Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich

  • Director: Spike Jonze
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: December 3, 1999
  • Runtime: 1h 53min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Бути Джоном Малковічем
  • "Being John Malkovich" is a feature film directed by Spike Jonze and starring John Cusack , Cameron Diaz , Catherine Keener , and John Malkovich .
    The film tells the story of puppet show actor Craig Schwartz gaining fame and fortune by manipulating others, but because of this, he is always lost in the lives of others.
    The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy on September 2, 1999   .

    Details

    • Release date December 3, 1999
    • Filming locations RMS Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, USA
    • Production companies Astralwerks, Gramercy Pictures (I), Propaganda Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $13,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $22,863,596

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $637,721

    Gross worldwide

    $23,106,667

    Movie reviews

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    • By Myrna 2022-04-23 07:01:17

      "Puppet Life" is a farce

      [Official Account: Outside Langyuan] "Puppet Life" is a farce

      "Puppet Life" official poster

      Langyuan Vintage Public Welfare Film Playing Brand


             The main character, Craig Schwartz, is a...

    • By Laurie 2022-04-23 07:01:17

      Be someone else or continue to be yourself

      Whether it is a manipulated puppet or a person whose mind is controlled, they are all puppets.

      On the other hand, I want to live out several roles of myself through others——

      The hero who still has nothing

      The two female protagonists raise this child who cannot escape being manipulated by fate

      There is also a group of old people who rely on other people's bodies to prolong their lives (reminds me of "Escape from the Deadly Town")

      Another question is why so many...

    • By Jettie 2022-04-23 07:01:17

      God's editor is an idea that can make a big play

      "Becoming John Malkovich" is a movie that has made Charlie Kaufman a god-made writer, and I have to admire the genius screenwriter's unrestrained thinking. A secret passage that leads to John's brain, this brain hole is already amazing, and Charlie does not stop there, and further derives his thoughts on consciousness and sex and builds a pattern of great cycles. It also seems to have seen the shadow of the master key. Humanity's desire for immortality seems to be the same as the general...

    • By Americo 2022-04-23 07:01:17

      A bit of a brain burner~

      I would like to take a look at these characters:

      Craig: Puppet artist, in love with his colleague Maxime. Finding himself able to manipulate JM's thinking and actions for a long time made JM a well-known puppet artist and later married Maxime. After Maxime estranged from him, he found out that Lotte and Maxime were together, and wanted to enter JM's mind to win Maxime's heart, but since the entry time had passed JM's 44th birthday, he strayed into the new host's little girl Emily's...

    • By Daryl 2022-04-23 07:01:17

      become charlie kaufman

      The setting of the seventh floor and a half is eye-catching

      About chatting and not chatting,

      People chatting not on one channel can't understand each other.

      Probably because he is a shy person and surrounded by real people, this kind of situation is very embarrassing.

      Talking to myself has always been quite lonely, and Kaufman's script seems to be about the sexual repression of loneliness, but he expresses this sexual repression very directly.

      This book is kind...

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    • By Lawrence 2023-09-08 02:41:01

      The manipulator is just a slightly larger puppet, the spirit and flesh can be divided, and everyone's souls have come out to...

    • By Davonte 2023-07-20 03:07:24

      If I'm false, thinking soul dwells in other...

    • By Nickolas 2023-07-17 13:21:12

      Malkovich? Malkovich. Malkovich, malkovich, malkovich, malkovich! Malkovich, malkovich,...

    • By Jaclyn 2023-07-17 01:56:04

      John Malkovich is the American Feng Yuanzheng, love interest is Catherine Keener not...

    • By Robin 2023-07-10 23:51:56

      scared. Although the disc is so stuck. Kaufman, you are my perverted...

    Movie plot

    Craig ( John Cusack ) is a poor and depressed puppet show actor. Due to life's pressure, he gave up the puppet show and applied for a small company as an archivist with his flexible fingers. Strangely, this company is located on the seventh and a half of an office building. The entire seven-and-a-half-half ceiling was so low that all the employees of the company had to walk with their backs hunched. Craig is infatuated with his...
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    Evaluation action

    There is deep meaning everywhere in this black comedy with a unique plot and crazy fun. Just like the people working on the seventh and a half floors in the film, people in modern society have to bend their backs all day and endure tremendous life pressure and suffocating emotional depression. In the film, director Spike Jones ruthlessly disclosed many weaknesses of human nature in real life, and deeply explored the distorted living...
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    Movie quotes

    • Lester's Friend: I've always wondered what it would be like to have a penis. Now I'll know!

    • Voice of Heloise (Puppet): While we enjoy the pleasures on an uneasy love and abandon ourselves to fornication, we were spared God's severity.

      Voice of Abelard (Puppet): Say no more. I beg you. And cease from complaints like these which are so far removed from the true depth of love.

    • Voice of Heloise (Puppet): Even during the celebration of mass, when our prayers should be purer, lewd visions of these pleasures take such a hold upon my unhappy soul, that my thoughts are on the very wantonness instead of my prayers. Sometimes my thoughts are betrayed by the movement of my body.

      Voice of Abelard (Puppet): I took my fill of my wretched pleasures in you and this was the sum total of my love.