Like I said, I may continue on with this, so I am. Two different book props.
Now, I don't know if this counts as a "book prop" or a "paper prop", but I honestly would love to see what's inside the Donald Kaufman script "The 3" from the movie "Adaptation." I wonder how detailed the actual prop is.
As I made mention before, one "set" of book props I would love to just flip through (if I could get a chance to see the actual prop itself, is "The Confession" by Henry Fool from the movies "Henry Fool" and "Fay Grim." We barely get good glimpses of the pages within the books (when you do, they are so brief and the handwriting so difficult to translate). We do however, get some information, spoken by characters, about the contents of the Confession and some of the history of the Confession in the films themselves. They are as followed:
NOTE!: Here there be spoilers!!
1. The opening line from Henry's Confession is, "An honest man is always in trouble." (which so happens to be a line that Henry tells Simon to remember in the first movie)
2. Simon Grim (a poet who was tutored by Henry in the first film), his sister Fay Grim (who is also Henry's wife) and Angus James (Simon's publisher) are the only three people who have read either all eight volumes or just certain parts of the Confession (Fay only read "the dirty parts" of the book, by accident).
3. Henry written the Confession in a basic but outdated (circa 2006) CIA encrypting method. The technique involved composing sentences in a consistent but obscure relationship to a pre-existing text. In the original text (called "The Concordance") there is a noun, in the new communiqué there is a verb, and the placement of adverbs and adjectives are reversed, resulting in text appearing to be gibberish. However, Angus explained that the text in Henry's book is illogical, pedantic and contradictory, but not gibberish. Using this particular method, only an idiot savant would be able to create a sentence or two of a communiqué that could be translated into a logical message. Henry Fool wrote eight full volumes (100 pages, give or take, each) in this method. The Concordance to Henry's Confession is the epic poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton.
4. Henry was apparently an expert at Global Satellite Positioning Systems. When two of the books (I can't remember which volumes) are placed side by side, they list the coordinates of U.S. Satellites over a 10 month period in 1994 and are written in red ink, while other parts of the Confession is written in blue and black ink. Apparently, Henry was tortured and forced to start writing his Confession and the text laid out the entire U.S. espionage network in South America.
5. The Confession was stolen by Bebe Konchalovsky (her real name is Ulga, last name unknown) after Henry left the country using Simon's passport, believing that Henry was Simon and that she was stealing "the notebooks of the famous Simon Grim." She sold them to drug dealers in Paris because she was tired of being a stewardess. After discovering that Henry was not Simon, the drug dealers were captured and told the police she was involved with terrorists because they believed they were cheated. Two of the books ended up in the possession of the French Police, while the other volumes ended up in the possession of other military and terrorists groups, all of them going after the books taken by other groups, as the books that each group wanted had the information they wanted.
I know, it's a lot of info. Here's some pictures from both films of the Confession.
