Being John Malkovich (DVD)

...explores the possibility of actually being someone else – and all the questions and problems that this possibility raises. Knowing that “Being John Malkovich” is a film by Spike Jonze, the man responsible for – amongst other things – Jackass, and Fatboy Slim’s famous video for “Praise You”, I knew that I should expect something a little out of the ordinary and slightly off the wall. Therefore, I was prepared for something unusual when I watched ...
...access the floor – which being squashed in between the 7th and 8th floors has a very low ceiling and requires employees to stoop awkwardly whenever they want to move around the offices. But despite the strangeness of the surroundings, nothing prepares Craig for the truly life-changing events he will experience as an employee of Lestercorp. On his first day, whilst watching a bizarre training video explaining the dubious origins of the 7 ½ floor, ...

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...people credit Johnny Knoxville with being the mastermind (debatable) behind MTV's Jackass, it was actually Jonze who was creator and executive producer of the show in 2000. He also acted as producer on both of the Jackass films (Number two to be released this year.) Jonze has tackled interesting and compelling subjects in his documentaries including a day in the life of Al Gore filmed shortly before the 2000 elections. Unfortunately, they were not ...
...by Morning and of course, Being John Malkovich. In 2008 a film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story Where the Wild Things Are will be released directed by Jonze and starring big names such as Michelle Williams, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara and Benicio Del Toro. ***Being John Malcovich*** ***What is Being John Malkovich all about?*** This is going to be as brief as possible simply because if I explain the whole film in detail, ...

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...thoughts, feeling your own feelings, being this other person simultaneously? And if you could do this, whose head would you choose to be in? Then imagine what it would be like to be the person who everyone else is inhabiting. Of course you don't understand what's happening at first. You just feel, well, weird, strangely out of control, not quite right. This is just what happens to actor John Malkovich in the movie 'Being John Malcovich', starring ...
...huge building. Being on the seven and a halfth floor, the office is only half-height, meaning that everyone has to go around bent. The office is inhabited by weirdos and crazies, and Craig develops a lustful crush on one of them, Maxine (played by Catherine Keener), who finds him completely uninteresting. One day, Craig finds a little door hidden behind a filing cabinet. He goes inside. It is a dirty, dark, slimy, slushy passage. Undeterred, he ...

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Being John Malkovitch……….No Thanks…Enjoy Being Me!! -------------------------------------------- My computer was on the blink and I had two choices last night, talk to the wife or hire out a film, it was an easy decision…Hire out Being John Malkovitch…. It starred one of my favourite actors in John Cusack and costarred that girl from Something about Mary, Cameron Diaz…. I happened to watch it by chance and ...
...it only to discover himself being sucked into a strange situation. Something weird has happened as he discovers that he is inside the body of John Malkovitch..He is able to see out of John’s eyes but can’t move his hands or talk, just basically be a host in the body.. Anyway 15 mins pass and wham, he drops out of the sky into a field not far from his office. He hurries home and tells his wife, (Cameron Diaz) and of course typical woman ...

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...for just 15 minutes before being thrown out. He talks to Maxine about it and they think this would be a brilliant money maker. Soon Craig is telling his wife and she too wants to experience this but things don’t turn out as expected as she fells complete when she is a man and decides that she is actually trapped in the wrong body. Soon Craig and Maxine are making a lot of money by selling the time in the portal to customers but how long can this ...
...screen presence despite their relationship being strained. Cameron Diaz was a crazy character who was obsessed with her animals. The marital home was full of them and she was trying to sort the psychiatric problems with her monkey out. I did find the addition fop the animals was slightly out of place and did not fit in with the film but at least it gave some indication as to the metal state of Craig and his wife. The role of Maxine was a confusing ...

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...==The DVD== Being John Malkovich is from Universal Studios, a modern comedy with a sci-fi/fantasy twist. The DVD I am reviewing is a one disc standard edition, with a few special features such as theatrical trailers, cast interviews and special effects information. I have to admit that I do not generally watch special features or bonus material on DVDs as I do not find it adds to my enjoyment as a rule. ==Cast== Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, ...
...After fifteen minutes of being John Malkovich, Craig finds himself dumped beside the road in New Jersey. The experience is so amazing that Craig confides in Maxine, she also takes a trip through the tunnel and becomes Johns Malkovich. Between them, Maxine and Craig then cook up a plan to send others into the tunnel and charge them $200 to be John Malkovich for fifteen minutes. Lotte finds out about the tunnel and demands a trip in John Malkovich's ...

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...film. The film revolves around being able to travel into someone else’s mind and seeing the world through their eyes, in effect, being that person and in this film, Being John Malkovich (hence the title!!) So, what’s the film about?? Basically I’ve already told you the plot, but I’ll go into a bit more detail, if you are going to watch the film and don’t want it in any way spoilt before you watch it, then skip the next ...
...and jobless. His animal mad wife (Cameron Diaz) tells him he should basically get a job. Scanning through the paper he comes across a job that suits him, its not to do with puppets but its worth a try so he goes along for the interview, gets the job and falls in love with someone who works on the same floor as him. Now, before I go on, I will have to explain the floor to you. The floor in the office block is known as 7 and a half. The reason for ...

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...DVD you have your usuals being Cast and crew details, Theatrical trailer(s) and the odd interview. However, on this DVD they have pushed the boat out and added a bit more. The Spike Jonze interview is a bit worrying, if not pretty much weird. They interview him in the car for about 2 and a half minutes. You don’t really get much out of the man, he then jumps out of his car, is sick on the road, jumps back in again in a hurry and that’s ...
...weird throughout the interview and doesn’t care much for the interview himself. I watched the interview before watching the film and it really made me wonder what I was in for! You have also got a few of the adverts/trailers that were shown for the film on normal TV. I have never seen any of these adverts, and they look as if they were only shown in the US. However, it is a bit confusing, because most of the adverts are for something called ...

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...consciousness for fifteen minutes before being unceremoniously dumped back into reality just next to the New Jersey tunpike. To reveal much more of the highly inventive and original story by screen writer Charlie Kaufman would be an excercise in futility, as there's no way I could really do it justice. Spike Jonze, director of numerous skate vidoes and pop promos, has created something really quite magical here, and despite the fact that none of ...
...features whatsoever, the overall movie has an endearingly surreal quality which is reminscent of Terry Gilliam's finer moments. Malkovich proves beyond any reasonable doubt that he is the ballsiest actor in Hollywood, totally unafraid to self-parody himself and the superficial celebrity culture he belongs to. This movie also contains the funniest scene in any film I've ever seen, where Malkovich discovers his head has become a misfit's tourist attraction ...

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...is intelligent and witty whilst being rather tongue-in-cheek, and it’s a joy to see John Malkovich really taking the mick out of his public persona. Performances are polished throughout, and special kudos goes to Cameron Diaz, who is brave enough to look ‘ugly’ in this movie (although it would be impossible for her to truly look ugly, wouldn’t it?!) Watch out for the cameo appearances by Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn and even ...

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...a filing clerk. Of course being a puppeteer he has fast fingers, so he goes for the job and gets it. He turns up at the company's address, gets in the lift and realises he has to get off at the 7 1/2 floor...how bizarre! The lift has buttons to stop at the 7th floor and the 8th floor but there is nothing in between. A woman who is also in the lift notices his puzzled expression and realises that he must be looking for the 'in-between' floor - so ...
...with the extra benefits of being able to see everything through his eyes. Maxine cracks on to the idea that this could make a lot of money, and the film continues along this path. My final thought ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well hilarious is not the word that I would use for this film. I agree it was somewhat amusing in places but nothing like the critics stated. If I hadn't seen this film, it would have been no great loss. I really don't think that I ...

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As I asked my boyfriend, 'Who is John Malkovich?', and he replied, 'Oh, you know, that guy from the Michelle Pfeiffer film', in comedy timing a taxi driver on the film asked the very same thing of the man himself. 'Weren't you in that thing about the jewel thief?', is the question repeated several times. And comedy it is. Not in its strictest sense, more in the fact that the scenarios are unbelievably odd in a way that you MUST laugh or you will ...
...John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and, of course, John Malkovich (he was in Dangerous Liaisons, I am reliably informed - very famous, I am just an ignoramus). It left me wondering what would have happened had Malkovich refused to do the film. He is perfect for the part (not just because his name is, coincidentally, John Malkovich - hehe) because of his eccentricities and interest. Also your average occasional-film-goer may not know who he is. He comes into ...

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...on different movies, and in Being John Malkovich, he directs for the first time. This movie is certainly not for all tastes, but for those of you who like different movies, especially those dealing with the definition of existence, and reality, it will probably work for you... The movie follows Craig Schwartz, an extremely talented puppeteer who is unable to find a job doing the only thing that seems to give his life meaning. While looking for work, ...
...entering it, one can experience being John Malkovich for 15 minutes before exiting the portal onto the side of the road at the New Jersey Turnpike near Manhattan. Sounds bizarre huh? Well it is. I won’t get into the twists and turns that come about from this portal but suffice it to stay that they are bizarre, funny, and sad. As Craig notes when he first discovers the portal, the philosophical implications of such a portal are profound. Craig, along ...

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A DVD I can highly recommend, with many special features, making the very most of the format. The movie itself is director Spike Jonze’s first movie. John Cusack plays Craig Schwartz, a puppeteer who takes great care over making his puppets, has great pride in his work, but is reduced to doing shows on the sidewalk (it’s an American movie of course). His wife Lotte, is played by a decidedly unglamourous Cameron Diaz. In fact, they’re ...
...shave for most of the movie. I am not going to outline the plot – portals, vessels... it’s impossible to explain without making it sound like a screwball comedy, which it’s not. I’ll just say that it’s extremely strange, and the film defies description, fitting into a genre all of its own, I think. But it’s definitely funny, thought-provoking, and frequently astounding. Catherine Keener plays Maxine, the goodlooker ...

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Remember Mark Wahlberg's nutty, white trash buddy in Three Kings? Well, that was Spike Jonze, the nutty visionary behind this curio. The premise sounds like it might just pad out a Monty Python sketch - characters find a portal into a famous actor's head - but the manic director has enough bizarre ideas to carry it out successfully to feature length. John Cusack plays a grubby puppeteer, who lives with his dowdy wife (Cameron Diaz! Dowdy!) and her ...
...isn't paying - and applies for a job filing on the seven-and-a-half floor of an office building. This in itself is a hilarious visual joke that is sustained throughout the entire movie. Once here, he is threatened by his insane boss and falls in lust with his co-worker, played by Catherine Keener. Then one day, he discovers a small doorway, which leads to John Malkovich's brain. It enables the visitor to spend fifteen minutes as the actor, before ...

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