The Movie Title
Saltburn director Emerald Fennell reveals the interesting origins of the film’s title. The new movie is Fennell’s sophomore directorial feature, following her hit film Promising Young Woman. Saltburn has received positive reviews and has shocked both theatrical audiences and those now catching it on streaming with its outlandish twists and gasp-inducing scenes. This has sparked some divisive responses online amid the complimentary reviews.
Speaking with Access Hollywood, Fennell explains how Saltburn got its title. Fennell first explained that Saltburn is the name of a real town in England.
For all the lies, deception, and death present in Saltburn, there are equal amounts of erotic energy, crafting the kind of sensual sex injury effect that Fennell references. Star Barry Keoghan’s cunnilingus scene is as lewd as it is titillating, as Oliver surfaces from the ravenous moment blood-soaked yet satiated. In a similar vein, the infamous bathtub scene is viscerally disgusting but provides a fascinating quality to the grotesque attraction Oliver feels for Felix.
Saltburn is also a “pleasurable sting,” not just by the nature of its sexual sequences, but by how it operates as a whole. Saltburn’s shocking ending reveals that Oliver is not speaking with a therapist as the voiceover might suggest, but rather a comatose version of Elspeth, the last surviving member of the Catton family. It is there that Saltburn delivers its final twist in revealing how calculated Oliver was during the entire movie redoing scenes in which viewers initially sympathized with him.
Saltburn perhaps earns its title specifically in the ending sequence, where Oliver honors the death of all four Cattons by dancing, naked, in their mansion. By that point, the movie is a “pleasurable sting” with both eroticism and plot construction, showcasing its perverted protagonist in full devious glory. Therefore, while Saltburn’s title may have had an unusual motivation, the moniker works even better knowing the intentions behind Fennell’s choice