You guys are lucky. Lately I've been uber-busy, too busy to update here as regularly as I should - not that there's been a ton to update about. But now I'm not busy, and the computer's hooked up to a phone line, and I'm trying to keep the phone line tied up for as long as possible, so that I don't get yet another call from a confused and barely-intelligble cosmetic surgeon who doesn't know enough about web design. (True story. But less interesting than it sounds, and 2x as annoying as you imagine.)
So. Here's another aticle wherein Charlie mentions his new script (we still don't know what it's about) and the current/future state of cinema (he's still not balloons and puppies about it). As with the earlier article, Tim sent in this one, too. He thinks Charlie might throw in a vague hint at the end about the script he's writing. I wasn't sure about that - wasn't ready to take the quote too literally - but then I remembered something I heard a few months ago about this project, and maybe - maaaaaybe - it IS a hint of sorts.
“[Synecdoche was] obviously commercially enormously unsuccessful,” Kaufman says...
But what was most shocking for Kaufman was the venom with which not just the film, but he himself, was attacked.
“[I'm] reading people who hate me and hate me in a way that seems very personal,” he says. “I read way too much of [the criticism] and my feelings get hurt. ... I don't feel like it's right to get hurt feelings, but I do.”
Kaufman believes that being an unusually well-known screenwriter has made him a target. “‘Why does he always write about himself? You know, who does he think he is? He's so pretentious,'” he says, recounting some of the more hurtful comments he has come across. “And the idea that somebody – and I've read this many times – would scream ‘the emperor's new clothes' is kind of nonsensical to me. Because the implication there is that I spent five years of my life trying to trick you. … And why in the world would I do that? It's not logical.”
...And along with all the hurt feelings Kaufman suffered through while trolling the Internet and reading those sometimes scathing reviews, he admits something constructive has come from the response to the film.
What would that be?
“Go see my next movie. You'll see what I learned. It's in there.” (Source)
Really, nobody should take comments on the internet too seriously. Everything online is either THE BEST EVER or THE WORST EVER, and having access to a keyboard seems to make everyone think their opinion comes down a mountain on a stone tablet, accompanied by a chorus of angels. Reminds me of a line from UK comedian Simon Munnery: "One million monkeys were given a million typewriters. It's called the internet."
And now that the update's done, I have to find some other way of killing time online.
PS - the post's title has nothing to do with the content. I just have that song on my mind.
