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Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film [3] [4] directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut. The film stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, with John Malkovich as a satirical version of himself. Cusack plays a puppeteer who finds a portal that ...
- $23.1 million
- Carter Burwell
- $13 million
- CHARLIE KAUFMAN COMBINED TWO IDEAS TO WRITE THE SCRIPT. Kaufman wrote the script in 1994, after his time writing for Chris Elliott’s Fox sitcom Get a Life.
- KAUFMAN SAYS JOHN MALKOVICH WAS THE ONLY CHOICE TO PLAY THE TITLE ACTOR. “That’s what I thought was funny,” Kaufman told Vulture. “It wouldn’t have worked, in my mind, with anyone else.”
- FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA HELPED GET THE SCRIPT TO MALKOVICH. Francis Ford Coppola—who is Jonze’s former father-in-law (Jonze and Sofia Coppola were married from 1999 to 2003)—called Malkovich on Jonze’s behalf.
- NEW LINE CINEMA WANTED A DIFFERENT ACTOR. The studio dropped the project the day after chairman Robert Shaye asked the producers of the film—which included R.E.M.
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Being John Malkovich is all about, ironically enough, beingyourself. When Craig enters the mind of John Malkovich, he believes he is seeing the world through a new set of eyes—but really, it’s just him. He might be in a different body, but it’s still his same mind. And, thus, his same fears, his same anxieties.
Dec 3, 1999 · Being John Malkovich: Directed by Spike Jonze. With John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy, Eric Weinstein. A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Spike Jonze
- 1999-12-03
Introduction and Film Notes by Brian Meacham. PDF. Directed by Spike Jonze (1999) 112 mins. Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Cinematography by Lance Acord. Produced by Propaganda Films. Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, and John Malkovich. When BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, hailed by critics as “endlessly ...
Oct 29, 2019 · Being John Malkovich is a dense piece of work, as if Kaufman needed his own Malkovichian vessel to serve as a clearing house for ideas that built up over 15 years in the screenwriting wilderness ...
Oct 29, 1999 · What an experience. Maxine pressures him to turn it into a business, charging people to spend their 15 minutes inside Malkovich. The movie handles this not as a gimmick but as the opportunity for material that is somehow funny and serious, sad and satirical, weird and touching, all at once. Malkovich himself is part of the magic.
