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I've just emerged from the semi-nourishing, semi-tortured Fellini-esque Chinese box mindfuck-dreamscape that is Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York...and the press conference is just starting. [Ten minutes later] Kaufman has just explained the title's pronunciation: Syn-ECK-duh-kee. At least that's settled.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 23, 2008 at 1:59 AM
comment #1
GKLondon
says ...
'Tortured Fellini-esque Mindfuck Dreamscape'? The mind boggles.
Will we possibly be hearing this press conference?
Posted by GKLondon
at May 23, 2008 3:04 AM
comment #2
Sean
says ...
Yeah, as noted in the "Syndoche" thread, that's how the word is pronounced ... in the dictionary. The title pun is part of the key of what the film is.
Posted by Sean
at May 23, 2008 4:28 AM
comment #3
T. S. Idiot
says ...
Yes, but how does he pronounce integral?
Posted by T. S. Idiot
at May 23, 2008 5:20 AM
comment #4
gansibele
says ...
Kauffman had to explain how you pronounce the name of a poetic trope to a roomful of writers? Tells you something about the woeful state of film criticism.
Posted by gansibele
at May 23, 2008 6:11 AM
comment #5
nemo
says ...
Those writers obviously didn't go to Jesuit high school, where we got the concept and pronunciation of metonymy and synecdoche and all those other literary tropes with Greek names thoroughly hammered into our skulls.
Isn't Metonymy a suburb of Synecdoche, New York?
It's pronounced meh-TAHN-uh-me. Try saying "metonymy, synecdoche" together six times very fast. They really get to rolling off the tongue.
Posted by nemo
at May 23, 2008 8:09 AM
comment #6
breadlymoore
says ...
"'Tortured Fellini-esque Mindfuck Dreamscape"
So Kaufman really is a one-tricky pony.
Posted by breadlymoore
at May 23, 2008 8:51 AM
comment #7
cinemascopian
says ...
Asking Kaufman how to pronounce the name for his movie baffles me. Didn't you all learn what Synecdoche is in high-school? And metonymy? and metaphor? and simile? You journos have lost your heads (find the synecdoche in the previous sentence).
Posted by cinemascopian
at May 24, 2008 9:15 AM
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