Lotte Schwartz (Cameron Diaz) enjoys being John Malkovich (the title actor playing himself) while sexually penetrating 40-Year-Old Virgin's wife with his penis... and also John Cusack has a very small cameo somewhere.
Absolutley love it! One of the best movies of the 90s. John Malkovich is so wonderful at playing himself! Cusack, Cameron and Keener are also great in it. I love the screenplay and the direction. Absolutley fantastic.
Dark humor done right. The only way to beat this screenplay, is to write a screenplay about yourself having written the screenplay for Being John Malkovich. I.E.: 'Adaptation.'
I tend to watch movies with a strange storyline but I must say that this has one of the strangest stories I've ever seen. A little slow in the beginning but it grows and becomes highly enjoyable and thought-provoking.
One of the most original stories that I have ever seen and also one of the best Cusack performances I have ever seen. Spike Jonze is the perfect director for Kaufman's script and Keener is hilarious and gave me a boner.
One of the strangest movies I've ever seen. One of the first "mainstream" indie artsy fartsy films. A little too much on the way out there side. ...a chimpanzee has a flashback!!!
Definitely one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. Very clever, abstract, some way out there stuff. Talk about one crazy love-triangle. Crazy, crazy movie.
Definitely among the smartest and most original comedies (and scripts) of the twentieth century. The mix between fiction and reality, as well as the performances and some unbelievable and surrealistic moments, add to this contemporary masterpiece an exquisite delight to be enjoyed to its fullest. Way to go Spike Jonze!
Now, the next mandatory for you to see is Adaptation (2002), another brilliant work of art that deals with the same emphasis towards the human condition and alternate worlds between the real world and the film world.
Demented and absurdly crazy. Really funny to watch. A puppeteer finds a way to get in to someone else's body. He controls their fate once inside and turns John Malkovich's life upside down. One of my favorites.
Finally the world takes notice of Catherine Keener and about time too. A highly intelligent, funny and original script never will there be anything like it again.
Amazing film, with one of the coolest stories that I have read/seen. Brilliant acting from everyone and all the parts that were put in made sense in the end. Was a good way to expand my mind. This one will have to be watched again some time.
The first weird experiment from the contemporary maestro of originality. Everyone involved acts decently and the laughs pile up as you delve deeper and deeper into Malkovich's and Kaufman's mind.
Being John Malkovich is a truly original and totally odd film. It's about a failed puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers a portel into John Malkovich. There he learns that he can actually control him and live his life as him.
Well, this is possibly one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen, not what I was expecting. John Cusack delivers a good performance as usual and Cameron Diaz doesn't do too bad herself. Definitely worth watching, it's a bit of a mind boggling movie actually.
charlie coffman! i worship u man.... which galaxy have u come from? and spike jonze u realy made me adore u.CAMERON DIAZ as a woman who waants to change to man? and it was such a long time i was wondering why john cusak has become an actor and what exactly is so special about him? and i got the answer right in this movie. he is a complete loser in this movie and u can get it from the first time you lay eye on him. i don`t wanna talk about the the philosophy of the script because these two computers down right of my desktop are blinking at me and keep saying shut yup......and so i will do...!
Smart people will relish its temerariousness, average people will smile awkwardly and comment that it's "kinda different," and dimly lit people may mistake it for the Elmo movie and drool quietly in the back rows. It's a movie for everyone.
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Orson Bean, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
"Being John Malkovich" details the relationship between Craig and Lotte Schwartz. They basically live an old fashioned life in a small apartment with a miniature zoo of pets and a puppet factory inside. Lotte is a typical, unattractive homemaker while Craig holds that unusual occupation of being a professional puppeteer. Desperately searching for employment, Craig soon visits a business for an interview as a filer when he discovers for some odd reason the construction of the office floor is all but several feet tall, forcing all employees to bend over backwards just to walk around. One of those employees is named Maxine, a highly seductive co-worker of Craig's. When he asks her out for a beer one night, Craig experiences lustful thoughts about her, and nearly begins an affair as his seemingly loving wife wonders around her happy little apartment all by herself. As you can see, the household isn't exactly a joyful situation. All things change, from blossoming sexual confusion to inner self-esteem, when Craig uncovers a small door behind a filing cabinet in his office. It is tucked away, hidden acutely well in a dark corner, which is found mysteriously by accident when Craig droops a paper behind the cabinet. After Craig explores this deep miniature, seemingly endless hallway, he discovers this secret door leads to the brain of actor John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, then spits you out along the roadside afterwards. It is very intriguing how the narrative point of view is juggled between Craig and then Lotte after the problem is introduced and then solved: the couples dead-end lives are lifted in glory. This creates a second conflict moving us smoothly into the second act. Perfect internal problems are created with the two female leads; Lotte and Maxine find themselves physically attracted to each other in unbelievable character twists. The two end up having a femininity sexual relationship while one is entrapped in the mind of Malkovich, and the other experiences the actual Malkovich. It is a beautifully crafted structure, with act breaks so clear and complications so faultless it is no wonder while this is such an effective picture. Cameron Diaz is flawlessly cast as Craig's sexually and mentally uncoordinated wife, and delivers us a comically riotous character. John Cusack as Craig himself is superior and believable as a down on his luck puppeteer, and possesses a perfect blend of humor and unpredictable qualities with his character. Also quite good here, John Malkovich, who has much more of a difficult role than one would think. He has some hard scenes where Craig controls him while inside his mind, which requires great skill to perform. However, better than any performance, and more amazing then any flawless characters or plot, is the concept of a human being thinking up such an absurd idea as the imagination behind the beauty of "Being John Malkovich." With such a penetrating, magical atmosphere to it, it is kind of a shame that the filmmakers created this film in the form of a black comedy instead of something more harrowing.
One of the strangest and most original story ideas ever. Simply put, it's one giant mind-f***. Makes you wonder who sits around and thinks up this stuff. Despite its odd nature still a very cool movie with great acting and a message. Also doesn't take itself too seriously. Catch Cameron "Eye Candy" Diaz's performance, which is different than anything she has ever done. Somehow she pulls it off. Makes you wonder why she doesn't show off her acting chops more instead of settling for girly-girl movies. Great acting and screenplay.
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