Everything Everywhere All At Once

However, Evelyn soon finds herself having to face all her problems and save the fabric of reality along with her family. In the film, we see her 'Verse Jumping' ...

After all the heart-breaking wholesomeness at the end of Everything Everywhere All at Once, we see the final scene of Evelyn back in the office of the IRS. But she isn’t exactly that focused on the conversation concerning her finances. Although she has been saved from the bagel darkness, she is still plagued with doubts and the fear that she will never be good enough for her mother. For the first time in the film, we see Evelyn reach a level of understanding with her husband. Verse Jumping is the process that enables you to tap into a different version of yourself in another universe and harness that person’s skills and memories. In the film, we see her ‘Verse Jumping’ and fighting to stop Jobu Tupaki from succumbing to the void of a nihilistic bagel before it is too late. Realising that nothing matters, she begins acting cruelly in multiple universes, living out all her resentment towards her failures and not caring about the consequences or hurting others in the process. It turns out that the fashionable villain wasn’t hoping to cause Evelyn’s death at all, but instead was seeking a version of her mother who can harness the entire multiverse such as herself. Waymond, who has been a beacon of unconditional kindness throughout the movie, comes to save the day. It embodies how nothing truly means anything, and she entices Evelyn to walk into the black hole together, ultimately ending it all. So, for example, laundromat Evelyn can suddenly fight thanks to jumping into Kung-Fu Evelyn’s universe and using that Evelyn’s memories of martial arts to kick some butt. But let’s be frank, it isn’t exactly the easiest to follow, and after seeing the sensational flick Everything Everywhere All at Once, you may be wondering what exactly you just witnessed. Here we leave no googly-eyed stone unturned and fully explain the Everything Everywhere All at Once ending.

Pick 'n' mix assortment of martial arts, sci fi, family drama, and existential angst. Film review by Saskia Baron.

Audiences may remember him as the endearing child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. He struggled to get adult parts and became a stunt choreographer in the intervening years but here, playing Evelyn’s husband, he's an equally endearing character: the sweet child shines through in his adult self. Shot in just eight weeks before Covid closed down the world, Everything Everywhere All at Once suffers a little from the fact that the filmmakers then had the lengthy lockdown to edit and re-edit the film. Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of those films that are guaranteed to make an audience feel their age.

Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn, married to Waymond Wang, played by Ke Huy Quan. The Wangs own and run a laundromat. Evelyn cares for her aging Father Gong Gong, ...

The constants across the Multiverse and in our universe, too. Everything Everywhere All At Once is something special in this universe, as well. Still, in its heart is the story of the unconditional love between mother and daughter. In the narrative arc of Everything Everywhere, Ke’s Waymond dispatches Jobu Tupaki’s assassins, saving Evelyn. He says, “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. In Writers and Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, the familiar version of Michelle Yeoh, who plays middle-aged Chinese immigrant Evelyn Wang, trades kung fu strikes with Jamie Lee Curtis’s IRS Auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdra in hysterical effect. Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn, married to Waymond Wang, played by Ke Huy Quan. The Wangs own and run a laundromat.

Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan and the Daniels on making the craziest movie of the year, its unforgettable fashion, and Michelle Yeoh's auntie behaviour.

I will say I think that the hardest day of filming was the very last day, and that is because it was March 16th 2020, which was the Monday that everything started shutting down. Daniel K: For me it's Michelle Yeoh's normal costume, with the pink vest and generic brand sneakers, all of that. And with our crew, we managed to pull that one off in a day and a half. And when you're in a movie with Michelle Yeoh, you're doing an action sequence, and she's the queen of martial arts movies, you better bring your A-game. And then after a take, we would all get on our hands and knees and pick up the papers, hand it back into the stack, and then do another take. I asked her what she thought after, because she was very quiet, and she said, "I liked it. But what we ultimately wanted to put into the DNA of this film was a message about family and community. She rented out the whole of this theatre near her house to watch the film with all her friends. When it comes to film, my dad watches everything, but he grew up on Hong Kong action movies and loves Michelle Yeoh. So when he saw this movie he was just so excited, and he totally got it, even though it's very complicated. Because none of them drive – they’re all past the legal driving age – we hired a car service to pick them all up, all 15 or 20 of them. There's something so fun about taking animated films and trying to apply them to a live action story. So what exactly is going on in Everything Everywhere All At Once? Between a tax audit, a Lunar New Year party, and a matter-destroying bagel, Evelyn Wang ( Michelle Yeoh) is perhaps living her worst life.

Everything Everywhere All At Once follows a fractured Chinese American family whose trip to the IRS office turns into a multi-verse-hopping free-for-all with ...

Everything Everywhere All At Once traces the unique factors that make that outcome, however unthinkable it is to many of the film’s characters, a reality. Jobu eventually explains to Evelyn that the black hole they all fear is actually a literal bagel Jobu put “everything” in the universe on. She tells Evelyn that she didn’t create the bagel to destroy the universe – she created it to destroy herself. Joy expresses the pain of the Tolerated towards the end of the film when she tells Evelyn that being around her mother just makes her feel… It’s a frequent phenomenon for LGBTQ kids and their families, one that is just as likely to manifest as big, dramatic arguments as it is in quiet, chronic tensions. For the next two hours, for better and worse, the Wangs remain in the IRS building, locked into an increasingly deranged battle for the fate of the multiverse against a space-hopping maniac, a Great Evil One called “Jobu Tupaki” (also Stephanie Hsu) and her loyal cult. Now, as Alpha Waymond explains, only our Evelyn is capable of stopping Jobu, and returning balance to the world. Another topical element for the Wangs is Joy’s queerness, which is addressed directly, and not just as a throwaway, but as a recurring subject and key throughline. Joy’s sexuality and her weight aren’t the only things thrown in her face as evidence of her being a disappointment. Back at the Wang’s Joy-less tax audit, Evelyn is distracted from the potential seizure of her property by intrusive, sci-fi visions beckoning her into a hero’s journey. Evelyn avoids the issue, claiming her father is too old, too from a different generation, to handle such news. Everything Everywhere All At Once follows a fractured Chinese American family whose trip to the IRS office turns into a multi-verse-hopping free-for-all with the fate of every universe in the balance.

Starring Michelle Yeoh, Goonies star Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and James Hong, it focuses on middle-aged Asian-American Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) who discovers the ...

In the Alphaverse, Alpha Evelyn is renowned for discovering a way to jump across the multiverse. But Evelyn's relationship with Joy is more complicated due to her naivety about her daughter's sexuality. So when Evelyn introduces Becky to Gong Gong as Joy's "friend", it can be seen as a defence mechanism against further criticism from her father. This is her life, despite it leading to an unfulfilling and disappointing life in a foreign country. However, he takes steps to end things and hands her divorce papers – something that is traditionally discouraged in Chinese culture due to its symbolism of family and unity. In other words, Evelyn still feels like a stranger who is afraid to stand her ground or do something for herself.

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Quan – a near-complete stranger to films since his utterly disarming Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – remains a champ, every bit as sympathetic as he was in that. The brewing, Matrix-esque “multiversal battle” in the Internal Revenue Service office – a location which gets tiring on the eye – is just about enough to stop the film splintering into a forest of tangents, but only just. It feels like we’ve waded through an awful lot of hectic derangement to make do with that as take-home wisdom. Unsurprisingly, it already has an army of cultish adorers, and a competing squad of sceptics who flat-out can’t abide it. A frumpy tax inspector called Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis) is coming for Evelyn in one lifetime; in another, these two are a couple, and like the rest of the human race, they have hot dogs instead of fingers. Meanwhile, their disgruntled lesbian daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) has gained trippy superpowers and is killing off every iteration of her mother she can find.

'Everything Everywhere All At Once's make-up artist on creating the myriad of looks as well as what it was like working with Michelle Yeoh.

She is such a beauty, inside and out, so I’m glad I got to make her look beautiful for at least a short part of the movie. We had to add darkness under the eyes, and just make her look like the worst version of herself.” But I do love the look that was in the staircase fight sequence, which some people are calling the Picasso look and we called it the hodgepodge look. She was always so happy to be there and willing to do what it takes to get things done. The MAC acrylic paints and paintsticks were so great for the really crazy looks, and then I actually also used a lot of my go-to brands, like Armani and Koh Gen Do. I used Kosas tinted face oil for Stephanie’s skin, and Ilia makes some beautiful blushes.” I used so many brands that I love—I could go on and on. I pulled a bunch of images I loved and put them all in a big folder. A lot of the looks were done in less than half an hour, to maximise shooting time with the actors. We really were all on the same page, which was so great.” We didn’t really have a lot of time, so many of the looks were inspired by trying to find the most amount of impact in a short amount of time,”explains Chung tells Vogue Singapore. Sometimes it would align, and sometimes I would be inspired by them to move in another direction. In this film, a collision of sorts occurs; credit to directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who ambitiously roped in a myriad of genres and tropes, all to have everything collapse onto a poignant metaphor.

To celebrate the eagerly-anticipated release of Everything Everywhere All At Once, the hugely acclaimed new film from Daniels, we sat down with them to find ...

The Plot: Chinese immigrant Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) lives a quiet life with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), who unknown to her is planning a divorce.

It puzzles the mind, moves the heart and shakes the soul while also being the funniest film of the year, hands-down. It’s all done in a dazzling array of character variations that might prompt a quote from Waymond – ‘I’m still a little bit lost’. No harm though, as there’s so much fun to be had here in having your head melted and then massaged back into some sort of shape by Daniels. Supremely confident in their approach and how to get the audience behind it, it pays off handsomely thanks to an outstanding Yeoh. She anchors the film and is so game in how to portray the various Evelyns in different shades while keeping them essentially the same character. Daniels hold true to that level of responsibility by depicting various versions of Evelyn, but all linked in some way to our Evelyn. For example, there’s the movie star Evelyn, a sly nod to leading lady Michelle Yeoh, who didn’t leave for America with Waymond and then runs into him again in a Wong Kar-wai-style moody encounter full of deep regrets. The possibilities are endless it seems, but this Evelyn matters the most because she’s the most ordinary – and as a beloved uncle once said, with great power comes great responsibility. The adjectives could go on and on, but it really is that excellent and deserves all the praise coming to it. The Plot: Chinese immigrant Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) lives a quiet life with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), who unknown to her is planning a divorce.

Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians) delivers a glorious performance in this Multiverse adventure from Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ...

And to have a woman over 50 as the heroine of this truly unique adventure is just the cherry on top. Meanwhile, the couple’s lesbian daughter Joy is at the end of her tether over her parents’ unwillingness to accept her for who she is. Lowly Laundromat owner Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) is drowning in unpaid bills while fending off letters from the IRS over her outstanding taxes.

Dir: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis.

Then, out of the blue, a version of Waymond from somewhere called the “Alphaverse” commandeers her husband’s body in order to tell her that she’s the key to saving all reality. If the industry has really changed for the better, this return to acting should mark the first role of many. I’m undecided on whether the decision to chase up Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Everything Everywhere All at Once – a film grounded in the same concept of parallel realities, yet made with a fraction of the budget – is foolhardy or ingenious. At the heart of its story is an ordinary woman, Evelyn Wang ( Michelle Yeoh). In fact, she’s the most ordinary of women, quietly running a laundromat in the Simi Valley, California, with her sweet, sprightly husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). Tensions are high. That curious mixture of tonal extremes will already be familiar to fans of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, otherwise known as The Daniels. Following the success of their music video for DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s “Turn Down for What” – in which a guy smashes crotch-first through several stories of an apartment building – they made their debut feature Swiss Army Man (2016) about the tender relationship between the survivor of a shipwreck and a farting corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe. With Everything Everywhere All at Once, these filmmakers have fully hit their stride. Everything Everywhere All at Once exists in the outer wilds of the imagination, in the realm of lucid dreaming and liminal spaces.

Dir: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Multiverses are everywhere at the moment, and according to the directors the film came about partly as a riposte to the nihilism the concept often instills in them. It's a fun and engaging way to explore family dynamics and existentialist themes – and if nothing else, you'll certainly never be more moved by a pair of rocks with googly eyes stuck on. This mysterious stranger, it turns out, is Alpha Waymond – a version of her husband from a parallel universe who has arrived in this one to enlist Evelyn on a crucial mission.

The movie stars Michelle Yeoh as laundromat owner Evelyn Wang who has trouble connecting with her family and paying her taxes. Preoccupied by a visit by her ...

And because of that, we had to constantly rewrite because we kept searching for things that really felt fresh.” So it was for the best,” said Mr. Scheinert. — Reuters Evelyn and versions of who she might have become with different life choices are tasked with saving it from impending doom.

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“That’s the magic of moviemaking, because it’s coming from here [she points to her head] and from here [she points to her heart]. It’s not like: ‘Oh, we’ll just sit back and let the CGI people take over,’ because we didn’t have the luxury of that. In a teasing bit of self-reflexivity, one of Yeoh’s character’s alternate selves in Everything Everywhere is a famous movie star. It’s kind of pretty cool to have a woman with those kind of abilities.” Marvel has hundreds of millions of dollars to render its multiverse stories, but this movie had a fraction of that (an estimated $25m) and just eight weeks’ shooting time. This is a woman who once stunt-jumped a motorcycle on to the top of a moving train, for real. She could have died, but she got up and did the stunt again straight away – and got the shot. Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a dowdy, put-upon Chinese-American laundromat-owner, struggling with her tax returns, struggling with her marriage, struggling to bond with her lesbian daughter (Stephanie Hsu). But then her husband (Ke Huy Quan), or a version of him, informs Evelyn she is the key to saving the world – not because she is “the one”, but because she is the most failed version of herself in the multiverse: “You’re your worst you.” Somehow, this enables her to access the skills of all her other selves, from opera-singing to martial arts to weapons-grade placard-spinning. The Daniels readily admit that if Yeoh had turned down the part, they would have had to start from scratch. Everything Everywhere All at Once is the role of a lifetime for Yeoh. Several lifetimes, in fact. “When we were doing the butt-plug fight sequences, I was just on the ground, laughing my head off, going like: ‘Oh my God! Would I have ever thought that one day I would be doing this kind of martial arts?’” “I was doing things that I never dreamed of doing!” Yeoh enthuses over a video call from Los Angeles. “But it was never too much.” Until, that is, it came to shooting the kung fu fight with two half-naked male assailants and some dauntingly large sex toys. There is the kung fu and action heroism, of course.

Known for riveting performances in martial arts films, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh has graced the silver screen for decades in both Asian and Hollywood ...

“At that time, I assure you, I hated it with such a passion!” Yeoh laughingly recalled in a keynote address at a 2016 ASEAN World Economic Forum event. After winning beauty pageants and a memorable television commercial stint with Jackie Chan, Yeoh’s career took off through a string of action films in the 1980s. But I was very fortunate — possibly because I was a foreign student — the principal felt that it was much more of a responsibility [to guide me]. Another door opened where I was still very much in the world that I wanted to be, so I was very blessed.” After a lifetime of practising in tutus and pointe shoes, taking up acting wasn’t exactly smooth-sailing for the future superstar. An active child, she took to ballet naturally and became an international student as a teenager after she was sent to the UK to pursue dance professionally. Her serious campaign to take centre stage began at a British boarding school, which eventually landed her a spot at London’s Royal Academy of Dance. “My dream came true.