Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
If you have watched any of the above films, I believe you have long been like me, impressed by the extraordinary imagination of the playwright Charlie Kaufman and the extraordinary effect that was born after reflecting this imagination into reality.
In 2008, Charlie Kaufman photographed Synecdoche, New York ("New York Synonyms"). Film critics praised it differently. Some thought its structure was obscure, while others thought that the director’s analysis and interpretation of life and death, love and hate were infused. In any case, Kaufman disappeared after the New York synonymy.
For those who have presented the above works, the audience will expect more surprises from him. After seven years, Charlie Kaufman did not disappoint the audience. He used the script of a stage play arranged in 2005 for ten years to make the Anomalisa we see today.
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The scenes of the movie are in five places: airport, taxi, hotel, "toy" store, and home. In other words, this is a typical "business trip."
Customer service expert and author of best-selling chicken soup books, Michael Stone, flew from his home in Los Angeles to Cincinnati, and is about to give an inspirational speech at a customer service forum. His mood is not high, he is depressed, and he looks a little irritable. Pedestrians rushed to and fro, they all had similar faces and expressions. And this seems to make Michael get into trouble and become more anxious.
On the plane, Michael opened a letter from his ex-girlfriend many years ago. The ex-girlfriend complained to him on the letter paper-but made a man's voice.
and at the beginning of the film, the pitch-black screen has a single mode, like a person talking to himself, but also like a conversation between several people, with the same voice.
The plane is landing. The man next to him suddenly said to him: I'm sorry to shake your hand. This is a natural reaction. I usually sit next to my wife. But I really don't like flying.
Michael: [impatiently] I see, it's okay. It's ok. I said, it's okay! [Pause for a moment] Alright, now you can let go of me.
——This is Michael's first contact with others in the film. He resisted and was impatient.
When he walked out of the airport and took a taxi, the audience finally reacted: Except for Michael himself, all faces in this world are the same, and all voices are the same.
Also, I noticed that whether it is the taxi driver who does not understand his "British accent" or the repeated difficulties with the hotel staff, he always asks "What?" There is always a bit of trouble. Even the hotel's phone button for room service was against him, blocking him from communicating, and he didn't want to communicate.
In other words, as far as Michael Stone is concerned, he has no interest in anyone. He was surrounded by a huge void.
However, there are always exceptions in the world. Just after failing to make (yue) and talk (pao) with his ex-girlfriend, he returned to the hotel to take a shower and had a temper with the hot and cold hair spray, he suddenly heard a voice.
A female voice.
He looked for the source of the sound madly, and finally found his master behind a door. Lisa.
Lisa never felt that she would interest anyone.
"I'm ugly. Why don't you like Emily? Everyone likes Emily. She is very smart and beautiful. And I am not smart. There will be things I don’t understand when I read your books. I need to take a dictionary next to me. It's ugly again."
"I think reading with a dictionary is very charming."
Lisa hasn't been loved like this for a long time. It has been a long time that no one made her feel that she was beautiful, and it has not been a long time that she was treated so softly. She felt embarrassed, even panicked, and gradually relaxed. She sang Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun.
(I'm afraid this is the saddest version of this song, but "sweet and beautiful, so good to cry", the director said, "I'm going to fall in love with her.")
The two relaxed people lying on the bed and talking, the atmosphere Become intimate. When the sex scene starts, you will forget that the dolls on the screen are by no means funny. Because of the sincerity and softness of the relationship, even the slight embarrassment at the beginning and the joy of gradually getting better, have wrapped you up.
But when he woke up overnight, things were different...
In his dream, he was confessed in horror by the hotel manager, and he was warned by exactly the same employees outside the manager’s office: not Lisa, not Lisa . F*ck me, f*ck me.
Finally, in his emotionally out-of-control speech, Lisa in the audience also became another member of the masses of beings who are no different to him, and he He returned to Los Angeles with a Japanese doll bought from a "toy" store (he thought it was a real toy store).
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an interview at the Venice Film Festival, Tom Noonan, who dubbed almost everyone, said half-jokingly:
“Actually, I love Michael. Yes. This kind of feeling is always there, but he will reject me, treat me as dust, and make my life sad and painful. I have been trying and have been doing this, but it is useless.”
This is really a subtle answer.
The world did not reject Michael. Neither loneliness nor pain is entirely the responsibility of this world. Find a way to communicate and get along with others, even if it is narrow, try and work hard; instead of expanding yourself infinitely (no matter how vulgar it sounds), let yourself be your only focus .
Anomalisa spent an hour and a half describing the inner world of Michael Stone, how he met "the goddess in the heaven" but still fell back into his old life. At the end of the film, the director did not defend or relieve him-the world is beautiful, there is sunshine, and Emily is really beautiful. So, although sympathy was given to him, it was obvious: it was not the problem of this world. It's his problem, how does he deal with the world's problems.
A closer look at Michael's expression. CreditParamount Pictures. From www.nytimes.com
When asked why he chose animation as a "child medium" for this film, director Charlie Kaufman replied:
"First of all, why not Woolen cloth? We believe that animation, especially stop motion animation, is not a genre, but a form of experimentation that can be used to explore different things. Therefore, there is no reason not to choose it. Once selected, you need to think clearly why and how to use this medium to achieve the best results. This is the general answer.
"Specifically, this is not what we chose, but it was given to us. The people at Starburns Industries found me, and they did this, and this film was made there. Duke (the other director Duke Johnson) works there. They want to expand this form and do something more adult and subtle than traditional stop motion animation. 』
They did it. The feeling of Dream World created by stop motion animation in a specific scene is used to the best. And Kaufman's consistent "light and surreal" style is also perfectly displayed in the form of animation.
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Well, let me think, if the above is not enough to appeal to you, David Thewlis (Yes It's the Professor Lupin in Harry Potter!) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (her performance in The Hateful Eight), the dubbing, and the extremely exquisite production of motion and details by the animators are definitely worthy of appreciation!
Charlie Kaufman, with CO-Director, Animation Guru Duke Johnson. Ricardo DeAratanha. Los Angeles Times the From
5 Fun Facts the About Anomalisa
1. Technical
same animation techniques and Caroline film used in the use of technology, are replacement animation, But Charlie Kaufman chose to leave them there without smearing the seams. "Because this is what they are," said the director, "not perfect."
2. Image
Regarding the image of the protagonist, the director team initially sought an animation image production company to design. However, the designs provided by these production companies are the "big eyes and big hands" of traditional animation, which is not realistic enough. The director team collected photos of "real people" on the Internet, but it was not adjusted properly. At this time, Duke Johnson brought a photo of his former brother-in-law-exactly what everyone imagined. Lisa is the stranger the producer saw in the restaurant. "
3. Fregoli
name of the hotel Fregoli from fregoli delusion, this is one kind of mental illness or trauma due to the organic disease of the brain caused think everyone in this world is by the same person dressed as a Select this as a hotel The name, Charlie Kaufman is not implying that Michael Stone is suffering from this disease. He just likes to search for the names of all kinds of diseases.
4. Naked
from the wrinkles on the protagonist’s clothes to airplanes, offices, hotel rooms, the world’s Everything is done by hand by the animation team. They need to make countless different expressions of the upper part of the face, the lower part of the face, and various combinations. Of course, the most difficult part is to do the nude part. About Michael Stone's Ding Dingyao Everyone had different opinions on how big it was, so we had to do a lot of things. "Well, in the end, little silicone tintin flew around our office and appeared in unexpected places." said animator Dan Driscoll.
On the set of the animated stop-motion film "Anomalisa." CreditParamount Pictures. From www.nytimes.com
5. Make money
The first investment in this film was crowdfunded on Kickstarter. "In order to make this unique and beautiful film, we need to break away from the traditional Hollywood studio system, because there, we believe that you-the audience-will not be able to appreciate this wonderful work as it was when it was first conceived. "In the
end, 5,770 patrons gave them $406,237. The film currently has a North American box office of $944,990 at a cost of $8 million.
I am not one by one, I want to leave a little surprise for everyone who hasn't watched the movie yet (but actually read it here!).
This is a real adult animation-I say this not only because of the sex scene in it, but because it is a movie with Kaufman characteristics. Whether it is the fantasy details that are no less than "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", or the questions and thoughts wrapped in the plot, Kaufman's brand is everywhere. Many reporters asked Kaufman for the interpretation of the movie, but he just replied: "This is for you. This is your movie."
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