Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for 2025’s Depraved: For Good, now in theaters.Depraved: For Good nods to a different one of many greatest motion pictures of director Jon M. Chu’s profession, the results of his tastes in crafting wedding ceremony scenes. Whereas Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) is on the run as a vigilante activist in Depraved: For Good, Glinda (Ariana Grande) is working as a spokesperson for the regime and is getting ready to marry Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey).
When pictures from the sequence began showing within the advertising and marketing, it was rapidly famous that Depraved‘s wedding ceremony bears a resemblance to Loopy Wealthy Asians’ counterpart, with each ceremonies having quite a lot of forest décor and the bride strolling down the aisle by herself. Now, Chu has acknowledged the similarity himself and delved additional into the scene’s design.
“I need a yellow brick street with yellow butterflies, and I would like her to stroll, and I would like these butterflies to flutter up when she’s strolling,” mentioned Chu, by way of The Hollywood Reporter. “I believe it may very well be probably the most stunning factor. And, sure, it did evoke slightly little bit of that Loopy Wealthy Asians really feel, however in actual life, as a result of in Oz, it is all doable.”
The fantasy setting, permitting the manufacturing workforce to do nearly something, sparked some wild concepts for the marriage, together with, at one level, a complete orchestra floating within the air. Nevertheless, Chu was compelled to cut back the marriage due to time and funds constraints, and what seems within the closing movie is definitely one of many extra minimal variations.
“I believe I introduced our wedding ceremony design workforce in like six occasions,” says Chu, “killing every of their designs being like, ‘That is Oz. Assume crazier. Assume weirder. Assume weird. This isn’t an everyday wedding ceremony,’ and so they did it each time. And I used to be by no means actually happy. And ultimately, I believe we went again to probably the most easy variations.“
Nevertheless, the marriage additionally ties into darker themes, as it occurs whereas Elphaba is discovering a room of imprisoned animals elsewhere within the palace (whom she releases, permitting them to stampede the ceremony). Moreover, within the Depraved film universe, the yellow brick street is constructed with compelled animal labor, altering the which means of the pathway of yellow butterflies.
Costume designer Paul Tazewell, who designed Glinda’s wedding ceremony costume to be “susceptible” whereas incorporating many butterfly gildings, says: “All of it’s working as somebody like Glinda, her concept of an ideal wedding ceremony. It speaks of Madame Morrible and the Wizard and orchestrating this as a picture of excellent.“ Glinda and Fiyero’s picture as the right couple is a part of their propaganda.
Like a lot of the manufacturing and costume design in each Depraved motion pictures, the marriage scene is attractive, however loaded with advanced symbolism. Nevertheless, followers could admire the connection between Depraved: For Good and Loopy Wealthy Asians being validated, each showcasing Chu’s potential to deal with such visually splendid motion pictures.
- Launch Date
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November 21, 2025
- Runtime
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137 Minutes
- Director
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Jon M. Chu
- Writers
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Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox, Gregory Maguire
- Producers
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Marc Platt, David Stone