Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Directed by George Clooney
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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But its mostly the work of Sam Rockwell ( Galaxy Quest , The Green Mile ) that makes this movie so fascinating.
Rockwell has established himself as a memorable character actor, with nifty turns as a condemned killer in "The Green Mile" and a skittish crewman in the parody "Galaxy Quest."
An actor who rarely tests himself (“Galaxy Quest,” “The Green Mile”), Rockwell swallows all of his go-for-joke traits, and becomes Chuck Barris in a way that’s artistic and impressive.
Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell, "The Green Mile") is known for introducing such shows as "The Newlywed Game," 'based on the belief that marrieds would sell each other out for a major appliance,' to American television.
Typically a supporting player in films like "Galaxy Quest" and "The Green Mile", here Mr. Rockwell creates a complete vision of Barris without resorting to imitation or caricature.
Charlie Kaufman, the phenom screenwriter whose bizarre meta-films (Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) have attracted more attention than his less self-conscious stories (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Human Nature, the latter also directed by Michel Gondry), now tries combine the two, in a way.
Since then, in "Human Nature," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and most of all "Adaptation," he's taken audiences on roundabout pleasure trips, finding inspiration in the dark mazes of the mind.
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who devised the story with Pierre Bismuth and director Michel Gondry, usually specializes in being too hip for the room -- or the mainstream room, anyway (see Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, or Confessions of a Dangerous Mind).
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "Adaptation)") puts rubber face Jim Carrey back in the arthouse with his aggravated timeline pastiche of a romantic comedy in which all memory of a person can be removed with a computer program.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the latest film from the twisted mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the man behind Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman's screenplay titles?Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, and the new Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind?each have either a metaphysical or an anthropological ring, either of which amounts to a detached sense of looking in from the outside.
Before delving into Anomalisa (a created word used by the main character), realize that Kaufman has written only a smattering of theatrical motion pictures: Being John Malkovich; Synecdoche, New York; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Human Nature; and this new one.
“Adaptation,” “Being John Malkovich” and even “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” are there, too.
The dreamy, heartbreaking fantasy of having it all and realizing it is just a mirage is just as pungent as it was in Kaufman’s Oscar winning “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” “Adaptation,” “Being John Malkovich” and even “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” are there, too.
Like Michel Gondry , with whom he collaborated on 2004’s brilliant Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Kaufman’s work is best when mediated by the input of others; from director Spike Jonze, with whom he worked on Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), to George Clooney, who directed 2002’s underrated Confessions of a Dangerous Mind .
Antes de su debut como director con Synecdoche, New York (2008), sus guiones, entre los que se encuentran Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) y Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), tenían su sello personal volviéndose muy común hablar de “una película de Charlie Kaufman” de la manera autoral que generalmente está reservada sólo para los directores.
As he seems to excel at doing in one screenplay after another (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), as well as with the films he’s both written and directed (Anomalisa; Synecdoche, New York), Charlie Kaufman engages viewers with genre-less adventures of the mind as well as the body.
The movie is based on Iain Reid’s 2016 novel — after “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002) and “Adaptation” (sort of), it’s the third of Kaufman’s films to come from outside his own febrile brain — and it turns increasingly surreal as it goes, as if David Lynch were whispering advice in the director’s ear.
Writer/director/producer Kaufman is mostly known for his screenplays directed by others (notably Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), but his movies as writer and director (Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa) are considerably more inaccessible and difficult.
As the writer of Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999), Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, 2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) and the director of Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Anomalisa (2015), I think it’s safe to say that when it comes to Charlie Kaufman, expect the unexpected.
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Charlie Kaufman, a screenwriter for whom "brilliant" is the default adjective, is reported to have been displeased in the past with what some directors have done with his scripts (notably George Clooney, with "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind").
This is the first film Mr. Kaufman has directed as well as written after he achieved a certain cachet and an Oscar for supplying quirky screenplays for Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich (1999), Michel Gondry’s Human Nature (2001), Mr. Jonze’s Adaptation (2002), George Clooney’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and Mr. Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).