Being John Malkovich - who is related to who?

pedro

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Feb 27, 2002, 5:48:14 PM2/27/02

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Remember that bit where Lottie is about to shoot Maxine ("If I can't
have you no one will") and Lester yells out - "No, we can't really
kill her, she is carrying Malkovich's seed, my next vessel" - then if
it follows that Malkovich's child will be the next human to be able to
be "highjacked" through the portal - then wouldn't that make John
Malovich's father Dr. Lester?

Clarify:

Captain Merton (owner of the Merton Phlimmer building), discovered the
portal and jumped into Lester. Merton (in Lester) then plans to jump
into Malkovich through the portal. The next "vessel", according to
Lester, is Malkovich's child. By that logic, Malkovich's father MUST
be Lester.

Thoughts?

Norman Wilner

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Feb 27, 2002, 6:12:09 PM2/27/02

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"pedro" <pedr...@toast.com> wrote in message
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I think you're right, but the movie avoids the issue.

Norm Wilner
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Derek Janssen

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Feb 27, 2002, 7:38:36 PM2/27/02

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Norman Wilner wrote:
>
> "pedro" <pedr...@toast.com> put WAYYYYYY too much thought into writing:

> >
> > Captain Merton (owner of the Merton Phlimmer building),
> > discovered the portal and jumped into Lester. Merton (in Lester)
> > then plans to jump into Malkovich through the portal. The next
> > "vessel", according to Lester, is Malkovich's child. By that logic,
> > Malkovich's father MUST be Lester.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think you're right, but the movie avoids the issue.

As any actual thought might impede the filmmakers' attempts to be Clever.

Derek Janssen (but, hey, it's got ORSON BEAN in it!) : D
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Melquiades

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Feb 28, 2002, 7:51:42 AM2/28/02

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(pedro) wrote:

I don't think a vessel necessarily has to be the offspring of the current
vessel -- as Norm said, it isn't specified. Maybe if the previous vessel has
no offspring, it jumps to somebody else (in this case, Malkovich).

pedro

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Feb 28, 2002, 3:27:29 PM2/28/02

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> I don't think a vessel necessarily has to be the offspring of the current
> vessel -- as Norm said, it isn't specified. Maybe if the previous vessel has
> no offspring, it jumps to somebody else (in this case, Malkovich).

Good call Melquiades! I didn't think of that... if Lester (so lonely
in his tower of indesciperable speech) didn't have any children, it
stands to reason that the portal may switch to another individual.

One other thing... In the 7 1/2 floor orientation video that Cusack's
character watches near the start of the film, it says that Captain
Merton actually BUILT the building. Perhaps Merton (Lester) actually
knows more about the portal than he is letting on to in the film,
after all, if he built the building, then surely he would know about
the portal, and not simply "discover" it, as he says in the film.

Derek Janssen

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Feb 28, 2002, 3:57:31 PM2/28/02

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pedro wrote:
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> One other thing... In the 7 1/2 floor orientation video that Cusack's
> character watches near the start of the film, it says that Captain
> Merton actually BUILT the building. Perhaps Merton (Lester) actually
> knows more about the portal than he is letting on to in the film,
> after all, if he built the building, then surely he would know about
> the portal, and not simply "discover" it, as he says in the film.

OTOH, the orientation-video scene plays so much like it was lifted from
a Simpsons episode, you can practically HEAR the Phil Hartman voices...

Derek Janssen (throw off your chains! Let the anti-BJM rebellion begin!)
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