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Several months ago, I received an e-mail from Snark Squad, offering me the opportunity to contribute to their blog by recapping an episode of seminal early-aughts teen melodrama The OC. Instead of a straight adaptation of the source material, the movie becomes a record of Kaufman’s creative stagnancy and profound self-doubt, as he tries his darndest to find the approach that will make this book about flowers into a compelling feature film.

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Little progress is made as Kaufman agonizes over how to best approach the story, every aborted beginning and failed attempt further sending him down a spiral of obsession and self-loathing that culminates with him literally writing himself into the screenplay. Kaufman, who is a jumbled mess of sundry neuroses and insecurities, takes on the challenge of making a movie screenplay out of the book, and soon realizes he is way in over his head.ĭeadlines pass. Orleans’ book is a rumination on passions and disappointments, framed by a story about orchid poaching in Florida. It’s the sorta-real-but-not-exactly-real story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, played with aplomb by Nicholas Cage, as he takes on the challenge of adapting Susan Orleans’ book The Orchid Thief for the big screen. Jorge: Have you ever watched Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Previously: Caleb died, which brought out Kirsten’s alcoholism and the return of a whole bunch of old friends to Newport.

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