#being john malkovich

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Being John Malkovich (1999)

Director: Spike Jonze DOP: Lance Acord Production Design: K.K. Barrett Art Direction: Peter Andrus

[plantt-pal]

most sane puppeteer

[ordosmarkzero]

Being John Malkovich

[blood-and-breath]

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House of Leaves (2000) / Being John Malkovich (1999)

[cinematicmasterpiece]

being john malkovich (1999)

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

If Being John Malkovich is too weird for you, you are weak and I fear you will not survive the winter.

[pulsingvoid]

Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener as Lotte and Maxine in Being John Malkovich (1999) dir. Spike Jonze

[scenephile]

I think, I feel, I suffer.

[gabrellle]

Being John malchovich is such a movie why don’t we have more movies about shit like this. You can make a movie about anything it’s fantastical magical realism with such an easy entry point

[totheriverbank]

Adaptation (2002) dir. Spike Jonze

[doomed-jester]

The term gaslighting comes from people using the name of a 1944 film, Gaslight, as a verb to suggest that someone is replicating the plot of the film. I think we should maintain this trend, here are some suggestions.

Halloweening - wearing a spooky mask and stalking a baby sitter - e.g. "Nooo don't Halloween me"

Inceptioning - showing up in someone's dream - e.g. "you totally inceptioned me last night"

Malkoviching - possessing someone's body in a similar manner to the film Being John Malkovich - e.g. "The film Get Out is about a bunch of white people Malkoviching black people."

Moreauing - applying anthropomorphic traits to an animal - e.g. "no, Mikayla, your dog doesn't think the sweater is ugly, it's just uncomfortable. Stop moreauing it."

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[badela]

Being John Malkovich (1999)

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Director: Spike Jonze

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Cinematography: Lance Acord

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“There is truth, and there are lies, and art always tells the truth. Even when it's lying.”

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[junior-stargazer-goke91]

“[Being John Malkovich] is a testament to how bold Hollywood had gotten by the end of the 90s that a bunch of untested maniacs were given multiple seven figures to make their first feature about a couple of puppeteers who get addicted to taking a portal into the subconscious of actual actor John Malkovich. The movie is an absolute delight, hilarious, and smartly bonkers in a way that keeps escalating into an absurdist existential roar that we would name Kaufmanesque in the next decade. It exists with the rest of his work in a category of its own.”

[oldinterneticons]

[trashbirdthoughts]

Charlie Kaufman is one of my favorite screenwriters/directors. These movies are so true to the neurodivergent experience, especially the autistic one. I’ve never seen someone else really bring this to the screen in such a unique way. The only thing I could compare to these movies to is Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal (which in a way really feels like a shorter less reality bending Synecdoche, New York).

The lonely introspection of making sense of the world through your own lens, and hoping someone, anyone really connects with you. They feel so genuine and surreal at the same time.

If you’ve never watched any of his films, I recommend Being John Malkovich as a start.