6/23/2023 0 Comments Again but better book![]() Absolute madcappery ensues-a spy trip to Florida, drugs, sex, shootings, and an alligator. But Susan is evasive, acts strange, and, it turns out, is hiding a secret romance with John Laroche (Chris Cooper), the book’s subject. Charlie decides to visit Susan (Meryl Streep) in New York to talk about the script, but his social anxiety means Donald ends up taking his place. Charlie’s twin brother Donald, also played by Nicholas Cage, wants to be a screenwriter too, even though he’s an idiot-but, in a cruel twist, he finds success just as Charlie’s depression spirals and failure seems inevitable. Here’s the gist: “Charlie Kaufman,” played by Nicholas Cage, struggles to adapt Susan Orlean’s 1998 nonfiction book, The Orchid Thief, but he has writer’s block. But twenty years and several re-viewings later, I can now say that Spike Jonze’s film is not only the best adaptation of a book to the screen, it’s also (sorry, Susan) better than the book for all the ways it elevates the themes of the book without privileging the book over the movie. ![]() I didn’t get it, and my high school boyfriend got mad at me because of that. ![]()
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