Charlie Kaufmann - when the screenwriter is famous

In the world of cinema, the big ovations pick up mainly actors and directors - their names are popular, their faces are in the media, big money is also for them. Few are screenwriters who have made their own style in cinema, and their name has become a common name for a quality film. As a whole, the Hollywood screenwriter is the person who delivers the script and then disappears from the stage. But not Charlie Kaufmann . Kaufman goes the long way of the writer and in essence his career so far seems like a story we have seen on a film. Charley Kaufmann was born in New York City in 1958, but studied in Connecticut, where he attended an acting class. In the 1970s he was at the University of New York where he graduated from cinema and created several short films. In the early 1980s, Kaufmann was one of thousands of talented young artists who wanted to write the next great scenarios. Like most of them, Charley also fails and briefly appears in Minneapolis where he works in the media and in the art museum. The natural continuation of this story led to Hollywood and Kaufmann moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s. He gains experience in sitcoms and comedy shows while at the same time he does not stop writing and tries to make his own show.

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Like many other great artists, the success of Charlie Kaufmann is difficult. The script for his film, "Being John Malkovich," is so creative and innovative that it's actually difficult to screen and is rejected by all major film companies. Ultimately, this scenario comes to Francis Ford Coppola himself, who sends him to his then-born son-in-law and music video director, Spike Jones. The director is heavily impressed by the surreal storyline that looks more like a strange dream than conventional cinema. "Being John Malkovich" came out triumphantly in 1999 and named Charlie Kaufman as the new Hollywood star. His career is literally catapulted into the Hollywood star's elite, as Kaufmann himself remains as mysterious and silent about his personality as the media. Surely he prefers to be revealed through films, and his glory helps to release three productions in 2002. "Human Nature" does not contain the same depth, although there is definitely Kaufman's handwriting. Adaptation, however, is a creative explosion and a feast of imagination and talent. The film is directed by Spike Jones again, and the main character is Charlie Kaufman.

The whole thing is that the real Kaufman burns during his adaptation of Susan Orlean's novel "The Thief of Orchids". Then he came up with the genius idea of ​​not adapting the novel, but putting himself into a plot in which he must adapt the novel. This unique intertwining of realities and dimensions is very characteristic of Kaufman's vision. In addition, the fictional Charlie and his fictional brother, Donald, have been starved by the same person, Nicholas Cage. Who, by chance, is a nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, so in that sense the circle seems to close. Among other interesting insights in Adaptation is that Charlie and Donald Kaufman are screenwriters in the film. It is as if the film continues in reality. Very characteristic of Charley Kaufman's stories is the quest for a different viewpoint, the unconventional, bordering and intertwining with absurdity. For example, in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," in 2002, Kaufman adapted the memoirs of America's popular television star Chuck Barris in the 20th Century. Barris would hardly attract the attention of a quest-seeker like Kaufman, unless it was that the leader claimed to have served for many years as an international assassin for the CIA. The idea of ​​a storyline that speaks of a show host as "Love Meetings," which in the meantime liquidates the Cold War enemies of the US government, has certainly seen Kaufman as fascinating. This film is also George Clooney's directorial debut, but Charlie Kaufman is unlikely to remember that with good because Clooney makes changes to the script without telling the screenwriter.

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Charlie Kaufman's biggest commercial success is undoubtedly "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" in 2004. This film is considered the quintessence of his work because he builds up the themes of all the previous and builds on them. Michael Gondri directed the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey, who has just moved to more dramatic performances and Kate Winslet. The film has become a real hit in the box office as well as among critics, which is rarely happening. Kaufman got his Oscar for a screenplay in 2005. At the moment of his greatest glory, the secret Charlie Kaufmann descends from the Hollywood pedestal. In 2005 his play "Hope Leaves the Theater" was set up in New York, and later he wrote under a pseudonym and another - "Anomalisa". Namely, it was later reworked in the stop motion animation of the same name, which was realized thanks to a kudufening campaign. Kaufman returns to feature film with directorial debut at Synecdoche, New York, with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film is accepted as another solid presentation of Charlie Kaufman's world on a film strip. In 2018, the news came out that Kaufmann would be a writer and director of adaptation of the book "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" for the online Netflix platform. Even before he left, it is clear that there will be the unspoken Charley Kaufman's forum - a bit cheerful, a little sad, a little insightful, a little incomprehensible, like the life it is if you dream it.