Its a wonderfully warm movie that presents a future thats only a beat or two away from the. Kaufman made his career and Spiegel repaid the favor by creating his own cheap knockoff version of a Kaufman story. Hers take on AI leans heavily on intelligence, while almost completely disregarding the artificial. Then, based on that, he got to make Adaptation. "Jonze" was born into wealth and married into film royalty and so he was gifted access to the best unproduced screenplay out there, Being John Malkovich. Nothing that would lead you to guess that he'd write a bittersweet, surreal, character-driven romantic movie "Jonze" on the other hand, has only the Jackass movies to his name in terms of film writing credits. Honestly, I haven't seen Synecdoche, New York yet but I would not doubt that it is consistent with the rest of Kaufman's work he hasn't made shit since his oh-so-acclaimed film) then I'm Thinking of Ending Things also features a similar type of protagonist and similar themes If you want to go further in time after "Spike Jonze" (ridiculous fucking pseudonym and proof that he is, at heart, really just a music video director) retired (apparently. Most of them feature a self-loathing, neurotic, insecure protagonist and you follow that character so closely that you feel what they feel. Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind all involve modernist/post-modern takes on the idea of love and romance. He plagiarized Kaufman's aesthetic or style or motif, or whatever the fuck you're supposed to call it. I'm talking about Charlie Kaufman, an actual screenwriting/film savant "Spike Jonze", real name Adam Spiegel, the writer/director of this movie, CLEARLY ripped-off the guy who basically carried him to superstardom.
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