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SYN., NY

William Speruzzi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:37:02 +0000

MINISTER

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you’ll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what you create. Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but doesn’t really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope for something good to come along. Something to make you feel connected, to make you feel whole, to make you feel loved. And the truth is I’m so angry and the truth is I’m so fucking sad, and the truth is I’ve been so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long have been pretending I’m ok, just to get along, just for, I don’t know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own, and their own is too overwhelming to allow them to listen to or care about mine. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.

When Worlds Collide – Part Deux

William Speruzzi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:57:33 +0000

A painting by Berlin-based artist Adele Lack.

Catherine Keener playing a character named Adele Lack in Charlie Kaufmann’s upcoming Synecdoche, New York.

Read on…

Synecdoche, New York Trailer

William Speruzzi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:55:44 +0000

I uhhhhhhhhhhhh, don’t know what to say other than I’m preparing my mind to be blown as we speak.

[Hat tip: BSLS]

See below for meta thoughts on the film, career and being percieved as a recluse from Kaufman.

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

William Speruzzi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:49:45 +0000

Wired Magazine tries to interview Charlie Kaufman.

Updated: Here is the complete interview in five parts [mp3 files.]

Being?

William Speruzzi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:09:10 +0000

A case of the chicken or the egg. I was watching Being John Malkovich the other night and one thing always perplexed me about the film’s concept. The Charlie Kaufman/Spike Jonze strange creation seemed like a film that was virtually impossible to green light but somehow slipped through the cracks. Aside from the fact that I am in awe every time I see it I always wondered how this actor dependent screenplay was approached in the writing stage. Did Kaufman originally think of Malkovich when writing it? Was the deal struck before a page was written? What if he backed out? After all, it’s his heeeeeead! Could this concept have worked with say Al Pacino? Tom Cruise? Or what I think could have been another, just as wacky alteration on this theme; Being Christopher Walken!