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We finally rented Stranger Than Fiction. It turned out to be much different than I expected.
From the trailers, I thought that Emma Thompson was writing a novel with Will Ferrell as the main character who realizes one day that he is existing inside a book.
As I watched the movie, I kept wondering, well, if he's in a fictional world then it's very well thought-out with the Dustin Hoffman character and the romance that blossoms with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Then the two worlds collide when Will Ferrell arrives on Emma Thompson's doorstep and says that he's a character in her book.
So, that's what confused me for about 65% of this movie. As it turned out, Will Ferrell was a real guy in the real world. Emma Thompson just happened to be writing a story revolving around him: she apparently dreamed him up, his name, his lifestyle, his job, his personality, and just happened to match the descriptions and situations perfectly with a real person until her story was dictating his life, plot devices and all. Then, his life was inexorably linked with her story.
Am I correct in this assessment? If so, I have to admit it's a clever plot.
Meanwhile, I loved the Dustin Hoffman character. And her using the electric typewriter to write seemed unnecessary, but it explained possibly why, if she ever had access to a computer, she didn't google his name and find out the name already belonged to someone in her city.
Thoughts?
allen
From the trailers, I thought that Emma Thompson was writing a novel with Will Ferrell as the main character who realizes one day that he is existing inside a book.
As I watched the movie, I kept wondering, well, if he's in a fictional world then it's very well thought-out with the Dustin Hoffman character and the romance that blossoms with Maggie Gyllenhaal. Then the two worlds collide when Will Ferrell arrives on Emma Thompson's doorstep and says that he's a character in her book.
So, that's what confused me for about 65% of this movie. As it turned out, Will Ferrell was a real guy in the real world. Emma Thompson just happened to be writing a story revolving around him: she apparently dreamed him up, his name, his lifestyle, his job, his personality, and just happened to match the descriptions and situations perfectly with a real person until her story was dictating his life, plot devices and all. Then, his life was inexorably linked with her story.
Am I correct in this assessment? If so, I have to admit it's a clever plot.
Meanwhile, I loved the Dustin Hoffman character. And her using the electric typewriter to write seemed unnecessary, but it explained possibly why, if she ever had access to a computer, she didn't google his name and find out the name already belonged to someone in her city.
Thoughts?
allen