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The Trailer For SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, From The Writer of BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and ETERNAL SUNSHINE, Alights Upon The Web!!
I am – Hercules!!
This is the directorial debut from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (“Being John Malkovich,” “Human Nature,” “Adaptation,” “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”).
It stars Phillip Seymour Hoffman and a platoon of hot actresses, among them Hope Davis, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Emily Watson, Catherine Keener and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
It looks hilarious.
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I can't wait!
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....mmmmmmm. She's a great actress, and totally smokin hot!!! That scene where she's fucking John Malkovich in Being J.M., is definitly a slow-mo worthy moment. Oh yeah, this movie looks really good too.
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http://tinyurl.com/4ac5lt
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if Kaufman is as good a director as he is a writer. The trailer confused me a little, but I'd imagine it's difficult to streamline a Kaufman story into an effective trailer.
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"charming", "humorous", "whimsical" but "hilarious?"... maybe i'm on the wrong side of high right now, but it doesn't look "hilarious".
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in this case, any confusion in the trailer is because the movie itself is by its purposeful nature confusing. I'd say that that's an excellent 2.5 minute version of what you're going to be in for when you see it. Synecdoche can't be pinned down by conventional narrative. It's a masterpiece, because of its confusing and confounding brilliance.
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Gets the shaft on the cast list.
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Sort of sad that his lack of name-recognition still demands "from the writer of..."
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Ha ha, now I think I get why Kaufman is so neurotic. And I totally understand. Existence, or the experience of 'being', IS the result of rhetorical tropes. Which is kinda confronting when you're a writer.
[Tropes — Rhetorical figures of thought that change meaning by
changing the way something is named or identified. Opposed
to schemes, which rearrange the order of words, tropes
change the meaning of words, often creating new meanings.
Metaphor, the trope in which one thing is substituted
for another, is considered the master trope. Other tropes
include hyperbole (exaggeration), synecdoche (substituting
the part for the whole or the whole for the part), metonymy
(replacing an object with one of its attributes), and periphrasis
(circumlocution).] -
Sep 18, 2008 8:35:08 PM CDT
CK quips: "I'd be happy to get half the Dark Knight's audience"
by brandloyalist
(Heh heh) He said that in the Wired interview Beaks posted the other day. Have listened to the 1st hour so far.
Tantalizing tidbit from the interview: he said that the ending of Being John Malkovich was not what he originally had in mind, and that the scene where the Captain explains the portal to Lotte was pretty much written to enable that ending. Must be talking about the concept of going in too early and ending up a helpless passenger... I would really like to know what the original idea was (he didn't mention it). -
Mildly amusing, and interesting, yes. Funny... I don't think so.
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I'm not sure what draft I read, but when I read the script to Malkovich, it ended with Cusak's character having a duel with Satan using huge (I think 50 ft tall) marienettes (sp?) to see who was the better puppeteer.
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I there day one. Bring on the Trope.
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..the past several months. After seeing that, it looks to be one the first classics of the 21st century. Tom Noonan! Dianne Wiest!
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Pretty crazy. He did offhandedly refer to "the guy who controlled Lester, the devil" during that part of the interview. It was Spike Jonez who wanted to change the ending, but as long as I'm posting about this, I think I should point out that it's not like Kaufmann sounded bitter or angry about it; he spoke of their collaborative process, and indeed he said he liked a lot of the stuff that happened at the end of the movie.
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anybody? anybody?
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the script has been online for almost a year. it's dark and bleak and just like every other kaufman film except the weirdness is way up. it'll be really cool to see though cos a lot of people won't be into this.
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"hilarious". i would describe it as melancholy.
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to follow him around and play him.
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Where's she been? I figured she was dead. Nice to see she isn't.
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Here you go Brand, I was at a writer's guild conference where Kaufman spoke a few yers back. Remember the orientation video Craig watches on his first day of work? The one with the midget? Well, remember the voiceover line-- "He would call this building the Mertin-Flemmer Building, after himself and someone else, who, local legend has it, was named Flemmer..." Well, it turns out Flemmer is the devil. Mr Lester made a deal with the devil for the portal. When the devil finds out it's being abused by Craig, he challengs him to a puppeteering duel (with the devil taking the form of The Great Mantini) where if Craig wins he gets to keep the portal but if the devil wins mankind will be enslaved. The devil wins. Mankind becomes enslaved. The end. You're welcome.
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Venkman?
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if you think those actresses are hot. Davis is kinda cute, Keener has something about her despite being objectively ugly and Morton has a hot body, but to call any of them 'hot' is frankly ridiculous.
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It really is great. It's basically Kaufman to the extreme. Very funny, but also very dark and often quite depressing. It's essentially the story of a man who spends his life always fearing the end instead of truly living it.
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But I will watch it anyway, just because it'S Charlie Kaufman.
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Awesome. She's definately one of most underrated actresses out there. Nobody has ever used her as well as Woody Allen...
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This will play quite well to the head-up-their-own-ass crowd. Not so well to everyone else.
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And lick her cobwebbed snatcherino.
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Michael Bay FTW bitches!
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I mean, I thought this was supposed to be a site aimed at film fans - what self-respecting film fan hasn't seen at least three of the movies he wrote?
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non-superhero, scifi movie I'll pay money to see in the theatre in a long time. A few of those trailer moments almost made me gasp - especially the one about 'when are we going to get an audience' - as a former theatre practitioner who still (literally) dreams about the theatre, even though I haven't even seen a play in years, this got to me. Looks like an incredible script and cast. Looking forward to it.
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Nice to see you here, and in this thread. Guess what, I just finished reading Promethea, and you were right: I loved it. I knew that I would as soon as I saw in the beginning that Moore was using Hermes and Thoth to initiate the Promethea legend. And, as fate would have it, I've been reading Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy' where he also mentions the role of Hermes/Thoth as the pharmakon of writing underlying the Platonic dialogues. He even mentions that pharmakos also signifies 'magician', 'wizard', or 'poisoner', and that Plato even calls Socrates a pharmakeus (synonym of 'pharmakos') in his dialogues!
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close...what's the link from Ghostbusters to this trailer though?
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But, soon to be "Sin-eek-douche".Wonka, I give up. Both take place in New York, and neither one has a lesbian sex scene featuring Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba.
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Have a google for it, he wrote it about 1 or 2 yrs ago. It followed a Coen bros play as well.
Adaptation was brilliant, Eternal was pretty good, commercial. Whatever he writes its funny, moving and confusing as all hell
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