Synecdoche, New York
The end is built into the beginning.
Country
Genre
Budget
$20 000 000
Box office
$4 297 030
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel, William Horberg, Bruce Toll, Ray Angelic
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Mark Friedberg, Kim Jennings, Deborah Jensen
Audition
Jeanne McCarthy
Editing
Short description
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
What's left behind the scenes
- Among the residents of the house where Adele lives, there is someone named Capgras. There is a psychopathological disorder called "Capgras delusion," in which the patient is convinced that someone in their close circle (husband, wife, parents, etc.) has been replaced by a doppelganger, or when the patient mistakes strangers for acquaintances or relatives. The patient may also claim that their bad deeds were actually committed by their double.
- At the beginning of the film, the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) reads the newspaper at breakfast and says: "Harold Pinter is dead. Oh no, he's being awarded the Nobel Prize." This is a reference to the incident when the British news channel Sky News mistakenly announced Pinter's death in a hurry, when in reality he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize. (Harold Pinter, 1930-2008 – English playwright, poet, director, actor, and public figure.)
- The surname of the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman is Kotar. This is a reference to Cotard's syndrome, a psychopathological syndrome combining anxious depression, depersonalization, derealization, and Cotard's delusion. Cotard's delusion is a nihilistic-hypochondriacal depressive delusion with fantastic content and ideas of grandeur and negation.
- According to director Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Evan Welch was cast in the film at the very last moment, leaving him with less than a day to prepare for the role.
- Initially, Spike Jonze was supposed to direct the film, but he preferred to work on "Where the Wild Things Are" (2009).
- Applying tattoos to Robin Weigert's body, as required for the role, took 20 hours.
- The "Merriam-Webster" dictionary gives the following definition of "synecdoche": A figure in stylistics in which a part is a definition of the whole (for example, "ate a whole plate" means "ate the soup that was in the plate", and not the ceramic plate itself), the whole is a part ("the client went picky"), the replacement of a genitive structure with an elliptical one ("100 head of cattle"), elliptical instead of genitive ("head" instead of "a person thinking with its help"), or the name of the material instead of the thing made from it ("Boxes shine, the stalls and chairs – everything is seething"). The latter is considered metonymy in Russian.
- At the beginning of the film, Philip Seymour Hoffman's character (1967-2014) reads a newspaper during breakfast and says, 'Harold Pinter has died. Oh, no, he's being awarded the Nobel Prize.' This is a reference to an incident where the British news channel Sky News mistakenly announced Pinter's death in haste, when in reality, he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize. (Harold Pinter, 1930-2008, was an English playwright, poet, director, actor, and public figure.)
- The surname of the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman is Cotard. This is a reference to Cotard's syndrome, a psychopathological syndrome consisting of a combination of anxious depression, depersonalization, derealization, and Cotard's delusion. Cotard's delusion is a nihilistic-hypochondriacal depressive delusion featuring fantastic content and ideas of grandiosity and denial.
- It was initially intended that Spike Jonze would direct the film, but he chose to work on 'Where the Wild Things Are' (2009) instead.
- Applying the tattoos to Robin Weigert's body, which were required for the role, took 20 hours.
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