Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Theatrical release poster
Directed by George Clooney
Produced by Andrew Lazar
Written by Chuck Barris
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
Starring Sam Rockwell
Drew Barrymore
George Clooney
Julia Roberts
Music by Alex Wurman
Cinematography Newton Thomas Sigel
Editing by Stephen Mirrione
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date(s) United States:
December 31, 2002 (2002-12-31) (limited release)
January 24, 2003 (2003-01-24)
(wide release)
Running time 113 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Gross revenue $33,013,805

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a 2002 American biographical spy film depicting the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris, who claimed to have also been an assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Sam Rockwell portrays Barris under the direction of actor George Clooney. Supporting roles are provided by Drew Barrymore, Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Columbia Pictures had planned to produce a film adaptation of Barris' memoir in the late 1980s. When the film rights were purchased by producer Andrew Lazar, Charlie Kaufman was commissioned to write a new script, which attracted various A-list actors and filmmakers to the project. After Bryan Singer's version of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Johnny Depp in the lead role was canceled in February 2001, George Clooney took over directing duties.

Barris remained heavily involved in production in an attempt to portray the film from his point of view. To accommodate the $30 million budget, Clooney convinced actresses Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts to lower their asking prices. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was released with respectful reviews from critics, but bombed at the box office. Rockwell, in particular, was praised for his acting, and won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival.

Contents

Plot

Chuck Barris' sole purpose through his teenage years in Philadelphia concerns promiscuity, but he is unsuccessful. Inspired by a television advertisement, he moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page. He dreams of becoming famous in television, but is eventually fired.

Chuck moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. There, he writes the successful "Palisades Park" song with Freddy Cannon and falls in love with a woman named Penny Pacino.

Chuck is given permission to pitch the concept for The Dating Game at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC); he receives $7,500 to create a television pilot for the studio. However, ABC abandons The Dating Game in favor of Hootenanny. Chuck then struggles with his life and ends up in bar fights. He is noticed by a man named Jim Byrd, a CIA agent who recruits Chuck as an assassin.

Returning from a mission in Mexico, Chuck finds that Penny has conformed to the hippie movement. Meanwhile, ABC decides to greenlight The Dating Game, and by 1967 the TV show is a phenomenon.

Chuck takes another mission for the CIA in Helsinki, Finland, where he meets gorgeous operative Patricia Watson. Chuck finds more success back home when The Newlywed Game goes on air. He and Penny decide to move to Los Angeles into a house, but Chuck is cautious of marriage, much to the dismay of Penny. The journey in Barris' life is tied in to the story of Thomas Carlyle's main character in Sartor Resartus, Teufelsdröckh, and references to this parallel are made throughout the film. In 1970, Jim convinces Chuck to go on another mission in West Berlin to assassinate communist Hans Colbert. There, Chuck is introduced to German-American agent Keeler and is held captured by the KGB for weeks.

In 1976 Los Angeles, Chuck creates The Gong Show and becomes even more famous as its host. He also is criticized for being instrumental in the decline of quality television. Meanwhile, Keeler is murdered and Jim warns Chuck of a mole in the agency.

Chuck's TV shows are canceled due to poor ratings and his relationship with Penny becomes complex. One night, Chuck finds Jim in his backyard pool, sitting atop the diving board. Jim reveals to Chuck why he "fit the profile" for the CIA's recruitment policy of assassins. Jim cites details from Chuck's early childhood which seem to predestine him to become a killer. During the conversation Jim mysteriously dies, which leads to Chuck becoming traumatized with past reflections of his CIA and television career.

After almost having a nervous breakdown on his own show, he recluses himself in a New York City hotel. Penny manages to find him there, but tries in vain to convince him to return to California and get married.

Chuck finally leaves his room and confronts Patricia in Boston. There, he finds that she is the mole Jim warned him about. Chuck kills Patricia and begins to write his autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He finally decides to marry Penny. After the ceremony, he confesses to her his double life as a CIA agent and assassin, but she merely laughs, assuming he is making a joke, and he decides not to correct her. In 2002, he prepares for an interview for the film adaptation of his autobiography.

Cast

Barris, Dick Clark, Jim Lange, Murray Langston (The Unknown Comic), Jaye P. Morgan and Gene Patton (Gene Gene the Dancing Machine) are featured in the film through interviews that fulcrum the storyline through self-reference events.

Clooney approached Brad Pitt and Matt Damon to cameo as the bachelors on The Dating Game during publicity for Ocean's Eleven.[1] "I said, 'Burt Reynolds was on The Dating Game and he didn't get picked, and Tom Selleck was on and didn't get picked.' I thought it would be funny if those guys came out. That was a pure and simple favor."[1]

Production

Development

Chuck Barris first sold the film rights of his "unauthorized autobiography" to Columbia Pictures in the late-1980s. Columbia president Dawn Steel greenlighted Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with Jim McBride directing.[2] McBride offered the lead role to Richard Dreyfuss, who refused to read the script because he believed Barris' morbid humor was distasteful.[3] The project was abandoned at Columbia when Steel was fired in 1989.[2] Producer Andrew Lazar optioned the film rights from Columbia in 1997 and set Confessions of a Dangerous Mind at Warner Bros. Pictures that same year.[3] Charlie Kaufman entered discussions to write a new screenplay in June 1997[2] and finished his first draft later that year. Barris gave positive feedback to Kaufman's script[4] and Curtis Hanson instantly agreed to direct[1] with Sean Penn in the lead role and George Clooney and Drew Barrymore attached to co-star.[5][6][7]

Hanson eventually dropped out, but with the financial success of My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), P. J. Hogan entered discussions with Warner Bros. to direct in January 1998.[8] Mike Myers signed on to replace Sean Penn, who vacated the lead role.[9] However, negotiations with Hogan fell through; Sam Mendes, David Fincher and Darren Aronofsky all became interested in taking over the directors position.[3][10][11] Fincher and Myers were fast tracking production for Confessions in April 2000[12] but Fincher dropped out and, by that October, Brian De Palma was attached to direct with Renaissance Pictures co-financing.[13] Later that month, Warner Bros. put the project in turnaround,[14] and Myers lost interest.[5] Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey and Edward Norton had also been attached to the film in the early development stages.[15]

In December 2000 Ben Stiller was in discussions to star as Chuck Barris with Bryan Singer directing and Clooney still aboard. However, Stiller was forced to vacate Confessions due to scheduling conflicts with Zoolander (2001) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).[5] Although Singer was interested in Sam Rockwell in the lead role,[16] the director cast Johnny Depp to replace Stiller and commenced pre-production in January 2001[17] on a planned $35 million budget.[18] Renaissance Pictures was holding international distribution rights, but the filmmakers still needed more financing as well as a studio to cover distribution duties in the United States.[17]

Grosvenor Park was interested in co-financing with Renaissance,[19] but the next month (February 2001), Confessions was once again stalled in development. Miramax Films had been negotiating for domestic rights, but difficulties arose when Miramax also wanted to cover international rights. Renaissance was also unable to close the financing in time to accommodate both the "production insurance" deadline and the 65-day shooting schedule,[20] which was set to primarily take place in Montreal and British Columbia, Canada.[21][22] Artisan Entertainment then became interested in covering North American distribution rights, but dropped out after the bid went over $8 million. Johnny Depp eventually went to work on other films.[20]

Director

With Singer busy preparing X-Men 2 (2003), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was rejuvenated with actor George Clooney taking over the director's position. Miramax Films agreed to cover distribution duties and co-finance the film. In the end, funding for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind came from Miramax, Clooney's own Section Eight Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, producer Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance, Allied Filmmakers and The Kushner-Locke Company.[23] Clooney explained, "I thought if I came on board as a director, for scale, and was able to bring everybody else on inexpensively, if I could get the film back down to $30 million, then I was going to be able to get the film made. That was a big part of my pitch to Harvey Weinstein at Miramax."[6]

"I was upset by the fact that Clooney took the movie from me and then cut me out after that. I'm unhappy with the end result. And I’m unhappy with George Clooney. I had a movie that I wrote and that isn't it. I've always been involved in the process with Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry. If there’s any rewriting to do, I do it. But with Clooney it was different even the end of the movie is different. I mean, Clooney went on forever about how my Confessions screenplay was one of the greatest scripts he’d read. But if someone truthfully felt that way they’d want the person who wrote it to be on board offering their thoughts and criticisms. But Clooney didn’t. And I think it’s a silly way to be a director."
— Writer Charlie Kaufman[24]

Because Confessions was his directing debut, Clooney took inspiration from friends Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers for his filmmaking style.[25] Writer Charlie Kaufman said he was dissatisfied with the way Clooney treated the screenplay. "I spent a lot of time working on the script," he explained, "but I don't think he was interested in the things I was interested in. I've moved on and I don't have any animosity towards Clooney, but it's a movie I don't really relate to."[26] Clooney acknowledged that Kaufman's original script contained "really funky scenes that would never reach the greenlight of being a studio film."[4] A drug addiction subplot was removed based on Barris' request for historical authenticity.[27]

Clooney was adamant that Barris become heavily involved during production in an attempt to portray the film from his point of view.[28] Barris was so enthusiastic with Clooney's work on the film that he began writing Bad Grass Never Dies (ISBN 978-0-7867-1379-0), the sequel to Confessions; Miramax also owns the film rights to Bad Grass.[28] Barris filmed cameo appearances of himself during the shoot in Canada and taped a voice-over in Clooney's house.[2]

When asked about Barris' claim of being a CIA assassin, Clooney commented, "I don't know how much I believed it. I didn't want to officially ask him, because I didn't want him to say, 'I made it up.' I wanted to tell the story and I thought, how interesting if it was all made up, why someone as wealthy and as successful as Chuck Barris, would have to do that. I thought that was an interesting person to explore, and that's what we wanted to do with the film."[1] Clooney acknowledged that his upbringing with father Nick Clooney had a great bearing on his choice of depicting the 1960/70s game shows. "My father had a game show when I was growing up called The Money Maze. I know what those sets look like. I showed the guy how to do cue cards. I grew up on them," the director reflected, "and knew what it looked like and smelled like. And I know something about some of the trappings of fame, so I thought I had a unique take on it."[6]

Casting

Casting the lead role of Chuck Barris was a long, difficult process. "After two months of screen tests and everything I still wasn't able to get Sam Rockwell," Clooney reflected.[1] Rockwell had always been Clooney's first choice ever since they worked together on Welcome to Collinwood (2002).[29] Both Clooney and Barris also believed Rockwell shared an uncanny resemblance to Barris.[4] "I didn’t want someone too famous to play the role," the director reasoned. "In my opinion, you cannot have famous people playing famous people. It doesn’t work. Sam was the guy for the part, ready to break and hadn’t yet."[29]

Prior to his audition, Rockwell "immersed" himself in the role by simultaneously watching episodes of The Gong Show in an attempt to impress the filmmakers. "I went to LA [and] did an old-fashioned screen test, like a real Scarlett O'Hara-type screen test, which you know they don't really do anymore," the actor remembered.[29] For research, Rockwell spent two-and-a-half-months with Barris.[30] "We went to coffee shops and dinner and movies, took walks, went to the zoo, I even filmed him," Rockwell explained. "I had him tape my lines in a tape recorder, and I listened to that to get his voice down."[29]

Clooney cast Julia Roberts as the mysterious CIA agent Patricia Watson due to their positive working relationship in Ocean's Eleven (2001).[31] Her role was originally set for Nicole Kidman, who dropped out over scheduling conflicts with The Hours.[32] After Rockwell's casting Confessions was once again briefly postponed; Miramax did not greenlight the film until Roberts signed on.[29] Clooney commented, "Julia really helped me. Her doing the part made it possible for me to cast Sam Rockwell. He can't drive a $28 million film, but Julia certainly can."[33] Renee Zellweger and Gwyneth Paltrow were considered for the Penny Pacino role, which eventually went to Drew Barrymore.[34]

Miramax was unsure of Clooney's decision to cast Rockwell[35] over other famous actors such as Robert Downey, Jr. and Ben Stiller.[34] Clooney convinced the studio into giving him the right of final cut privilege and casting Rockwell in exchange for first look deals on Full Frontal (2002) and other low-budget films from Clooney's Section Eight Productions.[35] Clooney also agreed to cameo in Miramax's Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) so Rockwell could be cast. To accommodate the $30 million budget, Clooney convinced Roberts and Barrymore to lower their asking prices.[3]

Filming

Under Clooney's direction, filming was initially set to begin in September 2001, but principal photography did not start until January 14, 2002.[23] From January-March 2002, production for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind took place primarily in California and Montreal.[36] The Playboy Mansion scene was shot in early-April at Los Angeles, California; the remainder two weeks of production took place around the Mexico – United States border. Filming for Confessions ended in late-April 2002.[2]

Clooney and cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel used various techniques when portraying the different decades of a Barris' life. "We thought in order to go back in time, most people remember things through film," Clooney reasoned. "I don't remember the 1950s – I wasn't around for them – I know the 50s through Technicolor. Not Technicolor as it was shot, but Technicolor as it has faded now."[6] The filmmakers studied various films and magazine issues of that decade for inspiration on the color palette. Racking focuses were highly stylized for scenes set in the 1960s, similar to the Spaghetti Westerns of that era. Hand-held cameras were used for scenes set in the 1970s,[6] a homage to the films of Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols and Alan J. Pakula, primarily Klute (1971), Carnal Knowledge (1971) and The Parallax View (1974)[25][35] All That Jazz also influenced Clooney's direction.[16]

Clooney commented that post-production for Confessions was stressful because he was simultaneously acting in Solaris (2002).[37]

Release

To tie-in with the release of the film adaptation, Miramax Books republished Chuck Barris' 1984 book.[38] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind premiered as a "non-competition" film at the May 2002 Cannes Film Festival[39] before Miramax Films gave Confessions a limited release in the United States on December 31, 2002; the wide release came on January 23, 2003.[40] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was a [[box office bomb];[41] the final gross figures for the film had a $16 million run in the US and $17.01 coming from foreign markets. The worldwide total came to $33.01 million.[40] Confessions also suffered through poor sales with its September 2003 Region 1 DVD release. The DVD includes over 20 minutes of deleted scenes, Rockwell's three screen tests, a short documentary titled The Real Chuck Barris, Clooney's audio commentary and a making-of featurette.[42][43]

Reception

Critical response

However, the film received positive responses from critics. Based on 158 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of the reviewers enjoyed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with an average rating of 7.1/10.[44] The film was more balanced with the 30 reviews in Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics" poll, receiving an 83% approval rating and a 7.4 score.[45] By comparison, Metacritic calculated an average score of 67/100, based on 33 reviews.[46] Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2003. Sam Rockwell won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and George Clooney was nominated the Golden Bear, but lost to Michael Winterbottom of In This World.[47]

Roger Ebert gave Confessions of a Dangerous Mind a positive review. "George Clooney's directorial debut is not only intriguing as a story but great to look at," Ebert continued, "a marriage of bright pop images from the 1960s and 1970s and dark, cold spyscapes that seem to have wandered in from John le Carré."[48] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine believed the film carried a perfect balance of dark humor and psychological drama. "Clooney tackles a far-reaching absurdist fantasy with Barris as a paradigm of paranoia," Travers reviewed. "He wisely hooks up with talent he worked with as an actor: cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, from Three Kings (1999) and editor Stephen Mirrione from Ocean's Eleven (2001)."[49]

Mick LaSalle from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "there may be more entertaining and less problematic movies, but Confessions of a Dangerous Mind has something about it that hangs in there, working on the mind like a dog gnawing on a table leg. The movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity. I'm not sure Confessions is a good movie, but I am sure I like it."[50] Owen Gleiberman, writing in Entertainment Weekly, observed that "Sam Rockwell is handsome in a rumpled, slightly goofy rabbit-toothed way, but he doesn't really have the look, or aura, of a movie star," Glieberman stated. "He's more like a weirdly sincere space cadet, babbling to himself with puppyish befuddlement, breaking into funky soft dance moves that look as if he's been doing them in his bedroom since he was 8. All of which makes him an inspired choice to play Chuck Barris."[51]

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave a negative review. He disliked the characterization of Chuck Barris and commented that "with its multiplicity of over-stylized looks and slick gimmicks, Dangerous Mind was doubtless more stimulating to direct than it will be for audiences to experience."[52] Internet reviewer James Berardinelli wrote a mixed critique. "George Clooney is eager to show how much he has learned at the hands of the A-list filmmakers he has toiled under. So we get a style that is about 50% Steven Soderbergh and 50% Coen brothers. Sometimes it works, but mostly it comes across as too artsy, with all sorts of bizarre angles and unusual shots."[53]

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Filmography of George Clooney
Director
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)  · Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)  · Leatherheads (2008)  · Suburbicon (2012)
Producer
Rock Star (2001)  · Insomnia (2002)  · Welcome to Collinwood (2002)  · Far from Heaven (2002) · Criminal (2004) · The Jacket (2005) · Syriana (2005)  · Rumor Has It... (2005)  · A Scanner Darkly (2006) · Pu-239 (2006)  · Michael Clayton (2007)  · Sand and Sorrow (2007)  · Wind Chill (2007)  · Leatherheads (2008)  · The Informant! (2009)  · The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)  · The American (2010)
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