The Neon Demon (2016) on Netflix
Sixteen-year-old Jesse moves from Georgia to Los Angeles to become a model. Makeup artist Ruby and two older models, Gigi and Sarah, draw her into a world that prizes her youth.
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- Rotten Tomatoes59%
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Plot summary
After her parents die, sixteen-year-old Jesse leaves a small Georgia town for Los Angeles, where she wants to model. Photographer Dean shoots her first headshots. Makeup artist Ruby, who cleans her up afterward, introduces her to two older models, Gigi and Sarah, and takes her to a party. A modeling agency owner signs Jesse, tells her to say she is nineteen, and sends her to a test shoot with photographer Jack McCarther, who paints her body gold. Dean, who is careful around her because of her age, drives her to the Hollywood Hills. At a motel in Pasadena, Jesse finds a cougar has wrecked her room and the manager, Hank, makes her pay for the damage.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Neon Demon (2016)
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- Nicolas Winding Refn said he came up with The Neon Demon after waking one morning thinking he was never born beautiful but his wife was, and wondering what it had been like going through life with that reality. He wanted to make a horror film about beauty.
- Elle Fanning was cast as the aspiring model in The Neon Demon after she came to director Nicolas Winding Refn's attention through his wife, who had been impressed by Fanning's performance in an earlier film.
- The Neon Demon competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the third consecutive film directed by Refn to do so, following Drive (2011) and Only God Forgives (2013).
