‘Bugonia’ Ending Explained: Writer Will Tracy on Yorgos Lanthimos’ Latest Trip
Bugonia centers on a beekeeper's belief that a megacorporation CEO from Andromeda is behind Colony Collapse Disorder and a plot to end humanity, exploring environmental and existential themes.
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‘Bugonia’ Goes Big in the Basement: Why Yorgos Lanthimos Reached for a Barely Functioning VistaVision Camera
The quieter Wilcam 11 VistaVision camera was too cumbersome and unreliable for “One Battle After Another,” but Lanthimos explains why he felt it was necessary.
Breaking Down the Comically Bleak Ending of Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bugonia. If you’re wondering how the title Bugonia connects to a movie about two conspiracy theorists who kidnap the head of a major pharmaceutical company, believing she’s a member of an invasive alien species, it all comes back to the bees. In the new black comedy thriller from director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite), now in theaters, amateur beekeeper Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) is convin…
Bugonia Ending Explained: Is Emma Stone Really Playing an Alien?
Yes. Emma Stone really does play an alien in this one. Well, at the end of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, Teddy arrives with Michelle at the Auxolith headquarters while wearing a suicide vest. Michelle instructs Teddy to enter a closet, which she claims is a doorway to their spaceship. As Michelle “activates” the teleporter-closet, the suicide vest explodes, killing Teddy and knocking Michelle unconscious. Thus, both conspiracy theorists, Teddy and …
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