comment #1

Horace Rumpole says ...

First of all it's Synecdoche and it's pronounced sin-eck-duh-kee, kind of like Schenectady, get it?

comment #2

captain furious says ...

Oh those ignorant bubbas in Kentucky who won't get this film! Won't be able to pronounce it! Ha. Stupid ignorant racists.

Disturbingly, though, it was found that they can actually spell the title of the film correctly. Unlike Jeff. Hmmm.... Very weird indeed.

Well, no doubt cultural elitism doesn't entail getting every damn annoying thing like spelling right in order to be superior.

Jesus. Seriously, if you are going to write a post decrying the stupidity of others based upon knowledge of a certain word you could at least familiarize yourself with that word first. That way you will actually fulfill your intention of looking smarter.

comment #3

captain furious says ...

Oh those ignorant bubbas in Kentucky who won't get this film! Won't be able to pronounce it! Ha. Stupid ignorant racists.

Disturbingly, though, it was found that they can actually spell the title of the film correctly. Unlike Jeff. Hmmm.... Very weird indeed.

Well, no doubt cultural elitism doesn't entail getting every damn annoying thing like spelling right in order to be superior.

Jesus. Seriously, if you are going to write a post decrying the stupidity of others based upon knowledge of a certain word you could at least familiarize yourself with that word first. That way you might actually fulfill your intention of looking smarter.

comment #4

The Pope says ...

Wells,
When you makes remarks like that you sound like you're trying to prove your credentials to someone about something. To whom, what and why I have no idea but you come across like Bill O'Reilly... smug and stupdenously stupid.

comment #5

broadstreetbully says ...

If Wells were actually an intelligent man, I'd think he was actually trying to achieve a keen sort of obvious self-parody at this point. Railing on others' stupidity when he egregiously misspells the film's title multiple times needs no explanation of irony.

It's also obvious at this point that Wells, who through all pictures we've seen of him is as attractive as a retarded owl, lost women to "bubbas" at some point, and now and now has an inferiority complex that manifests itself as a constant, raging need to feel superior to others. Leave him alone, everyone. He probably suffers enough.

comment #6

Roman says ...

Wells, I am eagerly aniticpating this movie (especially after I read the script).

And by the way, I am a Hillary supporter. And not because I'm a racist. It's because I like her and I don't like Obama.

So suck it.

comment #7

Richardson says ...

"If sophisticated Cannes journalists can't figure how to pronounce "Syndoche," the bluegrassers (being so hip and worldly and all) will likely have an ever tougher time of it"

I just wanted to point out that Synecdoche has a lot of people living in it who love bluegrass music.

comment #8

Roman says ...

And in case the previous message didn't make it clear - I am not a rasict. Thart was kind of the point of the whole thing. I'd still take Obama over McCain any day.

comment #9

Armin Tamzarian says ...

Could only make it through about 1/3 of that video, but I didn't see any "sophisticated Cannes journalists" in it. Lots of Euro-tourists and volunteer workers, though.

comment #10

malibugigolo says ...

Kentucky has a great Pete Dye golf course outside of Lexington: Kearney Hill Golf Links.
Only $23 bucks to play. Beautiful. Rolling hills. Very Green. Clean air.
One of the most unpretentious yet classy places in the US to tee it up.

Always meet the nicest people on the course.

comment #11

malibugigolo says ...

I will say this viewpoint of the South is typical from someone from LA. Meeting an LA "artist" (now that's a contradiction akin to DC moralist) recently who went on a road trip down in 'ole Dixie; they were surprised there were not KKK roadblocks. Seriously. But then again, they spoke of a love of the blues, and their knowledge of the blues, went as far back as The White Stripes.

comment #12

Arizona Joe says ...

I have three college degrees, and I did not know the word "Synecdoche" until about 20 years ago, when I read "Desert Solitaire' by Edward Abbey. Wells, is correct. As an old advertising cock once said, if people don't know what you are talking about, you can't give it away.

It's hard to believe that the people putting the money up for Kaufman's film would allow him to use Synecdoche in the title. It sure won't fly in Red States where people want to get straight to the issue of religion, guns, white bread and Velveeta. That's a lot of directorial freedom for Kaufman.

I'll go to see any Charlie Kaufman film. But the emotions his characters affect are surrealistic, not realistic. In a way, he reminds me of Preston Sturges, particularly here. Philip Seymour Hoffman builds a Synecdoche of New York, and in "The Palm Beach Story" Joel McCrea wanted to construct an urban aircraft field on something like a giant heavy screen suspended by skyscrapers.

It's healthy that Kaufman provides an anecdote to the banal. It's surprising his ideas see light of day in an industry dominated by suits. "Nobody’s looking for a puppeteer in today’s wintry economic climate.”

comment #13

MilkMan says ...

I know I'm the only member of an inconsequential club, but I find Charlie Kaufman a middle-mind bore, the surrealist for people who hate surrealism, a self-infatuated hack who conned an entire nation of moviegoers into thinking that adapting a book into a script was a metaphysical conundrum. Maybe for his next trick he should write a script that consists of nothing but Charlie Kaufman sitting in a chair, wearing a t-shirt that says "Charlie Kaufman," thinking for two hours. His movies remind me of nothing so much as Paul Mazursky if Paul Mazursky had cut his teeth writing episodes of Star Trek.

comment #14

Arizona Joe says ...

I want to add that I agree with Milkman, and i find Charlie kaufman overrated and self-involved.

However, compared to most crap coming down the pipeline, his films are diverting. at least for the moment.

comment #15

Devin Conroy says ...

"First of all it's Synecdoche and it's pronounced sin-eck-duh-kee, kind of like Schenectady, get it?"

First post--

That was really all anyone should have needed to hear, although Wells deserves a few digs for that error. Especially as a writer... come on, now. Anyone who is the least bit educated should know what synecdoche means AND be familiar with Schenectady. Even if you're not, there's this book filled with words and their meanings. I think it's called a dinictiary... or something.