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Adult Swim’s ‘Women Wearing Shoulder Pads’ Gives Almodóvar-Style Melodrama a Stop-Motion Twist
'Women Wearing Shoulder Pads,' a stop-motion Adult Swim series blending Almodóvar-style melodrama with absurdity, premieres Aug. 17.
The work-in-progress session showed off other intentionally silly clips of non-sequitur scenes, like a woman being told to adopt a duck in her meat business, and in response, imagining herself dancing and romancing one of the waterfowl. In an interview with Variety following the session, Coronilla, who directed some episodes of the show and worked on developing its look, described how they used mixed media to manage time and the cost of set building, which also allowed freedom to experiment with the spaces. In discussing John M. Stahl’s “Leave Her to Heaven,” Cordova recalled that the team “actually referenced that scene where [Gene Tierney] throws herself down the stairs because she doesn’t want to have a baby,” replicating the tension as well as the heightened tone.
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