I had not read the autobiography of Chuck Barris when I went to see “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.” Well, how many people have? So I made an understandable error. When the movie claimed that the game show creator had moonlighted as a CIA hit man, I thought I was detecting a nudge from the screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman. He is the man who created the portal into John Malkovich’s mind in “Being John Malkovich” and gave himself a twin brother in “Adaptation.” Now, I thought, the little trickster had juiced up the Barris biopic by making the creator of “The Gong Show” into an assassin. What a card.Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 2002 Full Movie Download.
I am now better informed. Barris himself claims to have killed 33 times for the CIA. It’s in his book. He had the perfect cover: The creator of “The Dating Game” and “The Gong Show” would accompany his lucky winners on trips to romantic spots such as Helsinki in midwinter and kill for the CIA while the winners regaled each other with reindeer steaks. Who, after all, would ever suspect him? When I met Barris I asked him, as everyone does, if this story is true. He declined to answer. The book and the movie speak for themselves–or don’t speak for themselves, depending on your frame of mind. As for myself, I think he made it all up and never killed anybody. Having been involved in a weekly television show myself, I know for a melancholy fact that there is just not enough time between tapings to fly off to Helsinki and kill for my government.
It matters not whether the story is true, because all autobiographies are fictional, made up out of that continuous subconscious rewriting process by which we make ourselves blameless and heroic. Barris has a particular need to be heroic, because he blamed himself for so much. As the movie opens in 1981, he is holed up in a New York hotel, mired in self-contempt and watching TV as his penance. It is here, he tells us in a confiding voiceover, that he began to record “my wasted life.”
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