Charlie Kaufman Script for Being John Malkovich (New York: Faber and Faber, 2000), p, ix.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Charlie Kaufman: "Maybe you have the one thought that’ll change everything for me."
“Maybe you have the one thought that’ll change everything for me. The one thing I haven’t considered in my relentless, obsessive, circular thought process. Is there that one thing? Is it possible for one person to impart any transformative notion to another person?”
Charlie Kaufman Script for Being John Malkovich (New York: Faber and Faber, 2000), p, ix.
Charlie Kaufman Script for Being John Malkovich (New York: Faber and Faber, 2000), p, ix.
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I have been wanting to see this for a long time but just keep missing it. Heard good things.
I would recommend it, along with others that he wrote the screenplay for:
Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Human Nature
For my money, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is his most successful effort. He achieves a kind of tender human sympathy with the lacunae in our hearts that is missing in some of his more solipsistic efforts, like Adaptation.
I watched ESSM the first time and liked it, but I think I expected too much... but I will be watching it again next semester when I teach it (I actually take a week to study the art of screenwriting through Charlie Kaufman's films)
Last semester I used "Adaptation" because of its metanarrative in regards to screenwriting, but I like to change films each semester...
I just came across this today, but haven't read it yet.
Thanks thivai, that was a terrific article.
It was especially strong on Eternal Recurrence and amor fati. But I think the analysis find its self at the same impasse as does Kaufman "so what good in the end is vision, insight, or ecstatic affirmation if it leaves us largely where it finds us?"
One possibility for transcendence is in challenging the notion of "character as fate," in a way the author, Kaufman and Nietzsche do not. Buddhist thought offers us the insight that it is the idea of character itself, a notion of self as essential or unitary, that prevents transcendence by imposing form on what is essentially formless and empty, thereby generating endless consequences - recurrences - that prevent us from perceiving transcendence.
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