Madman's Confession

Clemmie 2022-03-15 09:01:04

Five stars. I really have no bottom line in starring. Is this kind of disabled movie worth five stars? ? ? Let me count, one star for Sam, one star for Kaufman's script, one star for the turn of the cup, one star for Meimanfeng, and one star for lunatics. To be honest, this film fully proves that a bad book can also ruin a movie. The director is obviously powerless. Originally, it might be good to make a pure entertainment film, but he had an idea and wanted to make a film. By coincidence, Kaufman also thought. Therefore, the director tried his best, but still failed to control this fairy script. It's not that Kaufman is too famous and I am brainless. His script surpasses all genres. This is nothing. The most difficult thing is that it can control genres, commonly known as anti-genres. In fact, this film looks like seven neuroses. But MacDonald is not so turbulent, and honestly follow the exaggerated route, don't rectify those useless. Kaufman’s script is too big and expresses too much, but the story is also full. It all depends on the language of images, but at my level, I don’t know how to make the appreciation and depth of his script compatible at the same time. . However, if this film was not done, Spike Jones was not very good, and even his own New York metaphor might not be fully expressed. Hey, I don't know what I'm talking about. To be honest, this film tells an entertaining and crazy story, and it is also a genius story. A person who knows how to grasp the feelings of others in a nuanced way wants to create a story for a TV show. This is very earthy. But it discusses other things very awkwardly. For example, does he want to bring joy to others or satisfy his own desire for manipulation. Does he pursue excitement or want to occupy other people's lives? He chose to escape, just like the king of war and the king of comedy, never going to war with himself. Too much I want to say, I don't want to say it, the worst written one. Finally, everyone loves Sam! ! !

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Extended Reading
  • Jerald 2022-04-20 09:01:43

    George Clooney himself appears in the film dressed as Clark Gable. Although this film is not well received, the color matching of the last century, the transformation of stage setting and real life, plus the jazz from beginning to end, Clooney's aesthetics are superb! For someone like Chuck who would rather die than exaggerate, this should be what he wanted for a biopic. Motor and Brad Pitt gave Clooney a shot for free.

  • Mazie 2022-02-11 08:01:24

    The overlapping juxtaposition of entertainment to death and cold war killing! 1. George Clooney's excellent directorial debut. The script was adapted by Charlie Kaufman from the autobiography of Chuck Barris of the same name. With this film, Sam Rockwell won the 2003 Berlin actor. 2. The film uses different lighting and color schemes in different spaces or timelines, including bright and flat TV program lighting, strong color romantic style, and dark-tone high-contrast lighting commonly used in noir films. The horrible silhouette, etc., my favorite is the gray low-saturation filter in the assassination line in Finland and West Berlin. 3. The editing is exquisite and the transitions are rich in fancy styles. The main line narrative sometimes inserts similar documentary interviews and scenes of the male protagonist's naked reflection behind closed doors. This collage also makes the whole story more stylized and difficult to distinguish between the real and the real. 4. Due to the fact that the self-fax of the same name has been criticized, this film also deliberately portrays the hero's CIA assassin career as exaggerated and superficial, as if killing has become a relaxing game, just like the TV show designed by the hero, which makes mediocrity but mediocre. People eager to be on TV were ridiculed in public. (8.5/10)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind quotes

  • Chuck Barris: I've got important things to think about here. I don't have time to fuck around with you.

    Jim Byrd: Okay, I'll help you out with your little show. Tit for tat. That's the kinda guy I am. I've seen this Dating Game of yours, Chuck. And I have a thought.

    Chuck Barris: What, now you're a television producer?

    Jim Byrd: Hey, I'm John Q. Public when it comes to TV and that should make my opinion of interest to you.

    Chuck Barris: [nods] Let's hear it then.

    Jim Byrd: Well, what do you have now? The couple gets sent to some stupid second-rate Hollywood shitcan restaurant, right? Sets you back fifty bucks? That's not too exciting a prize to us vicarious living boobs out in TV-land.

    Chuck Barris: Yeah, what's your point?

    Jim Byrd: Up the stakes, Chuckles. Send 'em to some exotic locale. Europe, Southeast Asia, for example.

    Chuck Barris: The network's not going to let me send two unmarried kids on vacation together.

    Jim Byrd: Send 'em with a chaperone.

    Chuck Barris: [beat] You know... that's not half bad.

    Jim Byrd: I'm telling ya. And sometimes you can be the chaperone, Chuckie. Let's say we have a job for you in Austria. You, a successful TV producer, above suspicion, chaperones the young couple, and while you're there, you take care of some Company business. It's the perfect cover. TV producer by day, CIA operative by night.

    Chuck Barris: I told you, I don't have to kill people for money anymore.

    Jim Byrd: Chuck, when I said you fit our profile, very little of that had to do with you needing the money. Some of it, but very little. You liked it with Renda, Chuck. I saw it in your eyes. You liked it but you botched it. Don't you want to get really good at something, Chuck?

  • [Chuck meets a Pretty Woman at a party swimming in the pool and goes to talk with her in a secluded grotto]

    Pretty Woman: [speaking seductively] Hi.

    Chuck Barris: Hi.

    Pretty Woman: I thought it was you.

    Chuck Barris: [smiles and bows] It's me.

    Pretty Woman: [still speaking seductively] I'm glad to meet you because I wanted to tell you that I've seen The Gong Show and I think you are the most insidious and despicable force in entertainment today.

    Chuck Barris: [caught off-guard] Well...

    Pretty Woman: [still speaking seductively] How dare you subject the rest of the world to your loathsome view of humanity.

    Chuck Barris: I don't think it's that loathsome.

    Pretty Woman: [still speaking seductively] What is it then? To mock some poor, lonely people who just crave a little attention in their lives. To destroy them. So everybody's not brilliantly talented. They're still people. They deserve respect and compassion. I mean, who the hell are you? What the fuck have you ever done that elevates you above the pathetic masses? Oh, I forgot, you created The Dating Game. Wow, right up there with the Sistine Chapel.

    [Under duress, Chuck leaves]