From IRS audits to sentient rocks to hot dog hands and beyond, the mundane and the inane collide with the profound in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," the Michelle Yeoh A24 action sci-fi pic that's drawn at-times-ecstatic acclaim since opening in limited release last month.
Where did all these zany ideas come from? Well, where do any ideas come from? Ask filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as Daniels, and they might have a different answer each day.
On this particular afternoon in this particular universe, as they Zoom together in Kwan's lightly cluttered home office in Los Angeles, they trace a line back to their last movie, "Swiss Army Man," a poignant 2016 dramedy about human connection that Scheinert modestly describes as their "feature film about a farting corpse."
