The Words is a storytelling drama based within the reality of storytelling within a story. It has received below to average reviews, and was a box office underachievement. Through the film, it appears to goes nowhere other than to take a left turn from disappointment into total mess in the final thirty minutes which are weighed down with false drama and ambiguous character motivations that I just wanted someone to get hit by a truck. The Words takes a few turns and becomes somewhat uninteresting once The old man appears. The film turns into another story and becomes tiresome when he gets into his "story".
What we realize is the basic of the plot which is Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) whom is a successful author that is reading passages from his latest novel to a rapt audience that includes Daniella (Olivia Wilde). The story he tells is that of Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana). Rory wants to be a writer. Further into the story, Rory faces rejection from publishers, dismissal by his father (J.K. Simmons), and begins to think that he may have to give up on his dream. As Rory whines, walks out of dinners, and generally bemoans the fact that he may not watch his dreams comes true, he stumbles upon a manuscript in a French briefcase and his life is forever changed. The stories within that case are mesmerizing. And Rory decides to take them as his own. Then their original author (Jeremy Irons) shows up. Their appears to be theories suggesting the Old man was not real, and that Clay (Dennis Quaid) simply made up the story of the Old man in his novel (as the plagiarism plot) to have something more to write. The film may be confusing at times, but it still isn't too good. Though this films, are for a specific audience.
What we realize is the basic of the plot which is Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) whom is a successful author that is reading passages from his latest novel to a rapt audience that includes Daniella (Olivia Wilde). The story he tells is that of Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana). Rory wants to be a writer. Further into the story, Rory faces rejection from publishers, dismissal by his father (J.K. Simmons), and begins to think that he may have to give up on his dream. As Rory whines, walks out of dinners, and generally bemoans the fact that he may not watch his dreams comes true, he stumbles upon a manuscript in a French briefcase and his life is forever changed. The stories within that case are mesmerizing. And Rory decides to take them as his own. Then their original author (Jeremy Irons) shows up. Their appears to be theories suggesting the Old man was not real, and that Clay (Dennis Quaid) simply made up the story of the Old man in his novel (as the plagiarism plot) to have something more to write. The film may be confusing at times, but it still isn't too good. Though this films, are for a specific audience.