Intro

I’d like to do my project on ‘Being John Malkovich’, directed by Spike Jonze. I was initially attracted to it because John Cusack stars in it whose character I enjoyed watching when he acted in ‘Con Air’ a long long time ago, and Cameron Diaz, who I very much expected to sport breathtaking looks as in ‘Bad Teacher’ or ‘Charlie’s Angels’. (She turned out not to be even close) The fact is she showed up as the shaggy, pet-obsessed wife of Cusack’s character, Craig Schwartz. (I admit I did have some trouble recognizing her at first.) John Malkovich is one of my favorite actors, and I was curious about how a real actor’s name could be part of the title of a film.

I chose this movie to be the ‘main course’ of my blog because lots of questions popped up during my viewing of it. To what extent can our fantasies lead us to think and act? Why does the plot unfold itself so peculiarly well?