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...People will beam their flow of sensory experience on the Web, so you can plug in and be someone else, a la Being John Malkovich. We will be able to expand human intelligence." --Ray Kurzweil
Only in this case the waiter would be wrong. Charlie Kaufman is one of Hollywood's hottest It boys. At a time when so many movies seem formulaic--sequels, prequels and comic books--Kaufman's scripts are like the products of chaos theory. His first movie, Being John Malkovich, stunned even jaded moviegoers with its tale of a puppeteer who discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. His next offering, Human Nature, in cinemas now, is another head snapper. Patricia Arquette plays Lila, an abnormally hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts...
...Before Malkovich, the only credits he had were for some National Lampoon articles and failed TV shows. His insistence on owning Malkovich rather than surrendering all rights to a studio kept the movie in search of funding for a few years. "I was perfectly happy with it not being made," he says. "I said, 'If this movie is going to be made, this is how it works.'" His stubbornness has paid off. Kaufman has a say in casting and editing decisions on the movies he owns and is even welcomed on the set, where the screenwriter is usually regarded like...
...popular and lucrative children’s show, gets arrested by the Feds for bribery and loses his show, his friends, his company suite and eventually his sanity. M. Frank Stokes, played by Jon Stewart (Half Baked, Big Daddy), and Nora Wells, played by Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich), are the television producers charged with finding a squeaky clean replacement for Randolph...
...Don’t demand too much of your audience. Thinking man’s movies—recall 1999’s Being John Malkovich and Three Kings—are great for college kids, but aren’t the way to go if you want to win an award. Sizing up the prospects of a number of Oscar hopefuls, The New York Times wrote Memento off in two words: “Too baffling.” For aside from the “aww” noises from the girls...