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WHAT

I want to make a short film, around 20-30 minutes, with interlocking storylines of three main characters and one protagonist of a documentary which one of the main characters is working on. My film will use various visual languages, it would be a mix of a documentary style combined with a "classic Hollywood" cinema look and social media film-look to address the state of a character. (see visual examples at description of characters) One of the themes of the movie will be the rhetorics of storytelling. All the characters in the film struggle with choices within the representation of themselves or the world around them. The manner that a story is told is very relevant to judge the trustworthiness of the information, how the audience judge if the message or person is reliable. The language that society uses to share information has an important position in the rhetorical playfield. With the rise of video, the manipulation skills which were often used in commercials and propaganda are in reach for every common person in the western society. But could you be part of the game if you're not aware of the effect of the language on the audience?

DESCRIPTION AND STORYLINE OF THE FOUR MAIN CHARACTERS

SCRIPT (this will be in development during the making)

Hackpact/Try-outs

There is a strong connection between my thesis and this graduation film. My characters are all based on a theory I'm researching in my thesis. For example, the storyline of the documentary-filmmaker Emma, is based on the journalistic opinions of Noam Chomsky and the personality of Ed is based on Edward Bernays.

HOW

Working step by step, navigating between theory and practice. I will develop the scripts and characters more, organize and research within my theme. The starting-point at this moment is filming the most concrete storyline, the characters Margarita and Ed. (see script) In the meantime, I will get in contact and research the character which I want to base the documentary scenes on. I'm aware of the risk of depending on the non-actor living in Portugal, who is the protagonist of the documentary filmmaker, nevertheless, the story is about her struggle to make a trustworthy film. If for some reason the collaboration would fail, it would be a matter of finding a different subject for her documentary, her struggle story will stay the same.

My goal is that all these stories can be read in different layers as I think it is important that the film is still interesting for an audience that is not familiar with the theory I'm researching.

WHY

I want to use the medium of film to express my personal point of view on the world, to use the storyline of different characters that represent theories I've been reading.

In my artistic practice, I like to play with the language of communication and how this influence the interpretation of the audience. My work method, in a nutshell, is to analyze a recipe of a familiar visual communication language, then use these rhetorics to plays with the expectation of the public, often I try to create a tipping point in the project to express my comments or to create awareness on the theme I'm working with.

Rhetoric in communication is used on a day to day bases and does affect us if we like it or not. These often well-known tricks are done in commercial marketing, but the seeds seem to have been spread through politics and mass media communication. Could you say that in every form of information, there is a profit to be made? This brings the receiver in a difficult position, they have to judge the intentions of the sender before they can accept the information as the truth.

WHEN

November

Make (test) shots/casting shots of actors
test shots film location and cinematography
Work on Ed/Margarita script
If the narrative is in a developed state, then I'll start filming already

Before Dec 2017

Filming dream scene (transparent body) with Margarita
develop the script
Organise first location and actress
research the real-life character, sovereign citizen, have a pre-interview.

January 2018

Filming scenes of Ed

Beginning of February

First draft of the movie scenes with Ed & Margarita (have a smaller version ready for our EYE project)

February - March - April

Filming documentary scene's of Sakshin (sovereign citizen)
Filming youtube-channel footage of Emma (documentary filmmaker)

Before 7th of May 2018

Have all Film all footage

Before end of MAY 2018

First draft Film

JUNE 2018

test screening on peers
color and sound effects

Who can help you and how?

Next to peers, tutors I'm also trying to get some knowledge on creative writing during an extra course at crea/Uva

The actors:
- Margarita, found actress, will start with first recordings in December
- Ed, need to get in contact with the actor when the script and timetable are clear.
- Emma, haven't found the actress yet, but she is the last one on the list to film.
- Sakshin, need to get in contact him when the script and timetable are clear.
- Extra's for the company scenes at Ed's office, I will ask friends and peers.

Some locations

Maybe extra technical help on some shooting days, for this I have enough filmers in my network.

Relation to a larger context

In combination with my thesis, I would like to research the cause and effect of storytelling, the rhetoric's behind the manipulation of believability of the truth. Next to the theories of Noam Chomsky and Edward Bernays, I'm analyzing creative storytellers who play with rhetorics in their work. There are different colleagues playing with the subject of manipulation.

I'm looking at :

Charlie Kaufman
The YES MEN
Floris Kaayk

Relation to previous practice

I'm trying to stay in my previous themes of interest. Which I consider is manipulation of truth, the longing for advice from a bigger individual or spirit and creating a language that is suitable for the target audience.

I see a lot of overlap in my previous research in the theories of Rhetorical manipulation, propaganda, ideology, the big other, trepanation (making a hole in the skull of a living person to create a higher consciousness) which seems in the line of the Tachyon Energy Theory, longing for a bigger power to advice you. This was also a theme within the projects of last year called Fortunewood. Hereby a company has the role of the bigger other and offers advice to individuals. I can also imagine there is a connection with the philosophy of Noam Chomsky and a person choosing to be a sovereign citizen. Both theories lean against conspiracy theories, I find it fascinating to analyze where a story crosses the line of conspiracy and the role of the rhetorical language to transfer information.

References

Research on Emma (documentary maker)

Books:

Chomsky, N and Herman, E. (1988) Manufacturing Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, S (2000) The Propaganda Model: a retrospective
Chomsky, N (2015) Het einde van de Americaanse droom, Amsterdam, ....
Dáncona, M (2017) Post-truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back, United Kingdom, Ebury Press

Documentary film:

Wintonick, P and Achbar, M (1994) Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media
Chomsky, N (2015) Requiem for the American Dream

Research on Ed (App developer)

Books:

Bernays, E (1928) Propaganda, New York, Horace liveright
Tye, L (2002) The Father of Spin, Canada, Mckinsey & Company Inc

Documentary film:

Curtis, A (2002 ) The Century of the Self, United Kingdom, BBC Four

Research on Saksin (Sovereign citizen)

"The Big Other doesn't exist" - Slavoj Zizek
Mockumentaries such as Incident at Loch Ness by Werner Herzog

Research on Margarita (Social media influential)

Rachel Dolezal - a white woman pretending to be black.
Zjesus Zila - art project of a student from the HKU who pretended online to be on Holiday while she was staying in holland.

http://playithub.net/watch/55JtgitCP8Y/girl-convinced-family-that-she-was-traveling-the-world-from-her-bedroom.html

Merel Brugman https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/boze-merel-populaire-scriptie-over-schijnreis-is-jatwerk~a919e799/
Jacques Lacan - mirror stage
Documentary: PBS Frontline 2014 Generation Like
Essay on representing a persona - Het weerzinwekkende lot van de oude filosoof Socrates by Connie Palmen
De Zonde van de vrouw - Connie Palmen She analyzes 4 women on self-destruction

Research on Storytelling

Wired for Storytelling - Lisa Cron
Plotting and Writing suspense fiction - Patrica Highsmith
Me and You and Memento and Fargo - J. J. Murphy
Anatomy of a Premise Line - Jeff Lyons

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-I want to make a short film, around 20-30 minutes, with interlocking storylines of four main characters. The film would use various visual languages, it would be a mix of a documentary style, with a "classic" cinema look and social media film-look. (see visual examples at description of characters) One of the themes of the movies would be the rhetorics of storytelling.
+I want to make a short film, around 20-30 minutes, with interlocking storylines of three main characters and one protagonist of a documentary which one of the main characters is working on. My film will use various visual languages, it would be a mix of a documentary style combined with a "classic Hollywood" cinema look and social media film-look to address the state of a character. (see visual examples at description of characters) One of the themes of the movie will be the rhetorics of storytelling. All the characters in the film struggle with choices within the representation of themselves or the world around them. The manner that a story is told is very relevant to judge the trustworthiness of the information, how the audience judge if the message or person is reliable. The language that society uses to share information has an important position in the rhetorical playfield. With the rise of video, the manipulation skills which were often used in commercials and propaganda are in reach for every common person in the western society. But could you be part of the game if you're not aware of the effect of the language on the audience?
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+There is a strong connection between my thesis and this graduation film. My characters are all based on a theory I'm researching in my thesis. For example, the storyline of the documentary-filmmaker Emma, is based on the journalistic opinions of Noam Chomsky and the personality of Ed is based on Edward Bernays.
 ==HOW==
-Working step by step, navigating between theory and practice. I will to develop the scripts and characters more, organize and research my theme. The starting-point is filming the most practical storyline, like the characters Margarita and Ed (see script) while I get in contact and research the character which I want to base the documentary scenes on.
+Working step by step, navigating between theory and practice. I will develop the scripts and characters more, organize and research within my theme. The starting-point at this moment is filming the most concrete storyline, the characters Margarita and Ed. (see script) In the meantime, I will get in contact and research the character which I want to base the documentary scenes on. I'm aware of the risk of depending on the non-actor living in Portugal, who is the protagonist of the documentary filmmaker, nevertheless, the story is about her struggle to make a trustworthy film. If for some reason the collaboration would fail, it would be a matter of finding a different subject for her documentary, her struggle story will stay the same.
+My goal is that all these stories can be read in different layers as I think it is important that the film is still interesting for an audience that is not familiar with the theory I'm researching.
 ==WHY==
-I want to use the medium of film to express my personal point of view on the world, to use the storyline of different characters that represent theories I've been reading. For example, one character would be based on the theory of Noam Chomsky another on Edward Bernays. My goal is that these stories can be read in different layers as I think it is important that the film is still interesting for an audience that is not familiar with the theory.
+I want to use the medium of film to express my personal point of view on the world, to use the storyline of different characters that represent theories I've been reading.
+In my artistic practice, I like to play with the language of communication and how this influence the interpretation of the audience. My work method, in a nutshell, is to analyze a recipe of a familiar visual communication language, then use these rhetorics to plays with the expectation of the public, often I try to create a tipping point in the project to express my comments or to create awareness on the theme I'm working with.
+Rhetoric in communication is used on a day to day bases and does affect us if we like it or not. These often well-known tricks are done in commercial marketing, but the seeds seem to have been spread through politics and mass media communication. Could you say that in every form of information, there is a profit to be made? This brings the receiver in a difficult position, they have to judge the intentions of the sender before they can accept the information as the truth.
 ==WHEN==
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 November
 * Make (test) shots/casting shots of actors
-* test shots film location and cinemagrophy
+* test shots film location and cinematography
 * Work on Ed/Margarita script
-* If this is in a developed narrative, then I'll start filming already
+* If the narrative is in a developed state, then I'll start filming already
 Before Dec 2017
+* Filming dream scene (transparent body) with Margarita
 * develop the script
 * Organise first location and actress
-* Start filming the scenes of the woman
 * research the real-life character, sovereign citizen, have a pre-interview.
+January 2018
+* Filming scenes of Ed
+Beginning of February
+* First draft of the movie scenes with Ed & Margarita (have a smaller version ready for our EYE project)
+February - March - April
+* Filming documentary scene's of Sakshin (sovereign citizen)
+* Filming youtube-channel footage of Emma (documentary filmmaker)
 Before 7th of May 2018
 * Have all Film all footage
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 JUNE 2018
 * test screening on peers
 * color and sound effects
 ==Who can help you and how?==
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 * The actors:
 ** Margarita, found actress, will start with first recordings in December
-** Ed, need to get in contact when the script and timetable are clear.
+** Ed, need to get in contact with the actor when the script and timetable are clear.
-** Emma, haven't found the person yet, but she is the last one on the list to film.
+** Emma, haven't found the actress yet, but she is the last one on the list to film.
-** Sakshin, need to get in contact when the script and timetable are clear.
+** Sakshin, need to get in contact him when the script and timetable are clear.
-** Extra's for the company at Ed's office
+** Extra's for the company scenes at Ed's office, I will ask friends and peers.
 * Some locations
-* Maybe extra technical help on some shooting days, I have enough filmers in my network.
+* Maybe extra technical help on some shooting days, for this I have enough filmers in my network.
 == Relation to a larger context ==
+In combination with my thesis, I would like to research the cause and effect of storytelling, the rhetoric's behind the manipulation of believability of the truth. Next to the theories of Noam Chomsky and Edward Bernays, I'm analyzing creative storytellers who play with rhetorics in their work. There are different colleagues playing with the subject of manipulation.
+I'm looking at :
+* Charlie Kaufman
+* The YES MEN
+* Floris Kaayk
 == Relation to previous practice ==
-I'm trying to stay in my previous themes of interest. Wich I consider is manipulation of truth, the longing for advice from a bigger individual or spirit and creating a language that is suitable for the target audience.
+I'm trying to stay in my previous themes of interest. Which I consider is manipulation of truth, the longing for advice from a bigger individual or spirit and creating a language that is suitable for the target audience.
-I see a lot of overlap in my previous research in specifically the second character, whois the sovereign citizen. In the theories of Ideology, the big other, trepanation (making a hole in the skull of a living person to create a higher consciousness) which seems in the line of the Tachyon Energy Theory, longing for a bigger power. This was also a theme within the projects of last year called Fortunewood. Hereby a company has the role of the bigger other and offers advice to individuals. I can also imagine there is a connection with the philosophy of Noam Chomsky and a person choosing to be a sovereign citizen. Both theories lean against conspiracy theories, I find it fascinating where a story crosses the line of conspiracy.
+I see a lot of overlap in my previous research in the theories of Rhetorical manipulation, propaganda, ideology, the big other, trepanation (making a hole in the skull of a living person to create a higher consciousness) which seems in the line of the Tachyon Energy Theory, longing for a bigger power to advice you. This was also a theme within the projects of last year called Fortunewood. Hereby a company has the role of the bigger other and offers advice to individuals. I can also imagine there is a connection with the philosophy of Noam Chomsky and a person choosing to be a sovereign citizen. Both theories lean against conspiracy theories, I find it fascinating to analyze where a story crosses the line of conspiracy and the role of the rhetorical language to transfer information.
 == References ==
 '''Research on Emma (documentary maker)'''
-* MANUFACTURING CONSENT The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988)
-* Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media-The Companion Book To The Award-Winning Film by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar (1994)
+Books:
-* The Propaganda Model: a retrospective by Edward S. Herman
+* Chomsky, N and Herman, E. (1988) Manufacturing Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media
-* Documentary 'Requiem for the American Dream' (2015) - Noam Chomsky
+* Herman, S (2000) The Propaganda Model: a retrospective
-* Het einde van de Americaanse droom- Noam Chomsky (book based on Documentary 'Requiem for the American Dream (2015)'
+* Chomsky, N (2015) Het einde van de Americaanse droom, Amsterdam, ....
-* Post-truth by Matthew Dáncona
+* Dáncona, M (2017) Post-truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back, United Kingdom, Ebury Press
+Documentary film:
+* Wintonick, P and  Achbar, M (1994) Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media
+* Chomsky, N (2015) Requiem for the American Dream
 '''Research on Ed (App developer)'''
-* The Century of the Self -Adam Curtis
-* Propaganda - Edward Bernays
+Books:
-* The Father of Spin - Larry Tye
+* Bernays, E (1928) Propaganda, New York, Horace liveright
+* Tye, L (2002) The Father of Spin, Canada, Mckinsey & Company Inc
+Documentary film:
+* Curtis, A (2002 ) The Century of the Self, United Kingdom, BBC Four
 '''Research on Saksin (Sovereign citizen)'''
 * "The Big Other doesn't exist" - Slavoj Zizek
 * Mockumentaries such as Incident at Loch Ness by Werner Herzog
 '''Research on Margarita (Social media influential)'''
 * Rachel Dolezal - a white woman pretending to be black.
 * Zjesus Zila - art project of a student from the HKU who pretended online to be on Holiday while she was staying in holland.
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 * Jacques Lacan - mirror stage
 * Documentary: PBS Frontline 2014 Generation Like
-Essay on representing a persona - Het weerzinwekkende lot van de oude filosoof Socrates by Connie Palmen
+* Essay on representing a persona - Het weerzinwekkende lot van de oude filosoof Socrates by Connie Palmen
 * De Zonde van de vrouw - Connie Palmen She analyzes 4 women on self-destruction
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 * Wired for Storytelling -  Lisa Cron
 * Plotting and Writing suspense fiction - Patrica Highsmith
+* Me and You and Memento and Fargo - J. J. Murphy
+* Anatomy of a Premise Line -  Jeff Lyons
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-==What do you want to make?==
-I want to make a short film, let's say 20 minutes, with interlocking storylines and multiple characters. A good example in this genre of storytelling would be the Film [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXDHSrNFbQ Magnolia]. The film would use multiple visual languages but start as a documentary and then slowly turns into a fiction film.
-The movie could start with the youtbube channel (something like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpiOTE86bEE this] ) of a young female documentary maker '''character one''' , about 30 years old, she tells her online followers about this man she is researching '''character two''' who lives his life as a sovereign citizen and sees himself as The Tachyon Energy Facilitator.
-  <small>''Sovereign citizen:'' I'm still researching but at this moment I understand that a self-described sovereign citizens take the
- position that they are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any government
- statutes or proceedings.
-  ''The Tachyon Energy:'' alternative healthcare where there is a belief that all matter is made of energy and is part of an Energetic
-  Continuum, a term used to describe the flow of energies as they move down from the source. This stepping down process creates the
-  third-dimensional world in which we live. A Facilitator would help you restore these energies.</small>
-This man is a real person, I know him, and a want to start to make a non-fictional documentary about his political and spiritual points of view. I think it could be interesting to play with the realistic approach of a documentary. I'm fascinated with his lifestyle, political view. I wonder if he is successful as a Facilitator of energy, does this also come with a philosophy on life.  (I didn't ask him to participate in my film because I'm still researching if it would be interesting enough to focus on for my graduation project.)
-So... The documentary maker get's in contact with this character and wants to follow and interview him for her documentary. The film switches back and forward from her youtube channel -where she talks directly to her followers- to the classic documentary that the girl is making. At some point I want the documentary to slowly switch from a documentary to a fictional film. Slowly the colors and movements would change in a more unrealistic film language, I imagine multiple camera angles instead of the journalistic shots of the girl. Now the filmmaker is becoming a character in the movie. I'm developing the script and don't where this would lead me, but I can imagine there should/could be a conflict between the two characters, a suspense.
-The '''third character''' is not yet directly connected to the first two. She is a famous social media personality and earns her money with sharing her life online. What started out as a fun thing, ended as a full time and a quite stressful job. If she doesn't post anything followers and sponsors become annoyed and she will lose her income. She needs to follow the news, respond to this, have an interesting social life and show people she lives according to her own spiritual life rules.  To make her life easier she started to manipulate her posts a bit, with the help of visual manipulation techniques she saves a lot of time, she is experienced enough to know what kind of pictures give her enough likes to keep the sponsors happy. This perfectionist woman is living in a "perfect" terraced house which is far too big for herself. She is nesting but doesn't have anyone to share her nest with. A happy single! She pretends to travel, although she doesn't have the time, therefore she hires a photographer to take pictures of herself in a greenscreen studio. In her save apartment she edit's her holiday pictures to post online and pretend her life.
-'''The fourth Character''' The "stalker" is the neighbor of the perfectionist, he is a family man, his name is Ed. He works at a commercial production company where they developed and analyze trends. I want to base his character on the theory of Edward Bernays. He is very famous within the world of marketing because he is one of the developers of this (fictional) social media app, this is sold to Google in an early stage. People around him whisper ''Wow, wasn't selling it so early the biggest mistake of his life? He hardly got money for it! What has he done since then? Will he ever create something new?'' Ed tries to play cool but feels the pressure inside, was he just a one-day-fly? Is this what he came here on earth for? Doesn't god/the universe has bigger plans for him?
-Ed is fascinated by his neighbor, the girl who seems to have an interesting life, based on her social media pages, is always inside, always on the computer, always alone in her clean house. His fascination turns into an obsession, he wants to see her, meet her, why is this beautiful woman always focused on her social media, with the application he developed? Maybe he should feel proud, but he feels sad for her. After a few scenes, the Ed slowly discovers how the woman is manipulation the world while she is sitting save from her home. Earning money pretending to be someone she is not.  Her situation inspires Ed to develop a new application, an app that does social media for you, knows what newspapers you read, knows how you would respond, shares and photoshop the best moments of your day' An App that helps you shine! This new idea will be a great career move for Ed, finally, he feels appreciated by his you millennial colleagues.  I can imagine him having multiple roles, trying to get in contact with her, being for example also the photographer and maybe a mechanic that comes around the house. I want to maybe create an uncanny agreement between the two, an unspoken roleplay of a stalker and the victim who likes the attention.
-The script is developing while I'm researching theories of plot writing techniques, analyzing films, books, and artists such as Omar Fast.
-Interesting examples of Mocumentaries :
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-==How do you plan to make it?==
-I want to develop the scripts and characters more, organize and research my characters. The man who is a sovereign citizen is this in real life, I know him, but have to ask if he would be interested to work with me. If so, I would try to meet/interview him.
-The most practical storyline, the perfectionist woman, I would like to develope and start filming soon.
-==What is your timetable?==
-November
-* Make test shots/casting shots of actors
-* test shots film location and cinemagrophy
-* Work on stalker/girl next door script
-* If this is in a developed narrative, then I'll start filming already
-Before Dec 2017
-* develop the script
-* Organise first location and actress
-* Start filming the scenes of the woman
-* research the real-life character, sovereign citizen, have a pre-interview.
-Before March 2018
-* Film all footage
-Before April 2018
-* First draft Film
-May 2018
-* experiment in editing the story for a 4 screen installation
-* experiment in editing the story for a linear movie
-==Why do you want to make it?==
-I want to use the language of film to express my personal point of view on the world. I like that the visual film language is very approachable for a big audience. I want to use the storyline of different characters to represent theories I've been reading. My goal is that these stories can be read in different layers, the movie should still be interesting for an audience that is not familiar with the theory. I think this makes it a rich medium to work with.
-==Who can help you and how?==
-My first focus points would help with, locations, actors and developing my script.
-* Next to peers, tutors I'm also trying to get some knowledge on creative writing during an extra course at crea/Uva
-* First one to ask is my friend, I've used her before as an actress and want to ask her for the role of the third character. (meeting her next week)
-* The home for this character is based on my other friend's house, hopefully, this could be arranged at a short-term.
-* Get in contact and research the man who is a lives his life as a sovereign citizen. He has a lot of things online but at some point, I would be good to interview him about his political and spiritual point of view.
-* At some point, I need to find the girl who plays the documentary maker, the "real" documentary part I would film myself, but the turning point of the movie, where the filmmaker becomes a fictional character that needs to be played by an actress.
-== Relation to previous practice ==
-I'm trying to stay in my previous themes of interest. Wich I consider is manipulation of truth, the longing for advice from a bigger individual or spirit and creating a language that is suitable for the target audience.
-I see a lot of overlap in my previous research in specifically the second character, whois the sovereign citizen. In the theories of Ideology, the big other, trepanation (making a hole in the skull of a living person to create a higher consciousness) which seems in the line of the Tachyon Energy Theory, longing for a bigger power. This is also a theme within the projects of last year called Fortunewood. Hereby a company has the role of the bigger other and offers advice to individuals. I can also imagine there is a connection with the philosophy of Noam Chomsky and a person choosing to be a sovereign citizen. Both theories lean against conspiracy theories, I find it fascinating where a story crosses the line of conspiracy.
-== Relation to a larger context ==
-In combination with my thesis, I would like to research the cause and effect of storytelling, the rhetoric's behind the manipulation of believability of the truth.
-I'm researching different storytellers, the ones I see as role models are:
-* Charlie Kaufman
-* Patricia Highsmith
-* George Orwell