Essere John Malkovich

Titolo originale: Being John Malkovich
Regia: Spike Jonze |
Anno: 1999
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma Fantasy
Tag: witch | sexual identity | individual | secret love | transvestism | identity | subconsciousness | new identity | pet | chimp | puppeteer | appropriation of another human being | externally controlled action | pet shop | shocking |
Cast: John Cusack | Cameron Diaz | John Malkovich | Catherine Keener | Orson Bean | Mary Kay Place | W. Earl Brown | Carlos Jacott | Willie Garson | Byrne Piven | Gregory Sporleder | Charlie Sheen | Reggie Hayes | K.K. Dodds | Judith Wetzell | Octavia Spencer | Ned Bellamy | Eric Weinstein | Madison Lanc | Kevin Carroll | Gerald Emerick | Richard Fancy | Patti Tippo | Daniel Hansen | Mariah O'Brien | Kelly Teacher | Bill M. Ryusaki | Jacqueline Benoît | William Buck | Christine D. Coleman | Jeanne Diehl | Audrey Gelfund | Yetta Ginsburg | Sylvester Jenkins | Roy C. Johnson | Eddie J. Low | Ralph W. Spaulding | David Wyler | Flori Wyler | Kevin Lee | Marlowe Bassett | Jennifer Canzoneri | Kristie Cordle | Denise Dabrowski | Kristin Condon | Charlene Grimsley | Christine Krejer | Erica Long | Yvonne Montelius | Jessica Neuberger | Sara Rifkin | Elizabeth Rivera | Chelsa Sjostrom | Pamela Hayden | Jayne Hess | Michelle Madden | Greg O'Neill | Neil Ross | Bill Wittman | David Fincher | Sean Penn | Brad Pitt | James Murray |

Craig Schwartz, aspirante burattinaio, viene assunto come archivista alla LesterCorp, uno strano ufficio dove una porticina, nascosta dietro uno schedario, è in realtà un passaggio segreto che consente di entrare per 15 minuti nella testa del famoso attore John Malkovich.

Approfondimenti

The 1990 Steppenwolf Theatre building in Chicago (John Malkovich was one of the first members of Ste [...] D
Willie Garson (Guy in Restaurant) improvised the scene where he encounters John Malkovich and says, [...] D
In the first draft of the script, Lester and his friends weren't using Malkovich's portal as a means [...] D
Future Oscar winner Octavia Spencer appears as the woman who first shows Craig how to stop the eleva [...] D
John Malkovich claimed that he approached the character of "John Malkovich" as he would any other fi [...] D
Since the 2017 release of Get Out, fan theories have suggested that Get Out is a sequel to this film [...] D
When Craig enters the portal for the first time, he has a wooden plank. As he points out to Maxine, [...] D
In the scene in the Mertin-Flemmer building lobby, when Craig browses the floor listings to find Les [...] D
Actors who play themselves in the TV show about Malkovich include Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer [...] D
Steve Oedekerk was sent an early draft of the script in 1989, and upon reading it immediately arrang [...] D
John Malkovich's name is said over 130 times. D
Several characters in the movie remember John Malkovich as having played a jewel thief, even though, [...] D
Orson Bean had a role in the film Salto nel buio (1987); also about a man taking control of another [...] D
David Fincher: Appears as Christopher Bing, when Craig is watching television through Malkovich towa [...] D
Charlie Kaufman sent the screenplay to Francis Ford Coppola after he wrote it. Coppola liked it very [...] D
Orson Bean and Charlie Sheen would later co-star in an episode of Due uomini e mezzo (2003). D
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #611. D
Catherine Keener disliked her own character. "I wasn't who I saw for the part of Maxine," she told T [...] D
At some point in the film, John Malkovich is described as being from Evanston, Illinois. He's not, b [...] D
John Cusack and John Malkovich previously co-starred in Con Air (1997). D
The original script was much different. Instead of Craig making Malkovich a famous puppeteer, in the [...] D
The name of John Cusack's character is a combined reference to Edward Gordon Craig and Bruce Schwart [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. D
Maxine never actually tries out the experience of being John Malkovich. The first and only time she [...] D
Cameron Diaz's make-up artist Gucci Westman described styling her in her role as "a challenge, to ma [...] D
The bar-scene where Malkovich explores his own consciousness ("Malkovich, Malkovich"), was shot in t [...] D
When Cameron Diaz was dressed up in character and talked to some members of the crew, they thought s [...] D
Craig discovers that LesterCorp is on the 7-1/2 floor of the Mertin Flemmer building by seeing a "7- [...] D
The play that Craig was performing with his puppets (when he gets smacked by an angry parent) is bas [...] D
Maxine answers the phone at J.M. Inc. with the slogan "Be all that someone else can be." This is a j [...] D
Sean Penn (playing himself) tells a television reporter that he is becoming a puppeteer, inspired by [...] D
The scene when a can is thrown at John Malkovich's head is real. Malkovich has described how Spike J [...] D
Charlie Sheen was in rehab when he heard about fledgling filmmaker Spike Jonze's eagerness to cast h [...] D
Spike Jonze: Derek Mantini's assistant. D
Spike Jonze claimed in an interview that when he was shopping the screenplay around Hollywood, at le [...] D
John Malkovich was approached about this film several times and loved the script, but he and his pro [...] D
Charlie Kaufman spoke with his agent Marty Bowen about his script for this film, feeling that it wou [...] D
Lotte can also evoke Charlotte from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther", whi [...] D
The job ad that Craig responds to specifies a "short-statured file clerk". This is later explained b [...] D
The original script has Kevin Bacon in place of Charlie Sheen, as Malkovich's actor friend. John Mal [...] D
In a 2009 Hanes commercial, Charlie Sheen is driving a car with the license plate "MASHEEN". This is [...] D
The puppets in the film were created by Kamela Portuges and Images in Motion. Phillip Huber animated [...] D
In a radio interview writer Charlie Kaufman explained that while pitching John Malkovich's represent [...] D
John Cusack actually took some marionette-puppeteering lessons in order to prepare for the film. D
Charlie Kaufman had no backup actors in mind to play themselves in the title role if John Malkovich [...] D
Charlie Kaufman wrote the script in 1994, after his time writing for Get a Life (1990). The script g [...] D
Spike Jonze's directorial film debut. D
John Malkovich encouraged Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman to heighten the satire. D
Cameron Diaz walked into the restaurant for her meeting with Spike Jonze and found him nodding off i [...] D
John Cusack read the script after he had asked his agent to present him with the "craziest, most unp [...] D
According to the script, the song intended to be played over the closing credits was "Put Your Hand [...] D
The only film that year to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, but not Best Picture. D
After spending a long time trying to find the right actor for Dr. Lester, a producer saw Orson Bean [...] D
A fictional behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of this movie appears in screenwriter Charlie Ka [...] D
John Malkovich's real middle name is Gavin--in the movie his character's middle name is Horatio. D
The play that Malkovich is rehearsing on stage is William Shakespeare's "Richard III". The lines "Wa [...] D
Maxine says, when calling in the newspaper ad, that J.M. Inc. (the Malkovich portal business) is ope [...] D
The play that Malkovich is reading into a tape recorder is Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard". The [...] D