Cinemasochism

‘Almost unbearable. Going through day after day of excruciating work, Jack Nicholson’s character had to be crazy and angry all the time. And my character had to cry twelve hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week. I was there a year and a month. After all that work, hardly anyone even criticized my performance in it, even to mention it, it seemed like. The reviews were all about Kubrick, like I wasn’t there.’

The basic plot is like a mannequin. You’re pretty limited in the number of shapes you can come up with — curvy or straight, thin or fat. The rest of the movie — the subplots, the personalities, the atmosphere, the pace, the number of explosions you add — that’s like the costume you put on the mannequin. Someone pointing out that a plot is “basically the same” is pointing out that two designers are using the same fat mannequin. One could be wearing a bloodied Viking costume and one could be wearing a flowery muumuu, but they’re both size 40, so they’re “basically the same.”

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