Being John Malkovich 1999 123movies

Watch: Being John Malkovich 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He begins to take the ability to inhabit the skin of others to the next level when he is forced to take a job as a file clerk for the off-kilter LesterCorp, located on the five-foot tall 7½ floor of a Manhattan office building. Behind one of the filing cabinets in his work area, Craig finds a hidden door which he learns is a portal into the mind of John Malkovich, the visit through the portal which lasts fifteen minutes after which the person is spit into a ditch next to the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig is fascinated by the meaning of life associated with this finding. Lotte’s trips through the portal make her evaluate her own self. And the confident Maxine Lund, one of Craig’s co-workers who he tells about the portal if only because he is attracted to her, thinks that it is a money making opportunity in selling trips into Malkovich’s mind after office hours for $200 a visit. Craig, Lotte and Maxine begin to understand that anyone entering the portal has the ability to control Malkovich’s mind, which also alters his entire being. This experience makes Maxine fall in love with a composite. This ability to control Malkovich’s mind begs the question of the ultimate psychedelic trip for Malkovich himself, who begins to feel that something is not right in the world as he knows it..
Plot: One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
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Ratings:

	7.8/10 Votes: 336,830
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	90/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3658 Popularity: 16.221 | TMDB

Reviews:

A gem resulting of an unexpected mix of Twilight zone and The Monty Python
This film is excellently made and based on an imaginative, intelligent and wacky script: a depressive puppeteer discovers by chance a mysterious portal in his five-foot tall office located on the 7,5th floor of a Manhattan office building, leading within the head of the movie star John Malkovich. The cast is excellent and the actors co-exist in perfect symbiosis, literally as well as figuratively. The quintet John Cusack + Cameron Diaz + Orson Bean + Catherine Keener + John Malkovich is awesome.

A not exhaustive list of my favorite quotes: Meet you in Malkovich in one hour. The truth is for suckers, Johnny boy. Let’s have sex on his table and then make him eat an omelette off of it. I comes before U. You don’t know how lucky you are being a monkey, because consciousness is a terrible curse. There is truth, and there are lies, and art always tells the truth, even when it’s lying. She’s got her doctorate in speech impedimentology from Case Western. It’s the idea of being inside someone else’s skin and seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

I don’t get it
At first this movie seems great. I actually thought for a while that this might be a Terry Gilliam film, with its bizarre sets, odd characters and dystopian set designs and aesthetics. It was not, but it seemed like it, and the first third of the film was immensely enjoyable as we slowly get to know this strange world.

And then they went nowhere with it. Sure, there is a portal that leads into John Malkovich’s head. But what they do with it is the least imaginable thing. And why even John Malkovich? The writer Charlie Kaufman has said that Malkovich was always his first and only choice, but I just don’t see why. He certainly stands out because of his looks, and he has the acting skills to play the different people inhabiting his head, but aside from that there’s nothing interesting about him shown in this film. He lives in an apartment, tries out for roles and that’s it.

Plus the fact that the main character is a puppeteer. Okay, at first that’s interesting. It’s out there, not something we see in every movie and jives well with the whole bizarre first third the movie has. But then it is stretched way out of proportion, with much of the running length dedicated to odes to puppetry. Why? Sure, there’s the joke about the ultimate puppet, but there needs to be more than that. Now it barely connects with anything.

Then there are the romance subplots, which are passable, though boring, and mainly there to move the plot along. The final truth about the portal is also pretty lame. It’s pretty much what you would guess if you sat and thought for a minute.

All in all Being John Malkovich was a huge disappointment for me. If you have a story about a portal that allows you to control a real life Hollywood star, go all out. Don’t give us this halfway there balderdash. Be Terry Gilliam. Make it as weird as possible. Attempting to put logic and cohesive narrative into it only waters it down.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min)
Budget 13000000
Revenue 22863596
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director Spike Jonze
Writer Charlie Kaufman
Actors John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 48 wins & 79 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Moviecam Compact, Cooke S4 Lenses, Moviecam SL, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA (dailies), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length (6 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 320T 5277, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)