:55:03
Well, l'd love to meet her too...
:55:05
...but l don't want to be beholden.
And, well--
:55:08
Because once you meet somebody
that you've been writing about...
:55:10
...it becomes very hard to separate.
So....
:55:13
Well, okay, l'll speak to you soon.
And l'm almost done.
:55:16
l'm almost done.
:55:17
And tell Susan that l would
love to meet with her at a future date.
:55:20
-As she sees fit.
-Okay.
:55:24
Who am I kidding?
This is not Susan Orlean's story.
:55:27
I have no connection with her.
I can't even meet her.
:55:29
I have no understanding of anything
but my own panic and self-loathing...
:55:32
...and pathetic, little existence.
:55:34
The only thing I'm actually qualified to
write about is myself and my own self--
:55:38
We open on Charlie Kaufman.
:55:40
Fat, old, bald, repulsive, sitting in
a Hollywood restaurant...
:55:44
...across from Valerie Thomas,
a lovely, statuesque film executive.
:55:49
Kaufman, trying to get
a writing assignment...
:55:52
...wanting to impress her,
sweats profusely.
:55:58
Fat, bald Kaufman paces furiously
in his bedroom.
:56:03
He speaks into his hand-held
tape recorder, and he says:
:56:09
'' Charlie Kaufman, fat, bald,
repulsive, old...
:56:11
...sits at a Hollywood restaurant
with Valerie Thomas.''
:56:14
Kaufman, repugnant, ridiculous...
:56:15
...jerks off to the book jack et photo
of Susan Or--
:56:18
What do you want?
:56:20
l've finished my script.
:56:22
l'm done.
:56:26
So would you show it to your agent?
:56:29
lt's called The Three.
:56:36
Thanks. l also want to
thank you for your idea.
:56:38
lt was very helpful.
l changed it a little.
:56:40
Now the killer cuts off body pieces
and makes his victims eat them.
:56:44
Caroline has this great tattoo of a snake
swallowing its own tail, and--
:56:47
-Ourobouros.
-l don't know what that means.
:56:50
The snake. lt's called Ourobouros.
:56:53
l don't think so. But it's cool for my
killer to have this modus operandi...
:56:56
...because when he forces the woman
who's really him to eat herself...
:56:59
...he's also eating himself to death.