4/6/2024 0 Comments Watch being john malkovich![]() Maybe you know that his real name is Adam Spiegel, of Spiegel catalog fame, and that he recently married Sofia Coppola and that he’s a nut for skateboarding. Maybe you know Jonze from his TV commercials (Nike, Nissan) or his music videos (Beastie Boys, Weezer, Fatboy Slim) or his acting ( Three Kings). And debuting feature director Spike Jonze, 30, orchestrates the teasing absurdity of the plot as if nothing could be more natural than climbing into a celebrity’s head. Unblemished by solemnity, intellectual pretensions or elephant dung, this movie of constant astonishments will make you laugh hard and long.Ĭharlie Kaufman, in his first time out of the gate as a screen-writer, has devised the freakiest fun house since Dorothy discovered Oz. The crazy-ass imagination at work in Being John Malkovich hits you like a blast of pure oxygen. No, this is not a movie you should rush to avoid. Yes, this is the movie about a puppeteer named Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) who finds a magic portal that sucks you into the head of John Malkovich, where, for fifteen minutes, you watch and feel from the inside as the Oscar-nominated actor showers, shaves, picks his teeth or bangs a babe – it depends on the hour – before time runs out and you get booted into a ditch beside the New Jersey Turnpike. ![]()
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