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
  • Danielle 2021-10-22 14:41:51

    Fantasy and troubles of playwrights, Kaufman's edition [eight and a half]. 1. A meta-film from the perspective of a screenwriter, art film and commercial entertainment, real life and fictional fantasy, failure and success are juxtaposed and deconstructed, which evokes reverie while blurring boundaries. 2. The process of Charlie Kaufman's adaptation of the screenplay and Susan's experience in writing novels were cross-edited, and Charlie's sexual fantasies were inserted occasionally. 3. Hilariously pungent self-deprecating, Kaufman said to the handheld tape recorder what he said to the tape recorder... The infinitely nested play is like the ultimate movie-in-picture of [the person with the camera]. 4. The thematic montage of ancient times-biological evolution-human society is unexpectedly moving. 5. Nicholas Cage plays two roles with very different personalities and plays impeccably. 6. Robert McGee may become the biggest winner? 7. The three-fold meaning of the title: script adaptation, biological adaptation to nature (evolution), and people completely abandon their old enthusiasm and adapt to new hobbies. 8. Aunt May and Chris Cooper imitated the telephone dial tone together over the phone, with a strange sense of joy. 9. [Puppet Life] The crew enters randomly. 10. You are what you love. (9.5/10)

  • Jake 2021-10-22 14:41:51

    Laroche: Point is, what's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid look

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.