drama within drama

Ambrose 2022-04-23 07:01:29

"Adapted Screenplay" is a relatively unpopular movie, and maybe not many people have watched it, but it still has a lot of feelings.

male protagonist

That male protagonist may be "I"

The story adopts a dual timeline, one side describes the "cowardly representative" of the male protagonist's life and the other side describes the story about "Orchid" between the two supporting characters. The use of dual timelines will not make the story uninteresting. Finally, combining the two story lines will make the story clear at a glance.

It may be a bit boring and boring at the beginning, but in the early stage, the character description and the storyline of the female reporter who met because of "Orchid" and the "Flower Picker" were developed.

But it is also the slow rhythm in the early stage of the movie, which is also a better "premium" for the later story rhythm

Yan value represents "waiter"

It is precisely because the male protagonist received the master's instruction, "No matter how bad the early stage is, as long as the ending shocks the audience, then even if it is a success", it also guides the plot of the movie in the second half, and the style of painting changes.

"Love, drug addiction, green hat, car accident, murder, arrest, life insights" let the audience feast their eyes

The director successfully integrated these many elements into the film appropriately, showing what is a good "edited expression", without causing more abruptness.

At the end of the ending, the male protagonist also successfully transformed. When he shouted "You are just a poor lonely and helpless worm", I couldn't help but be shocked.

Although the male protagonist did not succeed in confessing to the girl he liked. But being able to come this far, kissing the goddess actively and breaking through myself, I think it is also a satisfying one.

[I am a lover, it doesn't matter who loves me]

means the same

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Extended Reading

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?