You can only fit so much about one movie in one blog post. Meanwhile, a little tidbit via Premiere. There’s a strange tattoo theme running through Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York.”
In an interview with Tim Kern, the tattoo artist who worked on the film (who let ‘Synecdoche’ actress Jennifer Jason Leigh tattoo him), this small kernel of music information came out.
“Charlie [Kaufman] had really specific ideas of how he wanted the tattoos to look, actually. So one of the tattoos is all flowers… he wanted specific flowers to go with some music he had written for the scene. So I did some sketches based on the ideas he had and showed them to the makeup people, and they showed them to Charlie.”
Screenwriter, director and now we add musician to his list of credits? It remains to be seen whether it’s something he wrote and handed off to a composer or wrote and produced himself entirely, but it is something for this heavily-anticipated film mostly lacking in hard details.