Adaptation.

Adaptation.

  • Director: Spike Jonze
  • Writer: Susan Orlean,Charlie Kaufman
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Latin
  • Release date: February 14, 2003
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: The Orchid Thief
  • "Adaptation" is a comedy drama released in Canada on December 6, 2002. Directed by Spike Interval number Jones , starring NeaguInterval number Cage , Katherine Matilda Swinton and Meryl Streep .
    The film tells a screenwriter who wants to adapt the novel "Orchid Thief" into a movie, and the novel is adapted from the true story of a florist who cloned orchids .   

    Details

    • Release date February 14, 2003
    • Filming locations Santa Barbara, California, USA
    • Production companies Beverly Detroit, Clinica Estetico, Good Machine

    Box office

    Budget

    $19,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $22,498,520

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $384,478

    Gross worldwide

    $32,801,173

    Movie reviews

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    • By Karlie 2022-04-23 07:01:29

      controllable world

      "I don't know why. I really want to know and understand what makes a person so obsessed with what he loves, yet he can resolutely say goodbye to years of pursuit and bravely start a new passion.

      " The protagonist Susan has a pitiful and emotional reflection on the orchid thief John, and she comes to the conclusion that "he wants to have a controllable world." I know, at this moment, she is in love with him.

      There is always a kind of charm about people who are in love and...

    • By Lewis 2022-04-23 07:01:29

      play your script

      This is a pseudo-artistic film that seems to be literary but actually tests the audience's IQ. The story is told throughout the film, and the screenwriter makes the characters in the play constantly change their roles.

      From the beginning, we see the protagonist as a screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, racking his brains to adapt a novel that a female writer has just finished. With the development of the plot and the appearance of his twin brother Donald Kaufman, the audience will find it as...

    • By Mohamed 2022-04-23 07:01:29

      The little details that moved me

      There are many places in the film that moved me. When Susan was holding John who was bitten to death by a crocodile, she cried and said that she wanted to go back to the past, she wanted to go back to her babyhood. It's like a tired over-aged child trying to change the reality that he made a mess.
      When Donald and Charlie were hunted down by dead wood in the swamp, Donald told Charlie that I could love whatever I wanted, and that was my own love. Tells the inner world of a dick.
      There...

    • By Lacey 2022-04-23 07:01:29

      three stories

      The process of watching is very painful, the cross narrative, the bland plot, the only thing that makes people interested is whether the twin brothers really exist. And in the process have been guessing what the movie is about. Of course I never guessed it. I finally understood after reading the movie reviews that this actually tells three stories.
      The first is a real event, where the screenwriter writes a script. This script tells the second story
      The second, and the most important,...

    • By Karlie 2022-04-23 07:01:29

      If everything could be charged

      If I could do it all over again, I'd go back to the way it was before my life went sour. This is Susan's helpless verdict when faced with an irreversible situation. The film does not state Susan's ending. Maybe she can really get out of the haze, maybe she will give herself another relief...

      But, everything Can it really come back? John and suan are actually the same person, but the latter is the hidden body of the former, and the former inspires the latter's long-suppressed passion,...

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    • By Haylee 2023-08-19 20:57:50

      A literary film that gathers big names and whose content is greater than the form of...

    • By Meggie 2023-06-25 01:23:51

      Charlie-Kaufman is considered to be Hollywood's script master. He is highly accomplished in the structure of the play, character building, detail setting, etc., and often has unimaginable creativity. "Adapted Screenplay" starts from Charlie-Kaufman's career, but integrates love, thriller and other genres, and the creativity is good. Unfortunately, I think the final ending is still bland, and it does not bring me the feeling of...

    • By Gillian 2023-04-24 01:06:10

      ▤「You are what you love, not what loves...

    • By Ewald 2023-02-13 17:47:04

      The god of screenwriters, the god of structure, is possessed by the soul at this moment. The literary techniques of a very classic contemporary novel are indiscriminately applied by screenwriters to the film's audiovisual narrative. PS. The screenwriter of Nima is really Charlie...

    • By Adalberto 2023-01-27 07:54:59

      If "Story" is a literary version of the scriptwriter's Bible, then "Adaptation" is a surreal video version. I hope to be the person in the cover, the innermost...

    Movie plot

    Susan Orlin ( played by Meryl Streep ) wrote the novel, "The Orchid Thief", which describes the so-called "Orchid Thief" John LaRoche ( played by Chris Cooper ) and The other three Cimino Indians plan to clone a rare orchid to make huge profits. This is a true story, but this is only part of the movie, Charlie Kaufman ( Nicolas Cage ornaments) and his twin brother Donald ( Nicolas Las · Cage ornaments) and their adaptation of the novel...
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    Evaluation action

    This film makes the audience more aware of the difficulty of adapting the script. The film tells the story of the playwright who was ordered to adapt this reportage to achieve his mission. Facing the sentence in the book, he naturally felt that he wanted to achieve his ideal. There is also the anxiety of being "unattainable", it is a film of fiction and reality. ( Netease, Jinyang Online Review)
    The film contains a science fiction...
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    Movie quotes

    • [last lines]

      Charlie Kaufman: I have to go right home. I know how to finish the script now. It ends with Kaufman driving home after his lunch with Amelia, thinking he knows how to finish the script. Shit, that's voice-over. McKee would not approve. How else can I show his thoughts? I don't know. Oh, who cares what McKee says? It feels right. Conclusive. I wonder who's gonna play me. Someone not too fat. I liked that Gerard Depardieu, but can he not do the accent? Anyway, it's done. And that's something. So: "Kaufman drives off from his encounter with Amelia, filled for the first time with hope." I like this. This is good.

    • Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh.

      Donald Kaufman: Oh, God. I was so in love with her.

      Charlie Kaufman: I know. And you were flirting with her. And she was being really sweet to you.

      Donald Kaufman: I remember that.

      Charlie Kaufman: Then, when you walked away, she started making fun of you with Kim Canetti. And it was like they were laughing at *me*. You didn't know at all. You seemed so happy.

      Donald Kaufman: I knew. I heard them.

      Charlie Kaufman: How come you looked so happy?

      Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.

      Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.

      Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.

    • John Laroche: [about himself] The smartest guy I know, huh?