- Title
- On Being John Malkovich and not being yourself
- Creator
- Falzon, Christopher
- Relation
- The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman p. 46-65
- Relation
- http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2451#.VQIZBOGu_hU
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- In Being John Malkovich, the first of Charlie Kaufman's screenplays to be made into a feature film, the protagonist, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), finds a portal into the body of actor John Malkovich (John Malkovich), allowing him to inhabit it for fifteen minutes. Craig describes the experience to his sexy and condescending coworker Maxine (Catherine Keener), whom he lusts after: "It raises all sorts of philosophical-type questions, you know ... about the nature of self, about the existence of a soul You know, am I me? Is Malkovich Malkovich? I had a piece of wood in my hand, Maxine. I don't have it any more. Where is it? Did it disappear? How could that be? Is it still in Malkovich's head? I don't know! Do you see what a metaphysical can of worms this portal is? I don't see how I could go on living my life the way I've lived it before." Kaufman's film does indeed raise "philosophical-type questions" about the nature of self, including: what kind of self could possibly make this journey?
- Subject
- Charlie Kaufman; Being John Malkovich; philosophy; Cartesian self
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064859
- Identifier
- uon:17693
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780813133911
- Language
- eng
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