I had the pleasure of seeing Adaptation earlier this evening. Basic, Non-Spoiler review: Interesting Movie, despite what some say it is the most original screenplay of last year, and great acting on all counts. I haven't liked Cage this much since Raising Arizona, and I actually wanted to bang Streep at one point in the film.
By the way, this film does feature two of the most realistic and violent car crashes I've seen in a movie theater, which is why I wasn't smirking the whole time. Great effect, but damn if I'll be driving with out wearing my seatbelt for the next 50 years.
Anyway, time for spoilers... I'll head down a bit, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Okay, still here? Too bad, here we go.
I want to read this script. I've got a group of guys I went to High School with, and we're all into something film related at this point. One wants to be a director/writer, the other an editor, and there's a character actor in there as well. I like to consider myself a writer, but let's face it, I'm dumb. Anyway, I dubbed myself the Jerry Bruckheimer of the group because I like big fancy action scenes and crap like that.
I'm Donald Kaufman.
On the print I saw, and I'm not sure if anyone else's did this because I've only seen the film once mind you, but when Charlie calls Donald to ask him to come to New York, it looks like the film stock or filter completely changes. That's where Donald starts writing the movie, in my opinion. Sure, Charlie gets in little bits of him here and there, but from that point on it's Donald.
The spying, the drugs, the car chase, the romp in the swamp, gunplay, the turning of Cooper and Streep's characters into villains when they're anything but... Hell, it turned into a nightmarish Hardy Boys Adventure. I could almost read the phrase "SUDDENLY!: An alligator attacks Laroche!". Ah. Sure, it's a bit pompous but hey, that last 30 odd minutes is one big joke on piss poor writers, like myself.
Here's hoping Kaufman's next movie is "THE THREE", some could argue that the end result of this movie is "The Three", but come on-- Who wouldn't enjoy that idiotic story?
By the way, this film does feature two of the most realistic and violent car crashes I've seen in a movie theater, which is why I wasn't smirking the whole time. Great effect, but damn if I'll be driving with out wearing my seatbelt for the next 50 years.
Anyway, time for spoilers... I'll head down a bit, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Okay, still here? Too bad, here we go.
I want to read this script. I've got a group of guys I went to High School with, and we're all into something film related at this point. One wants to be a director/writer, the other an editor, and there's a character actor in there as well. I like to consider myself a writer, but let's face it, I'm dumb. Anyway, I dubbed myself the Jerry Bruckheimer of the group because I like big fancy action scenes and crap like that.
I'm Donald Kaufman.
On the print I saw, and I'm not sure if anyone else's did this because I've only seen the film once mind you, but when Charlie calls Donald to ask him to come to New York, it looks like the film stock or filter completely changes. That's where Donald starts writing the movie, in my opinion. Sure, Charlie gets in little bits of him here and there, but from that point on it's Donald.
The spying, the drugs, the car chase, the romp in the swamp, gunplay, the turning of Cooper and Streep's characters into villains when they're anything but... Hell, it turned into a nightmarish Hardy Boys Adventure. I could almost read the phrase "SUDDENLY!: An alligator attacks Laroche!". Ah. Sure, it's a bit pompous but hey, that last 30 odd minutes is one big joke on piss poor writers, like myself.
Here's hoping Kaufman's next movie is "THE THREE", some could argue that the end result of this movie is "The Three", but come on-- Who wouldn't enjoy that idiotic story?