Breakfast of Champions

#10,4964

Year: 1999

Runtime: 110 min

Language: English

Director: Alan Rudolph

Budget: $12M

Comedy

Respected businessman Dwayne Hoover finds his life unraveling in Midland City, leading him to a surprising encounter with Kilgore Trout, a reclusive and struggling writer. Their meeting sparks a series of unexpected events that profoundly affect not only their individual lives but also the entire community, challenging perceptions and exploring themes of consumerism and alienation.

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A Car Dealer Mistakes Kilgore Trout's Fiction for Cosmic Truth while His Author Draws, Interrupts, and Questions the World That Made Them · by Kurt Vonnegut

Why this book?

Alan Rudolph's film retains Dwayne Hoover, his Midland City automobile business and mental collapse, Kilgore Trout's journey to the arts festival, Celia, Bunny, Harry LeSabre, Wayne Hoobler, and the disastrous meeting in which Trout's fiction helps release Dwayne's violence. It translates Vonnegut's digressive sketches into heightened sets, performance, and fragmented editing, but removes the author as an active creator who enters his own book, releases Trout, and comments on every social category. The characters and collision are adapted directly while the novel's drawings, invented stories, second creation narrative, and formal argument cannot survive intact.

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