:55:00
Well, I should probably go, because...
:55:04
Well, I'd love to meet her too...
:55:05
...but I don't want to be beholden.
And, well...
:55:09
Because once you meet somebody
that you've been writing about...
:55:11
...it becomes very hard to separate.
So...
:55:14
Well, okay, I'll speak to you soon.
And I'm almost done.
:55:17
I'm almost done.
:55:18
And tell Susan that I would
love to meet with her at a future date.
:55:21
- As she sees fit.
- Okay.
:55:25
Who am I kidding?
This is not Susan Orlean's story.
:55:28
I have no connection with her.
I can't even meet her.
:55:30
I have no understanding of anything
but my own panic and self-loathing...
:55:33
...and pathetic, little existence.
:55:35
The only thing I'm actually qualified to
write about is myself and my own self...
:55:39
We open on Charlie Kaufman.
:55:41
Fat, old, bald, repulsive, sitting in
a Hollywood restaurant...
:55:45
...across from Valerie Thomas,
a lovely, statuesque film executive.
:55:50
Kaufman, trying to get
a writing assignment...
:55:52
...wanting to impress her,
sweats profusely.
:55:59
Fat, bald Kaufman paces furiously
in his bedroom.
:56:04
He speaks into his hand-held
tape recorder, and he says:
:56:10
"Charlie Kaufman, fat, bald,
repulsive, old...
:56:12
...sits at a Hollywood restaurant
with Valerie Thomas."
:56:15
Kaufman, repugnant, ridiculous...
:56:16
...jerks off to the book jacket photo
of Susan Or...
:56:19
What do you want?
:56:21
I've finished my script.
:56:23
I'm done.
:56:27
So would you show it to your agent?
:56:30
It's called The Three.
:56:37
Thanks. I also want to
thank you for your idea.
:56:39
It was very helpful.
I changed it a little.
:56:41
Now the killer cuts off body pieces
and makes his victims eat them.
:56:45
Caroline has this great tattoo of a snake
swallowing its own tail, and...
:56:48
- Ourobouros.
- I don't know what that means.
:56:51
The snake. It's called Ourobouros.
:56:54
I don't think so. But it's cool for my
killer to have this modus operandi...
:56:57
...because when he forces the woman
who's really him to eat herself...