The screenwriter is laughing

Destin 2021-10-22 14:33:45

"I only hope that the accumulated habits of Hollywood will not ruin it and turn it into a movie like the battle for orchids, or turn orchids into poppies and turn them into a battle for drugs. Why can't you just make a flower movie? I don’t want to be filled with sexual desire shooting or speed chase, or the characters in the film have insight into the profound philosophy of life, or grow up, or accept each other, or break through all odds and finally succeed in establishing a name... This book is not this kind of story, fact It’s not like that in the last life... I stick to this philosophy.”
Charlie Kaufman said in the opening of the film.

In the latter part of the film, Charlie and the well-known screenwriter eagerly embrace each other as if they have found a new parent.
Then everything suddenly turned down.
Drugs, sexual desire, speed chase, death, growth, the realization of love...
Until the last narration: For the first time, my heart is full of sunshine, and I like it.

Then some literary and artistic young people said
, this is a movie about life! This is to persuade the people to live positively!
When Donno, like all other Hollywood protagonists, found a suitable point before he died to tell the protagonist about his fearlessness of love and enlighten the protagonist,
how many children with thin eyesight could not help but burst into tears like Charlie.

Enough!
Didn't you see the screenwriter Charlie grinning behind his back!
Make up absurd stories like official history.
Nicholas' blue barking melancholy eyes blinked and he got up with a literary air.
The anti-genre movie has become an inspirational movie.

I remember a joke. A monk was very dissatisfied with the changing world and said to others: Now these little monks are too shameful! Miss women every day! I have to take my family with me when I go out, so I don’t feel relieved.

The persevering screenwriter finally made the film into a terrific drama with all the hot elements of Hollywood.
Is this Kaufman's own helplessness, or is he still enthusiastic about persisting?
Maybe not, Charlie Kaufman just wanted to tell a joke similar to a monk.

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Extended Reading
  • Destin 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    What really stood out to me about this film was the uniqueness of its narrative, a story written by a screenwriter about how a screenwriter wrote a screenwriter. Then the story is interspersed with the world under the screenwriter's pen and the real world, making the audience marvel at a screenwriter's brainstorming.

  • Clark 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    The collective explosion of acting skills actually I think Charlie's script is too dark. The Hollywood model in front of me was demoralized and the ending shyly gave a drag car and a gunfight. I guess I was driven crazy.

Adaptation. quotes

  • Donald Kaufman: [spying on Susan with binoculars] She's crying. She's at her computer.

    Charlie Kaufman: This is morally reprehensible.

    Donald Kaufman: United... to Miami. Eleven... fifty five am tomorrow. I thought she was down with Laroche.

    Charlie Kaufman: Her parents live in Florida, Donald.

    Donald Kaufman: That was no parent phone call, my friend.

    Charlie Kaufman: Don't say "my friend".

    Donald Kaufman: A guy entering. Handsome.

    Charlie Kaufman: Must be her husband.

    Donald Kaufman: She's acting weird with him, though, right? Don't you think? What's she hiding from him? Maybe she's a lesbian and doesn't know how to tell him. What do you think?

  • Susan Orlean: [stoned] Very happy now.