SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
Escrita y Dirigida por Charlie Kaufman
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Ficha:
Dirigida por: Charlie Kaufman
Producida por: Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman
Esrita por: Charlie Kaufman
Reparto: Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tilda Swinton, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis.
Idioma: Inglés
Story-Line:
Un director teatral intenta representar una obra creando una réplica de Nueva York a tamaño natural dentro de un almacén.
Allí, ciudad espejo, desfilarán amantes y examantes, fantasmas del futuro, el pasado y el presente, del sexo opuesto.
Sinopsis completa (en inglés):
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- Extraído de IMDB
Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele (Catherine Keener), a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria (Tilda Swinton). He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire (Michelle Williams) into the ground. Sammy Barnathan (Tom Noonan), the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel (Samantha Morton). Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis (Hope Davis), is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is retarded. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs. By seamlessly blending together subjective point-of-views with traditional narrative structures, writer/director Charlie Kaufman has created a world of superbly unsteady footing. His richly developed cast of characters flutter between moments of warm intimacy and frightful insecurity, creating a script that brings to life all the complex and beautiful nuances of shared life and artistic creation. Synecdoche, New York is as its definition states: a part of the whole or the whole used for the part, the general for the specific, the specific for the general.
Comentario:
Synecdoche, New York, marca el debut en la dirección del hasta ahora guionista Charlie Kaufman, responsable de guiones como "Being John Malkovich", Adaptation", o "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".
En principio Synecdoche, New York, iba a ser dirigida por Spike Jonze, quien ya había dirigido las dos primeras, pero finalmente declinó el proyecto para dirigir un guión que había co-escrito junto a Dave Eggers, Were the Wild Things Are, que tiene previsto su estreno para 2008.
Llegados a ese punto, Kaufman se vio solo con el guión y supo aprovechar la oportunidad para dirigirlo el mismo, dejando a Spike Jonze en la producción.
De momento, el guión -basado, una vez más, en experiencias personales de Kaufman antes de entrar en el mundo del cine- ha tenido muy malas críticas, que no han afectado exesivamente a Charlie Kaufman,que se siente confiado tras el reconocieminto obtenido por sus anteriores trabajos.
Una primera versión del guión cuenta con 152 páginas, lo que en parámetros del cine convencional equivaldría aproximadamente a dos horas y media de película, pero con Charlie Kaufman nunca se sabe. Afortunadamente.
Todo esto está muy bien Teejay, pero... ¿Qué Significa "Synecdoche"?
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- "Synecdoche" es una figura discursiva en la cual se utiliza el todo para describir una parte o una parte para describir el todo:
lo general usado para lo específico, lo específico usado para lo general.
Ejemplos:
Esta noticia ha tenido mucha repercusión en la prensa. (Refieriéndose a los medios en general)
"Usa la cabeza para hallar la solución" (Refiriéndose al cerebro)
Pregunta:
¿Si usasemos a Charlie Kaufman para describir la creatividad en los guiones de cine actuales, estaríamos usando una parte para describir el todo, o el todo para describir una parte? 
SaludoS,
~Teejay
