دانلود کتاب کیهان پویا – حرکت، پارادوکس، و آزمایش در انسان شناسی مالکیت روح

When actor Jim Carrey received the news that he was hired to play the role of Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman’s 1999 film Man on the Moon, he was absolutely flabbergasted. He had admired Andy Kaufman since he was a teenager, and being able to actually act out Andy’s life was a dream come true. To digest this fact, Jim Carrey went for a long walk on the beach. He looked at the ocean, “and then Andy came,” as he put it in an interview recorded in 2017.1 The sudden arrival of Kaufman—who died in 1984, fifteen years before Forman’s feature was shot—became a prologue to what would be a thoroughly deceptive environment on the Man on the Moon film set, one characterized by the constant breaching of boundaries between people, temporalities, and relationships. In part, this was because Carrey “remained in the character” most of the time, which means that he did not only “play” Kaufman in front of the camera but also quite literally remained united with him for the duration of the entire production. For example, while embodying Kaufman backstage, Jim Carrey continuously tricked and harassed Milos Forman—the renowned director who had initially insisted on the casting of Jim Carey in the lead role—occasionally causing the latter to lose his temper and once even shout ferociously at Carrey. While “in character” behind the scenes, Carrey also harassed Andy’s old-time friend, actor-wrestler Jerry Lawler, who took part in the 1999 movie (playing himself). On one occasion, shown in the 2017 documentary Jim & Andy, Lawler appears perplexed as he shares his amazement with other people on the set, saying that Andy and him had been such good friends before he died. On a different occasion, Lawler physically assaulted Carrey, who was still embodying Kaufman backstage. Other events that took place on the set of the 1999 film had a cosmological or spiritual edge to them. For example, Carrey once spoke for many hours with Andy Kaufman’s real-life daughter as if he were the real Kaufman. Carrey described that conversation in the 2017 documentary as a heartfelt communication between Andy and his daughter, which he (Carrey) facilitated.