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Saltburn: The Screenplay
An Oxford student becomes entwined with a charismatic peer and his peculiar noble family during a summer at their vast estate, leading to a season of unforgettable, and perhaps regrettable, adventures.
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Published January 1, 2023
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Emerald Fennell
8 books309 followersEmerald is a writer and an actress (Call the Midwife, The Crown). She was show-runner for series 2 of Killing Eve, and was the first British woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for directing (Promising Young Woman). She lives in London with a very quiet ghost. She is the daughter of jewelry-designer Theo and author Louise Fennell. Her sister is fashion designer Coco Fennell.
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January 10, 2024
It's almost shameful that my obsession with this movie is even greater than Oliver's. Almost.
April 3, 2024
I truly get the hype now. No words even fit to describe it, just WOW.
What an aesthetic masterpiece.
So savage, sick, and unhinged, yet captivating and compelling.
The holy trinity:
🧛🏻🛁🪦
All the different themes and the way Emerald Fennell masterfully and metaphorically toyed around with them... PHEW.
The extreme detail work... I kid you not, everything was thought through, I am mesmerised.
That's the exact audio that kept playing in my mind after finishing the movie and screenplay:
https://www.tiktok.com/@wheelierin/vi...
(I just realised that even the text in the videolink fits the plot of Saltburn LMAO)
What an aesthetic masterpiece.
So savage, sick, and unhinged, yet captivating and compelling.
The holy trinity:
🧛🏻🛁🪦
All the different themes and the way Emerald Fennell masterfully and metaphorically toyed around with them... PHEW.
The extreme detail work... I kid you not, everything was thought through, I am mesmerised.
That's the exact audio that kept playing in my mind after finishing the movie and screenplay:
https://www.tiktok.com/@wheelierin/vi...
(I just realised that even the text in the videolink fits the plot of Saltburn LMAO)
December 22, 2023
the way i’ve just entered my reading screenplays era.
i am so obsessed with this movie and the screenplay reveals even more about what the writer intended behind some lines of dialogue, which can sometimes be left up to interpretation on film.
i am so obsessed with this movie and the screenplay reveals even more about what the writer intended behind some lines of dialogue, which can sometimes be left up to interpretation on film.
December 31, 2023
emerald fennell is so insane for writing this (good for her)
July 9, 2025
This reminded me of Hartley’s ‘The Go-Between’ and Hollinghurst’s ‘ The Line of Beauty’.
Camp fantasy + horror.
I missed seeing the film. I look forward to a viewing - to see this translated to the screen.
08/07/25 3*
Camp fantasy + horror.
I missed seeing the film. I look forward to a viewing - to see this translated to the screen.
08/07/25 3*
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January 1, 2024Who told them to put the grave scene in there.
December 30, 2023
This movie has a chokehold on me. I HAD to read the screenplay.
January 10, 2024
Hab I doch gesagt hahah
Könnt eig jetzt scho 5 Sterne geben
Könnt eig jetzt scho 5 Sterne geben
December 21, 2023
Truly a masterpiece.
January 16, 2024
Book 11 of 2024
OH MY GOODNESS READING THIS WAS EVEN MORE UNHINGED THAN WATCHING THE MOVIE!!!! I'M OBSESSED 😂
OH MY GOODNESS READING THIS WAS EVEN MORE UNHINGED THAN WATCHING THE MOVIE!!!! I'M OBSESSED 😂
January 30, 2024
"you're not a spider, you're a moth"
oh my God, I'm in love with this movie!
oh my God, I'm in love with this movie!
February 1, 2024
Nie wiem jak to ocenić bo pierwszy raz czytałam jakikolwiek scenariusz i czuję się jakbym oceniała film xD
No ale co, końcówkę jak i prawdziwe intencje głównego bohatera było łatwo przewidzieć jak dla mnie. Nie zmienia to faktu że oglądając film świetnie się bawiłam nawet na tych "dziwnych momentach" (wampir, wanna i grób XD) i cały czas czekałam na to co będzie działo się dalej i oczywiście się nie zawiodłam.
No ale co, końcówkę jak i prawdziwe intencje głównego bohatera było łatwo przewidzieć jak dla mnie. Nie zmienia to faktu że oglądając film świetnie się bawiłam nawet na tych "dziwnych momentach" (wampir, wanna i grób XD) i cały czas czekałam na to co będzie działo się dalej i oczywiście się nie zawiodłam.
June 25, 2025
Saltburn – The Screenplay by Emerald Fennell, who also directed the motion picture – the film was nominated for five BAFTAs, including for Outstanding British Film of the Year, Best Leading Actor – hundreds of films and books are reviewed on my blog, if you want to take a look, maybe the best you can find is at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
8 out of 10
Saltburn is bound to give one mixed feelings, unless of course we apply the rule from the psychology classic The Paradox of Choice https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... by Barry Schwartz, who explains that there are two categories of people, Satisfizers and Maximizers
We want to be in the first group, of those who are happy (the others are not, in short) with very good, perhaps the best available options, for the rest, life can be miserable, as they complain about this or that better option, whenever they buy something, they see a cheaper price, a version in a better color, and they moan all the time
Ergo, Saltburn and others could be severely criticized, it is after all not outstanding, or we could start by stating that it has merits – Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... had the most popular lectures there
You can in fact see them on YouTube, and maybe it is worth taking a look, then you could watch the whole set – he insists on the need for us to be merit finders, not fault finders, and in the case of Saltburn, we have lavish settings, wonderful acting from the ensemble, each with a remarkable performance
Barry Keoghan was nominated for Best Leading Actor, for his role as Oliver Quick, this is a thespian that does not promise anymore, he is a conformed, formidable actor, wonderful in The Banshees of Inisherin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The antihero is a student at Oxford where he meets Felix Catton aka Jacob Elordi – nominated for Best Supporting Actor – the former is rather poor, or at least claims to be, while the latter lives in Saltburn, the epitome of the chateau https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
Felix has a flat tire – spoiler alert, it was in fact an intentional puncture – and Oliver (to be called Olie later) is passing and offers to help, giving his own bike away, because he is not in a hurry, and the other man would miss the course he is already late for, then they go out for drinks, with other people and get closer
While at the bar, the antihero is supposed to offer his own round of drinks, only he cannot afford it (or just plays this card of the destitute) and then he will tell a story about his father, who was a drug dealer, dying in his telling, and the mother who is an addict, unconscious all the time, or just under the influence of pills
In fact, we will see a different version – thus a second alert, if needed, is here – Felix traces the real family, and they are just common, nay, if not on the level of the Catton estate, Richard E. Grant is splendid as Sir James Catton, they seem to be doing quite well, anyway, they do not deal or do drugs as claimed by the son
There are at least three awkward scenes in this movie, pushing the boundaries in my view, one (remember, there are two alerts above) is the moment when Oliver has coitus with…a grave, another is the time when he comes to India, and after just a few sentences, he talks of ‘eating her’, only to be told it is not a good ‘period’
Nevertheless, he takes blood from her private parts, puts it in her mouth and his and it is something I have not seen in a film before, or in any other setting, and then let us leave for now the third outré act of the motion picture
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
8 out of 10
Saltburn is bound to give one mixed feelings, unless of course we apply the rule from the psychology classic The Paradox of Choice https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... by Barry Schwartz, who explains that there are two categories of people, Satisfizers and Maximizers
We want to be in the first group, of those who are happy (the others are not, in short) with very good, perhaps the best available options, for the rest, life can be miserable, as they complain about this or that better option, whenever they buy something, they see a cheaper price, a version in a better color, and they moan all the time
Ergo, Saltburn and others could be severely criticized, it is after all not outstanding, or we could start by stating that it has merits – Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... had the most popular lectures there
You can in fact see them on YouTube, and maybe it is worth taking a look, then you could watch the whole set – he insists on the need for us to be merit finders, not fault finders, and in the case of Saltburn, we have lavish settings, wonderful acting from the ensemble, each with a remarkable performance
Barry Keoghan was nominated for Best Leading Actor, for his role as Oliver Quick, this is a thespian that does not promise anymore, he is a conformed, formidable actor, wonderful in The Banshees of Inisherin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The antihero is a student at Oxford where he meets Felix Catton aka Jacob Elordi – nominated for Best Supporting Actor – the former is rather poor, or at least claims to be, while the latter lives in Saltburn, the epitome of the chateau https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
Felix has a flat tire – spoiler alert, it was in fact an intentional puncture – and Oliver (to be called Olie later) is passing and offers to help, giving his own bike away, because he is not in a hurry, and the other man would miss the course he is already late for, then they go out for drinks, with other people and get closer
While at the bar, the antihero is supposed to offer his own round of drinks, only he cannot afford it (or just plays this card of the destitute) and then he will tell a story about his father, who was a drug dealer, dying in his telling, and the mother who is an addict, unconscious all the time, or just under the influence of pills
In fact, we will see a different version – thus a second alert, if needed, is here – Felix traces the real family, and they are just common, nay, if not on the level of the Catton estate, Richard E. Grant is splendid as Sir James Catton, they seem to be doing quite well, anyway, they do not deal or do drugs as claimed by the son
There are at least three awkward scenes in this movie, pushing the boundaries in my view, one (remember, there are two alerts above) is the moment when Oliver has coitus with…a grave, another is the time when he comes to India, and after just a few sentences, he talks of ‘eating her’, only to be told it is not a good ‘period’
Nevertheless, he takes blood from her private parts, puts it in her mouth and his and it is something I have not seen in a film before, or in any other setting, and then let us leave for now the third outré act of the motion picture
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
June 25, 2024
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May 30, 2025
I’m in somewhat of a reading slump and wanted something to start and finish in a day to see if that would help. (I think it did!)
My sister reads lots of screenplays/scripts so I know they can be entertaining and offer more insight into the film, so it was only right that I read my favorite movie.
I need to do this more often!!! Oh my gosh, you know how you can catch something new each time you rewatch something? It’s like that x10. I know names and backstories of minor characters, deeper reasons behind some of the acting choices and body language, and I saw hidden glances or moments between characters that originally flew below my radar.
I also thought it was interesting to see some of the changes that were made and the improvisations of some scenes. (They had intended for the graveyard scene to end with him just sobbing on the grave.) All I’m saying is, Barry’s a freak and we love him for it.
My sister reads lots of screenplays/scripts so I know they can be entertaining and offer more insight into the film, so it was only right that I read my favorite movie.
I need to do this more often!!! Oh my gosh, you know how you can catch something new each time you rewatch something? It’s like that x10. I know names and backstories of minor characters, deeper reasons behind some of the acting choices and body language, and I saw hidden glances or moments between characters that originally flew below my radar.
I also thought it was interesting to see some of the changes that were made and the improvisations of some scenes. (They had intended for the graveyard scene to end with him just sobbing on the grave.) All I’m saying is, Barry’s a freak and we love him for it.
December 30, 2023
Much like the movie, phenomenal!! I really recommend reading this after watching the movie, as you might learn something new you didn't notice from the action cues. Screenplays are really quick reads, so if you loved the movie, want to see it from a new perspective, and need a short read, this is perfect!
April 15, 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2
No puedo creer que acabo de leer un libro con subgénero gótico!!
Me quedé 🤯 pero es una realidad de la vida aristocracia, recomiendo ampliamente la película en prime video!!
¿Qué otro libro me recomiendan por haber leído esto?
No puedo creer que acabo de leer un libro con subgénero gótico!!
Me quedé 🤯 pero es una realidad de la vida aristocracia, recomiendo ampliamente la película en prime video!!
¿Qué otro libro me recomiendan por haber leído esto?
December 28, 2023
After seeing the movie, reading the script added to the experience. Best part was the setting.
December 28, 2023
Nothing I love more than a screenplay for a film I love that takes me less than an hour to read
December 31, 2023
Okkkk
January 2, 2024
Adore this movie, wanted to see if maybe the screenplay differed at all.
It doesn’t lol basically verbatim.
It doesn’t lol basically verbatim.
January 6, 2024
aaaa !!!! acho q vou entrar na minha screenplay era ! foi tão bom e da para perceber algumas coisas tão melhor!!!
January 7, 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 (Emerald Fennell)
January 15, 2024
Makes the movie and Ollie's actions make more sense.
January 15, 2024
Oddly how insanely good this is. Some very bizarre scenes made me question my entire existence
Such a good song for this movie
🎶It's murder on the dance floor
You'd better not kill the groove🎶
Such a good song for this movie
🎶It's murder on the dance floor
You'd better not kill the groove🎶
January 22, 2024
obsessed with the movie. even more obsessed with the screenplay.
February 27, 2024
Wonderful screenplay but an even better movie. Would love to read more of Emerald Fennell. Amazing.
March 15, 2024
Top 10 romcoms in my heart. Shoutout to fujo Emerald Fennel we owe you one
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