A comic celeb ration of dream ers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the secon d film writt en and d irected by Tom DiCillo. With a tone th at teeters somewhere bet ween Kafka and the Marx Br others, i t chronicles the hil arious misadve ntures of a group of pe ople who have joined tog ether to accomplish one o f the most difficult g oals imaginable - the making of a low-budget ind ependent fil m. With an innovative a nd surpr ising st ructure tha t shifts flu idly between the m ovie being made and those makin g it, the film off ers a rare and accurate -- if com ically h eightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people w ho make the scenes. H ow they mak e them -- and the fact t hat they manage to m ake them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about. Starr ing Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIV ING I N OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film w here everything that c ould possibly go wrong , actu ally does. Strug gling against ever -escalating odds to mainta in his integ rity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindere d by his bumbling , if well-intentioned c rew, head ed by his cinematograp her Wolf ( Dermot Mul roney), a ca meraman whose leather gear sugg ests that he is more in spired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady , Nicole (Catheri ne Keener), a talented bu t neuroti c actress who is involved in a r omance and a rivalry with he r leadin g man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-w illed assist ant director , Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-scr een, a Gaf fer.
精彩剧情/对白：“这百年的人参难寻，就算是京城想要买，也只是运气好能买几个。我爷爷他们几个老的， 如今颐养年的 年纪，整日 闲的慌，今日比这个， 明日比哪 个，上回世家的爷爷拿了两株不错的人参出 来，给我爷 爷气的不行，到处在找人参呢，你有多少给 我多少，我让人带去京城，我爷爷也就能扬眉吐气了。”
“臣的岳母，早就 有这样的想法了，只是以前 咱们家不是穷，没有地 来搞研究吗？现在岳母不缺吃喝， 太后娘娘还大方的赏赐了田，臣的岳母就将以前 的想法试了试，没想到 果然成了。这事情，起来还的 亏了太后 娘娘，要是她不赏赐田 地，也没这个。”
“我们成 亲第一日进宫那时 ，你与六皇子妃有了磕绊，这段时间，除了你，并没有其 他人与六皇子妃接触过或者是有了促狭。所以，在太医验明六皇子妃的 确是死了之后，六皇子直接怀疑到 你头上，其他人也有这个意思。六皇子坚决要大理寺审问你！”
“娘，明儿你去就行了，这有哪些人给了银子，村子 里这些人你都认识， 而且你记性好，肯定是能记住的。我如今在家里 不是要做饭这些吗，得有不 少事情做呢，耽误不得，而且老大那里，我每日打算煮点糖水给他， 这样他看书的时候也好受一些。”
“今日阿意了一些话，我算是听出来了，老二今日让你过去，也是有心要提拔你的，今 日给了你面子，县太爷那里也明白，记着你 了，往后有什么位置，定然会给老二这个面子的，给你了，这个村长做了那 么多年，也总算是有点机会了。”
