Jules Hilbert's Use Of Tragedy In Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction is a movie that mixes comedy with tragedy and adds a touch of drama to spice things up. In the movie, Will Ferrell (Elf, Bewitched) portrays Harold Crick, an IRS agent who counts nearly everything, and lives a pretty ordinary life. That is until he begins to hear a woman’s voice inside his mind narrating everything he does. Oddly enough, the voice seems to always be right, this startles Harold, especially when the voice reveals that he will die an “eminent death” after he resets the time on his watch. Eventually, he goes to talk to literature professor, Jules Hilbert (Hoffman, Finding Neverland) as advised by a shrink ( Hunt, Pocahontas). Hilbert makes Harold answer twenty-three questions that could help him identify …show more content…
Sadly, Harold’s life is mostly a tragedy that day, since he has a difficult time auditing bakery shop owner, Ana Pascal (Gyllenhaal, Secretary). However, there is something about Pascal that captures his attention, and he ends up falling in love with her. Finally, Harold lets Pascal know about his feelings toward her, and based on her reaction, decides his life must be a comedy rather than a tragedy. Professor Hilbert seems happy to hear these news and presents Harold a list of the possible authors that could be narrating his life, but as it turns out, none of the authors on that list were writing his story. In a quite ironic way, Harold finds out that the author narrating inside his mind is Kay Eiffel (Thompson, Nanny McPhee), a favorite author of Professor Hilbert. Unfortunately, she is very well-known for writing tragic stories were the hero of the story always dies. Desperately, Harold searches for Eiffel in order stop her from writing his death, and after some time, is able to locate her. Eiffel can not believe her eyes when she first sees Harold, and she continues to be shocked as she realizes that Harold is indeed the character she was planning on killing in her