Adaptation (2002)

“"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about”

“"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about”

“"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about”

This film is a miracle!

“"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size."

Although 2002's Adaptation is based on Susan Orlean's nonfiction book The Orchid Thief, it's far more than that label implies. While the screenplay by Charlie Kaufman does incorporate elements of Orlean's work, this is a brilliantly meta motion picture which is actually about Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) struggling to adapt the aforementioned novel for the screen. Kaufman suffered writer's block during the real-life screenwriting process, and wound up writing a sensationalised account of his painstaking endeavour to adapt the book. The finished product is” read more

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"6/3 A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere. I don't like Nicholas Cage very much, but I heard this was an interesting story so I decided to check it out for myself. There are many other familiar faces in this as well including Tilda Swinton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jim Beaver, Doug Jones, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, John Cusack, Bob Ste"

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Adaptation

“What a strange, wonderful little movie this is that has such big movie stars in it. Leave it to Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman to create a seemingly fully-formed and original genre: the fictional autobiography that also deals with themes of evolution and literary merits. I think that’s as good a description that I can come up with for it.

The title Adaptation is a play on words, both a self-referential nod and wink to the fact that Kaufman is detailing his struggles in finding a way to adapt Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief into a film and the basic themes of the novel which dictate how evolutionary theory can be grafted onto botany and show the strength of actual science at work to explain our world. It’s a smart, engaging film filled to bursting with grand and eloquent id” read more

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" "There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size." - Susan Orlean"

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