The Feel-Good Effects Of Affective Computing. Spike Jonze: I think with Samantha, I really liked the idea of trying to empathize with her and understand what her experience would be. Our subjectivity is so completely our own. Her-Spike-Jonze Pale Fire, Spike Jonze, Interview Style, Joaquin Phoenix. “Even after years you don’t really ever know how they see or think about the world. 23, 2013 1:05 PM PT For those who’ve seen the buzziest of buzzy holiday movies, Spike Jonze’s Her, you probably left the theater with much to think about.
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I have been warned they will not pose for photographs and will not do TV interviews. There they are, positioned around the coffee table like my parole board. “To have an intimate relationship with somebody a leap of faith,” says Jonze. It starts when I enter a room at the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago to interview Nicolas Cage, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman. Never mind it’s a man and his OS, it’s a heartfelt expression of just how difficult couplings can be.
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“I realized as I was writing it,” says Jonze, “that I really wanted to make it a relationship movie.”Įven if it’s not your run-of-the-mill rom-com, it explains just why Jonze’s movie has been moved from its original January UK release to a Valentine’s Day slot. But as much as Her deals with our increasing reliance on digital companions, it moves away from that as Theodore gradually becomes intimate with his OS – who names herself Samantha (voiced, brilliantly, by Scarlett Johansson). The Philosophy of ‘Her’ Our different in perspective is the main reason that turmoils in a relationship happen and the Marxist Theory of Love is applied in this movie and Woody Allen’s attempts of realizing in his film Annie Hall and with Her, this attempt was executed with brilliance. And we haven’t even got to the films yet.Īdmitting he’s fascinated by the evolution of computers (“Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?” he ponders), his research took him from reading futurist Ray Kurzweil to watching TED talks on developing technologies. Russell’s Three Kings and Martin Scorsese’s recent The Wolf of Wall Street (he’s the penny-stocks broker Jordan Belfort meets). Groundbreaking videos for Beastie Boys, Björk, Fatboy Slim and Arcade Fire a founding member of the multi-million dollar Jackass TV show and movie franchise an ad-hoc acting career in films like David O. Well, that’s one way to get your interviewer on side.Īs much as I’d like to buy into his flattery, it’s Jonze who is the clever one. “You’re so much smarter than I am,” he says when I articulate one question about his new film Her. Spike Jonze spends Saturday in London with Sri Lanka’s most famous musician M.I.A.
But today, dressed in a jacket and tie, and sitting in the early evening gloom in a London hotel, he’s quite the host. The first time I met him, for his 1999 directorial debut Being John Malkovich, he was cripplingly shy – barely able to get out a word. It’s hard to know quite what to expect from an encounter with Spike Jonze.
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