Jonze has worn the High Concept mantle ever since he changed his birth name (Adam Spiegel) to a hiphop variant on Spike Jones, the wily-crazed bandleader of the ’40s. (READ: Richard Schickel on the Spike Jonze-directed Adaptation. He might be Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts - the cynical newspaperman consigned to the agony column - except that neither Theodore nor his creator has anything so fashionable as satire in mind.For her is a splendid anachronism: a movie romance that is laugh-and-cry and warm all over, totally sweet and utterly serious. With a heart as big and soft as a Valentine-gift pillow, and bruised from the failure of his marriage to Catherine (Rooney Mara), he composes love notes for strangers to send to their spouses and children that’s his job at the website. ![]() Thodore Twombley (Joaquin Phoenix) could use a little sex in his life. And Susan Bennett, the middle-aged actress who lent her voice to the Apple OS, joked with CNN that Siri “told me she has always been a little bit jealous of Scarlett Johansson!… She has a very sexy voice!” And finally, in a wistful, hopeful tone: “Do you still think I’m pretty?” We won’t say what fate is in store for the Samantha of her, but the movie has certainly begun well. “This isn’t going to end too well for me is it?” the mock-Siri frets. In a recent Microsoft commercial, a Siri-ish voice gets frazzled over the purported superiority of the company’s Surface RT tablets. Jonze dominated the Original Screenplay category among the critics and Johansson, who is never seen in the movie, took two citations for Best Supporting Actress. It won Best Picture awards from more critics groups than any film except 12 Years a Slave. ![]() at the New York Film Festival, her has received Best Picture nominations from the Producers Guild of America and the Hollywood Foreign Press Associations - the Golden Globes. Siri is a Norwegian word for “beautiful woman who leads you to victory” Samantha, in the chipper, sultry voice of Scarlett Johansson, has a chance of propelling her to wins on Oscar night. A sweet premise for a science-fiction romance - though Spike Jonze, who wrote and directed the new film her, says he dreamed up the concept long before Siri made her debut on Apple iPhones in 2011. ![]() Follow man falls in love with Samantha, the voice of his computer’s operating system.
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