Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by brewthunda (A) on June 01, 2003 at 15:14:38

In Reply to: I must agree . . . the film was completely thrown away . . posted by albee33 on May 31, 2003 at 20:53:48:

"when it came to running from gators and squeezing off pistol shots"

But wasn't that the whole point - The tortured writer trying to make something important and authentic and finally breaking down and writing that hollywood ending that he hates so much. When the book doesn't give him enough for a movie, he reluctantly hypes up the hick, throws in a trailer park affair, spins up a fantastical drug ring twist, and when the hollywood chase scene is at it's height - throws in the alligator attack.

The instructor told him, "Don't use deus ex machina." The alligator attack and gunfights were the ultimate joke, the ultimate hollywood surprise ending and cheap trick that Cage's character was trying to avoid.

I thought it was pretty funny and reasonably clever. Watching a movie about a guy writing a screenplay for a movie about a guy writing the screenplay for the movie that you are now watching. The movie isn't real . . the alligator attack and affair aren't real. . it's all part of the movie that he's writing.