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In Reply to: I must agree . . . the film was completely thrown away . . posted by albee33 on May 31, 2003 at 20:53:48:
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.
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Follow Ups
- Remember the lunch meeting? - Some Guy 08:43:44 06/03/03 (1)
- The BJM scene with the masks - sjb 11:08:44 06/03/03 (0)
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