Spike Jonze

Skateboarding videos and music videos came before Jonze's features. His films take one absurd idea completely seriously. In Being John Malkovich a struggling puppeteer finds a way into the actor's head. Adaptation. is about Charlie Kaufman struggling to adapt a book about orchids. In Her, a lonely writer falls in love with his new operating system. Where the Wild Things Are follows Max, a boy who runs from home into a world of wild things.

Signature

• One impossible premise played straight.
• Loneliness and the wish for connection (Her).
• Scripts by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.).
• Music-video and skate-film roots.