Will you please go see "Adaptation" this week? Please?
I saw it for the second time on Saturday and it still is, to quote my pal Bruce, a mind-fuck. I think I'm finally putting it together and, let me tell you, if it's not the most brilliant screenplay ever written then I don't know what is. It's so much more than it seems...
I won't spoil it for you. I do think you'd enjoy it more if you knew these facts before you see it...
* Susan Orlean is a real reporter for the New Yorker who really did write a book called The Orchid Thief.
* The book was really written about John Laroche and he is pretty much like Chris Cooper's character.
* Charlie Kaufman is really the film's screenwriter.
The rest I'll leave you to make sense of. I think I have and it's amazing. It's one of those films that I'll have to own and analyze over and over. It make Spike Jonze's last film, "Being John Malcovich," look like "The Muppet Movie."
Posted by mikewolf at January 12, 2003 09:55 PMYeah, can I just watch "The Muppet Movie" instead?
Posted by: Meredith on January 13, 2003 08:17 AMSeeing "Adaptation" is already in the plans. I've been waiting for this movie for at least 4 months!
Posted by: K.Britt on January 13, 2003 12:57 PMI don't care for Nicolas Cage so I wasn't really planning on seeing the movie. I especially don't want to see it now that 3 people have told me it's not really worth it. You're the first person that I've heard say it's any good. I'm afraid I can't help you out on this one. Sorry! Next one maybe??? ok.
Posted by: patricia on January 13, 2003 03:26 PMNot to disparage your peeps, pea, but people who don't like it didn't get it... :-)
I loathe Nicolas Cage and still loved it.
Did you like "Being John Malkcovich?" If you hated it you'll really hate this.
Posted by: mrw on January 13, 2003 08:50 PMI never watched it, never had any interest to, so I guess not wanting to see this makes sense.
Posted by: patricia on January 13, 2003 09:20 PMAs mentioned above, KO and I are still waiting to see it. However,I fear I may have built it up too much in my mind. I'm so glad someone else understand the whole concept.
Only Kaufman would end up writing a script on his inability to adapt a book.
Is it just me, and I don't want to sound like it's such an obvious concept?
Doesn't this sound like an idea that, in theory, should have already made its way to the screen.
Then again, I'm sure it never would've been greenlit had "Being John Malkovich" done so well.
Posted by: Cory on January 16, 2003 01:25 AM