The Words
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Here we go on quite a ride… Bradley Cooper from the recent movie Hit and Run leads this film as Rory Jansen, the young struggling and humble author. Dennis Quaid plays the author of The Words, Mr Hammond, and he is established and prosperous. The cast is vaguely familiar throughout the film. They do well. [...]
Here we go on quite a ride…
Bradley Cooper from the recent movie Hit and Run leads this film as Rory Jansen, the young struggling and humble author. Dennis Quaid plays the author of The Words, Mr Hammond, and he is established and prosperous. The cast is vaguely familiar throughout the film. They do well.
It is a a deep and interesting film to watch. Don’t get distracted. It rings of hints of English Patient, Inception and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Shutter Island, and the recently similar movie: Ruby Sparks. The story has a few layers to it. There is the old, older, present, new, and newer. The film cuts back and forth and has depth.
The author telling the story is telling a non fictional type story about an non author telling a fictional story about a non fictional type story, that he found in a store in Europe (by accident) and plagiarized and gave to a publicist on the insistence of his real life wife, named, and looking all the part of Dorah. He then meets the true author who lived the apparent non-fiction story that was sold, and is told the first part of the story. Then we find out it is all the same guy, but you already know this, right? You are told the stories behind the stories of the stories you are being told, on screen.
A well written screenplay about a writer telling a story and writing about a writter, writing a screenplay. This has been done quite a few times before. We have seen this over and over. Apparently, the studios figure we want more. I like it. it keeps me focused, but as i left the theatre, was clearly in the minority on this point. Frustrating, but don’t worry, the opinions of others won’t skew my review too much.
