three stories

Lacey 2022-04-23 07:01:29

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, is how the virtual Kaufman Brothers completes this script, which is the main line of the film.
And the third is what the author wrote in Orchid Thief. That's what the book Kaufman sees in the second story.

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Adaptation. quotes

  • 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?