She finally announces to him that their marriage is over, and he leaves.The film is set in 1954, with most of the action taking place in a hotel room in New York City.The action revolves around the interplay of four characters who represent iconic figures of the era Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe and Joseph McCarthy called The Ballplayer, The Professor, The Actress and The Senator, respectively.
The seed for the play was Johnsons having read that an autographed photograph of Einstein was found amongst Marilyn Monroes possessions upon her death. The idea of their meeting piqued his interest, and he wrote what became a meditation on the nature of fame. It was always meant to be a play about the era, about fame. He was interested in exploring the differences between who these people really were, as opposed to what qualities others assumed or imbued them with. Johnson acknowledges that there are lots of little cheats in the play, mostly to do with exactly where and when The Seven Year Itch was filmed, and the timing of Monroes marriage to Joe DiMaggio. An incident came up in my own life and I thought, Good God, nobody knows a damn thing about anyone. That was the premise that started me thinking about the piece again. Roeg notes that Insignificance is usually talked about as a meeting between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein, but what moved him was the pain of the problems between The Actress and The Ballplayer, who are married but seem to know nothing about each other. Insignificance would become his first film adapted from a play. His suggestions inspired Johnson to focus on a deeper development of the characters, while Roeg himself began to imagine how the film could open the play spatially as well as laterally. He opened it backwards, Johnson said. The Actresss husband, The Ballplayer, watches with obvious discomfort as she is ogled. The Actress, rather than join him afterwards, disappears in a taxi, leaving him behind. ![]() He is interrupted by The Senator, who has come to alternately coax and threaten him into appearing before a committee to investigate his activities and answer the famous question, Are you now or have you ever been. ![]() She does a lively demonstration of the theory of relativity using the toys and flashlights and balloons. She tells The Professor he is at the top of her list of people shed like to sleep with. They decide to go to bed, but are interrupted by the arrival of The Ballplayer, who has tracked her to the hotel. The Professor leaves them alone and goes to find another room, meeting a Cherokee elevator man with whom he speaks. The Actress and The Ballplayer talk about their marriage; The Actress tells her husband she believes she is pregnant, but he has fallen asleep. He mistakes her for a call girl and threatens to use her to expose and embarrass The Professor, then punches her hard in the abdomen, causing her to collapse in pain. The Professor returns while The Senator is collecting all of the hundreds of pages of The Professors work to take away with him. The Professor grabs the papers and throws them out of the windows, while The Actress writhes in agony on the bed. The Ballplayer returns and talks about his fame in the baseball world, and confides in him about his marital problems while The Actress is in the bathroom, possibly suffering a miscarriage.
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