Charlie is all about mother effing hope and beauty

Another BCK Hero of the Day: Tavis, who's painstakingly transcribed the interview with Charlie Kaufman that appears in the Human Nature script book released by Newmarket. Hot diggety! Every so often I get an email from someone looking for that interview online. If you aren't already in the know, it's not a legit interview at all, but...

...a note-for-note parody of an interview that Paul Thomas Anderson had given for the back of the Magnolia screenplay book, published by the same company. It makes Anderson look like a self-absorbed imbecile. Without the end part where Kaufman goes into why it makes perfect sense to end the film with frogs falling from the sky, I can't imagine more than a few people would 'get it' at all.

(That description came from another fine fellow named Jason, back around June 14 last year.)

It's pretty damned funny. Huge thanks to Tavis for transcribing it. /me crosses off another item from the Wanted page.

The Newmarket book is available from the BCK shop. A percentage of each sale goes to BCK, the better to purchase more screenplays etc.

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