#jon malkovich

[shanahazuki]

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Amelie Zilber attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Amelie Zilber -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche and John Malkovich attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche and John Malkovich -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Exec Producer), Ben Mendelsohn and Todd A. Kessler(Creator, EP, Writer, Director) attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Exec Producer), Ben Mendelsohn and Todd A. Kessler(Creator, EP, Writer, Director) -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Darina Al Joundi attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Darina Al Joundi -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Eliott Margueruon attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Eliott Margueruon -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Eliott Margueruon attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Eliott Margueruon -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

New York, NY - 2/12/24 - Maisie Williams, Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, John Malkovich and Glenn Close attends the premiere of the Apple TV+ thrilling series “The New Look” at Florence Gould Hall. “The New Look” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, February 14, 2024. -PICTURED: Maisie Williams, Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, John Malkovich and Glenn Close -PHOTO by: Marion Curtis / StarPix for Apple -Location: Florence Gould Hall

[forlornea]

LOOKING FOR MUTUALS!!!

it's been a few years since I've been on tumblr but I really miss the sense of community that I used to have here so please follow me so we can be mutuals!!!

My name is Lorna, I'm 19 and I'm in university. I speak fluent English, Irish and French.

Edit: I am Irish, I'm from Galway but I'm studying in France next year so anyone from Ireland or France (particularly Brittany) please be my mutual!

Some books and book series I like: Everything Jane Austen (particularly Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Emma). Everything Henry James. Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro... Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights. A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF). The Wheel of Time (though just starting out with this one). The Secret History, My Brilliant Friend and the rest of the Neapolitan books by Elena Ferrante. All the Sally Rooney books!!! I also really like George Saunders' "Tenth of December". Eva Luna and House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende... Why have I forgotten every book I've ever read just now?

Movies I like: Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather 1 and 2 (can you tell I like Al Pacino), Aftersun, Before Sunrise, the Holdovers, The Remains of the Day, Being John Malkovich, The Truman Show, Amélie

Poets I like; Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, ... not a massive poetry person but aspiring to be. Mostly I read random poems I stumble upon, rather than collections.

Some TV Series I like: Severance! (Have been obsessed since I first watched it in June). Silo (currently watching). Game of Thrones (up until season 4ish... I'm a book purist and a hater past that), The Good Place, FLEABAG!!!! Wheel of Time. Girls (the Lena Dunham one because I presume there's others by the same name?). Gilmore Girls (but I also have a lot of gripes about it? Also; the creator is a zionist)

Music: Chappell Roan (who is finally getting her flowers); I particularly love "California" and "Pink Pony Club". Tracy Chapman. Phoebe Bridgers. Carole King. Joni Mitchell. Florence and the Machine. Johnny Cash. Mitski. etc etc. I listen to a lot of film soundtrack as well; Lately, I really like the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack by Jon Brion, the Severance soundtrack by Theodore Shapiro, the Amelie soundtrack (La Valse d'Amélie has been in my Spotify top 5 for 3 years or something)...

Anyways! follow me so we may be friends!

[burningexeter]

Here's a fairly solid amount of all the different kinds of media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as the Where The Magic Happens Trilogy, which you can both read and see below for yourself:

• Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich

• Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017)

• Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time (1979)

• George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981)

• Paramount Pictures' Friday The 13th (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 & FVJ)

• New Line Cinema's A Nightmare On Elm Street (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & FVJ)

• Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead Trilogy & Ash Vs. Evil Dead

• HBO's Tales From The Crypt (Lower Berth, Television Terror, Deadline, Yellow, Showdown, King Of The Road, Half-Way Horrible, You, Murderer & Horror In The Night)

• Wes Craven's The People Under The Stairs

• Jerry Bruckheimer's Beverly Hills Cop (1, 2 & 4)

• Brett "Jesus Christ!" Ratner's Rush Hour Duology

• Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men

• Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens

• Joe Cornish's Attack The Block (2011)

• John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles

• David Mirkin's Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

• Doug Liman's Go (1999)

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China

• Joe Dante's Explorers (1985)

• Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones (1, 2, 3 & 4), Close Encounters Of The Third Kind & E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

• Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters

• Colin "Wasted Potential" Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed

• Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake (2004)

• Michael Davis' Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

and last but not least,

• Michael Dougherty's Trick r Treat & Krampus

[justforbooks]

With his shrewd eyes and his forks of corn-yellow hair, Julian Sands was a natural choice to play the valiant, romantic George Emerson, who snatches a kiss from Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) in a Tuscan poppy field in A Room With a View (1985). “I wanted him to be real, not a two-dimensional minor screen god,” he said. “I liked him in his lighter, sexier moments, less so when he was brooding.”

Sands, who has died aged 65 while hiking in mountains in California, was dashing in that film, but he could also project a dandyish, effete or sinister quality. He was blessed with a mellifluous voice and a lean, youthful, fine-boned face, even if, as a child, his brothers insisted he resembled a horse. (He agreed.) In James Ivory’s film of EM Forster’s novel, he was pure heart-throb material. His participation in the notorious nude bathing scene was no impediment to the picture’s success.

Prior to that, he had played the journalist Jon Swain in The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé’s drama about the bloody rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The picture marked the beginning of his friendship with his co-star John Malkovich. “I’d been cautioned by Roland to keep my distance from John because he was an unstable character,” Sands recalled. “And John had been told by Roland to stay away from me, because I was a refined, sensible person who didn’t want to be distracted. In fact, we bonded instantly.”

Malkovich directed Sands in a one-man show in which he read Harold Pinter’s poetry. First staged in 2011, the production had its origins in an occasion six years earlier when Pinter, suffering from oesophageal cancer, had asked Sands to read in his stead at a benefit event in St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London. The writer “sat in the front row with his stone basilisk stare”, Sands recalled.

Not all his work was so highfalutin, and a good deal of it fell into the category of boisterous, campy fun. In Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986), he played the poet Shelley, who indulges in sex, drugs and séances with Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) and the future Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and is prone to recite verse naked in thunderstorms.

In a similar vein but far less deranged was Impromptu (1991), which brought together other notable 19th-century figures including George Sand (Judy Davis) and Frederic Chopin (Hugh Grant). Sands, who played Franz Liszt, described it as “Carry On Composer”.

Born in Otley, West Yorkshire, he was raised in Leeds and Gargrave, near Skipton; he later described his childhood as “part conservative and part Huckleberry Finn”. His mother, Brenda, was a Tory councillor and leading light of the local amateur dramatic society, while his father, William, who left when Julian was three, was a soil analyst. Julian made his acting debut in a local pantomime at the age of eight.

At 13, he won a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth college, Hampshire. He moved to London to study at Central School of Speech and Drama, and while there became friends with Derek Jarman. He played the Devil in an extended promotional video that Jarman directed in 1979 for Marianne Faithfull’s album Broken English. The role had been intended for David Bowie, who dropped out at the eleventh hour. “You’re devilish,” Jarman told Sands. “You can play it.”

The actor’s first film appearance came in an adaptation of Peter Nichols’s stage comedy Privates on Parade (1983), starring John Cleese and Denis Quilley, from which his one line of dialogue was cut. There was more rotten luck when he won the lead in a new Tarzan movie, only for the financing to fall through. It was eventually filmed as Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), with Christopher Lambert donning the hallowed loin-cloth.

On television, he starred with Anthony Hopkins in the miniseries A Married Man (1983). In Oxford Blues (1984), he was a rower butting heads with a Las Vegas parking attendant (Rob Lowe) who has tricked his way into a place at Oriel College. He was in The Doctor and the Devils (1985), inspired by the Burke and Hare case. “I had a roll in the hay with Twiggy which took about 15 takes,” he said.

Following A Room With a View, he agreed to play the lead in Ivory’s next Forster adaptation, Maurice (1987), before abruptly dropping out and fleeing to the US. In the process, he left behind his wife, the journalist Sarah Sands (nee Harvey), who described him as “restless” and “dramatic”, and their son, Henry. “I’m not the first person to create stability and security and then dismantle it even more effectively than I created it,” the actor said.

Once in America he took on an array of film parts. In Warlock (1989), he played the son of Satan, wreaking havoc in modern-day Los Angeles. Investing this pantomime villain with lip-smacking brio, he was likened by the Washington Post to a “hell-bent Peter Pan” and nominated for best actor in the Fangoria Chainsaw awards. He reprised the role in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993).

As an entomologist in Arachnophobia (1990), he was called upon to have as many as a hundred spiders crawling all over his face. Alternating these mainstream projects with arthouse ones, he played a diplomat in pre-war Poland in Krzysztof Zanussi’s Wherever You Are … (1988) and a monk in Night Sun (1990), the Taviani brothers’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s short story Father Sergius.

For the Canadian horror director David Cronenberg, he starred in the warped and witty Naked Lunch (1991), which disproved those who had declared William S Burroughs’s original novel unfilmable. Just as outré but less accomplished was Boxing Helena (1993), directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Sands played a surgeon who keeps a woman captive by making her a quadruple amputee.

After starring as a young classics teacher in his friend Mike Figgis’s film of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), Sands worked a further six times with that director, appearing in his movies even when he was an unorthodox choice for the job in hand. One example was the part of a menacing Latvian pimp in Leaving Las Vegas (1996).

Later roles include a mysteriously unblemished Phantom in Dario Argento’s version of The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Louis XIV (whom Sands described as “the first supermodel”) in Joffé’s Vatel (2000), a crime kingpin named Snakehead in the Jackie Chan vehicle The Medallion (2003), a computer security wizard in the comic caper Ocean’s Thirteen (2007), a younger version of the businessman played by Christopher Plummer in David Fincher’s take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and a sadistic paedophile in the gruelling wartime odyssey The Painted Bird (2019).

On television, he was a Russian entrepreneur in the fifth season of 24 (2006) and the hero’s father, Jor-El, in two episodes of the Superman spin-off Smallville (2009). For the BBC, he played two very different actors in factually based one-off specials: first Laurence Olivier in Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore (2005), then John Le Mesurier in We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story (2015).

His recent work includes Benediction, Terence Davies’s haunting study of Siegfried Sassoon, and the thriller The Survivalist (both 2021), which found him back in the company of Malkovich. One of several titles still awaiting release is the drama Double Soul (2023) starring F Murray Abraham and Paz Vega.

Sands never stopped wandering, walking, running and climbing. “I am on a perpetual Grand Tour,” he said in 2000. Asked in 2018 about his eclectic career, he explained: “I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself. I think I found myself a little boring.”

He was reported missing while out in the San Gabriel mountains, north of Los Angeles, in mid-January 2023. His remains were found in June.

In 1990 he married Evgenia Citkowitz. She survives him, along with their two daughters, Imogen and Natalya, and his son.

🔔 Julian Richard Morley Sands, actor, born 4 January 1958; died circa 13 January 2023

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[la-pheacienne]

I had totally forgotten all the hate poor Cosette got when the Les Miserables movie came out. Also, unless I'm misremembering, didn't Gavroche put a mouse in Eponine's hair because she was being a bully to Cosette in the books?

I honestly don't remember that? I remember Eponine generally being a little bitch to Cosette as a kid but I don't remember specific facts. Does anyone?

Ok I will just say that I didn't like the musical. Everything felt off except some specific moments. Apart from that it was just off. I didn't like the fact that for example, the biggest moment between Cosette and Marius was spoiled by Eponine singing in parallel with them. Like, this is the main love story of the book, you need to give it a lot of weight and a value of its own, like it had in the book. Also Eponine was kind of sexualised imo and Cosette was kind of miscast.

The only version of Les Mis that I sort of approve of is the one with Gerard Depardieu and Jon Malkovich, well, because of Gerard Depardieu and Jon Malkovich. But I don't like Marius there very much. Eponine is great tho.

Generally this book can't really be adapted in a way that it satisfies everyone and does justice to all the main characters. For that you need to read it.

[cctinsleybaxter]

They do in Alien Vs Predator which I still contend is a predator movie and not an alien movie (you could replace the xenos with multiple predatory jon malkoviches it'd be the same plot and a better film), but no the main drive of the franchise is that Weyland-Yutani Corporation (the big bad) wants an alien on earth so they can weaponize it and the good guys have to keep them contained to space

Started getting all this news pushed on my feed like 'omg guys they finally released the plot synopsis for the next alien franchise entry Alien: Earth' and the synopsis is just 'the aliens are on earth'

[multiversal-wars]

Secondary Characters

These are my minor characters for my book series. Currently only for book 1 (technically book 2 as well, but they may merge into one book)

They will get their own Artbreeder image the closer my book comes to completion.

Book 1: The Dreamer

Monica Ruiz - Faceclaim Rosie Perez

Mother of Carlos, Ricky, and Jon. Worked as an administrator in Social Services. Died shortly after Jon graduated high school. Was considered the start of the Ruiz clan.

Leon Nowak - Faceclaim Steve Carell

Father of Renata and Jake Nowak. Parents moved from Poland after WW2 and first settled in New Jersey and then Arizona. He worked in the medical field and tried to do right by his two children, even after he divorced their mother. Ren was always close to him, feeling she took after him in many ways.

Kirk Smith - Faceclaim Bob Odenkirk

“Accountant” for a Three-Letter-Agency. One of the people who teaches Ren how to fight. Inspired by Odenkirk’s character in Nobody.

Alex Simone - Faceclaim Keanu Reeves

Assassin for the underground world of crime. Takes Ren under his wing. Inspired by his character in the John Wick series.

Book 2: Dragon Rider

Don Simmons - Faceclaim John Malkovich

Former stunt coordinator. Tries to figure out how Ren keeps surviving impossible scenarios.

Logan - Faceclaim Daniel Wu

Second in Command to The Guardian.

The Guardian - Faceclaim Octavia Spencer

Leader of The Angel Movement, a system of groups dedicated to getting kids out of the war-torn country safely.

[sj-in-musicnote]

<Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack>

<이터널 선샤인>은 하룻밤 사이의 뇌 시술–뇌의 특정 부분 삭제 기법–로 이별의 고통에서 손쉽게 벗어난다는 기발한 아이디어를 소재로 풀어나간 영화다. 하지만 영화는 이와 같은 독창적 설정에만 기대지 않고, 개성적인 미장센을 이끌어내는 연출력과 작가주의적 방법론으로 영화의 작품성을 높였다. 매력적인 각본과 연출, 예상을 벗어나는 캐스팅–그러나 매우 성공적인 캐릭터 구현, 그리고 음악 등의 요소들이 맞물려 2000년대 초반 강렬한 임팩트를 남긴 로맨스 영화로 각인되었다.

미셸 공드리(Michel Gondry) 감독과 함께 각본 작업을 맡은 사람은 찰리 카우프만(Charlie Kaufman)이다. 찰리 카우프만은 <존 말코비치 되기(Being John Malkovich)>, <시네도키, 뉴욕(Synecdoche, New York)>등의 영화에 각본을 쓰고 연출도 했는데, 그의 작품들은 주로 기발한 설정과 과학을 접목하고, 유머러스한 상황을 연출하면서도 비평적 관점을 내포한 작가주의적 성향으로 어필했다. <이터널 선샤인> 제작 전 이들은 <휴먼 네이쳐(Human Nature)>라는 영화를 함께 작업했었다. <휴먼 네이쳐>는 호르몬 불균형으로 여성인 라일라의 몸에 무성하게 털이 자란다는 생물학적 이슈를 다룬 일종의 SF 코미디 영화였고, <이터널 선샤인>은 인간의 뇌 기능에 관한 예리한 문제의식에서 출발해 그 위에 로맨스를 덧입히며 보편성을 획득한 영화였다. 연출 면에서는 CG 사용을 지양하고 제법 엉성한 수공예품을 만든 듯 코믹하게 풀어나갔지만, 영화에서 그것이 시적인 의미를 창출하며 오히려 예술성을 높이는 효과를 낳았다.

처음에 이 영화의 주연 배우가 짐 캐리(Jim Carrey)와 케이트 윈슬렛(Kate Winslet)이라는 사실을 알았을 때 뭔가 잘못된 게 아닐까, 하는 생각이 제일 먼저 들었다. 커스틴 던스트(Kirsten Dunst)나 마크 러팔로(Mark Ruffalo) 등의 배우들은 그러려니 할 수 있었다. 그러니까 이 영화는 은연중에 일종의 저예산 독립 영화나 아트 무비처럼 받아들여졌기 때문에, 스타급 배우들의 캐스팅에 대해서는 고개를 갸우뚱했던 것이다. 짐 캐리와 케이트 윈슬렛이 쌓아 놓은 위상은 이 영화의 스케일을 충분히 넘어서는데, 그 당시에 내게 두 배우들이 남긴 이미지가 너무 강렬했던 것도 원인이었다–나는 짐 캐리하면 익살맞은 녹색 얼굴로 분장했던 영화 <마스크(The Mask)>가 제일 먼저 떠올랐고, 케이트 윈슬렛 하면 거의 자동적으로 <타이타닉(Titanic)>이 떠올랐다. 그런가 하면 초대형 판타지물 <반지의 제왕(The Lord of the Rings)>의 주연 배우 일리야 우드(Elijah Wood)가 이 영화에서 어리바리한 조수 패트릭 역을 맡았다는 것도 처음엔 쉽게 받아들여지진 않았다. 한 매체와의 인터뷰에서 미셸 공드리 감독도 캐스팅 1순위였던 니콜라스 케이지(Nicolas Cage)를 놓치고, 짐 캐리를 캐스팅한 것이 일종의 ‘도전 과제’였다는 식으로 얘기했지만 결과는 역시 대성공이 아니었던가. 적어도 <이터널 선샤인>을 통해 짐 캐리와 케이트 윈슬렛이 쌓은 과거의 거대한 이미지들을 희석시킬 수 있었으니까. 남자 주인공 조엘은 감정이 밖으로만 드러나는 캐릭터 클레멘타인과는 정반대인 타입이다. 책 읽기를 좋아하고, 다이어리를 쓰고 그림을 그리는 등 내향적 성격을 가진 인물이기에 짐 캐리는 바깥으로 표출시켰던 연기 방식을 내면으로 돌려 표현해야 했다. 미셸 공드리 감독은 하나의 방법론으로 촬영 당시에 의도치 않은 간극을 만들어 내며 그를 일종의 ‘패닉’ 상태에 처하게 해 균열을 일으켰다고 한다.

조엘과 클레멘타인 다음으로 눈여겨봤던 인물들은 메리와 스탠이었다. 돌아 보면 메리는 영화에서 가장 양심적이고 혁명적인 캐릭터였다. 자신에게도 지워진 기억이 있다는 사실을 깨달은 그녀는 삭제 전 녹취한 카세트테이프를 기억 삭제 시술을 받은 모든 사람들에게 우편으로 보낸다. 메리가 웃음이 사라진 허탈한 얼굴로 사무실을 떠날 때 스탠은 햇살 속에서 작별 인사를 건넨다. 다시 말해 이 영화에 그려진 사랑은 조엘과 클레멘타인의 것뿐만 아니라 메리와 스탠, 메리와 하워드 박사, 또는 박사 부부, 그리고 패트릭과 클레멘타인의 것까지 각양각색이다. 인물들은 저마다 자신만의 사랑에 빠져 있고, 그들의 사랑의 양상은 모두 다르며, 그들은 하나같이 사랑의 아픔에 직면한다. 이렇듯 영화 속에 여러 개의 사랑이 있지만 그 가운데에서 이루어지는 것은 단 하나뿐인 걸 보면, 역시 사랑은 여러 가지 조화와 인내, 여러 가지 불일치를 인정하면서도 그것을 지키고자 하는 상호적인 의지로 지탱된다는 생각을 하게 된다. 

영화 음악은 몇 편의 록 음악 트랙들과 존 브라이언(Jon Brion)의 스코어들의 조합으로 이루어졌다. 사운드트랙에서 두 번째로 수록된 Mr. Blue Sky는 풍부하고 유연한 오케스트라 반주와 경쾌한 분위기로 이끌어가는 프로그 록(Prog Rock) 넘버다. 스타카토로 끊어지는 짧은 비트를 지속하며 역동성을 강조하는데, 중반부에 이르면 ��코더 보이스로 로봇을 출현시킨 듯한 미래적 분위기를 연출하고, 이후에 그것은 엄숙한 콰이어로 이어지며 전환점을 마련한다. 특유의 ���동성과 웅장한 분위기 탓인지 이 곡은 다양한 스포츠 경기의 의식에서 사용되기도 했고, <가디언즈 오브 갤럭시(Guardians of the Galaxy)> 등의 영화에 삽입되기도 해 우리에게는 이미 익숙한 곡이다.

조엘과 클레멘타인이 처음 만난 뒤 모든 일이 새롭게 잘 풀릴 듯한 분위기 속, 패트릭이 나타나 조엘이 타고 있는 차의 창문을 두드리며 말한다. “뭐 도와드릴까요?” 도움이 전혀 필요할 게 없는 조엘이라고 생각되지만 패트릭의 얼굴에는 절대적인 심각함이 흐른다. 그리고 이야기는 끊어져 어두운 밤거리 차 안에서 조엘이 슬픔에 북받쳐 눈물을 흘리는 장면으로 이어진다. 차 안에서는 Beck이 노래한 Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes가 흘러나온다. “마음을 바꾸고 둘러봐, 난 햇살 같은 당신의 사랑을 필요로 해… 그리고 모두들 언젠가 알게 될 거야…” 이 가사 속에 우리가 알게 될 것이 ‘무엇인지’는 언급되지 않지만, 언급된 다른 단어들, 이를테면 heart, sunshine, loving 등을 통해 유추하게 된다. ‘모두가 언젠가 알게 될’ ‘그것’은 서로 다르게 해석될 수 있지만, 그것은 ‘마음으로’ 깨닫게 되는 무언가일 것이다. 현실에서는 이런 말을 하기 어려운데, 노래로 들으니 두 번 세 번 곱씹어 보게 된다. 그건 분명 시와 노래의 힘일 것이다. 원곡은 영국 팝 밴드 The Korgis의 것으로, 여성 보컬이지만 감정적인 부분을 내면화한 창법으로 젠더리스 분위기를 연출하며, 차분한 신스 사운드로 주도했다. 

사운드트랙 프로듀싱을 맡은 존 브라이언에 대해서는 졸저 <@sj_musicnote> 1의 <레이디 버드(Lady Bird)> 편에서 다룬 바가 있다. 돌이켜 보면 이 사운드트랙을 구매하고 즐겨 들었던 2004년 즈음은 음악에 대해서 아무것도 모르던 때였지만(지금도 여전히 아는 것이 별로 없지만), 나는 영화의 여운을 사운드트랙으로 옮겨와 감정을 확장해가거나 이미지들의 파편을 간직하기를 즐겼던 것 같다. 다시 이 앨범을 들으며, 그의 음악이 왜 이렇게 좋은지 가만히 그 이유를 찾아보았다. 그는 <레이디 버드>나 <이터널 선샤인> 등의 사운드트랙 작업을 할 때 기타나 베이스 등의 밴드 악기보다 클래식 악기들을 사용해 스코어를 만들었지만, 그의 손에서 전형적인 클래식 음악이 만들어진 것이 아니라 매우 이야기적이고 감성적인 멜로디와 분위기를 가진 곡들이 만들어졌다. 그의 스코어 음악은 과시적이지 않고 소박하게 영화와 잘 어울린다. 좀 과장해 말하면 내가 영화 음악을 사랑하는 ���유 중 하나에 존 브라이언이 있다. 

영화를 보고 사운드트랙을 사 모으던 ��질없는 취미 덕분에 책장에 묻혀 있던 시디를 다시 꺼내볼 수 있었다. 시디 케이스를 열고는 마치 타임머신을 탄 것 같은 기분으로, 얼마간은 그때 그 시절로 돌아간 듯한 몽상에 빠져 들었고, 그건 숨겨진 과일을 맛본 것처럼 더없이 달콤했다. 영화를 보고 음반을 모으는 이 취미는 집착이 아닌 여전히 아이 같은, 애착의 반영이라 표현하고 싶다.

-명언 좋아하세요?

-무슨 뜻이야?

-유명한 금언 같은 거요. 명언을 읽으면 영감을 받거든요. 그걸 읽다가 박사님이 좋아하실 만한 걸 찾았어요.

-듣고 싶군.

-이런 말이 있어요. “망각하는 자는 복이 있나니. 자기 실수조차 잊기 때문이라.”

-니체 말이지?

-네. 모르실 줄 알고 말씀드린 건데.

-아니, 좋은 명언이야. 우리 둘 다 안다니 기뻐.

-네, 또 하나 더 있어요. 포프 알렉산더 말인데…

-알렉산더 포프?

-네. 아, 창피해. ‘포프 알렉산더’라고 하지 말아야지 하고는 꼭 이렇게 잘못 말하네요.

-신경 쓰지 마.

-참 자상하세요.

-“흠 없는 신녀의 운명은 얼마나 행복한가? 세상을 잊고 세상에 잊힌 자. 티 없는 마음에 영원한 햇살이 내리쬐니. 모든 기도가 이뤄지고 모든 소망을 내려놓는다.”

[참조 사이트]

https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/undercover-indies-what-makes-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-so-unforgettable/

https://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/charlie_kaufman.html

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The Killing Fields (1984) is one of the New York Times 1,000 Best Films.

Critic Leslie Halliwelll gave the film three stars out of four and wrote “Brilliantly filmed, but probably too strong for a commercial audience to stomach, this true adventure tosses one into the horror of modern war and leaves one reeling despite its comparatively happy ending.”

My rating - middling, although Halliwell’s review makes me want to see it again.  The film won three Oscars, for Haing S Ngor, the photography and the editing.

The film was directed by Roland Joffe, who was born in London and has 27 director credits, from four episodes on the telly 1973-74, to this, his first feature, through a 2018 American tv movie, and a project in pre-production.  

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The Survivalist - Trailer

Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, & John Malkovich

Releases October 1, 2021 (Theaters & On-Demand)

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THE SURVIVALIST (2021) Post-pandemic thriller wraps production

THE SURVIVALIST (2021) Post-pandemic thriller wraps production

The Survivalist is a 2021 American thriller set a year and a half after the fall of civilisation from a viral outbreak. Directed by Jon Keeyes (The Harrowing; Element; Phobia; Doom Room) from a screenplay written by Matthew Rogers, the movie stars John Malkovich and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was produced by Keeyes, Jordan Yale Levine and Jordon Beckerman under their Yale Productions banner. “We’re…

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Bruce Willis month 3 - Red

Bruce Willis month 3 – Red

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at a movie based on a comic series, which feels strange considering this started off as a comic blog. Red, released in 2010, is loosely based on a 3 issue miniseries by the same name back in 2003. Red was published by Homage Comics, written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Cully Hamner. On that note, Homage Comics is owned by DC Comics. Because of this movie, a…

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Weird Movies You Might Actually Enjoy

I am in my 40s now and have been watching and recommending movies for a quarter of a century. I have seen thousands of films and television shows over that time and one thing that I have often been asked is "what is the weirdest movie you have ever seen?" What is weird to one person might not be so odd to another, but I admit there have been a lot of films that I have watched that I liked due to it being so strange. The weirdness is the appeal. With the current film under review being 2001: A Space Odyssey (which has a very odd beginning and ending), I thought I would share some movies that I have seen that are both weird and very enjoyable to the point I would recommend them to others who might not be into weird films. SPOILER ALERT is in effect, so, in no particular order....

(Note: I am going to try and avoid art house and horror films because they are unsettling in a more graphic way and the weirdness is not really meant to be enjoyable but to terrify or assault your senses. If that is what you want, then check out the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky or Dario Argento)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, this was bound to be a weird one. It is the story of a former puppeteer who takes an office job filing with his amazing dexterity. The position is on a half-sized floor in a giant building where everything is scaled down. If that wasn't strange enough, he finds that there is a door in his new office that leads into the mind of Jon Malkovich. One can take over the actor's brain for a short period of time before they are unceremoniously kicked out and land on a highway outside of New Jersey. At some point during the film, Jon Malkovich finds out and takes a turn going into his own conscious. The film is kind of amazing, utilizing the acting talents of John Cusack, Katherine Keener, Cameron Diaz, and (of course) John Malkovich. The film earned three Oscar nominations including Best Screenplay and Best Director. The movie carries a 94% Rotten Tomato score and a 90 Metacritic score, showing that the film is really a crowd pleaser. The perfect film to dip your toe into the world of weird media.

Brazil (1985)

A British dystopian black comedy, this film was created and directed by one of the minds behind Monty Python. The story is of a bureaucrat who looks into an incident in which a citizen is taken away and executed because of an administrative error. This government representative is promoted for covering up the mistake but is hounded by a freedom fighter who lived near the man who was killed. He goes through an existential crisis about doing the right thing and accepting his placement and accidently becomes part of the freedom movement. Or does he? There is a lot of ambiguity throughout the film about what comes of the main character, but it doesn't really matter because the visuals and the soundtrack are amazing. Lots of weird dream sequences make the film hard to comprehend at times, but really very enjoyable in my opinion.

The City of Lost Children (1995)

This was my first experience with work by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and it definitely was not my last. This is a French language film so I thought the subtitles would bother me, but the story is so engaging that you soon forget that you are reading. The acclaimed director went on to make the beloved film Amelie in 2001, and is, in my humble opinion, one of the best world building directors of all time. This is the story of a strong man in a circus and a little orphan girl who traverse a world where a mad scientist is stealing children to help him find a way to get to sleep without nightmares. Most of the characters are along the lines of circus side-show performers (little people, quadruplets, conjoined twins, strong men) and make a fascinating story. The movie includes Ron Perlman speaking the French language which makes some things kind of funny in an unintentional manner. There are also some cross language jokes that are surprising and make you feel smart for getting it. I will admit that I have shared this with a couple of people who absolutely hated it due to the subtitles and theme of stealing and harming children, but I still think it is fantastic and worth a watch.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

Combine the writing style of Charlie Kaufman and the acting of Jim Carrey in his prime and you have a very strange movie. This film tells the story of a man who wants to forget his ex-girlfriend, so a team of scientists go into his mind while he is sleeping and erase any memories that involve his ex. This is problematic because the patient decides he doesn't want to forget her mid operation and tries to fight the process in his mind. The patient jumps around in his own memories with his visualization of his ex, trying hard not lose his memory. Charlie Kaufman does a lot of writing about people being trapped in their own brain and this mental state is apparent in his screen plays. This film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and absolutely deserved it. Following a character through their lifetime of memories is fascinating and the film is very cinematic and extremely well-acted. High recommendation on this one.

Dune (1984)

Yes, David Lynch directed a version of Dune back in the 80s and it was crazy. I have never experienced a film that had so much ADR narration because the movie was too complicated and needed to be explained. I don't think there is any way that a viewer would understand this film without some kind of knowledge of the source material. The costumes are crazy, the characters are out of a nightmare, Sting plays a villain, Patrick Stewart is a warrior, and people control weapons with their voice. Pretty weird. Even more strange is David Lynch's description of a sci-fi world. The new version that came out is pretty strange and is cut into at least two parts. This is a rather strange director trying to pack the entire story in a little over two hours. The visuals are amazing, especially if you are familiar with the Frank Herbert novel, and the music is fantastic, so there is plenty to experience. Just don't expect to really understand everything.

Swiss Army Man (2016)

This is a fine film starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe about a man who is stranded on a deserted island and finds a dead body that washes to shore. The body can speak slightly when air is pumped into it, unfortunately it then passes that air out through flatulence. The stranded man uses the properties of the dead body (stiffness, bloating, posability) to live in the wild and eventually the two become friends. There is some question as to whether the stranded man is fantasizing the whole thing, if the body is a zombie, or if this is just a strange situation where the body wasn't fully dead and is useful for getting off the island. The film is pretty funny if you just buy into the full premise but will not be fun if you try and point out plot inconsistencies. A strong suspension of disbelief is needed to really enjoy this fun film.

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

There is something very Canadian about this film which stars Ryan Gosling and a full-sized sex doll. This is a modern adaptation of Pygmalion in which a socially incapable man is traumatized and only begins to address his issues with a fake woman. Lars lives in a very small, isolated town in Wisconsin and the town population realizes that the doll (named Bianca) might be helpful, so everybody just plays along. This film has some of the most awkward scenes of any movie I know, especially when Lars is first introducing the doll to people. The doll starts out as a house guest but eventually travels with him on errands and even accompanies him to church. There are some really funny parts, and I don't want to spoil things, but Ryan Gosling really shows off his acting talents. Really highly recommendation.

Enemy (2013)

Another interesting Candian film, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, about doppelgangers who run into each other. One of the physical twins is a married actor and the other is a history professor. The professor becomes obsessed with the actor and starts to stalk him. The two finally meet and trade places in which things go pretty poorly. The weirdest thing about this is the constant reference to tarantulas and the very ending sees one of the two walk into a room expecting his significant other and instead finds a room sized spider. He sighs in resignation and the movie ends. This actually became a little bit of a meme because it doesn't really make much sense. This is another well-acted film that is set in a world that is just slightly different from reality, making it creepy. I really like it.

The Lobster (2015)

I don't even know where to begin with this one. This is a British film that was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Oscars and at the BAFTAs. The acting is purposefully kind of bland, but the story premise and setting is just absurd. The film takes place in a dystopian world in which everyone has to have a partner once they turn 18 or they are sent out to farms in which they are given 45 days to find a partner, or they are turned into animals. The lead is played by Colin Farrell, and he is sent to one of these farms when his wife leaves him. He understands the severity because his brother was turned into a dog and follows him around. He tries to bond with different women but finally runs away into the forest in desperation and meets a group that live unpartnered out in the woods. He does not like either condition and ends up stuck between two worlds, all the while trying not to be caught and turned into a lobster. It is exceptionally weird and fascinating. I did not really like it the first time through because it was too much, but I have grown to really enjoy this film.

There are a lot of other weird films that are exceptionally gory or artistic to the point that they are incomprehensible, but the films listed about really struck me and I would be glad to watch any of them again. Give one of them a try if you are looking for something weird.