6/11/2023 0 Comments Spike jonze moviesChris Cooper won the Best Supporting Actor award but, in a dual role as Charlie and Donald, this is arguably the best work that Nicolas Cage has ever delivered. ![]() Director Spike Jonze, once again, seems to be on the same wave length of Kaufman's ingenuity and the performances are fantastic. It's so cleverly done and effortlessly blurs the lines between fact and fiction such is it's astute and clever construction. Kaufman is simply a master at creating a story where art imitates life imitating art. He even creates a fictional brother in Donald Kaufman (which the Academy even nominated as a joint writer when the Best Screenplay Oscar was announced). ![]() Of course, this is still only fiction and much poetic and artistic license is taken but Kaufman turns the tables onto himself this time and the results are just as creative and enjoyable. If Being John Malkovich introduced us to the creative ideas of Charlie Kaufman and took us (fictionally) into the mind of John Malkovich the actor then Adaptation takes us into the mind of Charlie Kaufman himself. Rating: R (Sexuality|Language|Some Drug Use|Violent Images)ĭolby A, Dolby Stereo, DTS, SDDS, Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A.
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