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Art Theft | Art Collector
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. / After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
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Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. / After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Brit to Watch | 2020 | Zawe
Best Streaming Premiere Film | 2020
Best Original Score | 2019
Best Supporting Actress | 2019 | Rene
Budget 21,000,000 USD
Loosely resembles the life of Henry Darger, who too was a recluse that created a prodigious volume of artistic work which was celebrated posthumously, and who also spent some time in an asylum. Darger is largely known as an outsider artist, much as Dease is in the film.
When Dan Gilroy was asked by Vanity Fair what he wants audiences take away from the film, he said: "I hope people look at art in a slightly different way. Any time you listen to a piece of music or look at a sculpture or a painting or a film, you realize the artists behind that have invested what I believe to be their creative soul into the work. To me, that's a bit of a sacred thing and I think we've lost that a little bit. I would love it if we could return to that."
The term "velvet buzzsaw" has an explicitly sexual origin, related to cunnilingus.
Dan Gilroy was struck by the idea for Velvet Buzzsaw after having visited the Dia contemporary-art gallery in Beacon, New York, in 2017 and hours after came up with a rough plot. In an interview with Vanity Fair he described: "It was the Tuesday after Christmas, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and no one was there. I was wandering around this huge, empty warehouse with all this rather disturbing contemporary art. And I wound up in the basement in a video installation with, like, dentist chairs and rats running around. And I just thought, 'Man, this would be a great place for a horror movie.' The idea that artists invest their souls in their work and it's more than a commodity--that has always interested me. I suddenly saw a way of incorporating it all, to explore how, when art and commerce are dangerously out of balance, bad things can happen. It clicked very quickly."
Rene Russo's as well as Jake Gyllenhaal's characters were written by Dan Gilroy specifically with them as actors in mind. He described them to Vanity Fair as follows: "Jake plays Morf Vandewalt, who's a contemporary art critic. And his character is the protagonist who leads us through the film and he takes us deeper and deeper into a mystery that leads to a final shocking realization. Rene plays Rhodora Haze, who started in a punk band in the 70s and now runs the biggest contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles. She was a musician who turned her back away from art to making money and she's been very good at it."
"Morf Vandewalt: Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining."
"Morf Vandewalt: A bad review is better than sinking into the great glut of anonymity. German Woman #2: Was that a joke? Morf Vandewalt: Not that I'm aware of. German Woman #2: Ricky got drunk and crashed his car last night. He's in coma. German Woman #1: I heard he was crushed. Morf Vandewalt: By the car? German Woman #2: Your review."
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