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What do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hilarity, drama, and perhaps the most unique film of the 90s. Being John Malkovich, which stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and, of course, John Malkovich as himself, is Charlie Kaufman's screenwriting debut.The movie premiered to universal acclaim and is guaranteed to become a classic of modern cinema.
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Charlie Kaufman is a Genius!
Charlie Kaufman is a very loveable genius! I use "genius" as Emerson defined it: " To trust that was is true for you, in your secret heart, that is genius!" Wow! Kaufman is as vulnerable in his intro to the "Being John Malcovich Screenplay" as his character in "Adaptation". He is in such truth, that even his sad confessions are funny and healing to this reader & millions, who made this original masterpiece a hit! I have seen this movie so many times & reading the dialogue still makes me laugh, because it is so alive! It is great to see where he let the actors improvise, which shows how secure Kaufman is with his self. The actors were appreciated as artists with a great sense of humor & allowed to create & adlib. The end result is one of the greatestintellectual comedies ever made.This book is generous in teaching how to write with complete honesty and wild creativity.If you watch the DVD, while reading this screenplay, you can attain insight on why it is so wise to encourage actors to ad their own words to make a brilliant screenplay come alive! A writer who can let go of their ego, enough to do that is very confident within himself and nurturing to the artist within every being, even the chimp, who was traumatized by childhood memories in the script, but was allowed to make spontaneous chimp sounds. But seriously, Kaufman is a wonderful comic genius & we are lucky if we see his movies & read this special book he authored.

Worth it just for the introduction
"Being John Malkovich" is one of the most insanely creative films ever made,and a large portion of the credit for that goes to Charli Kaufman's moody,intimate,and sly script,presented here in pretty much the same form as it is in the finished film.Which is great,but on top of that you get,a stellar,caustic introduction in which the author is told to say a few words to the readers,beacause the readers are"owed...something"."I said I would try" replys our intrepid narrator,and what follows is a darkly hilarious trip through his mind as he tries to come up with something insightful or inspirational to say,all the while revealing his self-loathing and profound contempt.In the end, the best he can manage to come up with is "And if you're going to write a screenplay,try to keep it around one hundred and ten pages".Which when you think about it,is probably the most practical advice he could give.

Kaufmanian self-loathing triumphant
The real bonus here is Kaufman's intro--which, rather than explicating the writing or making of this movie, is an anguished, hysterical, can't-take-it-any-more Dance of Despair and Disillusionment that will brighten the day of any struggling scribe. "Wow!" one thinks, avidly turning the pages, "Charlie Kaufman waited five years, got the huge payoff, had a critical and commercial hit...and he's still absolutely bananas! God bless America!"

Los Angeles writers will especially enjoy the part about making friends with the take-out bags left on the floor of one's ever-more-apartment-like car.

Kaufman's growth proceeds apace: his new script ADAPTATION is like a feature-length expansion of his intro here. You've just got to love a guy who's an addled mess and doesn't try to whittle it into a cutesy Woody Allen persona. He's just cuckoo! ... Read more

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John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Americanactor, producer and director. Over the last 25 years,Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures.Arguably, his particularly distinctive voice marks him outeven more than his face: "a reedy, faintly orgasmic drawl"according to the Guardian, which adds that "Perhaps notsince Cary Grant has an actor been so vocally distinctive".His film credits include Death of a Salesman, DangerousLiaisons, In the Line of Fire, Con Air, The Man in the IronMask, Of Mice And Men, Rounders, Changeling, Eragon, BeingJohn Malkovich, and Burn After Reading. ... Read more

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Title: Being John Malkovich.(Review) (movie review) (movie review)
Author: Matthew Ryan
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2000
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
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Chapters: Gene Rayburn, John Malkovich, John Dement, Doug Collins, Nick Holonyak, Billy Grammer, Noble Threewitt, Joe Wendryhoski, Al Glossop. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, and director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich and Changeling. He was born in Christopher, Illinois, to a family of Croatian, Scottish and German ancestry. His paternal grandparents are from Ozalj, near Karlovac, in Croatia. He grew up in Benton, Illinois, in a large house on South Main Street. His father, Daniel Malkovich, was a state conservation director and publisher of Outdoor Illinois, a conservation magazine. His mother, Joe Ann (née Choisser), owned the Benton Evening News (a local newspaper in Benton, Il.), as well as Outdoor Illinois. Malkovich was a popular student, and was both an actor and athlete at Benton High School. He appeared in plays and the musical, Carousel. He was also a member of a folk/rock musical trio, and was an organizer and member of a local summer theater project in 1972, where he starred in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America Hurrah. Upon graduation from high school, he entered Eastern Illinois University, and then transferred to Illinois State University, where he majored in theatre. In 1976, Malkovich, along with Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, and Glenne Headly, became a charter member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He moved to New York City in 1980 to appear in a Steppenwol...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=175431 ... Read more

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Empire of the Sun is a 1987 coming of age war film based on J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson and Nigel Havers. Empire of the Sun tells the story of Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young boy who goes from living in a wealthy British family in Shanghai, to becoming a prisoner of war in Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, a Japanese internment camp, during World War II. Harold Becker and David Lean were originally to direct before Spielberg came on board. Spielberg was attracted to directing Empire of the Sun because of a personal connection to Lean's films and World War II topics. He considers Empire of the Sun to be his most profound work on "the loss of innocence". While Ballard's novel had heroism as a theme, Spielberg once again created a film that dealt with children being separated from their parents. The film was critically acclaimed though it was not a box office success. ... Read more

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Title: El buen canario se va de gira: luego de conquistar el DF, la puesta en escena dirigida por John Malkovich prepara el vuelo hacia el interior del paîs.
Author: Pedro C. Baca
Publication: Actual (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2009
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
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Title: ¡El Momento de John Malkovich ha llegado!(Being John Malkovich, película; reseña)(TT: John Malkovich's moment has arrived.)(TA: Being John Malkovich, film; review)(Reseña)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 28, 1999
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6Issue: 348Page: 10

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Con Air is a 1997 American action/thriller film by Touchstone Pictures that stars Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich. It was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of Crimson Tide and The Rock, and directed by Simon West. The film borrows its title from the nickname of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System. The film featured the 1997 hit single "How Do I Live", originally performed by LeAnn Rimes and performed for the film by Trisha Yearwood. The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Song and Best Sound, losing to Titanic in both categories. ... Read more

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Title: John Malkovich: 'La gente pensara que soy tonto'.(TT: John Malkovich: 'People will think I'm a fool')
Author: Maria Corisco
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 17, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Title: La credibilidad de un actor llamado Bardem: John Malkovich.
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 10, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 50Issue: 2617Page: 74(1)

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John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, and director. Over the last 25 years, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, and Changeling.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zachariah "Zach" Helm (born January 21, 1975) is an American writer and film director.As a playwright Helm has had two plays produced; Last Chance for a Slow Dance and Good Canary, the latter having its 2007 world premiere in Paris under the direction of John Malkovich. The play received six Moliére nominations, the most of that year and also won France's Crystal Globe award for Best Play.His debut screenplay, Stranger than Fiction, was directed by Marc Forster and was released on November 10, 2006 and Helm received the National Board of Review award and the PEN USA award for best screenplay.His directorial debut Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium was released in November 2007. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: Where the Wild Things Are, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, We Were Once a Fairytale, Yeah Right!, How They Get There, the Mystery of Dalarö, Video Days, Torrance Rises. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are. It combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI). The film stars Max Records, Catherine Keener, and Mark Ruffalo, and features the voices of James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Lauren Ambrose, and Forest Whitaker. The film centers around a lonely eight-year-old boy named Max who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the "wild things", who declare Max their king. In the early 1980s Disney considered adapting the film as a blend of traditionally animated characters and computer-generated settings, but development did not go past a test film to see how the animation hybridizing would work out. In 2001, Universal Studios acquired rights to the book's adaptation and initially attempted to develop a computer-animated adaptation with Disney animator Eric Goldberg, but the animated version was replaced with a live-action concept in 2003, and Goldberg was dropped for Spike Jonze. The film was co-produced by actor Tom Hanks through his production company Playtone and made on an estimated budget of around $100,000,000. The film was released on October 16, 2009, in the United States, and on December 11, 2009, in the United Kingdom. The film was met with mostly critical acclaim and appeared on many year-end top ten lists. The film was released to DVD and Blu-Ray disc on March 2, 2010. The film b...http://booksllc.net/?id=3677015 ... Read more