The beat will continue when British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor brings her 2001 dance-pop hit, “Murder on the Dancefloor,” to the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards.
As first reported VarietyEllis-Bextor will perform at British cinema's biggest night on February 18 at London's Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank.
The early 2000s improvisation is most recently known as part of Emerald Fennell's final scene. salty burnwhich caused a viral sensation on TikTok and caused its debut in the Billboard Hot 100 22 years after its first release and. The scene in question features a naked Barry Keoghan in an extended dance sequence with the disco-tinged score taking the lead.
In its salty burn review, Consequences Liz Shannon Miller praised the scene for having “a kind of ugly catharsis” in which Oliver (Keoghan) emerges from tragedy and triumph as the last one standing. Noting that although the scene probably would have still been effective if Oliver had been left in just his civilian clothes, nudity played an important role. “Not only does it make the sequence even more exaggerated, in a manner consistent with everything that has gone before, but the entire effect is exactly the kind of desecration one might crave, in these days of eating the rich. Miller continued. See the full review here.
The 77th British Academy Film Awards will air on February 18 with presenter David Tennant. salty burn is nominated for five awards; Acting nominations for Keoghan (Best Actor), Jacob Elordi (Best Supporting Actor) and Rosamund Pike (Best Supporting Actress), as well as Best Original Score and Best British Film.
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