![]() “And then they start to throw up.” Surprise element They’re getting pale and greenish around the nose really rough, getting red eyes and sweating,” explains Gredig. The guests start out clean, tidy and happy. Make-up and hair designer Stefanie Gredig divided the captain’s dinner scene into three sections: before, during and after the meal. “We made a dummy test early on with a smaller set just to see what it looked like,” the producer recalls. The filmmakers met early on with the SFX team. It takes a lot of planning to organise screen vomiting on this scale. He has been working with Ostlund for almost 20 years - from early shorts and features Involuntary and Play to breakout hits Force Majeure and The Square - and knew his ambitious director collaborator would be aiming for “the best puke scene in film history… it was all about seeing how far can you push something”. “I knew this could possibly be the scene of the movie,” says producer Erik Hemmendorff of Plattform Produktion, recalling his reaction on first reading the screenplay. Those involved in the film’s production talk with justifiable pride about a sequence that combines slapstick and pathos, grotesquery and magical choreography. All that black truffle, caviar, grilled squid, oysters and champagne is regurgitated in spectacular fashion. And then the carnival of vomiting begins. Wealthy passengers aboard a luxury cruise ship are beginning their special dinner with the ship’s curmudgeonly, boozy captain (Woody Harrelson). The film has been one of the few festival titles to catch fire at the box office, earning more than $3.5m in the US for distributor Neon and $11.8m worldwide at press time. It is the sequence in Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness that enthralled audiences in Cannes and has become arguably the most talked about scene of any movie this year. The shit is flying - and so is the vomit. Source: Fredrik Wenzel / EMPIRE-MAG / Plattform Produktion
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