![]() ![]() He went to see Clementine, but she was with a new guy and pretended not to know who Joel was. Inside Joel's mind, he remembers telling his friends Rob and Carrie about his attempt to make up with Clementine. After Joel is asleep, two men ( Patrick and Stan) unload the white van and bring a collection of strange equipment into Joel's apartment. ![]() ![]() Distraught Joel drives through the rainy streets and goes back to his apartment, while a white van follows him. There is something brewing between them.Ĭut to Joel in his car, bawling. The next day, he accompanies her on a nighttime trip to walk on the frozen Charles River. There is something he likes about her, though, because when she invites him up to her apartment, he goes. She encroaches on Joel's personal space, making him uncomfortable. They have a conversation - her name is Clementine (Kate Winslet), and she is erratic and opinionated. The same woman happens to be on the same train as Joel and finally says hello. Walking along the beach, Joel notices a woman with blue hair in a bright orange sweatshirt, and wonders why he can't meet women. He sits on the cold, snowy beach in Montauk and pulls out his journal, which has a number of pages ripped out. His voiceover informs the audience that he is not usually impulsive. Suddenly, something comes over him and he runs to the opposite platform, boarding a different train that is destined for Montauk. He waits on the platform, dressed for work. The director told The Daily Beastthat, for example, Wilkinson refused to do any more than three takes of any scene, but thankfully, "he was great in all three takes." Gondry also remembered Wilkinson's attitude making him question "everything at the roots" of his profession. "I'd give a direction, and he'd just look me right in the eye and say, 'Why?'" Gondry said.Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) wakes up alone and confused on Valentine's Day. and I don't know what you're doing!' I was like, 'I don't know what I'm doing either, man. Ruffalo recalled, "Tom Wilkinson kept being like, 'I don't know what the hell we're doing! I don't know what doing!'" Ruffalo said when he told Wilkinson he thought the movie would be good, his English co-star responded, "'I don't dig any of it. Mierzwiak's assistant, Stan – said Wilkinson would often get frustrated with Gondry. Talking with The Daily Beast in 2017, Mark Ruffalo - who plays Dr. A house was actually built on the shore specifically so that the ocean tide would invade the space. Toward the end of the film, when the beach house Joel and Clementine break into appears to be collapsing under the tide, it was no illusion. In a scene in which Winslet appears to be impossibly disappearing from one room and reappearing in another, secret doors were built so that the actress could race in and out of the rooms off-camera. But as Kaia Placa pointed out in her 2017 essay for Film Independent, part of the reason Gondry's film endures so well is because the director favored practical effects whenever possible.įor example, in a scene when Joel retreats to a memory of himself as a toddler, one where Jim Carrey appears much smaller than Kate Winslet, forced perspective was used to create the illusion of a pint-sized Joel. While Eternal Sunshine doesn't have epic battles between supernatural forces like those other movies, it does have a lot of impressive visuals that you might think would be impossible without CGI. ![]()
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