A comic cel ebration of drea mers and their dreams, L IVING IN OBLIVION is the sec ond film w ritten a nd directed by Tom DiCillo . With a tone t hat teeters somewhere betwe en Kafka and the Marx Brother s, it chronicles the hilarious m isadventures of a group of people who have joined together to acco mplish one o f the most dif ficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget indep endent film . With an in novative and surprising structure that shifts flui dly between the movie being made and thos e making it, the film offer s a rare an d accur ate -- if c omicall y he ighte ned -- look behind-the-s cenes, w ith the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the f act that t hey manage to m ake t hem at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIV ION is all about. Starring Steve Buscemi as d irector Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a da y on the set of N ick's film where everyth ing that could p ossibly go wro ng, actual ly does. Struggling a gainst ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrit y and hi s sanity, Nick is bo th helped and hindered by his bu mbling , if well- inten tioned crew, hea ded by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a le ading lady, Nico le (Catherine Keener), a talented bu t neurot ic a ctress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with he r leadi ng man, Ch ad Pa lomino (James Le Gros); an iron- willed assistant director, Wanda ( Daniell e Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-scr een, a Gaffer.
精彩剧情/对白：“大家可能 来公司的时间比较晚，而涉及这些订单的合作，陆氏已经 和秦氏合作了许多年， 所以大家或 许对这些订单的来龙去脉并不了解，我可以为 各位一一说明。首先是这个，当初陆氏提出要大 规模采购进口这批原料 的时候，并没有直接采用竞标的形式， 只是和各家公司单独进行了会谈，据我所知，秦氏的出价并不是最优惠的，但是秦氏却因为搭上了姚家，所以顺利得到了这 个订单，还有这个……”
“有擅长种植的农业学者，用于未来可能的经济作物和药材种植，有 从科德温边境招募的 擅长设计水利的 家伙，有个从马哈坎流亡 出来的矮人工 程师助手，甚至还有几个尼弗迦德那边因为打仗失 业、懂点商路运营 的落魄小贵族管事。”
“那里知道，进山遇到大家伙了， 你外公受了重伤。 村里的大夫，很有 可能会丢了命， 但是送来城里，能抱着命，却是保不住腿了。你太爷不 愿意出银子，便不愿意。我让村里人抬着你外公来的城里看病，那么 多事情堆再一起，这才没 有空来看你。”
“你们老秦家的思想问题 实在是太严 重了，我就说你家闺女年纪不大思想咋那 么落后，敢情是有你这个 落后的娘在， 我现在就去开个动员大会 ，把你们这一个个有落后思想的 坏分子给揪出来，全都 他娘的去给老子参加思想教育课。”
“不会，他们不敢。你用了反而更好，让他们忌惮， 他们本身也没有比我们强多少，真要是打起来，不一定能让我们吃亏的，如今临近冬日 里，我们又有 这个东西，更是不敢了，只 是可能会有 别的办法， 你们多注意一点就是了。另外咱 们部落那么多的匕首，最好不要全让 人知道了，能拿 出一两个就 行了，大部分藏着，若是让人看到了 ，就怕黑木 部落的人卖了咱们。 ”
