Two films about bottoming out. Insomnia. Actors who direct. Chuck Barris, Charlie Kaufman, and the Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. George Clooney likes to play CIA. Set design. Bleach bypass. Old Spice commercial: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOm2YhOI4c The Gong Show. Our secret CIA drone war with Pakistan. Is the Fight Club twist OK? A conversation for people who don’t care about the kitsch of Fight Club. Michael finally explains his Fight Club issues. Chuck Palahniuk. Hitting rock bottom. A better side of the Frankenstein myth. Film making techniques used to further the dirty impoverished tone of the movie. Homoeroticism!
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Also referenced: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Mean Girls, The Ten Commandments, Die Hard, The Last Airbender, Good Night and Good Luck, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Adaptation, A Scanner Darkly, Be Kind Rewind, The Science of Sleep, Donnie Darko, Choke, The Crow, Firefly, Alien, Seven
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Director: George Clooney
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Michael Cera, Maggie Gyllenhaal
An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.
Fight Club
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Director: David Fincher
Writer: Jim Uhls
Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto
An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
