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- Baxter, his face and body riddled with scars and deformities because of his father’s quest to figure out what a human body can do, finds himself drawn to experimentation of his own, and ends up creating a young woman, Bella (Stone), by transplanting a baby’s brain into the body of her mother, who died in childbirth.
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Mar 7, 2024 · The Big Picture. Bella was created through a twisted experiment by Dr. Godwin Baxter, transferring an unborn child's brain into another's body. Bella discovers the pleasures and horrors of...
- Yorgos Lanthimos
Jan 31, 2024 · After Baxter finds Bella’s dead body, he imbues the brain of a baby girl in her skull, giving Bella a new chance at life. Bella is kept under constant scrutiny by Dr. Baxter, as he wants to monitor the development of her brain, which will attest to the success of his experiment.
Jan 13, 2024 · Bella returns to Godwin Baxter’s (Willem Dafoe) home with passed out Alfie, where she performs the same surgery on him that Godwin performed on her – swapping his brain with that of a goat.
- Adam Starkey
Feb 27, 2024 · Godwin Baxter is a Nod to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s Monster. Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ is based on the book of the same name by Alasdair Gray, who was in some sense inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic sci-fi horror novel, ‘Frankenstein,’ but created a world completely separate from it.
Dec 7, 2023 · "Poor Things" follows the journey of Bella Baxter , the Frankenstein-esque creation of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Bella's body comes from a woman who died by suicide, while her brain...
- Reuben Baron
Jan 31, 2024 · Poor Things is a sci-fi romance film from The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos. The story focuses on the bizarre and fantastical world of Bella Baxter after a scientist named Dr. Godwin Baxter brings her back to life. The film is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray.
Dec 8, 2023 · She was pregnant, and Dr. Baxter saved her fetus by transplanting its brain into Victoria’s body. That makes Bella herself a chimera, neither Victoria nor her baby, but someone new entirely.
