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Saturday, 8 February 2003
Adaptation ::
Saw Adaptation last night. Brilliant. A story about a story within a story... how we’re all authors of our lives... the mind bends. We know that Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter, is a real person and has written himself into his script as he struggles to adapt a book to a screenplay. By the end we’re wondering whether the book is real or, if it is, where the book ends and the screenplay begins. The book, The Orchid Thief, is real, and seems like an interesting read, full of small insightful gems, but the story of Kaufman’s struggle to adapt it to the screen leads him to his own conclusion.
Favorite line: “You are what you love, not what loves you.”
I saw that Carter Burwell had done the score; he’s possibly my favorite film composer, and not just because one of my favorite musicians, David Torn often plays guitar on Burwell’s scores. Late in the movie I found myself thinking that I hadn’t heard Torn’s immediately recognizable sound yet, only to realize, he was playing the wild tones during the chase scene.
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