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Home is where the heart is, but in a movie, a house can also define a character \u2014 or, in a way, become one. The production designers of four Oscar contenders break down how their residential locations served as spaces for lost souls, dark memories and more.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bugonia\u2019<\/h2>\n
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In Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 absurdist black comedy<\/a>, Emma Stone plays high-powered tech CEO Michelle Fuller, who is kidnapped by a pair of conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons\u2019 Teddy and Aidan Delbis\u2019 Don) convinced that she\u2019s an alien infiltrator of the human race. Teddy\u2019s rural farmhouse, in which Stone is held captive, is a key factor for understanding Teddy\u2019s psychology, explains Oscar-winning production designer James Price. \u201cThe house is important in defining who Teddy is \u2014 the isolation in being a young man, probably just old enough to look after himself,\u201d he says. Knowing that the bulk of the film would be set in the house, and expecting it to be difficult to \u201cevict someone from their home\u201d in order to shoot at a real location, led Price to make a big pitch to his director: What if they built the house from scratch?<\/p>\n

While scouting locations in \u201cthe outskirts of London,\u201d Lanthimos took Price\u2019s idea one step further. \u201cHe looked at me and said, \u2018Why don\u2019t we build the basement with the rest of the house?\u2019\u201d Price recalls. \u201cAnd I looked at him and said, \u2018Because I didn\u2019t think anyone would let us.\u2019\u201d Finding a spot in which the soil was largely chalk and thus good for drainage, the production dug a massive hole and built a basement by welding together shipping containers upon which they erected the rest of the house \u2014 complete with electricity, plumbing and interiors inspired by Atlanta-area real estate listings that set decorator Prue Howard found on Zillow.<\/p>\n

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Production designer Tim Grimes recalls that the script for Lynne Ramsay\u2019s drama<\/a>, in which Jennifer Lawrence plays a new mother, Grace, whose connection to reality slowly unravels, described the cabin where Grace and her partner Jackson (Robert Pattinson) live as a run-down home passed down through generations.<\/p>\n

The location that Grimes and Ramsay found in Calgary was indeed on the verge of condemnation. \u201cWhen I first saw it, I didn\u2019t think [that it would] work,\u201d says Grimes. \u201cThe house was really falling apart. But then I walked out and looked around the property and I was like, \u2018Man, this is a real playground for Lynne.\u2026 She\u2019ll just love this. Maybe we can figure out a way to bring this house back to life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Grimes\u2019 team added a front porch to the house\u2019s facade, also tearing down interior walls to allow director of photography Seamus McGarvey<\/a> to easily film inside. He was conscious about not making it look too<\/i> nice, as it needed to be a space where Grace would lose her mind. \u201cWe brought it back to life, and then brought it back down to an acceptable level for where it needed to be story-wise,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Because the film often leaves the viewer unsure if what\u2019s happening is real or just Grace\u2019s imagination, Grimes had to strike a delicate tonal balance with the setting. \u201cI definitely wanted to ground the house but also make it feel a little surreal and a bit story-bookish,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe tried to ride the line a little bit, but also give it enough character and color and stuff to make it interesting, because we\u2019re in the house an awful lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

One sign that Grimes\u2019 work was effective? He started to feel as stir-crazy in the home as Grace. \u201cI almost got sick of the wallpaper after a while, personally, but I think that\u2019s kind of what Grace is probably going through as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Sentimental Value\u2019<\/h2>\n
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Joachim Trier\u2019s film<\/a> opens with an introduction to the Borg family home in Oslo, seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Nora (played as an adult by Renate Reinsve<\/a>). Built in the 19th century, the ornate structure belongs to Nora\u2019s estranged father, film director Gustav (Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>). After the death of their mother, Nora and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) grapple with Gustav\u2019s return home, new autobiographical film script in tow, setting the stage for a complex family drama.<\/p>\n

For production designer Jorgen Stangebye Larsen, the latest collaboration with Trier marked his own return to a familiar setting: The home appeared in Trier\u2019s \u201cOslo, August 31st,\u201d which was also Larsen\u2019s first film. \u201cI knew that we were going to film in that house when I read the script so I was picturing all the rooms while I was reading,\u201d says Larsen. \u201cIt was a funny thing, that we had a history with that house.\u201d<\/p>\n

The striking details in the wooden structure, such as carvings in the windows and ceilings, offered a timelessness for the home, which in real life is surrounded by concrete and brick townhouses. \u201cIt was renovated in some places \u2014 there were some new floors and the kitchen had moved,\u201d he says, \u201cbut it [still had] this feeling of patina and life to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because Larsen couldn\u2019t touch the greenery outside the house, he also built an exact replica of the house on a soundstage (seen as a movie set in the film\u2019s final sequence) with LED screens outside of the windows. \u201cIn very little screen time, there are fragments of [history] that fly by, but we had to shoot them all,\u201d Larsen explains of the technology, which allowed for virtual backgrounds set in various periods to indicate the passage of time.<\/p>\n

\u2018Train Dreams\u2019<\/h2>\n
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Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar\u2019s adaptation<\/a> of Denis Johnson\u2019s novella tells the story of logger Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) as his ordinary life contrasts with the ever-changing world around him in the first half of the 20th century. Central to Grainier\u2019s character is the log cabin he builds on the banks of a river in Idaho for his wife Gladys (Felicity Jones) and their daughter.<\/p>\n

Production designer Alexandra Schaller brought her experience in immersive theater to the project, filmed in locations around eastern Washington. \u201cWe wanted it to feel like a real cabin, and as a result we built it out of real logs,\u201d says Schaller, noting that the material was locally sourced. \u201cSo much of [the film] is about the trees and the cycle of life, how the forest becomes the logs, [the logs] become the towns, [the towns] become America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the film is told through Grainier\u2019s eyes, the cabin also represented Gladys\u2019 presence. \u201cIt was very important to all of us for Gladys to not be a passive character, a woman at home waiting for her husband while he was away,\u201d says Schaller. As such, the interiors represented Gladys\u2019 domain more than her husband\u2019s. \u201cIt was very important for the cabin to be functional,\u201d Schaller says. \u201cEverything in the cabin, whether or not it made it into the final movie, was used and touched. There was nothing superfluous, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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