Adaptation (Newmarket Shooting Script) - Softcover

Kaufman, Charlie; Mckee, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557045119 ISBN 13: 9781557045119

Verlag: NEWMARKET PR, 2003

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A companion volume to the Columbia Pictures film offers the complete screenplay adaptation of Suan Orlean's best-selling The Orchid Thief, about a man obsessed with collecting rare orchids at any price, along with black-and-white movie stills. Original. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Spike Jonze, releasing Fall 2002, starring Nicolas Cage & Meryl Streep)

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Charlie Kaufman previously collaborated with director Spike Jonze on Being John Malkovich, which was nominated for the Academy Award^(R) for Best Screenplay. Kaufman's other scripts include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Human Nature, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

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One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief, writes himself and his twin brother (also played by Cage) into the movie.

In the foreword, written exclusively for this Newmarket edition, Orlean reveals her own struggle to tell the story of the orchid, and her delight that “strangely, marvelously, hilariously, Kaufman's screenplay has ended up not being a literal Adaptation of my book, but a spiritual one.”

In a fascinating interview, Kaufman and Jonze take readers behind the scenes of Adaptation and their other films to speak about how they collaborate, where truth and fiction diverge, the challenges of balancing various storylines, why they do not like to comment on the meaning of their work, and Kaufman's approach to writing:"I try to write in the midst of confusion and be strong enough to stay there, rather than swim to the shore of some kind of conclusion."

Finally, screenwriting guru Robert McKee's commentary attempts to analyze Kaufman's work, identifying many of his themes including "that grand twentieth-century preoccupation with the Self."

In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script series format, the book includes the complete screenplay, Orlean's foreword, the interview with Kaufman and Jonze, McKee's critical commentary, 24 black-and-white stills, and cast and crew credits.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NEWMARKET PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1557045119
• ISBN 13: 9781557045119
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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