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In Reply to: Just seen the worst film of the decade, I will make very short : Adaptation. nt posted by patrickU on May 31, 2003 at 13:11:17:
when it came to running from gators and squeezing off pistol shots. I found the "insider" aspects of the movie interesting but ultimately sacrificed to banality---the performances were great, the writing went flatly awry at the end. Shame.
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I was laughing as the credits rolled... as pointed out elsewhere, the film's ending was the punchline to a near two hour joke. The drug storyline, the car chase and escape into the swamp, his brother's death... all of this played like a bad episode of Cops or America's Most Wanted for a reason.If you remember, Charlie has a lunch meeting early on in the movie where he explains that he wants the script to be about the book and about flowers, stressing that he doesn't want to turn it into an action movie... this is exactly what happens by the end. It all ties into his self-loathing personality and feelings of inadequacy.
Another big joke in the movie is that it's credited to both Charlie and Donald when Donald doesn't even exist and never has. That has been well publicized, but I still think people fail to miss how great it is.
One other favorite is when they redo that scene from Being John Malkovich where all the people in the restaurant look like him and Malkovich tells everyone to make sure the shot happens quickly because it's extremely uncomfortable in the masks... but not so uncomfortable that they redid the scene for a few seconds in another movie. Imagine how long it took to get everyone made up for that 10 seconds of footage...
While I thought Adaptation was hilarious, I know that most people wouldn't think it was. It's definitely an art film and I'm just amazed that they got so much press for it. Spike Jonze is one of the most interesting directors out there and a very funny person.
wasn't re-shot. It was from documentary/behind the scenes footage of the movie and he was really giving those instructions. Apparently, before agreeing to let SJ use the footage of him, JM had to see Adaptation. After viewing it he agreed to let them use footage and asked "Why wasn't BJM that good?"
"when it came to running from gators and squeezing off pistol shots"But wasn't that the whole point - The tortured writer trying to make something important and authentic and finally breaking down and writing that hollywood ending that he hates so much. When the book doesn't give him enough for a movie, he reluctantly hypes up the hick, throws in a trailer park affair, spins up a fantastical drug ring twist, and when the hollywood chase scene is at it's height - throws in the alligator attack.
The instructor told him, "Don't use deus ex machina." The alligator attack and gunfights were the ultimate joke, the ultimate hollywood surprise ending and cheap trick that Cage's character was trying to avoid.
I thought it was pretty funny and reasonably clever. Watching a movie about a guy writing a screenplay for a movie about a guy writing the screenplay for the movie that you are now watching. The movie isn't real . . the alligator attack and affair aren't real. . it's all part of the movie that he's writing.
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