Movie 51 • Adaptation (2002)

Duane 2022-04-20 09:01:22

hallucination

It is highly suspected that the male protagonist's younger brother was imagined by him. Until the end, the chase subsided, and the younger brother died and he was still alive. It seems that this statement has become unreasonable; however, if it is really an illusion, the story will be more Meaning, that is to say, this movie might as well play it like this: a writer who cherishes feathers, disdains to submit to the social trend like his other half - the so-called twin brother - to write popular words with his own literary talent The success of the story is a piece of cake for his talent, but he just doesn't want to do it. However, when he has no inspiration, he writes sluggishly. This kind of contradiction is completely unsolvable for a serious writer, so much so that As described in the film's bright line, the male protagonist is almost crazy, please see this paragraph of his monologue: "To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That's a good muffin."This is very Woody Allen's style: talking to himself, passers-by as fools, isn't this a common problem of many intellectuals? But the film did not completely go down with Woody Allen, or in other words, The director went the other way - stalking, drugs, sex, gunfights, the Big Swamp, ..., what a Hollywood-style ending, really "extreme audio-visual entertainment, believe in Coke"! After a thrilling, the male protagonist faced The corpse of my younger brother actually got creative inspiration: write this process of adapting the script, isn't it over? It's a good way to make people welcome! If every work can come like this, do you need a writer? Whatever A young literary man who loves to cook chicken soup can copy and paste it! Who doesn't have a life process? This is going to go back to the scene where the literary master taught the film repeatedly. The male protagonist is worried that life will remain the same. When there are a large number of masters, the master thinks that as long as you have the heart, how can you not see life? How can you not see the richness and variety of life? However, as the male protagonist is worried, it is actually the director's complaint for all those who make a living by creating A: A lot of times life is static! This is a scene that links the whole film, and then the last two brothers follow the heroine. The bright lines and dark lines merge together three years ago, so this scene of teaching There is a lot of meaning. If the final fight is real, this scene is actually meaningless, so the final scene must only be the imagination of the male protagonist. The reason why he couldn't write it for a few years is because the female protagonist's book is too great. The waves are calm, prose and poetry are average, there is no Hollywood-style plot that makes people bloody, the heroine just interviewed the flower thief John (although it lasted a long time), John is just a flower thief and has nothing to do with drugs, He also didn't pick the heroine for bed, that is to say, the Hollywood spirit on which the creators depended for a living had nothing to do with this book, and the director finally ended the movie in a Hollywood way he despised; he mocked Hollywood, and by the way he mocked himself, but that's all, he made it so obscure that people couldn't see it clearly and even couldn't watch it anymore. He classified this film as a "bad film", but he was not wronged, because in the final analysis, If you can't get out of the Hollywood circle, how can you be arrogant? John has a line in the film, he said it so well, it may be the director's voice: "By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens.In this sense they show us how to live - how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way. "The problem is: life is actually very poor, generally and There is nothing "large and magnificent" in words, so the standard of life is not your heart, anything can interfere with you, how can you "simply doing what they're designed to do"? Even, life was originally designed to do It's not clear what you've designed.

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  • John Laroche: You know why I like plants?

    Susan Orlean: Nuh uh.

    John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.

    Susan Orlean: [pause] Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.

  • Donald Kaufman: [about McKee] But he says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre, and we must find our originality within that genre. See it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary...? My genre's thriller, what's yours?