“Sounds like a sexual violation”: that’s what lies behind the name of the hype film “Saltburn” on Amazon Prime Video

With ‘Saltburn’, ‘Promising Young Woman’ director Emerald Fennell created a real hype on Amazon Prime Video and polarized viewers with some shocking and complex scenes featuring main characters Barry Keoghan (‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’), Jacob Elordi (‘Priscilla’ ). ) and Rosamund Pike (“Gone Girl – The Perfect Victim”).

While the filmmaker has already spoken about the thriller comedy in several interviews, she now explained a very specific element of the film: namely the name. In conversation with Emerald Fennell announced: that the name “Saltburn” refers to a small town in England. But that is not everything.

‘Saltburn’ is a ‘pleasant sting’ for Emerald Fennell

The director revealed that she had a very special association with the name that went beyond the real connection: “Someone asked me why the film was called ‘Saltburn’ and I said, ‘Well, it’s a real town in England.’ And when I heard the name, I thought it sounded like a sexual violation, but a very nice one. You know, like a stab, a pleasant stab. And I guess that’s what the movie really is, right?

Fennell is referring to the many erotic scenes between Barry Keoghan and his co-stars Jacob Elordi, Alison Oliver (“Conversations with Friends”) and Archie Madakwe (“Midsommar”) in “Saltburn”, which, however, are due to different plots. twists and turns that are transported into the dark. When we think of the bathtub scene, the vampire scene, or the scene in Farleigh’s bed, the fan reactions here are both shocking disgust and unexpected fascination.

The final twist, in which Oliver talks about his plan not in a therapy session, but with a comatose Elspeth, also leaves a pleasant sting in the way the story has taken us by the nose and ultimately brought all the loose threads together into a unified whole . whole.

Saltburn, on the other hand, can be found twice on the British map. The North Yorkshire town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea itself is about 250 miles from Oxford, where Oliver and Felix go to university together. However, instead of naming the town where Felix’s family lives, the Catton family estate is called “Saltburn” in the film.

This in turn was filmed at Drayton House in Lowick, Northamptonshire, which actually has nothing to do with the town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea and is over 210 miles away. The second Saltburn, on the other hand, is located in the Scottish Highlands, not far from the famous city of Inverness. Here too there is no direct connection with the film.