last night on AMC, i watched Malkovich’s Mail, which was really cool and very weird all at the same time.
there was one kid who wrote screenplays (and i tagged him as a SpEd, thank you) all about dinosaurs and cyber dinosaurs. one guy wrote about modeling the lead after himself, and one lady wrote a murder mystery. somebody else wrote about a hunchbacked dwarf.
and all these people want John Malkovich to produce and star in their movies.
most letters dont even get to john, folks. it was great to see the secretary smirk every time a new call for “hey, can i talk to john, please? tell him its _____”
but he did look at some. and as a favor, did a videotape of a reading of each screenplay for the people featured.
seeing the kids face (kid. he was older than me.) when john was pretending to be a cyberdinosaur was the greatest thing ever. and i thought the murder mystery lady was going to cry.
there was one guy who watched his videotape and STARTED CRITIQUING JOHN’S ACTING.
“I know if we just worked on it together, he could just blow the roof off this scene.”
this was the guy who wanted john to be a dwarf who owns a resturant and gets a mail order bride from russia.
it was very cool, very weird, and very worthwhile. catch it next time around.