Chapter 408： chain box

Neil D'Arcy clearly heard a low voice in the cinema, "Isn't this Susan's story just now? What Charlie is creating is Susan's life?"

What happened next further confirmed the audience's thoughts. Charlie went to the boss and said, "I don't know how to adapt it. This book is all about flowers." The boss suggested that Charlie be included in Susan's legendary life. And the audience also found that this book was not actually recommended by Charlie himself to be turned into a movie, but a work task imposed by the boss. This part seems to contradict Charlie's initiative to adapt the script at the beginning of the movie, and even Neil Darcy, who has watched it three times, frowned, not to mention other viewers who watched it for the first time.

So in fact, in the movie, Susan's line is actually in Charlie's hands! What Susan went through is actually a portrayal of Charlie's script, which means that the audience was deceived at the beginning, and the story of Susan that the audience saw was actually Charlie's script. This is a story within a story, Spike-Jones. But let the two clues advance in parallel, so that the audience has the illusion that these are two parallel lines.

Previously, in Susan's line, the audience represented by Neil D'Arcy had always thought that she was the author of experience because it was Susan who created the book "Orchid Thief", in which she narrated in the first person. "I" is the model author and the narrator at the same time.

But now, with this bizarre discovery, the empirical writer has become a story about a female writer, Susan, writing a story, and if you don't count the movie itself, it's a story. So the so-called "two lines" that the movie described before is actually one. It's Charlie's main thread in adapting the script.

The real second line is Susan, who is in the same time and space as Charlie, and her line trajectory has just begun.

Neil Darcy's brain was running fast, he figured out the trajectory of the movie so far, and he continued to enjoy it.

After that, Charlie was very worried under the conflict, and under various pressures, he was unavoidably influenced by Donald. He secretly listened to the class of the famous screenwriter, and inevitably developed the book in a Hollywood style. So the audience saw that the eye-catching plots such as extramarital affairs, drug use, pornographic websites, etc. all happened in Susan's story.

Halfway through the film, the second turning point came!

"The only thing I want to write about is myself," Charlie muttered as he resisted the boring adaptation. Then he started recording his new ideas for the script on the tape recorder: I'm Charlie- Kaufman, old and fat, Kaufman was sitting in a restaurant with the producer, Kaufman was sweating profusely as he tried to win him over to write the script.

The audience was horrified to discover that this is the plot at the beginning of the movie!

what does that mean? Charlie scripted himself into the script? Yes and no!

Remember Charlie's Hollywood twin brother, Donald? In fact, it should be Charlie with Donald's shadow who flattered the producers at the beginning, hoping to adapt the script of "The Orchid Thief". This also explains why at the beginning of the film, Kaufman volunteered to adapt the script, but later found out that it was actually the task that the producer gave Charlie.

Because this was indeed an adaptation task that the producers handed to Charlie Kaufman, he didn't know how to write it. After hesitating, Charlie decided to position the protagonist as Charlie, who has the personality of Donald, and took the initiative to find the producer, hoping to adapt the script of "Orchid Thief", and then the story of the first half of the movie happened.

Obviously, this couldn't be clearer, and it's another story: how Charlie was writing a screenwriter named Charlie based on Donald, and how he wrote a story about a woman writer, Susan, who wrote a book.

In the next second, Charlie took the tape recorder again: Charlie Kaufman was in the room, holding a tape recorder to record "I'm Charlie Kaufman, old and shy""

At this time, Charlie officially wrote himself into the script, and it turned into Charlie writing a story. In the story, there was a screenwriter named Charlie who was writing a screenwriter named Charlie based on his twin brother Donald. How? Adapting a story about a female writer creating a book.

"Damn it!" Neil D'Arcy couldn't help scolding secretly.

But that's okay, so far there are only three stories in it, or two? Neil D'Arcy couldn't help but scolded again, "***."

In fact, if the real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman really wanted to keep teasing the audience, he could have kept Charlie in the movie and turned it into an American version of Once Upon a Mountain , there is a temple in the mountain "this" is a typical serial box. However, if it is made up like this, the movie will be boring.

Neil D'Arcy takes a deep breath, and his mind clears a little about the storyline of the movie so far.

Charlie was a screenwriter, and he was given a job to adapt a book called "The Orchid Thief," which had so little plot that he could barely write. At the same time, he always wanted to write a script with his own characteristics. He himself lacks the typical Hollywood screenwriter. So, to make up for this shortcoming, Charlie wrote his own script with twin brothers Charlie and Donald, who wanted to follow in his brother's footsteps and was learning how to be a Hollywood screenwriter. And "Orchid Thief" is the story of Charlie, who has become a successful screenwriter, and he found the producer and persuaded him to let him adapt the book called "Orchid Thief" in Hollywood style.

In this process, the characters of the story and the characters in the stories of the story sets intersect in time and space, and influence each other. Charlie is also influenced by Charlie in his own script, and the writing content tends to be Hollywood.

At this time, the third turning point occurred. Charlie decided to follow Susan. At this time, the development of Susan in Charlie's writing was close to the Susan in reality, so Charlie's decision brought a completely subversive turn to the movie: the real Susan Is Susan really real and independent? The action of Charlie to follow Susan not only brought himself into the story again, but also made the story of Susan in the previous script connect with Susan in reality, and the next unbelievable plot happened.

It turned out that the previous Charlie was still not a real empirical author, and he transformed himself into a model author. So, the plot of this movie has another layer: a screenwriter named Charlie wrote a script about "a screenwriter named Charlie was assigned a job"

At this time, the story has been layered on the previous basis, and whether Charlie and Susan in the story are the author of experience, the author of imitation, or the narrator, it is already unclear. The audience has been completely confused.

So, after that, Susan and John became bad guys who used ghost orchids to refine drugs. After being discovered by the Kaufman brothers, they wanted to kill them. During the escape, Donald died unfortunately, and John also died in the swamp crocodile. Some of the stories are completely in line with the fixed patterns of sub-Hollywood action films, confrontation between good and bad guys, drug use, etc. This is also the last script written by Charlie in the outermost cover of the film, because he finally wrote the script of "Orchid Thief" into a Hollywood style. script. In the whole film, only Charlie, who appears at the end, is the real experience writer, so he is not a little sad about the death of his so-called twin brother Donald, just content with the completion of the work. Because all the characters that appeared before are all characters written by him, not real. Charlie, who has the twin brother Donald, is the model author; Charlie, who was forced to take over the characters in the script, and Susan, who wrote the novel, are among the narrators.

"I saw through it!" Neil D'Arcy couldn't help clenching his right fist. He finally understood it. There are currently four sets of stories, one layer after another. "No!" When he saw the end, Neil D'Arcy realized, "There are five layers!" Because there is also the real Charlie Kaufman who created the film in reality, he is the real author of experience, and then Charlie, who appears at the end of the movie, is also a model author.

Because, in reality, Charlie Kaufman does not have twins, the twins in the movie are themselves narrators. It is also a "prop" for Charlie Kaufman to tease the audience. What makes people grit their teeth even more is that in the final subtitles of the movie, in the screenwriter column, Charlie Kaufman really wrote the words "Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman". , it's all about trying to trick everyone to the end.

Neil D'Arcy couldn't help clenching his fists. He finally understood the movie, and also understood the real reason why Charlie Kaufman made this movie. Such an interlocking Chinese-style box is actually an exposition of the current situation of Hollywood screenwriters, a compromise with the popular hero blockbuster of typical Hollywood or another way to create a full theme , or take the line of petty bourgeoisie literature and art, this is indeed a difficult choice.

It is not accurate to say that such a serial killer movie is a high-IQ movie, because there are not too many esoteric and wonderful plots, at least compared to "Death Illusion", this movie can still see something; but The movie is indeed not so easy to understand. There are several layers of boxes in the film. Which one is the experienced writer, which one is the model writer, which one is the narrator, the script is the script, and which one is the real script? Understanding it is not an easy task.

In addition, Charlie-Kaufman continued this film to explore his views on life and affection, as well as the attitude and role of attachment in life.

Then, in the four characters of Charlie, Donald, Susan and John, Charlie Kaufman integrates his own understanding of life and expounds some principles similar to Buddhism and Zen, which are also deeply memorable.

When the movie was over, Neil D'Arcy stood up and listened to the grumbling voices of the audience next to him, "God, what is this movie about? What an inexplicable movie."

Neil D'Arcy knew that Charlie Kaufman's i purpose was successful! ! .