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[65] In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gillian Murphy, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre praised the visual elements of the film but noted that the film presentation of the ballet world was "extreme. It received a standing ovation whose length Variety said made it "one of the strongest Venice openers in recent memory". Nina is overwhelmed by a feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the part, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into madness. Black Swan Vigilant, Resolute, Defiant, Intrepid Gasket Kit $26.95. The following day, Nina asks Thomas to reconsider choosing her to play the role. [51] In its third weekend, it expanded again to 959 theaters and grossed $8,383,479. "[61] Similarly, in a piece for The Huffington Post, Rob Kirkpatrick praised Portman's performance but compared the film's story to that of Showgirls (1995) and Burlesque (2010) while concluding Black Swan is "simply higher-priced cheese, Aronofsky's camembert to [Burlesque director Steve] Antin's cheddar. Black Swan premiered as the opening film for the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2010. At a gala celebrating the new season, an intoxicated Beth confronts Nina, accusing her of sleeping with Thomas to get the role. But what was amazing to me was how similar the performers in both of these worlds are. [47] The film took in a total of $415,822 on its opening day, averaging $23,101 per theater. Black Swan's Adhesive-Lube is a unique, black, one component liquid neoprene adhesive developed to improve installation and sealing of compression type gaskets for cast iron pipe joints.It is strongly recommended for joining all untarred pipe and fittings and for all tarred large diameters (5" through 15") pipe and fittings. Learn about Black Swan: discover its cast ranked by popularity, see when it released, view trivia, and more. Producers. Black Swan was released on Dec. 3, 2010, and became one of the most unforgettable films of the decade. The film went on to gross over $106 million in the United States and over $329 million worldwide.[3]. I was concerned if that would affect the suspense, but after a while I said, "screw it, let's go for it. The last scene (slightly edited) from the movie "Black Swan" directed by Darren Aronofsky.All rights to the video belong to Fox Searchlight Pictures. Add To Cart. Mental status examination 6. All of that technical prowess of style for Black Swan is impressive considering its nowadays-minuscule budget of $12 million. [5], Aronofsky called Black Swan a companion piece to his previous film The Wrestler, recalling one of his early projects about a love affair between a wrestler and a ballerina. Upon release, it received critical acclaim with particular praise toward Aronofsky's direction and the performances of Kunis and Portman; it was also a commercial success, grossing $330 million worldwide against a $13 million budget. Barbara Hershey Erica Sayers/The Queen. Your whole body has to be structured differently. A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". [62] Vulture's Kyle Buchanan also noted the similarities of the film's plot to the widely derided Showgirls, and said that the director Darren Aronofsky "owes a feather-tip to Paul Verhoeven’s exploitation classic more than [he] might be willing to admit". She confronts Thomas, who becomes so impressed by her confidence that he allows her to perform as Odette. Personal and family history 5. Mila Kunis Lily/The Black Swan. [27][28] Part of filming took place at the Performing Arts Center at State University of New York at Purchase. "[23] When Aronofsky proposed a detailed outline of Black Swan to Universal Pictures, the studio decided to fast-track development of the project in January 2007. It had a limited release in the United States starting December 3, 2010 and opened in wide release on December 17. | A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". [75] It was featured on the American Film Institute's 10 Movies of the Year. Honeycutt commended Millepied's "sumptuous" choreography and Libatique's "darting, weaving" camera work. Thomas orders some of the dancers to go get help and frantically asks Nina what happened to her. Rojo called the film "lazy ... featuring every ballet cliche going." Introduction: Nina Sayers Continued Medical History 1. [23], The non-original music featured in Black Swan consists of music by Tchaikovsky featuring performances on-screen and in the soundtrack by violinist Tim Fain[30] and a track of electronica dance music by English production duo The Chemical Brothers. I really wanted the camera to dance, but I was nervous about shooting a psychological thriller/horror film with a hand-held camera. Black Swan. [4] When researching for the production of Black Swan, Aronofsky found ballet to be "a very insular world" whose dancers were "not impressed by movies". "[21] On the decade's wait before production, she said, "The fact that I had spent so much time with the idea ... allowed it to marinate a little before we shot. [52] The Region 2/Region B version was released on May 16, 2011. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 85% based on 310 reviews, and an average rating of 8.2/10. "[55] Leonard Maltin, on his blog Movie Crazy, admitted that he "couldn't stand" the film, despite praising Natalie Portman's performance. [67][68] In response to comparisons between Perfect Blue and Black Swan, Aronofsky acknowledged the similarities in 2010, but denied that Black Swan was inspired by Perfect Blue. M. Mila Kunis. During the closing credits, the major cast members were credited both as their film characters as well as their corresponding characters from Swan Lake. "[70], ABT dancer Sarah Lane served as a "dance double" for Portman in the film. Nina receives a standing ovation from the audience and, after surprising Thomas with a passionate kiss, returns to her dressing room. [50] On its second weekend the film expanded to 90 theaters, and grossed $3.3 million, ranking it as the sixth film at the box-office. Cast. Realizing the fight never occurred, yet the mirror is still broken, she also realizes that she actually stabbed herself and pulls a shard of glass from her own abdomen. Intrepid II Catalyst $119.00. Some found its theatricality maddening, but most declared themselves 'swept away'. They both make incredible use of their bodies to express themselves. it amazes me everytime i watch it and everything is perfect. The film stocks on 35mm would become so glossy that they'd get close to what people are doing on video. [5] Portman explained being part of Black Swan, "I'm trying to find roles that demand more adulthood from me because you can get stuck in a very awful cute cycle as a woman in film, especially being such a small person. He wrote, "[Black Swan] is an instant guilty pleasure, a gorgeously shot, visually complex film whose badness is what's so good about it. Goodridge described Portman's performance, "[She] is captivating as Nina ... she captures the confusion of a repressed young woman thrown into a world of danger and temptation with frightening veracity." You can't just stay in there and like pretend you know what you're doing. [54], In September 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that based on reviews from the film's screening at the Venice Film Festival, "[Black Swan] is already set to be one of the year's most love-it-or-hate-it movies. [35] The festival's artistic director Marco Mueller had chosen Black Swan over The American (starring George Clooney) for opening film, saying, "[It] was just a better fit ... Clooney is a wonderful actor, and he will always be welcome in Venice. [7], Aronofsky first discussed with Portman the possibility of a ballet film in 2000, and he found she was interested in playing a ballet dancer. [29] Aronofsky said: I like Super 16 because the cameras are really light, really moveable. The director had also seen numerous productions of Swan Lake, and he connected the duality of the White Swan and the Black Swan to the script. ... Click the button below to add the Intrepid Flexburn Cast Black to your wish list. Sarah Lane, a soloist at ABT, did the heavy tricks, she did the fouettés, but they only had her for a limited time, a couple of weeks, so I did the rest of whatever dance shots they needed. Henry Morgan Thomas Mitchell Tommy Blue George Sanders Capt. Main and secondary symptoms 3. He also stood backstage to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. With prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre being forced into retirement, artistic director Thomas Leroy announces he is looking for a new dancer to portray the dual role of the innocent White Swan Odette and the sensual Black Swan Odile. Upon arriving at Lincoln Center, she finds Lily dancing as Odile and confronts her about their night together. The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina (Portman) is a perfect fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities better embodied by the new rival Lily (Kunis). Lily. When Lily denies that the sexual part of the evening had ever taken place, Nina wonders whether or not their sexual encounter was a hallucination. "[53] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out to reviews, the film received an average score of 79 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Nina turns it down, but later accepts a drink laced with ecstasy powder. Nina Sayers. Later that day, Nina sees the cast list and discovers, much to her surprise and that of her overprotective mother Erica, she will be portraying the lead. That's what [Nina] lacks. [38] It also had a Gala screening at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival later in the month. You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible." Not just the prince but the court, but the audience, the entire world. AKA: ''Le Cygne Noir'', Чорний лебiдь, Shavi gedi, Cisne Negro, El cisne negro. Regardless, the director found active and inactive dancers to share their experiences with him. He compared the two films: "Wrestling some consider the lowest art—if they would even call it art—and ballet some people consider the highest art. [24] The project "sort of died, again" according to Aronofsky, until after the making of The Wrestler (2008), when he had Mark Heyman, director of development of Aronofsky's production company Protozoa Pictures, write for Black Swan "and made it something that was workable. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Darren Aronofsky first became interested in ballet when his sister studied dance at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. Nina also falls victim to several hallucinations of a doppelgänger following her wherever she goes and finds unexplained scratch marks on her back. Aronofsky cites Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double as another inspiration for the film. Upon the film's release in the United Kingdom, The Guardian interviewed four professional ballet dancers in the UK: Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson, and Elena Glurjidze. [4] Portman worked out for five hours a day, doing ballet, cross-training, and swimming. After consuming it, Nina become sexually interested in not only the men at the bar, but Lily as well. "[5] About the psychological thriller nature of Black Swan, actress Natalie Portman compared the film's tone to Polanski's 1968 film Rosemary's Baby,[6] while Aronofsky said Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and The Tenant (1976) were "big influences" on the final film. We know that Natalie Portman studied ballet as a kid and had a year of intensive training for the film, but that doesn't add up to being a ballerina. [34], Black Swan had its world premiere as the opening film at the 67th Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2010. "[59] Mike Goodridge from Screen Daily called Black Swan "alternately disturbing and exhilarating" and described the film as a hybrid of The Turning Point and Polanski's films Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. 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Black Swan: A black swan is an event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and is extremely difficult to predict. Come on! "[22], The screenplay The Understudy was written by Andres Heinz; Aronofsky first heard about it while editing his second film Requiem for a Dream (2000) and described it as "All About Eve with a double, set in the off-Broadway world." Seduce us! Furthermore, the corps ballet's costumes were designed by Zack Brown (for the American Ballet Theatre), and slightly adapted by Westcott and her costume design department. The per location average was the second highest for the opening weekend of 2010 behind The King's Speech. The following day, Nina discovers that Beth was hit by a car while walking in the street and Thomas believes she did it on purpose. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, makeup department head (as Margie Durand), additional hair stylist (as Valerie Gladstone), special effects makeup assistant (as Emma Jacobs), additional makeup artist (as Angela L. Johnson), prosthetic makeup designer (as Mike Marino), special makeup effects artist (uncredited), first assistant director (as Joseph Reidy), assistant property master (as Jasmine Ballou), construction production assistant (as Noreen E. Souza-Bailey), additional graphic artist: props (uncredited), re-recording mixer / sound designer / supervising sound editor, additional boom person (as Brendan O'Brien), supervising adr editor / supervising dialogue editor, datasat sound mastering engineer (uncredited), special effects coordinator (as Conrad Brink), special effects contact lenses (uncredited), digital compositor: Look Effects (as Cyntia Buell), visual effects executive producer: Look Effects, president: Look Effects (as Mark Driscoll), additional visual effects supervisor: Look Effects, compositor: Look Effects (as Kelly Fisher), flame artist: Look Effects (as David Geoghagen), digital compositor: Look Effects / digital compositor: visual effects, digital compositor: Look Effects (as Danny Kim), 3D artist: Look Effects (as Jessica Y.C. When Lily transforms into Nina's evil twin, the two engage in a fight that ends with Nina stabbing the doppelgänger with a shard of glass from a mirror that gets smashed, only to reveal that it is actually Lily who has been stabbed. An article in the British newspaper The Independent suggested those costumes had actually been created by Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy. She stated: "Natalie took class, she studied for several months, from the waist up is her. Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by Darren Aronofsky. Add to Compare. A few months closer to filming, she began choreography training. ", "Is Black Swan the Art-House Version of Showgirls? The website's critical consensus reads, "Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction—and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman. So the reason why Nina’s story plays out how it does is because Black Swan is an extreme depiction of the well-documented psychological issues ballerinas face. He and Portman first discussed the project in 2000, and after a brief attachment to Universal Studios, Black Swan was produced in New York City in 2009 by Fox Searchlight Pictures. [15] In a March 3 blog entry for Dance Magazine, editor-in-chief Wendy Perron asked: "Do people really believe that it takes only one year to make a ballerina? Nina forces her way past her mother, shouting, "I'm the Swan Queen, you're the one who never left the corps!". [15] Dancer Kimberly Prosa also served as a double for Portman. After making The Fountain (2006), Aronofsky and producer Mike Medavoy had screenwriter John McLaughlin rewrite The Understudy; Aronofsky said McLaughlin "took my idea of Swan Lake and the ballet and put [the story] into the ballet world and changed the title to Black Swan. [43] In November 2010, the film was screened at American Film Institute's AFI Fest in Los Angeles, the Denver Film Festival and Camerimage Festival in Bydgoszcz, Poland. [48] By the end of its opening weekend it grossed $1,443,809—$80,212 per theater. Westcott said: "Controversy is too complimentary a word for two people using their considerable self-publicising resources to loudly complain about their credit once they realized how good the film is. Winona Ryder Beth MacIntyre/ The Dying Swan. Watson felt that the film "makes [ballet] look so naff and laughable. Billy Leech Anthony Quinn Wogan George Zucco Lord Denby Edward Ashley Roger Ingram Fortunio Bonanova Don Miguel Stuart Robertson Capt. Nina replies to him that her performance was perfect and loses consciousness as the screen slowly fades to blinding white light and the credits roll. Lai), roto/paint: Look Effects (as Martin Mcgreevy), 3D artist: Look Effects (as York Schueller), digital compositor: Look Effects (as Greg Silverman), digital compositor: Look Effects (as Katherine Filtrani), 3D artist: Look Effects (as Antonello Stornello), additional visual effects producer: Look Effects, digital compositor: Look Effects (as Chris Wesselman), roto/paint: Look Effects (as Melissa Widdup), stunt double: Natalie Portman (uncredited), generator operator (as Nicholas Cupkovic), company electric (as Samuel Gonzalez Jr.), theatrical follow spot operator (as Craig P. Harris), theatrical chief lighting (as Lorne Mac Dougall), theatrical follow spot operator (as James J. Manzione), theatrical house flyman (as Kevin Mccarthy), theatrical follow spot operator (as James F. Mccullagh), company electric (as Kabkeo 'Ozzie' Phothivongsa), first assistant camera (as Aurelia J. Winborn), dailies project manager (as Kristyn Dipane), assistant location manager (as Dan Tresca), adaptor: music from "Swan Lake" / arranger: music from "Swan Lake" / score conductor / score orchestrator, recording artist liaison (as Mary Anne Hobbs), adaptor: music from "Swan Lake" / arranger: music from "Swan Lake", midi preparation (as David Russell) / score preparation (as David Russell), music: digital orchestral timings (uncredited), transportation co-captain (as Peter J. Clores), transportation captain (as Steven Hammond), contact lens consultant (as Dr. Mitchell Cassel), post-production accountant: Trevanna Post (as Jennifer Freed), post-production accountant: Trevanna Post, personal coach: Mr. Cassel (as Vernice Klier-Moskowitz), production secretary (as M. Baldwin Lewis), completion guarantor: Film Finances, Inc. (as Paula Manzanedo-Schmit), assistant to producers (as Alexandra Mendes), motion designer: Cross Creek Pictures (uncredited), additional production assistant (uncredited). Black Swan (2010 Film) Cast List by Darren Aronofsky About Black Swan (2010 Film) Black Swan (2010 Film) Summary Character List Cast List Director's Influence Glossary Themes Quotes Analysis Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Irony Imagery Literary Elements Essay Questions The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. Thomas Leroy/The Gentleman: Not so controlled. [33], The Chemical Brothers' music, which is featured prominently during the club scene in Black Swan, is omitted from the soundtrack album. He eventually separated the wrestling and the ballet worlds as "too much for one movie". [37] Black Swan was presented in a sneak screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2010. According to The Independent, the film was considered one of "the most highly anticipated" films of late 2010. "[9] The female characters are directed in the Swan Lake production by Thomas Leroy, played by Cassel. Movie Info Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina whose passion for the dance rules every facet of her life. Patient Identification 2. When he forcibly kisses her, she bites him before running out of his office. Nina Sayers is a 28-year-old classical dancer in a New York City ballet company, which is preparing to open its new season with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. One night, Nina accepts Lily's invitation to go out for drinks despite Erica's objections. Aronofsky said the screenplay had elements of All About Eve, Roman Polanski's The Tenant, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double. She hides the corpse and returns to the stage, where she loses herself and gives a flawless performance as Odile. Mansell attempted to score the film based on Tchaikovsky's ballet[31] but with radical changes to the music. The cast also featured incredible stars like Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder. Over dinner, Lily offers Nina an ecstasy capsule to help her relax. See what the cast has been up to since Black Swan … The film stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder. "[71][72] This led to responses from Benjamin Millepied and Aronofsky, who both defended Portman, as well as a response from Lane claiming that she has not been given due credit. Nina auditions for the role and gives a flawless performance as Odette, but fails to embody Odile. [10], Portman and Kunis started training six months before the start of filming in order to attain a body type and muscle tone more similar to those of professional dancers. The cast is excellently well chosen and deliver some of the best performances of their respective careers. The newspaper then compared it to the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes in having "a nightmarish quality ... of a dancer consumed by her desire to dance". [5] He told her about a love scene between competing ballet dancers, and Portman recalled, "I thought that was very interesting because this movie is in so many ways an exploration of an artist's ego and that narcissistic sort of attraction to yourself and also repulsion with yourself. [20], Aronofsky and Portman first discussed a ballet film in 2000, after the release of Requiem for a Dream, though the script had not yet been written. It doesn't show why ballet is so important to us – why we would want to try so hard. Joseph P. Reidy Ari Handel Jon Avnet Mike Medavoy Arnold Messer Brad Fischer David Thwaites Rick Schwartz Brian Oliver Jennifer Roth Tyler Thompson Peter Fruchtman Scott Franklin Jerry Fruchtman Rose Garnett Gabrielle Mahon. Also, for The Wrestler it was a money-saving thing. The critic said of the thematic mashup, "Aronofsky ... never succeeds in wedding genre elements to the world of ballet ... White Swan/Black Swan dynamics almost work, but the horror-movie nonsense drags everything down the rabbit hole of preposterousness. Darren Aronofsky. "[12] Kunis said, "I did ballet as a kid like every other kid does ballet. Lily / The Black Swan: Vincent Cassel ... Thomas Leroy / The Gentleman: Barbara Hershey ... Erica Sayers / The Queen: Winona Ryder ... Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan: Benjamin Millepied ... David / The … Above all, the main actress, Natalie Portman (who deservedly won the Oscar for Best Actress for Black Swan), is even more complex and engaging. black swan will always be one of my favorite movies of all time. Add to Wishlist. [45], Black Swan had a limited release in select cities in North America on December 3, 2010, in 18 theaters[46] and was a surprise box office success. | With this understanding of the external context, we can now dive into explaining what happened in the movie. Release Dates However, it seems that many people believe that Portman did her own dancing in Black Swan. Targeting the £40bn market research industry, Black Swan Data Ltd is a SaaS company that uses social data to accurately predict consumer behaviour. The basic idea for the film started when he hired screenwriters to rework a screenplay called The Understudy, which portrayed off-Broadway actors and explored the notion of being haunted by a double. "[8] Portman suggested to Aronofsky that her good friend Mila Kunis would be perfect for the role. [73][74], Black Swan appeared on many critics' top ten lists of 2010 and is frequently considered to be one of the best films of the year. Clinical Formulation Personal They then discover that she is bleeding profusely. Cast Tyrone Power James Waring Maureen O'Hara Margaret Denby Laird Cregar Capt. "[64] The Canadian Press also reported that many Canadian ballet dancers felt that the film depicted dancers negatively and exaggerated elements of their lives but gave Portman high marks for her dance technique. While changing, Nina hears a knock at the door and opens it to find Lily alive and congratulating her. The Double Entendre of Doubles: An Exploration of Doppelgängers in 'Dr. A publicized controversy arose regarding the question of who had designed 40 ballet costumes for Portman and the dancers. You wear a tutu and you stand on stage and you look cute and twirl. [49] The film is Fox Searchlight Pictures' highest per-theater average gross ever, and it ranks 21st on the all-time list. Add To Cart. After fighting with her mother, Nina barricades herself in her room and has sex with Lily. "[16], In addition to the soloist performances, members of the Pennsylvania Ballet were cast as the corps de ballet, backdrop for the main actors' performances. 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